The women I see have not failed at losing weight. They have succeeded, repeatedly, at losing weight, and then been failed by the method that got them there.
Why restriction rebounds
Severe energy restriction reduces muscle, blunts appetite regulation and makes food feel enormous in your mind. The weight returns because the strategy was never survivable, not because you lacked discipline.
You cannot hate yourself into a body you enjoy living in.
What works instead
Protein at every meal, fibre from vegetables and legumes, fat you actually enjoy, and meals structured enough that hunger never runs the evening. Slower, steadier, and far more likely to still be true in five years.
With love, Serena
