Remember the recent screenshot?

I think it shows very well one trap that many people fall into.

On the one hand, this logic is very understandable.

If something is wrong with me → it must be a disease. If it's a disease → I need to see a doctor and get checked.

I would start with that too.

But when after the examination and tests everything is normal, a person falls into a cognitive dead end:

"How can that be?"

I noticed one detail.
In this message, there are hormones, sugar, ultrasound, an endocrinologist.

But there is no talk about what happens every day: how nutrition is organized, whether there is enough movement, how the person sleeps, whether they drink alcohol, whether there are other habits that can also affect weight and well-being.

🔜And then the next round of searching begins.

Maybe I should take some more hormones? Find another doctor?
Maybe it's genetics? Or age? Or slow metabolism?

Sometimes it really is worth digging deeper. But if doctors have already ruled out diseases, then searching for answers only in tests can lead to a dead end.

🔜 In psychology, this way of explaining what is happening is called an external locus of control. When it seems that the source of the problem is outside, i.e., in tests, hormones, genetics, broken metabolism.

And here we often lose sight of what we can actually influence every day.

Often, poor health, high blood pressure, and many other changes turn out to be not the cause of weight gain, but its consequence or a consequence of lifestyle.

🔜I had that myself too.

When my jeans no longer fit and I got hateful love handles, I decided that was it, age. Metabolism is not the same anymore, old age has come. (By the way, I was 25.)

I flatly refused to see that I started drinking beer more often, and along with it, I ate chips, nuts, and sausages. In my head, it was not at all connected to the fact that my jeans became too small. Well, of course, my metabolism broke down, yes)

I think we often look for complex explanations when we should first look at ordinary everyday things.

Have you had anything similar? When it later turned out that the cause was not at all where you first looked for it?