It’s easy to believe weight regain happens because we’ve been ‘weak’ or ‘lazy’. That’s the story diet culture tells, and it’s the one I told myself for years. If I could just eat less, move more, or finally dig up some willpower, I’d be fine.

But biology has its own plan. After weight loss, appetite hormones surge, metabolism slows, and the body works hard to pull you back toward its old settings. That’s not weakness. That’s physiology. And unless you’ve rehearsed the routines to steady yourself when biology pushes back, old patterns slide back in.

It’s easy to believe weight gain happens because we’ve been ‘weak’ or ‘lazy’. At least, that’s the story I told myself for years. If I could just eat less, move more, or finally dig up some willpower, I’d be fine. But when I stepped back and really looked at how I was living, it became obvious: this wasn’t about weakness. It was about the daily systems I was operating in - and the habits that either supported me or quietly pulled me off track.