12/16/2025
This is a longer post, but if weight loss has been frustrating for you, it’s worth the read♡
Many people approach weight loss believing it means eating less, focusing on the scale, skipping meals, and pushing through hunger. This pattern almost always leads to the same result. By the end of the day, hunger has built up, energy is depleted, insulin regulation is affected, and control begins to slip. Suppertime and the evening hours are where binge eating most often shows up, not because of a lack of willpower, but because the body is demanding fuel after being restricted all day.
Meal plans and point based systems are often used for structure. While structure can help short term, these systems do not teach how to fuel the body. Calories are adjusted behind the scenes, usually by reducing food. When the plan is no longer followed, people are left without the knowledge needed to maintain results on their own. Weight gain follows, and many return to the same system because it felt effective. What actually worked was the structure doing the thinking for them, not true education.
Some use medications like Ozempic, even when they are not diabetic, to suppress appetite. The scale may move, but appetite suppression does not equal education. When medication stops, many are left uneducated about food, and the weight often returns. Much of the initial loss was water and muscle, not fat, which slows metabolism and makes regain easier.
The issue is not effort or discipline.
The issue is education.
The biggest misunderstanding about weight loss is believing it is primarily physical. In reality, weight loss is psychological in every case. Every person I have coached has had food choices shaped by mindset, habit, emotion, or misinformation.
People struggle because they do not understand why they eat the way they do, and they have never been taught how to make their metabolism work efficiently. Lasting change comes from learning how to use food as fuel and understanding how the body is designed to metabolize real food throughout life.
If any part of this felt familiar, it is not because you lack discipline. It is because you were never given the full picture. Awareness is where real change begins.