Brigid Titgemeier argues that thin people often have hidden inflammation and gut problems that calorie-counting misses. She pushes past weight loss toward what actually matters: energy, digestion, and lab work that shows how your body is really doing.
Chapters
Women have been made to believe. I was just talking about this with even like my grandma's generation, that it's like at that time, even the goal was to be thin and eating as little as possible was the name of the game. And weight was health, essentially. And I cannot tell you the number of people that I have worked with that are a very healthy weight and a great body composition that are not the picture of health. They have so much inflammation, they have so many gut issues. And I'm not saying, like, everyone that has great body composition is experiencing this, but it's not just about how you look, it's also about how you feel. And so sometimes when people come into our programs, like they've done so many calorie counting diets and diets that focus on just how much you're eating, portion control and, and that sort of thing, and so that might work for losing weight, but it's not necessarily going to help you drastically improve your symptoms, drastically improve your labs, and holistically improve your overall health.