Hormonal Imbalance. The Scapegoat for Poor Choices.

If you spend enough time in health forums, you hear the same line on repeat. “It’s not my fault. It’s my hormones.” It is the most socially acceptable excuse available. Behavior gets medicalized so consequences feel like conditions. Insulin, cortisol, and ghrelin become villains. You get cast as the helpless bystander.

If you are blaming hormones, you are still avoiding the real issue. You are circling the same question without answering it. Why Can’t I Lose Weight?

This is a misunderstanding of causality. Hormones do not run your life independently. They respond to inputs. Environment. Stress. Sleep. Food. Repetition. If your hormones are out of sync, your choices put them there. Blaming hormones confuses the signal with the source.

The Insulin Myth. Shooting the Messenger.

The insulin obsession exists because the industry loves complexity. You are told insulin locks fat in place and traps you unless you follow some rigid protocol. That story sells fear. It does not sell truth. Insulin is a signaling hormone. It reacts to what you eat.

Excess energy triggers insulin. Not the other way around. The hormone did not betray you. Your behavior instructed it. When you obsess over insulin instead of your daily intake, you are performing a sophisticated form of self-deception. You do not need a hormone-balancing tea. You need to own what you are eating.

The Biology Blame Chain

This excuse stack looks familiar. First hormones. Then the myth of metabolic damage. Then the fallback to genetic predestination. Different labels. Same avoidance. Biology reporting back on behavior.

Your endocrine system is a feedback loop. Change the input and the output changes. Waiting for hormones to align before changing behavior reverses the sequence. Choices force alignment. Not the other way around. Waiting for biology to save you is procrastination with better vocabulary.

Behavior Comes First. Every Time.

Stop hunting for a diagnosis to explain your reflection. Your body is doing exactly what it should based on what you repeatedly do. If you are done hiding behind hormonal narratives and ready to confront the mechanism driving your weight, you already know where to start. Why Can’t I Lose Weight?