damn

Y'know, I'm trying so freaking hard to lose weight. I'm exercising, eating right, etc. I mean, there's always room for improvement, but it is so frustrating to look at the scale and see a gain after I've done everything right!

I went and looked up lots of information about weight gain being linked to birth control. The consensus is that it can possibly cause women to retain water or be hungrier, but that most kinds aren't the direct cause of the weight gain.
So I am wondering why this is happening to me. What am I doing wrong?
Then, I come across an extremely detailed article. Toward the bottom, one of the submitted questions was, "What if I still am gaining weight on my birth control?" And the answer had everything to do with having messed up blood sugar, insulin resistance, or glucose issues. So...long story short, my hypoglycemia might be totally effing with my birth control causing these crazy issues.

Now I'm stuck. What do I do? Quit? Stay on it? Either way, I'll be frustrated. This is so ridiculous. I'm on the third month of my pill packs already, and I thought by now my body might be regulating itself. But no.

Right now, my plan of action is to just keep trucking basically. I think I'll try adding in a LOT of extra strength training. When I did a period of intense strength training before, it really seemed to kick my metabolism into high gear. So...yeah.

Any other suggestions would be great. I want to have this situation under control by the time I turn in my wedding dress for altering, which will probably be...next January? February? Around them. That sounds like a long time from now, but I can't just sit around and rush at the last minute. I want to have my weight down into a normal BMI. I'm so close! I just need to kick those 8 extra pounds. Ideally, I want to get down to 130. GAH!

Okay, deep breaths. It'll all be okay.