If you have been scrolling your feed lately watching everyone around you drop weight on Ozempic or Wegovy while you are over here doing the mindful eating work and wondering if you are doing this the hard way for no reason…this episode is for you. That feeling is real, it is valid, and you are not alone. But the story you are telling yourself about it? That needs a serious update.
In this episode I am giving you my honest, compassionate, and clinically grounded take on GLP-1 medications as someone who spent the beginning of her career as a bariatric dietitian and has now spent 9 years watching what actually creates lasting weight loss. I am not anti-medication. But I am pro-root-cause. And the truth about what these medications can and cannot do for you long term is something most people are not talking about honestly.
We are covering why comparing your journey to someone else's is the single most dangerous thing you can do for your results, what actually happens to most people when they stop a GLP-1, what you are building through mindful eating that no medication can replicate, and why the slower path you are on is the only one that actually lasts.
You are not behind. You are not doing this the hard way. You are doing it the only way that builds something permanent. Press play and let me remind you exactly why that matters.
xoxo,
Jackie
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