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Your GLP-1 Stall Isn’t in Your Food. It’s in Your Allostatic Load.

The stress science nobody puts on the label, and why it might be the actual reason the scale stopped moving. (+ downloadable pdf)

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Nyk Bokuniewicz
Jul 14, 2026
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Your body has been carrying more than anyone ever named.

There’s a conversation that happens in comment sections, in the community threads, in DMs at 11pm on a Tuesday. Someone, usually someone who has been doing everything right for months, finally says it out loud. I’m eating the protein. I’m not skipping doses. I’m doing the walks. And the scale is not moving. At all.

And the response, almost universally, is some version of this: check your portions. Are you sure you’re not eating more than you think. Have you tried tracking again. Maybe it’s a plateau, give it time.

They try. They tighten up the tracking. They cut a little more. They wait. And weeks later, sometimes months later, they’re still stalled, still confused, still quietly wondering if something is wrong with them specifically.

If this is you, I want to offer something the standard GLP-1 conversation has mostly left out. A physiological framework that might actually explain what’s happening. Because what if the stall isn’t a food problem at all?

What if it’s a stress problem, measured in a way your food log was never built to catch?

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