What if your weight gain wasn’t about willpower… but about your mitochondria?
How many times have you told yourself “I just have no willpower” while standing on the scale? You promise you’ll “be good,” start a new diet on Monday, stick with it for a few days… then exhaustion, sugar cravings, and everyday life take over. And of course, you end up thinking: “I’m the problem.” Not disciplined enough. Not motivated enough. Not “strong” enough. But what if that story you’ve been telling yourself for years is simply… incomplete? What if, instead of being a character issue, part of your weight gain was coming from something much more subtle: your cells’ energy, and more specifically, your mitochondria? When your inner “engine” is running on low Mitochondria are tiny structures inside your cells. Their job is to turn what you eat into usable energy for everything you do—moving, digesting, thinking, breathing. In simple terms: they’re your body’s ...