I'm deficient... (yet again!!!)

So, I went to the doctor last week because I have just really been feeling out of sorts. The weather has been gorgeous lately, and what do I come home and do after work? Sleep. I've also been getting the "you look tired" from others. My concentration has been crappy and I haven't even really felt motivated to work out as much as I used to. Yeah, that's SO not like me. Another really super-annoying thing is that no matter what I do my weight is not changing. I was very religiously body-bugging, recording every calorie I took in and uploading all of my info at night for my calories burned. My average daily deficit for my first 30 days of using the bugg was 500 calories (I ate about 1400 a day and burned about 1900.) I gained weight. I should have been losing about a pound a week with that deficit. Makes NO F'ing SENSE!! So I went to the Cleveland Clinic to discuss this with a doctor.

Anyway, the doc ran some blood tests on me for stuff she suspected... and one result was vitamin D deficiency. It's not really a huge shock, because a big source of vitamin D is from sunlight. This is bad for us Ohioans who don't see a whole lot of sunshine... I am also somewhat of a sun-avoider, even when it's out (have to preserve the skin!!) So anyway, Vitamin D deficiency is just added to the list of other crap that can make me tired and mess with my weight (hypothyroid and b12 deficiency.) My body is dumb.

I just got this result today and filled my prescription for my vitamin D supplement- and decided to poke around online to see what I could see concerning symptoms of D deficiency. Then I decided to type in "Vitamin D deficiency + weight gain." I found some interesting results. Here's a snippet:

Moreover, people who have a reduced capacity to mobilize vitamin D often weigh more and have more body fat than those with full capacity. In the past 20 years multiple studies have shown a correlation between higher blood levels of vitamin D and leaner body mass.

there seems to be a correlation between rising rates of obesity and vitamin D deficiency. If you are having difficulty with insulin resistance or weight gain — or can’t keep the pounds off once you lose them — you may want to have your vitamin D levels checked by your healthcare practitioner.

Interesting indeed. I'm curious to see if the D will help me at all with losing the pounds and keeping them off. I'm not hanging all of my hopes on it, but dang- it sure would be nice to see all of my hard work pay off by actually losing fat and keeping it off!