Hey, everybody. Welcome to this week's episode of Red Pillar Healthcast. My name is Dr. Charlie Fakinholton here with Lauren Johnson, FNP. And we don't have a guest this week, but we are going to answer some Q&A questions. And we hope that all of you had a great holiday, Christmas, New Year, getting the New Year started off correctly.

Yeah, how was your holiday, Lauren? It was really good. It's always a time to reflect. I think for me,

I always reflect so much during that time. And I think it was, it was a really good time. It's also a

time where I think a lot of people start worrying about weight gain, which is something that we're

going to talk about today, right? Yeah, there's quite a bit of questions of weight gain.

Yeah. So let's dive in.

Let's just see where it takes us and we'll go from there.

Yeah.

I think weight loss is such a big topic the first of the year, which can we just be

honest?

Like, isn't it so weird that we start a new year in January when it's wintertime?

Shouldn't it be in the springtime? What are your thoughts on

that? Yeah, that's a good point. Honestly, the first thing that comes to my mind is people are so

obsessed with weight loss, but they don't always understand that it's not a simple, like,

you take this to get this result.

There's a lot more to weight loss health benefits than just looking different.

And I feel like everyone chooses weight loss because they want to look a certain way because that's, you know, what society has groomed us or sculpted us to think.

But it's really the effects on your physiology that happens that is so much more important

than what you look like in the mirror, in my opinion. I don't know. What else do you want to say

about that before we jump in with folks? Yeah, I mean, so as somebody who has struggled in the past with weight loss and as somebody who has had disorder eating in the past, you know, during college and after college, postpartum with my first baby, I had a lot of disordered eating.

I nursed and I had the supply, thankfully, but I was so focused on

losing weight and it greatly affected my stress levels, my connection. I think it affected my

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