I just had an epiphany.

I’ve struggled with my eating since right before Christmas. I have just felt hungry all the time. I’ve been feeling true hunger pangs for a month. Sometimes I feel hungry right after I eat. Random cramps and growls and general discomfort. I changed the quality of the food I was eating (cutting out the sweet and salty snacks) and have lost 5 of the 7 pounds I gained at Christmastime. But I just couldn’t get the amount that I was eating under control. I was getting discouraged. I couldn’t understand why I was so hungry all the time.

But maybe what I was feeling wasn’t hunger.

A few days ago, right after my turkey sandwich and carrot lunch, I started getting this general pain. And it got a little worse. I started feeling bloated and tender and just generally grouchy in the upper part of my abdomen.

Turns out that my stomach just isn’t happy with me right now. (Thanks, Dr. E!) I have medicine and am resting for a few days and soon my stomach will be happy like this again (credit here).

I’m not destined to be super hungry forever because what I was feeling wasn’t hunger! There was something wrong! Now I know. My stomach will get better and my eating will get back to normal. And then I’ll feel better all the way around.

And that’s great news.

(Other great news? Wondering where I’ve been? LexRunLadies has EXPLODED! Here’s a link to my friend Toa going on the news and an article about us in Ace Weekly. I’m absent from this space because life is good!)