The Weight I Didn't See Coming

Sara Tam

Published on: 26/03/2026

What happens when a holistic nutritionist, someone who teaches women about stress, cortisol, and nourishment for a living, gets caught in a toxic workplace and can't get out? In this honest personal essay, Sara shares what burnout, workplace abuse, and cortisol weight gain actually looked like for her, and why healing required more than all the tools she had. For the woman who's doing everything right and still not feeling okay.