Functional Medicine for Weight Management

Common Issues with Weight Management

At Rayma Health, we recognize that weight gain can be influenced by a range of underlying health conditions. While it's true that factors like lack of exercise and poor nutrition can contribute, more often, there are other hidden factors preventing weight loss.

Common causes of weight gain include:

• Hormone imbalances

• Gut health issues

• Toxic exposure

• Inflammation

• Thyroid dysfunction

Additionally, some conditions can make it even harder to lose weight, such as:

• Depression and anxiety

• Poor sleep quality

• Chronic stress

• Genetic factors

• Nutritional deficiencies

• Toxin exposure

• Insufficient physical activity

• Unhealthy eating habits

• A mismatch between diet/exercise programs and your needs

• Lack of proper diet and exercise practices

Conventional diets can make weight management challenging. While not all diets are ineffective, many overlook key biological principles.

Here’s the issue: The more active you are, the more calories your body needs to maintain your lifestyle. Most diets push you into a calorie deficit and encourage more exercise, right?

However, when you push yourself into a severe calorie deficit, your body enters “starvation mode,” where it starts storing fat to keep you going, especially if you're highly active but not eating enough.

These kinds of diets are unsustainable because they go against the body’s natural processes. Plus, sticking with them long-term can lead to the development of disordered eating patterns, which only create more health challenges.