How to Lose Weight Without Losing Your Mind

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Anshu Bahanda: This is Anshu Bahanda from Wellness Curated, and today we’re talking about one of the toughest and most emotional parts of wellness. Weight loss. Have you ever stepped on the scale, seen a number you didn’t want and felt like all your efforts are worthless? Maybe you’ve lost weight before only to watch it creep back, along with guilt, shame, and that voice in your head saying you failed again. You’re not alone. Research shows that about 10% of people with overweight or obesity achieve and sustain a 5% or greater weight loss within a year. And even then, within two years, most people regain more than half of it. By five years, around 80% have regained the weight. The truth is, the physical side of weight loss is only half the battle. The other half, the part no one talks about, is the mind. Welcome back to the Wellness Algorithm, where we go beyond the trends and uncover what really works for your health and well-being. Today, we’re looking at how to lose weight without losing your mind. Because losing.

But let’s be honest, weight isn’t just about calories and exercise. It’s about motivation. It’s about identity, resilience, and the way we see ourselves. To help us navigate this, I’m joined by Sunaina Rekhi. She’s a globally recognized mind-body, yoga therapist, somatic healer, and the first Indian woman to represent India at the United Nations for yoga. But before we begin, since we don’t charge you for this, please do me a small little favor. Hit subscribe right now. Leave us a comment at the end of the chat and share it with friends and family so that we can get you better and better speakers, and get into deeper conversations for you. Thank you. Don’t forget, subscribe right now. So I want to ask you a question, Sunaina. Every morning I stand on my scales, I hide from my husband, and this is. I swear this is true. I hide from my husband and stand on the scales. Because that is so important to me, this weight thing. I seem to have got it into my brain about the weight. What can I do about it? 

Sunaina Rekhi: So I think, Anshu, it’s such a cultural thing, right? We only keep counting calories in, calories out. 

AB: Yes. 

SR: You know, so everybody thinks that the scale is the only place of measurement, but it is so not. It really is. Whether your sleep cycle, whether your stress levels, whether you’re emotionally balanced, whether you have an identity of self, if you’re a person who can’t feel free or feels that I need to feel supported, you will always carry the weight, because that’s what you feel. 

AB: Right. Okay.

SR: You know, but the scale is not the only thing. There’s so many other measurements. How you’re feeling, how is your posture feeling? How has your rest been? Have you had quality sleep? 

AB: But, on that note, tell me, like, there’s so many of us who lead very fairly disciplined lives, right? Why do so many people who have fairly successful lives, disciplined lives, still struggle with weight loss? What is happening to their mind, body connection? 

SR: Correct? I think it’s. I’ve been teaching so many CEOs, athletes, high performers, and I’ve noticed. And it’s not about willpower. It is not that there’s a lack of willpower because these people have so much willpower. It’s really the connection that they are feeling between their mind and body. Exactly what you said in the question is where the answer lies. They are not connecting their mind and body together. They are not listening to what they are feeling. 

AB: Okay, so what can they do about it? What do you suggest to them? 

SR: I think honestly it’s about listening to how you’re feeling. Rather than trying to figure out that this is my weight loss. I need to lose these many kilos. On a scale, like you said earlier, is more about how I want to feel today? What. What do I want to feel like today? And just giving yourself that space, that two minutes of really understanding how I want to feel today? Do I want to feel free? Do I want to feel active? Do I want to feel that? I just want to hug. Do I, do I want to feel like I want to just sleep today? Am I feeling just a lot of fatigue today? And when you listen to your body, your neural pathways, when you’re saying, well, how do I want to feel in the next two hours, it starts to reconnect you to your future self rather than your present cravings, rather than your present space.

AB: That’s very interesting. So tell me, Sunaina, if you’re saying that the solution is to move to your future self, if we were to do that, would that prevent us from putting on the weight that 80% of us seem to put on in the next, in five years after we lose the weight, 

SR: I think this is a very interesting statistic. You said like in five years people are putting the weight back on. So then just the question. 

AB: 80%. 

SR: 80%. So the question is showing us that weight loss is not the problem. But weight management is to really be able to manage your weight. Because a lot of people, what they do is they reward themselves. Oh, I lost this weight. Now I’m free. Now I’ll do whatever I want. 

AB: Now I can eat lots of chocolate cakes. 

SR: Now I can eat lots of chocolates. But I think it really, you know, people who are healthy and people who are unhealthy. Both have very different mindsets. A healthy person has a very different mindset. Their discipline, their thought process, their habits. Everything is very disciplined for a healthy person. And when somebody needs to move into that. They need to change their lifestyle. They need to change their mindset. 

AB: So you’re saying change the mindset. Tell me how. How can they change the mindset? 

SR: Like, you have to change a lot of things in your lifestyle. Whether it is asking somebody while you’re simple things asking somebody while you’re lying down. Get me water. Get up and get yourself the water. That’s a lifestyle change. 

AB: So you’re saying move. One of the things you’re saying is simple movement. Don’t just sit there and order. Just move.

SR: You know, I’ll give you an example, Anshu. I was in London, and I had a boyfriend who was the most doting boyfriend, I would lie. I had become so fat in London. The first 10 kilos that you gained. 

AB: You’re the first person who became fat in London. We all move a lot, by the way. 

SR: I have no. And university. I was in university. I’m in my first year of university. And, I would just lie down and be like, please, can you get me water, Please can you get me food? And I still remember I’d become so fat. And my best friend told me, Sunaina, if you can just get your own water, your own food. That will really help you lose weight. So I think about small lifestyle choices. 

AB: Right? Right. And that’s a very important point you’re making, I think even though it sounds simple, that move, but so many of us don’t. And, you know, in fact, sometimes when I feel like I’m not getting enough movement. I actually put on and put an alarm on my phone every 25 minutes to move. Even if it’s just to go and run around, you know, my table five times. But something very simple like you’re saying, go get yourself a glass of water every 25 minutes. Go jump up and down, you know, do five jumping jacks. But some simple movements, that’s so important. Thank you for stressing that. But, Sunaina, I have something I want to ask you about. What happens when people feel like they’re hitting this weight loss plateau? Is there a mental shift which will help them push through that, give us some practical tools for that situation where you feel like, oh, God, I’m not getting anywhere.

SR: Yeah, a lot of us have been there. I’m there right now. I am feeling it. And I’ve been telling myself it’s not really a plateau, what it actually is. It’s a pause. Sometimes your mind and body are recalibrating. Sometimes they’re learning habits. Sometimes it’s telling you to change the movement. Have you noticed sometimes you’ve been doing something for a long time and now it’s not making that difference in your body. It’s kind of giving you those pointers within you. It’s giving you that, like, okay, if you’re in a plateau, like, I’ve been feeling, okay, what is it that I need to change? And then I’m like, okay, maybe I’m not doing enough cardio, right? Maybe I’m doing Pilates. Maybe I’m doing yoga. Yoga is really for my nervous system. Pilates is for my small little muscles that work. Swimming is for my overall meditation. So I think everyone feels something different with those things. I won’t say this is what you would feel. Change your habits a little bit. Change it around. Sometimes people have been doing, for example, intermittent fasting for 16 hours. And, it’s not working anymore, you know, so maybe one of these days, don’t do intermittent fasting, then do it again after a while. Maybe do it for 17, 18 hours now. So it really depends on how your body will work with it. Every body and every mind. Anshu is so different that I would never want to say that this is the way. This is only a way that maybe I have seen. But there are so many different ways. And that’s why I’m trying to recalibrate, like, a lot of things that people could do. 

AB: Okay, so give me some ways that you would advise that people can regulate their nervous systems. 

SR: I think one big time is yoga, breath work, meditation. Right? This is what I teach. Fourth, really listening to beautiful stuff like you are doing your podcast. It’s so important for people to hear things, because whatever we have said, maybe not a hundred, maybe not even 20, but one thing that somebody can take out of this will help them for a lifetime, reading good books, being in solitude with yourself, I feel. Can I give an example? Because I really went through that in my life. I think we are really dependent on people. And I’m not saying I’m not anymore, but there was a time when I was married and I had a family. And suddenly now from Bombay to Goa, I lived with my dogs. I didn’t know how to come from an airport alone. I needed somebody to pick me up. Right. And there was so much regulation that needed to happen. I felt vulnerable, I felt overwhelmed, I felt fear. All of these things. And then you reach this certain point of really working with yourself. And today I really love where I am. I really enjoy every single moment with myself and with my friends. So I think it’s very important for people to get rid of that and to look at other dimensions. 

AB: Right. 

SR: You can’t just look at food and exercise. These are two dimensions. There are many dimensions to it. Your relationships, how good are your relationships with people? It is a dimension of your weight loss journey. 

AB: So what you’re saying is spend time in solitude, analyze your relationships. Sort of, where are you going with your life? It’s not just about food and exercise. A lot of it is about the emotions that go with it, correct? 

SR: Yeah. A lot of it is not just emotions that go with it. There could be so many things. It could be food, it could be exercise, it could be the quality of sleep, it could be the people that you’re meeting. Which environment are you living in right now? Is it positive? Is it negative? Is it feeling toxic to you? Are you afraid of something? Are you under pressure for something even? Like there are deadlines. There are deadlines for everyone in life. 

AB: Right. 

SR: Are you feeling over pressured? Are you eating because you’re feeling emotional or are you eating because you’re genuinely hungry? 

AB: Now this is a very important point you’re making. How do you put your finger on why you’re eating? It’s very difficult for people to separate guilt eating very often with just eating to nourish your bodies. So how do you separate those? 

SR: I love this word nourishing. I think first people really label the food as this is good food, this is bad food. Rather label it, it’s very nourishing and this is less nourishing. I think that’s your first movement that you create in your mind, right? Because whatever word you say is what you become.

AB: Right

SR: Right. Another thing is our, our body and our relationship with our body. And if you really look at it and we can be like, oh, we are so positive about our body. Bullshit. No one is feeling positive about their body. Something or the other. They will find the crack. It is the missing tile syndrome. You will find it is the missing tile syndrome like the missing tiles. All the tiles will be fine. But there’ll be one missing tile on the floor and you’ll be able to notice that tile. So every time. Oh my God, look at the fat on my arm. Oh my God, my belly. We are saying such negative things to our body about it. Yeah, yeah. Our body is making us get up, is making us go to the toilet, is making us relieve ourselves, is making us digest our food, is making us eat. Our right hand is working and putting food in, our mouth, our nostrils are able to breathe, our eyes are able to see. And what if somebody, if you helped me with all this, I would tell you a billion times, thank you. 

AB: Yes. 

SR: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. And all we do is, my body. I don’t like my body, man. I don’t know. I don’t. That’s actually what we are doing at all times. 

AB: So how much gratitude are we giving this body that carries us through our life for the rest of our life? It does everything for us from the day we are born to the day we die. Is the vehicle we use.

SR: Correct. So rather than just measuring yourself, how does it make you feel? Feel? And I think, coming to your question, that it is so hard to distinguish sometimes why we are eating. And that is why it’s very important, like to put your hand here and to really say, okay, let’s take two minutes off and say that. Okay, why am I eating right now? Is it because I want to feel comfort right now? Is it because I’m feeling fatigued right now? Or is it because I’m bored? Or is it because I’m feeling curious? What is this? I want to eat it. What is it that you are feeling right now? So when you realize, okay, I’m bored, that’s why I’m eating, then either stretch, move, go for a five-minute walk like you are going around the dining table. Also just go play with the dogs because now you’ve got the answer. I am bored. Okay. I’m fatigued. Okay. Let me take a 20-minute nap. You know, I’m feeling less energized. Okay, so let me do some yoga. Let me stretch my body a little bit. You know, I’m feeling emotionally not feeling good at all. Take, just run, run, just run away from that feeling. Run, run, run, you know, but we move to the food. That’s a big one, right? Emotional eating is a huge one for people. So I would say all these things. 

AB: Okay. And tell me, you talk a lot about coming home to your body. Can you explain to me what that means in terms of weight loss. 

SR: I think coming home to your body really means listening to your body, not trying to punish your body. I don’t think ever, I don’t think I have ever gone on diets. I do not do that. I do not like to punish myself. I like to create long-lasting, long-term benefits, lifestyle changes. It might take me longer, but then I’m creating that lifestyle change. 

AB: Okay, 

SR: Okay. So they like I have at this moment say gained weight because I have menopause, right. And I’m just turning 44. I have gained around 8 to 10 kilos in the last four to five months. Six. Six months. 

AB: You don’t look like someone who’s gained 8 to 10 kilos.

SR: But just scroll down my Instagram and see my sexiness. No, but really I have gained that weight because. And you gain a lot of it on your belly. A lot of that weight goes on your belly because the belly holds that residue. Whether it’s overdue over excessive toxins, excessive food, excessive hormones, it’s all in that belly. So that’s your hormonal, whether it’s cortisol, thyroid, all these hormones, estrogen, progesterone, all these hormones that are playing testosterone, whatever is playing havoc. So I think it’s very important. So many women, you know, they are like, like for example, for me I don’t need very harsh training, but I’ll be like, oh my God, now I have to lose weight. Okay, let me go for 10 kilometres. This and, and that is a major punishment for your body because your body needs some nurturing right now. It’s taken in the fat because it’s not feeling safe. And now you’re making it feel more unsafe by putting into exercise and all that, which is too much. It’s punishing. Yeah, your body, sometimes your body is just between 7 to 8 in the morning. If you just get up in the morning, go outside for a stroll, not a brisk walk. Also just a stroll for half an hour will start to remove cortisol from your body, which is, which is the most overlooked thing. Stress cortisol is the highest indicator of. I have gained 10 kilos. Okay. I have not increased my food. I am doing a lot of exercise and workouts. I move all day long. But I have gained weight. 

AB: It’s called the brown menopause. You know that, right? 

SR: Yes, it is the menopause. And the menopause is placed playing with your hormones. And your biggest hormone that it affects is cortisol. So we have to start relaxing and de-stressing our bodies through a lot of different mediums that we can use.

AB: Okay, so on that note, I want to ask you specifically about yoga and mindfulness. How are you? So at this current time, you’re talking about a situation where the cortisol levels are high. You know, this is nature. The cortisol levels are high for everyone who’s going through menopause. When someone’s having a young child, when they have a baby, their cortisol levels are high. You know, there’s a lot of stress that people go through. And there’s stress eating in people’s lives. Or when they’re craving something because of some sort of stress. How do you use yoga and mindfulness to help? And can you give us one or two very simple techniques for people who can’t maybe afford a whole yoga class or a yoga teacher? 

SR: All right. So first, how does yoga help you? Right. I think your stress is not just in your mind. Your stress is in every cell of your body. There’s remembering and every part of your body. 

AB: Cellular memory. Absolutely.

SR: Cellular memory. 

AB: You totally are talking my language. You’re totally. I totally am getting what you’re saying. So thank you for that, Sunaina. 

SR: No, but it is, right? Like, I still remember because this came to me when I was very young. My dad passed away, and my mom said, Sunaina, his memory is not in my mind or in my heart. It’s everywhere, right? And through time. And when I went through life, and I’m going through life, I have realized how my body had to break. Because suddenly so many emotions went on top of it, and it started breaking. Whether there was weight loss, whether there was weight gain, both are a problem today. Some people are finding it hard to even gain weight. And some people are finding it hard to lose weight. Both are issues. Right. So your body holds all the memories. So when you do yoga, when you inhale and you open up, just this movement of lifting and lifting up creates this movement of. I’m feeling empowered. I’m feeling less vulnerable. I’m ready to show myself to the world. I’m not hiding. I’m feeling comfortable with myself. I’m feeling confident. So all of this is happening in that one movement that you’re creating. The shape of your body, that is, you know, when you’re twisting, the way the tension is melting in your spine, you know, it’s removing stress out of your body through the shapes that you’re creating.

AB: Absolutely. 

SR: Right. Yes. Then there is breath work. So we have so many different breathworks. Right. And they can be different. Breath works for different reasons like so many times for me and for a lot of my clients who need some softness, they need just to be held, right? 

AB: Yeah.

SR: But they need to create that on their own at that moment. Right. So the breath that will go for that would be inhaled. And as you exhale, you make it. And make the shhh… very long. So let’s do this three times. Let’s inhale through the nose and exhale. Inhale, inhale gently. Open your eyes and like that. How are you feeling? 

AB: My God. Something quietened in my head. And I’m someone who does a lot of breath work. But Sunaina, whatever it is that you just made us do, is working. Yeah, it was that. Yeah, it was beautiful. 

SR: It’s as if, you know, you’re doing. These are your parts. You know, some people, when they are feeling anxious, they do this sometimes. Some people are feeling very blocked. But then body tapping. Just keep tapping, keep tapping. Depression is in your armpits. Keep tapping. So there are so many different ways that you can like vagus nerve reset, which is all over, which is like a lot with the ears, the neck and because the vagus nerve runs like, it’s like a net throughout your body till your stomach. Right. So really activating the vagus nerve through the ears, through the belly button. So yeah, there are many many beautiful techniques. 

AB: So coming back to this whole weight loss situation that a lot of people, quote, unquote, struggle with, what about if someone’s tried every diet and they’re feeling really, really defeated and they feel like, I mean, it’s almost got to the point where I know people where it’s damaging their mental health. What would you advise them to do? How can you give them a little bit of hope? 

SR: I think hope is the most important. The moment I feel that a human starts to lose hope, starts to lose everything. And I think, we are made in such a way as humans that somewhere we always have hope. Somewhere it could be hidden. Like you’re saying people are so frustrated, they’ve given up. I think sometimes it’s like, okay, one more step. Let’s figure something else out. There’s so many things. And it’s not that you failed. Sometimes the method fails. You try a different method. You know, I wouldn’t tell everybody, okay, do intermittent fasting. For some people, it doesn’t suit them. They need to eat in the mornings. So if they were trying something like that and it didn’t work. It’s not suiting your body. There are so many things out there. I think you have to give it a try. And sometimes you need to also accept, accept where you are at some point, at some level. Some level. At this moment when I’ve gained weight, I’m not in that accepting mode at this moment because I’m not. I’m not in that accepting mode because what’s happening right now for me is I’m creating many wonderful changes in my life. I normally sleep by around 12 o’ clock because I’m working, I’m working, I’m working. Even though at 10 o’ clock my mind is running, I’m working. And I’ve been wanting to move to the 10 o’ clock time. I’m like, okay, Sunaina, enough, let’s move, let’s move, let’s move. So even though when I’m helping people, I’m also helping myself, right? I don’t know everything. I’m not perfect at everything. So when you are going through a hurdle, change the direction. Don’t keep doing the same thing. I think you get too tired doing the same. 

AB: So you’re saying that change is something when you feel like you’re not getting anywhere, try something different. Even though a lot of people have tried lots of different diets. Maybe they need to look at changing their stress level somehow. 

SR: No, maybe they need to change their self-identity and that I think is the most important. How are they viewing themselves? That? I mean if you’ve tried everything, you’re not able to lose it. Meaning something is happening on a mental level as well. It could be anything, right? But one of the things it could be that it is on a mental level, it’s how you have always looked at yourself. Maybe when you were younger you always craved more food and there wasn’t enough. Right. That you feel that you need more food now you need to hoard it, you need to hold it. You know there is a very weird feeling within us, right. That there could be a famine like you said, general ancestral trauma. So it’s a lot of our self-identification. How are we looking at ourselves? Sometimes therapy really helps. It’s like you could be doing the correct food, you could be doing the correct diet, you could be doing the correct sleep, you could be doing everything properly and you’re still not losing weight. Maybe you need some therapy. 

AB: Maybe you need therapy. Maybe you need family constellation healing. 

SR: Correct.

AB: Because it’s an ancestral thing that is. 

SR: Yeah, so, so right. I like that one. Correct. 

AB: But tell me, is there a daily mental ritual that you can advise people for longer term weight management?

SR: Don’t say anything mean to your body. Interesting. Don’t say anything mean to your body. Just stop right now. Stop saying I’m. 

AB: Maybe every morning get up and look at yourself in the mirror and say, oh my God, I’m beautiful. Look at your body in the mirror and say, how amazing are you? 

SR: Correct. Even if it’s not the mirror, it’s like not even. Sometimes it’s not even how amazing I am? Amazing. Do I look? No. Even getting. I’m feeling amazing. I’m feeling rather than looking, I’m feeling. And that would change the dynamic right there. When you are suddenly working with feeling because you move the external thing that you’re looking at to more internal. And when that internal feeling feels good, then you will also want to make the right choices. If the internal doesn’t feel good, you will make wrong choices. 

AB: Interesting, interesting. So we’re just coming back to exactly what we do in all our spiritual work. Come back to the internal. Come back to yourself. And is that what you found is the biggest way of dealing with the psychological side of weight loss, coming back home to yourself?

SR: Definitely. And that requires not just days, months. It’s a lifelong journey which you keep developing with yourself. Every time you think, okay, I know it, a challenge will come and you will not know how to. And you will have to learn more and more. It’s a lifelong thing with yourself. 

AB: And can you give us some techniques that will help or a tool that you think will help people, that people can incorporate maybe into their lives every day?

SR: Yoga. 

AB: Yoga. So you’re just saying yoga is a great way of. 

SR: It is the best way for me to feel like it is the best way for me to really connect my mind and body. It really helps me connect my mind and body. Because we pay so much attention to the breath. We pay so much attention to that. And your body is challenging itself and is breathing into those challenges. And that moves from the mat to off the mat, where all the challenges that you’re going through, you can breathe through those challenges. Everything that you learn on the mat is not really for you. For on the mat, I really believe who cares if you can do a handstand or not, right? But the people who do the handstand show their discipline, they’re conquering a challenge. They show up for themselves every day physically. Circulation of blood, which you don’t need in a headstand, you can do in a down dog. But it’s also helping you. Right? It’s also giving you that. So the headstand is only when people get excited. Oh. Headstand is only because you can see how much effort has gone for that person to be doing that. The headstand itself is not. When we hold poses in yoga, you know, there’ll be moments. Anshu, I’m making you hold one pose. You’ll be like, oh, my God. Has she forgotten that I exist? Get me out of this pose, or it’ll be really hurting. Okay. Okay. I’m settling into it. Okay. I’m feeling good. Oh, my God. How long has it been? I need to get out of this pose. So what happens is that understanding how emotions are changing every second, every second that emotion has changed. That’s your reality. Now you’ve understood that your emotions are changing. So you understand, even off the mat, that whatever is coming, whatever you’re feeling will change. Like people who have lost hope. They have lost hope today. That feeling is going to change. 

AB: Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. And, the listeners who heard me, they always I always say there’s two things that you will always deal with. Change and death. You can’t take these two away. These are the only two definitions in our life. 

SR: So true. 

AB: Everything else is transitional. 

SR: Everything else is temporary. 

AB: So I love what you’re saying about everything will change. Even hopelessness will change. And on that note, Sunaina, for people whose weight loss has become such an issue. That it’s almost caused mental health issues for them. Can you give them some advice? 

SR: I would really say if it’s hard. Sometimes it’s hard because you’re so tired. You’re so exhausted trying to figure it out. Get some help with someone. Create a support system for yourself. You don’t need to do this alone. And I feel that that support. When somebody is with you and somebody is helping you. Somebody is being positive with you. Somebody’s changing your energy. You are then with someone and is helping you direct your brain, direct your mind. It’s like changing your mindset. That’s what happens when you and it makes you feel. Sometimes the journey feels so hard. Then it makes you feel somebody’s supporting 

AB: and nurtured. It makes you feel that word I love. It makes you feel nurtured and cared for. 

SR: Yes. It makes you feel nurtured and cared for. 

AB: So, Sunaina, I want to end with a few. With a rapid-fire round things that people will very quickly remember from our conversation. So the biggest myth about weight loss and mental health. 

SR: That it’s all about willpower. It’s really about mind, body connection. 

AB: Fabulous. One yoga pose that instantly helps with stress eating. 

SR: I think a child’s pose really helps your nervous system relax.

AB: Wonderful. Best time of day to practice mindfulness for food choices. 

SR: Just before you eat your first meal. 

AB: Okay, so you would say just very mind. Sit down, mindfully spend two minutes maybe before you’re eating.

SR: Actually, if you ask me how that would be. You inhale for two counts, hold the breath for four, exhale for six. 

AB: Okay, so two, four, six. Breathing. Wonderful. One affirmation you give clients struggling with motivation.

SR: One affirmation I give to clients struggling with. I’m, like right now thinking like, you can do it. No. 

AB: Okay, you can do it. Exactly. That’s perfect. 

SR: It would be. We will do it. 

AB: Okay. Okay. And I love what you said. I had a really sexy body. I want that back. They can say that. Yes. The most overlooked factor in sustainable weight loss. 

SR: I think quality sleep. 

AB: One book or resource you’d recommend? 

SR: I think my weight loss program.

AB: Oh, fantastic. Thank you, Sunaina. That was an amazing conversation. I think everyone on the planet needs to listen to this conversation. 

SR: Oh, how, sweet. I had such a great time with you. Ya. Thank you.

AB: Wow, what a powerful conversation we’ve had with Sunaina Rekhi. I love that she reminded us that weight loss isn’t just about food or fitness. It’s about mindset. It’s about resilience and treating your body like home. If you took even one insight from today, please share this episode with a friend who might need it. And don’t forget, hit subscribe right now so you never miss an episode of the Wellness Algorithm, because here’s what I want you to remember. Wellness is not a destination. It’s an algorithm you can rewrite every single day. This is Anshu Bahanda from Wellness Curated. Stay curious. Be compassionate with yourself and go searching for credible, correct information. And I’ll see you next time. Don’t forget to subscribe. Thank you.