Anu Simh shares a client's story: John hit a weight loss plateau until he stopped eating hot meals from Tupperware containers. She attributes the stall to microplastics leaching from heated plastic and says she's seen similar cases.
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If you haven't bought the story about microplastics and how it stalls your weight loss, listen to this. I had a client, John, who did everything right and he was losing all the weight. He was on the on his way to more weight loss. And all of a sudden everything stalled and, like scratching my head, what's going on? You know, it's not, you know, set point yet. And then a little bit of investigation, I realized that his wife was packing him very lovingly meals that were in Tupperware containers. And it was these or hot meals. I said, hey, let's just stop this for a couple of weeks. Let's see if this is the culprit. Sure enough, he started losing weight again. And the science behind this is the plastic is a very flimsy polymer. It's leaching out when you put something hot. I know this is one story, but I have so many more stories like that.