You start feeling better. The weight shifts. Life feels lighter. And then everything stalls and you end up back where you started. This isn't a discipline problem and it's not your fault. There's a biological reason your body keeps pulling the handbrake — and once you understand it, everything changes.

I used to be on the most restricted diet of any of my clients. No nuts. No capsicums. Years of elimination protocols and supplements. I thought I was healing my gut. What I didn't realise was that I was managing symptoms — not addressing what was causing them. Here's what finally changed everything.