Jul 28, 2026 · 10 min · 8 segments
If you've been at this for years and the scale still won't budge, it doesn't mean nothing is happening. In this episode, Matty breaks down four body-based signals that show your health is actually…
Um, but basically, I get asked all the time by people that have been on long histories of yo-yo dieting and trying to change their health and, and just trying lots of things, "How can I tell if something's working?" And the reason that th- that this is a really important question to ask is because if you have been metabolically broken or slowed down or just got a long history of trying different things for, you know, periods of time and going back and forward and back and forward, then it's highly likely that your body is in some kind of preservation mode.
And so the result of that is that it can take some time before you see your blood sugar stabilize or weight loss actually happen on the scale and, and all of those kind of things.
So what that means is that we need other things to look at to get some sign from our body and our lived experience to say, "Hey, this is actually working." Because the uncomfortable truth is, if you've been on this train, on this bandwagon for 20 or 30 or 40 years, then it's gonna take a bit of time to get things right.
And I say that to my own detriment, right? If I was smarter at marketing, I would be sitting here talking about, "Oh, you can get it all done super quick," and, "28 days to shredded abs," and, "Lose weight super fast," and, "Here's all our testimonials and reviews of people that lost all this weight in four to six weeks." Now, we do have some of those people, but the point is, I don't lean into bullshitting you, and I say that to my own detriment because all of my competitors that lead with abs and weight loss results and extreme results that only a couple of people got, they use that as the way to get everybody in.
And it's also gonna take changing your diet and nutrition in a way that is sustainable, so you can be consistent and not long to be back where you started.
So anyway, if you're in the beginning of that journey or maybe you're on one of our supplement c- protocols like MitoSync, if you're curious about that, link's down in the show notes below, um, or our programs and how we go about it.
We do have a number of things that help you check in with your body along the journey to see is something changing without getting on a scale, without doing any measurements of your stomach or your arms or anything like that.
Um, but basically, I get asked all the time by people that have been on long histories of yo-yo dieting and trying to change their health and, and just trying lots of things, "How can I tell if something's working?" And the reason that th- that this is a really important question to ask is because if you have been metabolically broken or slowed down or just got a long history of trying different things for, you know, periods of time and going back and forward and back and forward, then it's highly likely that your body is in some kind of preservation mode.
And so the result of that is that it can take some time before you see your blood sugar stabilize or weight loss actually happen on the scale and, and all of those kind of things.
So what that means is that we need other things to look at to get some sign from our body and our lived experience to say, "Hey, this is actually working." Because the uncomfortable truth is, if you've been on this train, on this bandwagon for 20 or 30 or 40 years, then it's gonna take a bit of time to get things right.
And I say that to my own detriment, right? If I was smarter at marketing, I would be sitting here talking about, "Oh, you can get it all done super quick," and, "28 days to shredded abs," and, "Lose weight super fast," and, "Here's all our testimonials and reviews of people that lost all this weight in four to six weeks." Now, we do have some of those people, but the point is, I don't lean into bullshitting you, and I say that to my own detriment because all of my competitors that lead with abs and weight loss results and extreme results that only a couple of people got, they use that as the way to get everybody in.
And it's also gonna take changing your diet and nutrition in a way that is sustainable, so you can be consistent and not long to be back where you started.
So anyway, if you're in the beginning of that journey or maybe you're on one of our supplement c- protocols like MitoSync, if you're curious about that, link's down in the show notes below, um, or our programs and how we go about it.
We do have a number of things that help you check in with your body along the journey to see is something changing without getting on a scale, without doing any measurements of your stomach or your arms or anything like that.
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