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Midtown Chiropractic and Vital Principal Functional Medicine

Dr. Lindsey Carr, DC, CACCP, IFMCP, DABCI and Dr. Allison Bomar-Hyong, DC Dr. Lindsey Carr is a chiropractor at Midtown Chiropractic in Memphis, TN.

If you are struggling with neck or back pain, headaches or migraines, carpal tunnel, sciatica, or any other health condition please call us today or visit our website.

03/16/2026

Please and thank you.

03/13/2026

🤯If one more person tells you to "just eat less and move more," you might actually lose it.

You've already tried that. Multiple times.

The worst part isn't even the scale. It's the fact that nobody believes you.

🤯Your doctor glanced at your TSH, said it was "normal," and suggested you download MyFitnessPal.

🤯Your spouse made a comment about portion sizes.

🤯Your mom sent you an article about a new diet.

🤯Your friend said "it worked for me, you just have to stick with it."

And you're left wondering if you're the problem. If you're secretly eating more than you think. If you're lazy. If you're making excuses. If you're just not trying hard enough.

Here's what I need you to hear: your body is not defying the laws of thermodynamics. It's responding logically to a physiological problem that nobody has identified yet.

➠➠➠This isn’t an excuse. It’s often a measurable, testable, fixable problem.

But if nobody's looking for them, they'll never get found. And you'll keep getting blamed for a metabolic issue that has nothing to do with your effort level.

The women who find me have usually been told some version of "just try harder" by at least three different people. They're exhausted from defending themselves. They're tired of being made to feel like failures when their body is literally just responding to broken signaling.

If someone you love is struggling with their weight and they've genuinely been trying, please don't assume it's a discipline issue. Ask them what's been tested. Ask them how they're feeling beyond the number on the scale. Encourage them to find someone who will actually investigate instead of prescribe another restrictive diet.

And if you're the person struggling: I believe you. Your body is trying to tell you something. And it's not "try harder."

Tag someone who needs to hear this. 💙

03/12/2026

I had someone ask me recently why I keep talking about the liver when their main complaint is weight loss resistance.

(Swipe to slide 7 for the exact labs that show hepatic metabolic dysfunction beyond basic liver enzymes.)

📌Because your liver is ground zero for almost every metabolic issue I see in practice.

It's not sexy. It's not trending on Instagram. But it's the difference between guessing at symptoms and actually understanding what's driving them.

Your liver doesn't just "detox" (whatever that means). (swipe to see more!)

This is why I don't start with meal plans. I start with understanding the liver’s capacity.

Because if your liver is backed up, everything else I do will have limited impact.

The doctors who really get results with complex cases understand this. They're not just managing symptoms. They're restoring foundational metabolic processes that most practitioners don't even assess.

What's one thing you learned about liver function from this post? 👇

03/11/2026

You're so tired of failing at the "all or nothing" approach.

➠You've started strong on Monday with the perfect meal plan, the new workout routine, the supplements lined up on your counter.

➠By Thursday you're already behind.

➠By Sunday you've convinced yourself you'll start again next week.

🔁And the cycle repeats until you just stop trying altogether because what's the point.

I need you to know that's not a you problem. That's a terrible strategy that was never going to work.🥊
Your nervous system is already maxed out. You're managing work, relationships, health issues that aren't resolving, the mental load of everything you're supposed to be doing. Adding a complete life overhaul on top of that? Your body will reject it every time. Not because you're weak. Because you're already operating at capacity.

The women who actually see sustainable change in my practice aren't the ones who do everything perfectly. They're the ones who pick one small shift, make it automatic, and then build from there.

✅They start eating protein at breakfast and suddenly they're not ravenous by 10am.
✅They add a short walk after dinner and realize their sleep improved without changing anything else.
✅They get morning sunlight and notice their afternoon energy crash disappeared.

These aren't dramatic transformations. They're small inputs that compound over weeks and months into a body that feels completely different.

You don't need more discipline. You don't need to try harder. You need a few high-leverage behaviors that actually work with your physiology instead of fighting it.

And you need permission to start small. To build slowly. To let it be easier than you think it needs to be.

03/10/2026

You've tried everything and you're still stuck.😤

At this point, you're wondering if your body is just broken. If you're the exception. If this is just how you'll feel forever.

➠➠➠Your body isn't broken. The approach you've been given is.

Most practitioners treat metabolism like simple math: eat less, move more, try this supplement.

When that doesn't work, they blame your compliance.

But metabolic dysfunction is a signaling problem.

Where is insulin resistance happening? Why is your HPA axis dysregulated? What's blocking thyroid conversion? Which detox pathways are sluggish?

You can't guess at these. You have to test and investigate.🔎

The women I work with have been told their labs "look fine" or to just be more consistent.
They're exhausted from being blamed for a problem no one will investigate.

If that's you: you're not crazy, not lazy, and not the problem.

Your body is responding logically to something that hasn't been identified yet.

Swipe for the breakdown, then tell me: what's one thing you tried that didn't work? 👇

03/09/2026

IYKYK

03/06/2026

🥊You've been living like this for so long that it's starting to feel permanent.

You've started to adjust your expectations. Maybe this is just what 35 feels like. Maybe this is perimenopause and there's nothing you can do. Maybe your body is just done responding to anything you try.

📣I need you to hear this loud and clear: the fact that nothing has worked yet doesn't mean nothing will work.

➠It means the right thing hasn't been tried.

The women I work with have usually been stuck for years before they find me.

And they've started to believe that maybe they're the problem. That maybe they're not trying hard enough. That maybe their body is just broken in a way that can't be fixed.

But here's what actually happens when we find the root cause:

🥳The woman who's been exhausted for 5 years starts waking up without an alarm. Not in a week. But over the course of a few months as we restore her cortisol rhythm and address her iron deficiency that no one tested for.

🥳The woman who's been gaining weight on 1,300 calories finally starts losing again once we identify that her liver is insulin resistant and her thyroid isn't converting T4 to T3.

🥳The woman who's had brain fog so bad she thought she had early dementia gets her clarity back when we address the histamine intolerance and mold exposure no one connected to her cognitive symptoms.

These aren't miracle cases. They're what happens when someone actually investigates instead of guesses.

Your current reality is based on the information and interventions you've had access to so far.

And if those haven't worked, it's not because you're unfixable. It's because the right pieces haven't been identified yet.

This doesn't mean it'll be fast. It doesn't mean it'll be easy. But it does mean it's possible.

And possible is enough to start.

03/05/2026

⚡️I had someone tell me last month that they've been meditating daily, doing yoga, seeing a therapist, and they're still gaining weight. (relate?🙋🏻‍♀️)

Here's the thing: by the time you're actively "managing stress," your HPA axis has usually already been dysregulated for years.

And meditation, while helpful for your nervous system, doesn't reverse insulin resistance or restore leptin sensitivity or fix thyroid conversion.

When cortisol is chronically elevated, it triggers your liver to produce glucose constantly. Even when you haven't eaten. Even when your blood sugar doesn't need to be elevated.

↪️Your pancreas sees that glucose and releases insulin. Over time, your cells stop responding to insulin efficiently. Now you're insulin resistant.

↪️Insulin resistance worsens HPA axis dysfunction, which keeps cortisol elevated, which drives more glucose production.

↪️Meanwhile, cortisol is also suppressing your thyroid, blocking T4 to T3 conversion, and increasing reverse T3. So your metabolism slows down even though your TSH looks "normal."

↪️And it's creating leptin resistance, which means your brain can't hear the signal from your fat cells saying "we have enough stored energy." So you're constantly hungry despite having adequate or excess body fat.

Stress doesn't just "affect your appetite." It rewires your entire metabolic operating system.

The women I work with have often already tried stress management. They're doing the breathwork, the therapy, the self-care. And they're frustrated because their body still isn't responding.

Because managing the feeling of stress is different from restoring the HPA axis and reversing the metabolic consequences of years of dysregulation.

It's not one intervention. It's a coordinated strategy based on what YOUR specific labs and symptoms show.

If you've been told to "just reduce stress" and you're still metabolically stuck, this is why.

03/04/2026

Here's what I see constantly in practice:👇

Women who are doing everything "right" but their approach doesn't match what their body actually needs.

📌The chronic under-eater thinks she needs more discipline. What she actually needs is metabolic repair and more food. Her reverse T3 is sky-high because her body has been in conservation mode for so long it's actively blocking thyroid function.

📌The blood sugar roller coaster person thinks she needs to eat cleaner. What she actually needs is protein at breakfast and balanced meals that don't spike insulin. She's hypoglycemic between meals but heading toward insulin resistance because her cells are exhausted from the constant glucose swings.

📌The hidden inflammation driver thinks she needs to eliminate more foods. What she actually needs is investigation into what's driving the inflammation. Usually it's SIBO, chronic infections, mold exposure, or a toxic load her liver can't process. More restriction won't fix that.

❌"Eating healthy" isn't a one-size-fits-all prescription. What works for someone else might be completely wrong for your physiology right now.

And the most frustrating part? You can be doing the exact thing that's keeping you stuck while genuinely believing you're doing everything right.💔

This is why I don't start with meal plans. I start with understanding which pattern you're in and what your body actually needs to shift out of it.

Which archetype sounds most like you? 👇

03/03/2026

🫩I meet women all the time who've been stuck in Option 1 or Option 2 for years.

They're eating 1,300 calories. Walking daily. Taking handfuls of supplements. Doing everything the internet says they should be doing.

And they're either gaining weight or stuck at the exact same number they've been staring at for months.🤯

🤔At some point, you have to stop and ask: if this approach was going to work, wouldn't it have worked by now?

📣The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

But here's the part no one talks about: most people don't even realize they're doing the same thing over and over. Because they're trying new diets, new protocols, new supplements. It feels like they're trying everything.🤯

But they're not investigating anything.

⚡️There's a massive difference between trying a new intervention and understanding why the last five interventions didn't work.⚡️

When I start working with someone, I'm not asking "what have you tried?" I'm asking…
🔎 What's been tested?
🔎What does your bloodwork actually show?
🔎What symptoms show up at what time of day?
🔎What makes things better or worse?
🔎How long have you been eating this way?
🔎What was happening in your life when this started?

Because your body isn't randomly broken. It's responding logically to something that hasn't been identified yet.

📌Maybe it's insulin resistance that started in your liver years before it showed up in your muscle tissue.
📌Maybe it's a thyroid conversion problem that won't resolve until we address your selenium deficiency and liver congestion.
📌Maybe it's a cortisol rhythm that's completely backwards and tanking your insulin sensitivity by 2pm every single day.

These things don't get fixed by eating cleaner or trying harder. They get fixed by finding them and addressing them specifically.

Option 3 isn't easier. It's not faster. But it's the only one that actually gets you somewhere different than where you are now.

03/02/2026

Div is really leaning into this one… must have been the early morning walk. 🤣🙈

02/27/2026

🥊You've been fighting your body for so long you don't even realize you're doing it anymore.

💔You eat less when the scale doesn't move.
💔You add more workouts when your clothes feel tight.
💔You ignore hunger because you "shouldn't" be hungry yet.
💔You push through exhaustion because rest feels like laziness.

➠➠➠Every decision is about control. About forcing your body to cooperate. About proving you can make it do what you want.

And your body is responding exactly the way it should when it perceives threat:
🆘By holding onto everything it can.
🆘By slowing down metabolism.
🆘By making you obsess about food.
🆘By refusing to release stored fat because it genuinely believes you might need it to survive whatever you're putting it through.

📣Here's what I need you to understand: your body is not your enemy. It's not broken. It's not defying you out of spite.

It's doing exactly what it's designed to do under the conditions you've created.

The shift from fighting to partnership doesn't mean giving up or letting yourself go. It means getting curious instead of punitive.

Instead of "I need to eat less" ➠ it's "why isn't my body responding to what I'm doing?"
Instead of "I have to work out harder" ➠ it's "is my nervous system too dysregulated to handle more stress right now?"
Instead of "my body is broken" ➠ it's "what is my body trying to tell me that I'm not hearing?"

Because the women who actually restore their metabolism aren't the ones who fight the hardest.

They're the ones who learn to listen and respond.

What would shift for you if you stopped seeing your body as the problem and started seeing it as the feedback system? 👇

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Dr. Lindsey Carr, DC, CACCP and Dr. Allison Bomar-Hyong are a chiropractors at Midtown Chiropractic in Memphis, TN. If you are struggling with neck or back pain, headaches or migraines, carpal tunnel, sciatica, or any other health condition please call us today or visit our website and take advantage of our new patient special.