Hormones are not everything.

I’ve been really moody lately.  The past couple weeks have been the worst.  I’m either crying, or laughing so hard I could pee myself, or biting the heads off of the people I love the most for stupid reasons.

I hate it when people boil it down to hormones.  I HATE it.  To me it’s just not acceptable to blame everything on shifting hormones.  Like when a woman is experiencing PMS, she can tend to get a little moody, and this is because of the shift in hormones.  I can’t stand it when people walk around and use it as an excuse to treat people like dirt though, it bothers me.

I guess it is just on my mind quite a bit, because I seem to have been quite hormonal and moody lately.  I guess it stands to reason, since I have had PMS and because I have done a complete diet overhaul in the last couple of weeks which has got to be affecting my insulin levels (hopefully for the better).  I have also done some research which points to a connection between insulin resistance and depression and other mood disorders.  So while I can see there being increased mood swings with the diet overhaul, I hope that they will improve over the next while.

However, having said all that, I still see it as being quite silly to blame hormones for my actions.  Yeah I have hormones that are very out of whack…but I need to be able to recognize and deal with them in a manner that does NOT, alienate the people in my life who are most important.  Hormones being out of whack is difficult to deal with, but not impossible.

In other PCOS news, I keep getting these rude awakenings like learning more statistics.  Like women with PCOS who have never been pregnant have 3 times the risk of getting endometrial cancer, and those who are 21-50lbs over weight run that same risk…for those over 50lbs over weight (me) the risk increases to 10 times.  Those stats found here

This is scary stuff….I’m glad I am taking action now.