Weight loss is one of the most discussed and hyped topics on social media. You will find tips, tricks, exercises , diet plans, and whatnot for losing weight. But there is hardly enough conversation around what a person actually goes through during this journey.
And then wondering why the scale won’t budge. “Water retention alone can mask two to three kilos of real fat loss. A stressful week at work, a salty meal, and even a new exercise routine — muscles hold water while they repair, which is a completely normal response that panics people anyway,” highlighted Dr Neha. All of this shows up as gain on the scale when the actual trend underneath is downward. Poor sleep raises cortisol and disrupts your hunger hormones . Patients come in obsessing over protein grams, hitting every macro just right, running on five hours of sleep. Food feels controllable, sleep doesn’t, somehow, even though it should.
“Three bad nights and it can unravel a whole week of eating right — I’ve seen it happen more times than I can count,” said Dr Neha.
