Why can weight loss stall when I insist on only high-protein meals such as chicken breast or chicken soup?
Restricting high-protein foods too long can lower basal metabolism and energy and contribute to weak digestion. Review phlegm-fluid and circulation as well as meal balance.
Eating only one high-protein food for a long time limits nutrition, and early weight loss may plateau. Check both inadequate energy supply and digestive burden.
Korean medicine views weak digestion and energy conversion as weak spleen function, and heaviness or swelling from retained food and metabolic by-products as phlegm-fluid. Blood stasis is also considered if qi-blood circulation is impeded.
Do not adjust only calorie or protein numbers. Record energy, digestion, swelling, and metabolic response; no single diet is guaranteed to solve everyone’s plateau or outcome.
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