Why am I fat around my middle?

[PearlHare]

I’ve always been slim, size 6-8, but in the last year I’ve suddenly started retaining fat around my middle which is concerning. I’ve been to the GP about some other issues and nothing ‘wrong’ per se.

I’m always on my feet walking, do around 10,000 steps a day but I have a bad back so I don’t do any weight stuff which I know I should.

Example of a daily diet and I don’t eat huge portions:

breakfast: Fage yoghurt, kefir, banana, blueberries and raspberries with milled seeds

Lunch: halloumi salad wrap

dinner: small bowl of homemade vegetable and chicken curry (no rice, no naan etc, just the curry)

snack: then I had a slice of sourdough with aioli because I hadn’t had enough at dinner like an idiot.

Surely this is fine? I have my 30 a week so I know my diet is varied. But my belly is getting bigger, I’ve had to start wearing the next size up in underwear and I don’t understand?

Eat some red meat it helps to regulate your hormones, cut back on the carbs and only eat a small amount of fruit. Sleep and try to relax to avoid cortisol.

You could also be insulin resistant so would need to rectify this through diet for a few months first.

Okay sounds interesting, how did you sort it out? I’ll look up the Glucose Goddess

This is how ovarian cancer presented for me. Thought I was gaining weight, but also felt I wasn’t eating enough to support that. My abdomen, which had never been flat, looked like a false abdomen stuck on to me.
Its unlikely, but worth asking GP for tests.

I'm in the process of being checked for that. Just to be on the safe side.

Yes it good to rule this out first OP.

Loads of info online, chatgpt could help. Glucose goodness has 'hacks'. Sorry I can't be arsed to type it all out but the information is very accessible on the wider internet