Weight Loss Wisdom

Weight Loss Wisdom

PCOS Doesn't Have to Rule Your Life

Let me guess—you've spent the last three hours falling down a PCOS rabbit hole on the internet, and now you're convinced you can never eat a carb again, must work out twice daily, and should probably just accept that your body hates you. Been there.

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Stop Saying "If I Can Do It, You Can Too" — You're Making Everything Worse

I used to be that person. You know the one. The newly-converted fitness enthusiast who'd corner people at parties to explain how they just needed to "want it more." The coach who'd look at struggling clients and think, "Come on, I figured it

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I Spent $3,000 Treating "Adrenal Fatigue" That Doesn't Exist

Let me paint you a picture of my lowest point: It's 2:47 AM, I'm lying in bed wide awake despite being bone-tired, and I'm Googling "why do I feel like garbage all the time" for probably the hundredth time this month.

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The 3-Week Food Detective Game That Changed My Life

I used to think my afternoon brain fog was just... life. You know that 2 PM feeling where your thoughts feel like they're swimming through molasses? Yeah, that was my normal for years. Same with the bloating after meals. The random headaches. The skin that looked perpetually irritated

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Your Metabolism Isn't Broken (You Just Suck at Math)

I used to weigh my lettuce. Not kidding. I had a food scale that lived permanently on my kitchen counter, and I'd weigh every sad leaf of spinach that went into my 800-calorie daily allowance. I was convinced my metabolism was completely fucked—here I was, eating less

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Why Intermittent Fasting Fails Women (And Nobody's Talking About It)

Last week, a 28-year-old patient walked into my office with a story I've heard too many times. She'd been following a 16:8 intermittent fasting schedule for six months—the same one that gave her boyfriend his coveted six-pack. Instead of losing weight, she'd

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The Fitness Industry's Biggest Lie (And Why Your Six-Pack Obsession Might Be Killing Your Health)

I used to wake up at 4:30 AM to eat my precisely measured egg whites. By 6 AM, I was already on my second workout of the day. My meals were packed in containers, weighed down to the gram, and I hadn't eaten a spontaneous meal with

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What Nobody Tells You About Becoming a Holistic Health Coach

What Nobody Tells You About Becoming a Holistic Health Coach Five years ago, I was that person who Googled "how to quit corporate job" at 2 AM while stress-eating cereal straight from the box. Now I'm the person other people come to when they're

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Why Most Nutrition Coaches Fail (And How to Be Different)

I used to be that guy who'd meal prep on Sundays like it was a religious ritual, only to find myself face-deep in a pizza by Wednesday night, wondering where it all went wrong. Fast forward five years, and I'm now helping others navigate their own

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The Truth About Plant-Based Coaching Nobody's Telling You

Let me tell you about the worst piece of advice I ever received as a new plant-based nutrition coach: "You need to be 100% vegan to have any credibility." This came from a well-meaning mentor at a plant-based conference, right after I'd sheepishly admitted to occasionally

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I Tried Reverse Dieting So You Don't Have To

Three years ago, I was eating 1,200 calories a day and still couldn't lose weight. Sound familiar? I'd been in that cycle for months - tracking every almond, doing cardio until my legs felt like jelly, and watching the scale mock me with the same

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I Quit Obsessive Macro Tracking—Here's What Actually Works

I used to be that person. You know the one—frantically weighing strawberries at 6 AM, logging every almond, and having minor panic attacks when restaurants didn't list exact nutritional info. For three years, I lived and breathed macro tracking. MyFitnessPal was basically my best friend. I calculated,

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Why Your Weight Loss Calculator is Lying to You (And What Actually Works)

I've probably used about seventeen different weight loss calculators over the past decade. Each one promised me THE answer—eat exactly 1,847 calories and you'll lose 2 pounds per week! Spoiler alert: none of them worked the way they said they would. Here's

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Why Carb Cycling is Probably Not Your Answer (And What Actually Is)

I used to be that person. You know the one—tracking macros down to the gram, timing my meals with military precision, and believing that the right combination of nutritional wizardry would finally unlock the body I wanted. For three exhausting months, I tried carb cycling. High-carb Mondays and Thursdays

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Stop Playing Defense Against Stress

I used to think I was invincible. At 32, I was running product at a unicorn startup, crushing quarterly goals, and surviving on four hours of sleep and pure adrenaline. My calendar looked like Tetris on expert mode, and I wore my exhaustion like a badge of honor. Then one

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Your Burnout Isn't Character Weakness (It's System Failure)

I used to think burnout was what happened to weak people. You know the type—can't handle a little pressure, probably cry during performance reviews, definitely the kind of person who takes "mental health days." (Yes, I was that judgmental. Sue me.) Then I found myself