08:11:54 That's like, I just want to share a little bit about what's going on. So I have been asked so many times. Should we be losing weight with weight, loss, medication, or should we not.
08:12:05 And that is a personal decision. I just want to address that from the beginning. That is a complete personal decision between you.
08:12:10 And your doctor.
08:12:12 And with that.
08:12:14 I.
08:12:16 Hold on! I messed up.
08:12:26 Starting over here.
08:12:32 Busy. I want to address something that keeps coming up for me.
08:12:36 I keep getting asked.
08:12:38 Should you use weight, loss, medication.
08:12:40 Should you not use weight, loss, medication.
08:12:43 I wanna tell you that is a personal decision.
08:12:45 Between you and your doctor.
08:12:48 Only you can make that decision.
08:12:50 But what I want to tell you is.
08:12:53 Sometimes why I've been asked why it's so hard for people to make that decision.
08:12:57 Is because they think they've let themselves down. If they.
08:13:01 Take weight loss, medication.
08:13:04 You haven't. You haven't let yourself down, you have, and so many of us have made it so that.
08:13:11 Weight. Loss has to be hard, because it's our punishment for letting our bodies get that way. In the 1st place.
08:13:18 We gain weight for lots of reasons that all stem from overeating.
08:13:23 There are so many reasons why we were overeating, or why our bodies accumulated.
08:13:29 That is not a moral, good or bad type thing, and so how we lose it is also not a moral good or bad thing.
08:13:40 Anything that you use.
08:13:41 Is a tool.
08:13:43 And so counting calories. It was a tool, and it might have worked for you or some people. A lot of people get caught up in the rules of what counting calories does, and then it becomes.
08:13:56 Another way to show that they've failed. It feels very hard and imposing.
08:14:00 And so I don't teach counting calories, although I have worked with people who've used that tool for a period of time or ongoing.
08:14:09 Some people have medical conditions, so they're counting.
08:14:14 There's all kinds of tools for us to use.
08:14:17 The point of it is is for us to be healthy.
08:14:21 And healthy.
08:14:22 Looks, different for different people, so.
08:14:25 Tools that you use may be different for different people.
08:14:29 That being said.
08:14:30 Going back to weight loss medications.
08:14:33 I have not met a single person.
08:14:35 Who was healthy.
08:14:38 That has lost weight using weight loss medications.
08:14:41 And maintained it.
08:14:42 If they did not also change lifestyle habits.
08:14:45 And so, if your medicine is just making you not eat.
08:14:50 Then that's not healthy. We need food in our body.
08:14:54 If your weight loss medication makes it so that you're barely eating anything. And so what you are eating is.
08:15:02 Something that doesn't feel good in your body. Well, that's not healthy, either. Our body needs nutrients. So, limiting our nutrients down to nothing.
08:15:11 Or starving ourselves is what that's also called. That's not healthy. And so it's not sustainable.
08:15:18 The.
08:15:19 Idea of it being sustainable if you stayed on the medication. This is something I keep getting asked.
08:15:23 So if I start medication, do I have to take it forever?
08:15:27 That's up to you and your doctor.
08:15:29 People have lost weight when they're not on medications. So we do know you can lose weight, not being on a medication.
08:15:36 People have gained it, not on medications, but people have also gained back their weight on the medication.
08:15:42 And so when I've talked with some people.
08:15:46 I'll hear that they started losing weight in the beginning.
08:15:50 And then they stopped.
08:15:52 You can overeat.
08:15:54 Past what your medication is.
08:15:56 And so your body gets used to.
08:15:59 Some of the medications. That's why we have dosages that go up, and that's something your doctor would work with you on.
08:16:05 And so with that.
08:16:08 Your.
08:16:10 You're you're gonna still need to pay attention to what I keep calling those healthy lifestyle habits.
08:16:16 One of which is, How does this feel in my body?
08:16:19 Am, I.
08:16:21 Feeling good is this particular food not feeling good in my body.
08:16:25 Is there something that I want.
08:16:28 That I haven't been having, because if we keep ourselves, we have years, we have decades, probably of diets that we've restricted, and we know that doesn't work for us either. So how can we learn some moderation? How can I learn to listen to what my body wants.
08:16:43 And what I want, and marry those up. How can I have the food? Not how can I not have the food.
08:16:49 And so that's the kind of stuff that I help people, whether they're medicating or not medicating. You are going to learn how to tap into your body so that you can feel confident in it.
08:17:00 And it's a learning process, not just the 1st time, but ongoing. You don't wake up every single day feeling the exact same way. Some days you're more rested some days. You're stressed out some days.
08:17:11 You've had more sleep, or you're have a busy day, or you've just gotten over sickness, or whatever it is. Each day is something brand new, and you.
08:17:22 Learn to pivot, you, learn to roll with it, so that you are always taking the best care of your body.
08:17:28 In any situation.
08:17:30 And so the same thing with food. Some days.
08:17:34 There are going to be days when you're hungry, and you just physically need a little bit more food other days not so much.
08:17:40 So, instead of counting calories, I want you to listen to your body better, and some of that is.
08:17:46 Getting it wrong. Some of it is.
08:17:48 I think.
08:17:49 Oh, here you go! Perfect example!
08:17:51 So I'm trying some more high fiber type things, and one of them has been chia seeds.
08:17:57 I've put them in my drink. It kind of reminds me of a boba drink where it's those little squishy balls.
08:18:04 They're real tiny, kind of like a seed.
08:18:06 And then I've tried that in with like a crystal light packet in my drink, and that's been fun.
08:18:12 So then I thought, let's try something else. So I put some chia seeds and made like an overnight chia pudding.
08:18:19 Was not sure if I would like that at all, so I gave myself a backup option on my plan that day.
08:18:25 I had a banana and a chia pudding, and I thought.
08:18:28 I have no idea how this is gonna feel in my body.
08:18:31 And I had so much judgment about it, because I didn't know if I should eat more, or if it's like rice after you eat it, and 10 min later it blows up in your belly. I don't. I don't know how to expect that, and so.
08:18:43 I ate something else to go with it, because I wasn't sure how it was. Gonna be.
08:18:47 But I had a learning process of what it felt like. And so then, that was one experience that doesn't mean I learned everything there is to know about how my body responds to chia pudding. So the next time I thought, well, maybe.
08:19:01 If I eat it on a day that I'm working, I'm going to be distracted a little, and I'm not going to be so hyper focused on how this feels in my body.
08:19:10 And so I now know on days that I am focused on something else, that I have an agenda, a work plan, or something, and engagement and event.
08:19:21 I eat, and I'm not needing as much energy. But if it's a day that I'm not gonna get lunch for a long time well, maybe I need to add something with it.
08:19:30 I also know that I am okay with chia pudding, more so than even the drink. Putting it in my crystal light cup.
08:19:37 So I've learned so much about that. I learned how long of an energy I get.
08:19:42 I'm still kind of fine tuning that one. I know it's probably about 2 h. It might not be a full 3 to 4 h with the chia pudding, so I can put hoppers on it. I can put some peanut butter on it, or I could put a little bit of granola on it, and it gives me a little bit more energy, and so.
08:19:59 That's what I'm saying.
08:20:01 When we, medicated or not, are learning to listen to our bodies.
08:20:06 I have so curiously.
08:20:09 Figured out this Chia pudding thing.
08:20:11 And I'm able to keep figuring it out. And then there's gonna be a new circumstance, like a new event that happens that I've never even considered, or a new combination of food, or a new way to eat, something.
08:20:21 And it's just figuring it out.
08:20:23 I don't have to have all of the answers ahead of time. I can just test it.
08:20:28 I'll test it and see is this how it is?
08:20:31 And maybe it was.
08:20:31 2 weeks ago that way, and now something has changed.
08:20:35 That is kind of thing that I help people with.
08:20:38 Those are part of the lifestyle habits. There's so many different areas of our.
08:20:43 That we can work with habits. So our water sleep. You've heard me talk about those so many times, our types of food, our hunger cues. Those are gonna all be habits that we're really good at.
08:20:55 Movement. Are we moving some things with the weight loss? Medications might be a little more important.
08:21:01 So with weight, loss, medications, you are losing weight, possibly a little more rapid.
08:21:07 And so you are going to focus more on muscle mass.
08:21:10 But that can happen with calorie too. So some of the people who are losing weight very fast on calorie restriction, which is not what I teach, by the way, but I just want you to be clear that not just medication causes.
08:21:25 Muscle mass to be lost. It also can be with quick weight, loss of any kind.
08:21:32 But the muscle mass. We need to make sure that we're preserving our muscles and our.
08:21:41 Biology. Let's say the way it works. If we are losing fast, our body is not getting as many calories right? We're not getting as many nutrients.
08:21:49 Energy for from food. So it goes looking for it.
08:21:53 And we have.
08:21:57 Energy in our muscles and in our fat, and it's fast.
08:22:01 To pull it from the muscles.
08:22:02 And so we want to prime it to get it used to having plenty of other things and not taking just from our muscles.
08:22:10 And there's some dietary stuff to some of that.
08:22:13 Well.
08:22:13 In weight loss medications. You're going to be focusing a little bit more on protein. You're going to be focusing a little bit more on movement. And so.
08:22:21 There's not. Just take this shot. Take this pill and you lose weight. There's a few other things.
08:22:27 You bring in weight, loss, medication, and you also have side effects.
08:22:32 Side effects that go hand in hand with the medication.
08:22:35 And so just knowing, is this normal or is this not normal? Those are some of the questions that I get asked a lot. When should I go? Talk to my doctor? I say anything that doesn't resolve itself.
08:22:47 Needs to be. Tell at least told to your doctor, which now we have these beautiful portals that we can message our doctor and then say, is this normal.
08:22:56 Do I need to.
08:22:58 Know about anything. Do I need to come in? Do we need to check anything? There's so many things we can adjust. So just like how I was explaining so many ways. I can learn and change my chia pudding.
08:23:08 Your weight loss, medication, you could be changed to a different drug. You can be given a different dosage. You can be given over the counter medications, or some even prescription medications that help with the side effects. And those are decisions you can make with your doctor.
08:23:24 There's so much of that information. And so those are some of the things that people that are considering weight, loss medications, or are on them have also asked me.
08:23:32 So there is so many things that I have now been asked.
08:23:37 To create a webinar, and it's called everything your doctor wants you to know about weight.
08:23:42 And so just like I started. There's so many great lifestyle type habits.
08:23:47 That both, whether you're medicated or not medicated, you will want to know.
08:23:51 You'll want to know how to develop those lifestyle habits, because if you want to lose with medicine, you still want those habits in place.
08:24:00 You could over eat on the medication. So if we're learning how to manage emotions and that root cause type mindset stuff that you've maybe heard those words together, all the things that make us eat outside of hunger, any emotion that we feel that whether it's happy and excited, or mad, and sad, or lonely, or whatever this, the emotion is that.
08:24:23 Drives us to want to eat.
08:24:25 Overeat.
08:24:26 Those things all can be addressed, and so I help.
08:24:30 You learn that? And so this webinar addresses that for both. And so I've really created 2 webinars.
08:24:36 So when you I'm gonna be putting it in the link soon, so I can't wait to share this with you for you to sign up, but I got to meet I feel like I'm scrolling everywhere. Sorry about that. Stay with me. Stay with me, stay with me.
08:24:49 So I met with doctors and asked, What would you want your patients to know? Because most of the time doctors get what 10 min with you, and it's rushed, and they have a whole list of things they have to cover.
08:24:59 And so I've been told that either it feels like their doctor gave them a fire hose of information. In 10 min.
08:25:07 Or they said, whatever like the trendy diet is for them to try or some old stand by, you know, weight watchers, or Keto, or whatever the thing is that people ha go to, and it's a quick answer, and then they get to.
08:25:22 Let you be in someone else's hands, or they'll say something that is, eat less and move more, and people are like, well, I've been told that I have no idea what exactly that means, or how much of that to do, or how that would look.
08:25:35 Where do I start?
08:25:37 And so it.
08:25:38 Is either too much information, not enough information. It's confusing or it's unreliable. And so I met with doctors and asked all the questions for you.
08:25:48 About medicated, and not a non medicated weight loss.
08:25:53 And then I've created these 2 webinars. So I'm gonna give you the link.
08:25:56 And the show notes, and as soon as you get to that page it'll tell you which one do you want to sign up for, and then that way you can go to the one. If you're not being medicated. You don't want to hear about side effects. So, and if you do you really want to see how everything goes together but the basics of it? Everybody needs to learn lifestyle habits so that it's something you can maintain forever. Just taking great care of yourself.
08:26:18 Everybody needs to understand what's driving them to eat outside of hunger. And so, if you can work with those 2 things, that's the part I help you with, and then I just share really great information and tips, whether it's medicated or non-medicated. So be watching for that, Webinar. Link I cannot wait to share that with you. It's almost finished, and I'll be taking reservations for it shortly.
08:26:42 Let's go full circle like I said.
08:26:44 If you're considering medicine.
08:26:46 That is a personal choice.
08:26:49 If you're not, it's a personal choice.
08:26:52 You are not good or bad for using tools to help you along your journey.
08:26:56 It is.
08:26:57 Not a blame game. You should not be punished.
08:27:01 And make yourself have to be harder to lose weight.
08:27:05 Because you think it was your fault. In the 1st place.
08:27:07 None of this is true.
08:27:08 And if anyone has ever made you feel that way, let me apologize immediately.
08:27:14 For whoever put that thought into your head.
08:27:17 Things happen, our bodies react sometimes we overeat. I have never met a person who has never.
08:27:24 And if you were using eating.
08:27:27 As a tool.
08:27:29 Hear me with this because we just talked about tools right? If you were using.
08:27:33 Eating as a tool to help you manage stress.
08:27:36 That was the best tool you had at the time.
08:27:40 Be so compassionate yourself, because I.
08:27:43 Love.
08:27:44 U.
08:27:46 So much that I cannot stand to hear you beat yourself up anymore. It is not going to punish yourself thin and make everything feel better, it will feel more judgmental and more critical, more blame and shame all of that. And that doesn't feel good. And so, while that might have been your primary motivator in the past. I just wanna teach you how to love yourself better.
08:28:07 We do that with the habits, and we do that with managing the root causes of what had you overeating outside of hunger? In the 1st place.
08:28:15 So.
08:28:15 Be watching for the webinar.
08:28:19 Let me help you whether you do any of the courses, the webinars, or listen to this, podcast I absolutely want you to reach out for help.
08:28:29 Send me a message.
08:28:30 And ask me your questions.
08:28:31 I'll see you next week.
