Note

The scale is lying

Bloat from raising progesterone, not from calories.

Sleep gets better. Then the bowling-ball belly. Raising estrogen and progesterone together is the pattern people name. This is not a diet failure.

Do not start a new diet the week you change a dose. Track the bloat against the dose, not against the scale alone. Talk to the person who prescribed it.

A cooling device does not move this. Neither does a clean-eating plan started the same week.

The scale is not the problem. The timing is.

Not a diagnosis. The quiz names whether weight is the loudest cluster right now, or whether it showed up after a dose change.