Dr. Amy Shah
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2,173 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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Under eating, I think we all are noticing, like 80 plus percentage of women notice that there's a weight change or a redistribution of fat.
And I think it's very tempting to go back to our old 20s ways and go into this major diet phase where you're just not eating enough nutrients, you're starving yourself and your cortisol is through the roof.
And so I think when you eat the right foods and you're actually can eat more and feel satisfied, not feel like you're deprived all the time, I think that was like the biggest change.
When you under eat, you have a rise in cortisol, a lot of people.
Now, everybody's different.
For example, for the first few days when you under eat, you'll probably lose a few pounds, right?
But if you try to do that chronically, that's when you see your body trying to adapt because your body is not going to let you starve yourself to death.
Otherwise, you could just diet yourself to like death, right?
Mm-hmm.
So your body has all these counter mechanisms to try to get you to eat.
So any woman who's dieted in her life knows that that will be increased cravings, that will be fatigue, that will be like, you won't expend as much energy because your body's just like, okay, we gotta save what we have, right?
And then you might like wake up in the middle of the night because your blood sugar is lower.
You want to eat.
You're dreaming.
I don't know if you've ever had this, but you could dream about food.
I dream about pizza sometimes.
So I don't know.
But you know that if you have,
And especially if you've gone a long time, I went on this like bodybuilding thing where a lot of people are doing this now, like protein heavy, and then you cut, cut is like where you really cut your calories to kind of show the muscle.
And I remember waking up in the morning and I'm like, I dreamt about
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