
15/07/2025
If weight loss was simple, no one would be overweight doc! 🤦🏼♀️
If you’ve tried every diet going and everything that used to work, just isn’t cutting it….
That doesn’t mean that you need to dig yourself deeper and deeper into a miserable fu***ng unsustainable deficit, a life of cabbage soup and endless exercises classes….
It doesn’t mean your will power is crap or your destined to struggle with your weight forever.
It just means you’ve got to dig a little deeper to work out what’s going on in YOUR body….
Not what worked for auntie Sue, or your brother in law, or your mate at work…..
Here’s some missing pieces to the puzzle for you to consider:
💥 Get your gut tested (an overgrowth of firmicutes means extracting more energy from food, low levels of commensals particularly akkermansia will also hinder weightloss, overgrowths of pathogens or opportunistic bacteria create systemic inflammation, this can cause problems for the thyroid ie slow your metabolism)
💥 Get your fasted insulin tested (insulin resistance = stubborn weight gain around the waist, this is exacerbated with a decline in oestrogen)
💥 Get a FULL thyroid panel tested, not just your TSH. This tells your sweet FA about how your thyroid is functioning.
💥 Get your genes tested, what’s missing? How’s your detox of hormones, are you more prone to thyroid/insulin/oestrogen dominance….??
None of these things can be corrected with a calorie deficit….. hell you might even have to eat more…. 😋
And won’t it feel great, marching back into the doctor’s office with your cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure back in check, having lost the weight, without being on a soul destroying diet or worrying about gaining it all back.
Cheers for your help doc 😉