Why Your Weight Loss Is Stuck: Nutrition, Hormones, Insulin Resistance & Coaching with Kim Pelicano

Why does weight loss stall, even when you feel like you’re doing everything right? In this episode of The Rooted Method, Kaycee Hines sits down with Kim Pelicano, Rooted Coach and Director of Education & Nutrition at Rooted Coaching, to talk about what really happens when clients get stuck in their health or fat loss journey. Kim shares her background in nutrition, nursing, functional health, and coaching, and how her experience with night shift, burnout, and adrenal fatigue shaped the way she supports clients today. Together, Kaycee and Kim break down the Rooted approach to weight loss plateaus, looking beyond the scale and into biofeedback, food quality, tracking accuracy, movement, stress, sleep, digestion, menstrual cycles, labs, insulin resistance, and more. They also talk about common patterns they see in clients, including under-eating, over-exercising, relying too heavily on processed “macro-friendly” foods, and missing the foundational habits that support long-term health. In this episode, Kaycee and Kim discuss: Why weight loss plateaus happen What biofeedback can reveal about your health How sleep, digestion, stress, and cycles impact progress Why food quality matters, especially in a calorie deficit The problem with under-eating and over-training When lab work may help uncover deeper issues Insulin resistance, blood sugar, and belly fat Why coaching can help you troubleshoot what you may not see on your own If you’ve been dieting for months, working out consistently, and still not seeing the progress you want, this episode will help you understand what may be going on underneath the surface and what to look at next. Learn more about Rooted Coaching and schedule a discovery call: https://www.therootedcoaches.com/#Apply Follow Rooted Coaching: @therootedcoaches Follow Kim Pelicano: @kimpellicano_