Almost everybody can lose weight. Very few people keep it off, and the reason is physiological rather than a failure of character.
When weight comes down, appetite hormones rise, energy expenditure falls by more than the smaller body accounts for, and the body defends its previous weight with considerable persistence. These changes are measurable, they last for years, and they are the reason the same person can succeed at losing and struggle at keeping.
This session takes that seriously, and builds outward from it.
Who this is for
- You have lost weight several times and regained it every time
- You have been told to eat less and move more, and it stopped working
- You have prediabetes, fatty liver or PCOS and weight is part of the plan
- Your weight looks acceptable on the scale but your waist and your reports do not agree
- You want to understand the new weight medications before deciding anything
What you’ll learn
- Why the body defends a weight it has reached, and what that means for how fast to go
- Why BMI misreads South Asian bodies, and which measurements are more useful
- How insulin resistance, sleep, stress and thyroid function affect the picture
- Protein, fibre and meal structure: what the evidence supports for an Indian diet
- Why resistance training matters more than cardio for keeping weight off
- What the newer weight medications do, who they are considered for, and what happens on stopping
- How to build a plan that survives festivals, travel, shift work and family meals
Agenda
- Welcome, and why this is harder than it is made to sound (20 min)
- The physiology of regain: appetite, metabolism and set point (30 min)
- Measuring what matters: waist, body composition, and your own reports (20 min)
- Break (10 min)
- Food that works in an Indian kitchen (30 min)
- Movement, sleep and the parts that get skipped (25 min)
- Live questions (30 min)
What makes this session different
Most weight advice starts with a plan. We start with the mechanism, because the plan only makes sense once you know what it is working against. Understanding why regain happens changes the rate you aim for, the emphasis you place on protein and resistance training, and how you judge a week that did not go well.
We also correct two things that mislead a great many people in India. BMI was built on European populations and consistently under-reads risk in South Asian bodies — Indian cut-offs are lower for exactly this reason, and waist circumference is more informative than the scale. And weight is rarely the whole picture: sleep, thyroid function, insulin resistance, medications and stress all sit alongside it, and the session covers how each is assessed.
The food section is built for Indian kitchens, festivals and family meals rather than translated from somewhere else — because a plan that assumes you cook alone and eat the same thing every day is a plan that ends in three weeks.
Every Learning Session includes
Doctor-led teaching. Practical lifestyle strategies. Live Q&A. Evidence-based handouts. Action points you can use immediately.
Before you register
This is educational, not clinical. Nothing covered here replaces an assessment of your own history, examination and reports, and no decision about starting, stopping or adjusting any medication is made from a group session. If you have lost weight without trying, this session is not the right first step — unintended weight loss is a reason to arrange assessment.
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A session teaches. A consultation is personal.
Conditions this session covers
Questions people ask
No. Learning Sessions are educational and delivered to a group. No individual reports are reviewed, no prescriptions are issued and no personalised advice is given. Anything specific to your own health belongs in a consultation.
Not a personalised one. You will be given the principles that individual plans are built from, worked through with Indian foods and Indian meal patterns, and enough understanding to judge whether a plan someone hands you is sensible. Individual plans require knowing your history, your reports and your circumstances.
Yes, factually and without promotion. We cover what they do, the size of effect seen in trials, who they are considered for, what is known about stopping them, and what they cost. No decision about starting or stopping any medication is made from a group session.
This is one of the commonest situations in India. South Asians accumulate fat around and inside the organs at lower body weights, so metabolic problems appear at BMIs that look reassuring. The session covers this directly, and waist circumference gets more attention than the scale.
The teaching portion is shared with registered attendees afterwards. The live questions are not recorded.