Get Well With Michele Michele Reid PhD.

Running on coffee until 2pm. Crashing so hard we have to lie down. Then lying awake at 11pm, exhausted but wired. Craving salt one day, sugar the next — and neither craving ever actually goes away.
Every single one of us called it "just being busy." None of us called it what it might actually be: our bodies asking for help.
🌿 If this sounds like you — or someone you know — let me know in the comments with a thumbs up. 👍

I didn't always believe that. Early in my career, I was the trainer obsessed with aesthetics and deficits — pushing harder, eating less, while feeling worse and worse on the inside. It took me getting sick of my own advice to understand what I was missing.

Food isn't the enemy. Confusion is. Once I stopped treating eating like a math problem and started treating it like a skill — something you actually learn, the way you'd learn any art
— everything changed. For me, and for every client since.

My job was never to restrict you. It's to teach you the art. That's the whole practice.
If you're ready to actually understand your body instead of guessing, a Bod Pod scan is a real place to start. Link in bio.

Basically, your body can't tell a diet from a famine.

Your body runs on two fuels: incoming food, or stored fat. When you eat too little, too inconsistently, your body doesn't know you're "trying to lose weight." It thinks it's starving.

So it protects itself the only way it knows how: holding onto fat for survival, and burning muscle for fuel instead. This is what it looks like to not be fat-adapted. The exact opposite of what you're working for.

Eating less doesn't always mean losing fat — sometimes it means your body's fighting to keep it.

The fix isn't eating less. It's eating right — the kind of eating that treats your body like it's safe, not starving.

That's exactly what we rebuild inside the 12-Week Program. Link in bio.

You didn't fail. Your body sent a signal, and diet culture taught you to ignore it instead of read it. Which one of these sounds like you? Save this — you'll want to reference it next time. 🌿

Diet culture told you to skip meals, cut carbs, sacrifice sleep, and skip the kitchen. All four are backwards.
Food is not the enemy. Confusion is. That's exactly what we untangle inside the 12-Week Lifestyle First, Fat Loss Program — link in bio.

You're not lazy. You're depleted. 🌿
Four signs your body sent you before you even noticed. Swipe through — save this for the next time you're tempted to just eat less.
None of it is a discipline problem. It's a sequence problem: lifestyle, wellness, physique. In that order.