[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, it's Elizabeth McGand, the holistic GLP1 podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back to the holistic GLP1 podcast.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you're brand new to the holistic GLP1 family, big, big welcome.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think this episode will give you a little inside scoop of what we're about here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Today, I want to talk about something that maybe one of the most important lessons I've learned in over 20 years of helping people improve their health and release weight.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a lesson that changed the way I think about GLP ones, the way I think about weight loss,
[SPEAKER_00]: the way I think about healing.
[SPEAKER_00]: And honestly, the way I think about life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me give you a little background in how I got here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Years ago, before JLP1s became mainstream, I found myself in a really unique position.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was here in Los Angeles, working as a nutritionist in coach with some of the earliest adopters of these medications.
[SPEAKER_00]: And at that time, most of the people were just taking the standard high doses and really not doing much else.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then there was this other group that was experimenting with very small doses, what we now call microdosing.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I started noticing something.
[SPEAKER_00]: There seemed to be two very different experiences unfolding.
[SPEAKER_00]: One group will call those the standard protocol group.
[SPEAKER_00]: Was approaching weight loss like a battle, more medication, more restriction, more control, more force.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yes, many of them were losing weight.
[SPEAKER_00]: a lot of weight, maybe too much weight.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they weren't having a very good time.
[SPEAKER_00]: For many of them, it was rough.
[SPEAKER_00]: I won't go into all the glory details.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll just say lots of physical side effects.
[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't look very good.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was muscle loss involved.
[SPEAKER_00]: And more importantly, there was just the feeling that they were disconnected from their body.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there was often a sense that the body just needed to be overpowered.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when things slowed down, the instinct was almost always the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: Push harder, do more, increase the dose.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then there was this other group, the holistically inclined, the microdosing group.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what struck me about them wasn't just the result they were getting.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was the way they were getting them.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there was less urgency, less desperation, less force.
[SPEAKER_00]: definitely more self-awareness.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were approaching it differently.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were getting curious about what needed to be improved in their health, whether it was their metabolic health or gut health or hormones or stress levels or sleep or whatever was going on in their life that was really in the way.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a real desire to
[SPEAKER_00]: get to the root cause, whether that meant supporting their nervous systems or focusing on therapy or exercise, but they were willing to put that work in and alongside that work, they were using the peptides very strategically.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was interesting is they weren't expecting the medication to do all the work.
[SPEAKER_00]: Does that make sense?
[SPEAKER_00]: And I kept asking myself, what is really happening here?
[SPEAKER_00]: because it wasn't just about the food, it wasn't just about how much of the medication they were on, there was something much deeper going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Eventually I realized that underneath all the strategies and protocols, which absolutely matter.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was one thing, these women, the microdosing women, seem to understand.
[SPEAKER_00]: They had stopped treating their body like the enemy.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that changed everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: Looking back now, I realized they weren't just changing what they were eating.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were changing the relationship they had with themselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that was instrumental in their success.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, this is very personal for me, because I know what it's like just struggle with weight.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's funny, because I get these comments on my YouTube channel where people are like, oh, this woman clearly doesn't understand.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's just a thin person.
[SPEAKER_00]: She doesn't know what it's like to struggle with the disease of obesity.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to listen to someone who doesn't get it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I can understand that sentiment, but I just want to let you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't talked a lot about my story on this podcast, but the truth is, I struggle with my weight from the time I was a little girl.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, my mom, God bless her in heaven, took me to my first weight watcher's meeting when I was in second grade.
[SPEAKER_00]: Probably not the best parenting decision, but she was doing the best she could with the information she had.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she was a nurse, and my dad was a doctor, and they're left a lot to be desired from the medical community at that time.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there we go, I know that they were trying to help me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And while it definitely backfired, and that's a story for another time, my friend.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's just say that from a very young age, I understood what it felt like to believe my body was a problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: My family told me, it was a problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: The culture I grew up in told me it was a problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: The media told me it was a problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: And by the time I was 14, I weighed over 200 pounds.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was painful, it was embarrassing.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it left its mark.
[SPEAKER_00]: Over the years, I lost most of the weight.
[SPEAKER_00]: I lost 50 pounds before college.
[SPEAKER_00]: I lost it, I regained some of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: that hold back and forth until I finally cracked the code, so to speak, and found a way to maintain the weight loss quite successfully.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I went on to build an entire career helping people heal their bodies and do the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I thought I had figured this out, and then Perry Menopause arrived.
[SPEAKER_00]: Suddenly, my body started speaking a language I didn't recognize.
[SPEAKER_00]: The things that it always worked weren't working the same way.
[SPEAKER_00]: My hormones were shifting, my metabolism was changing.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if I'm being completely honest, I didn't like it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I found myself wanting to just tighten the reins, become more controlling, more rigid, more intense.
[SPEAKER_00]: And one day I caught myself.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had a CGM, a continuous glucose monitor in my arm.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was 5 a.m. at Equinox.
[SPEAKER_00]: My trainer and I were standing on the body, the body composition scale, and I'm frustrated with my results, and part of me just was clocking the absurdity at the lengths that I was going.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I realized I was slipping into the very mindset, I had watched derail so many women.
[SPEAKER_00]: The mindset that says, my body is the problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: Have you ever noticed how quickly we do that?
[SPEAKER_00]: The scale goes up, we blame ourselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: Our body changes, we blame ourselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: Perry menopause arrives, we blame ourselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: Somehow the conclusion is always the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: I must be doing something wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what if that's not true?
[SPEAKER_00]: What if your body isn't failing?
[SPEAKER_00]: What if your body is responding exactly the way biology predicts?
[SPEAKER_00]: Think about it, years of dieting, years of having genetics that absolutely make weight management more difficult.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oprah recently released a book about her weight loss journey.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm reading it and it's a really good book because you get it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she talks about her experience with GLP ones.
[SPEAKER_00]: The book is called Enough Your Health, Your Weight, and What It's Like to Be Free.
[SPEAKER_00]: And a little aside here, Oprah and I seem to be on the same wavelength because I recently named our upcoming weight release program, holistic chelpy one, finally effing free.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's a really good name.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think one of the reasons Oprah's book, our podcast, this conversation is resonating right now is because people are finally beginning to separate biology.
[SPEAKER_00]: from morality that there's a new way to look at health and weight loss, and there's an invitation to experience a new level of freedom and success, finally having free.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sounds good, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think we're beginning to realize that weight loss struggles are not evidence that you're lazy, or weak, or broken.
[SPEAKER_00]: And once you stop interpreting every challenge as a personal failure, something remarkable can happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can stop carrying the burden of believing here the problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's where the transformation truly begins.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now with a meal plan, not with a peptide, not with another promise that this time you're
[SPEAKER_00]: Now let's talk about this for a minute.
[SPEAKER_00]: The name of this episode is surrender the war against your body.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now when I say surrender, I don't mean giving up.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't mean settling.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't mean lowering your standards.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't mean face planting into a box of donuts.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean letting go of the constant resistance that constant inner battle, the exhausting effort of trying to force
[SPEAKER_00]: that it actually needs to heal itself into.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stay with me here because I think most people believe weight is only physical, but in my experience weight is definitely more than that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's emotional, it's mental, it's energetic, and
[SPEAKER_00]: without getting too deep into the energy of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's just look at this through this lens.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes what we're carrying isn't just on our body.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's in our story.
[SPEAKER_00]: The years of self-judgment, years of unresolved pain, years of believing somehow were not enough, years of trying to earn our worth.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that way can be just as exhausting
[SPEAKER_00]: when we're carrying years of that shame, frustration, all those things.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's almost like we're carrying an invisible weight, and there's a real heaviness to that identity.
[SPEAKER_00]: And over time, that heaviness affects more than our body.
[SPEAKER_00]: It affects how we think.
[SPEAKER_00]: how we show up, the possibilities were able to see.
[SPEAKER_00]: The opportunities were even willing to pursue.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the life were available to create.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I've found that when we begin to put that burden down, something starts to open up.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the physical way starts to come off with more ease.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm thinking about one of,
[SPEAKER_00]: My clients will call her Mary.
[SPEAKER_00]: When Mary first came to us, she wanted to lose weight, that's what brought her in, but underneath the weight was something deeper.
[SPEAKER_00]: Years of putting herself last.
[SPEAKER_00]: unprocessed grief.
[SPEAKER_00]: It had all been pushed down and her health and her body was suffering.
[SPEAKER_00]: As we work together, she began approaching her health differently.
[SPEAKER_00]: She focused on nourishment instead of deprivation, strength, instead of punishment, support, instead of force.
[SPEAKER_00]: She did the deeper work around her relationship with herself, the story she'd been carrying around for years, the beliefs she had about who she was, and what was possible for her.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she strategically microdosed to jail be one with her doctor, while rebuilding her metabolic health.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that combination, the weight began coming off.
[SPEAKER_00]: She released more than 40 pounds and perhaps more importantly, her energy improved.
[SPEAKER_00]: Many of her symptoms began to diminish within the first month.
[SPEAKER_00]: But honestly, that's not the part that stayed with me.
[SPEAKER_00]: What stayed with me was the lightness, not just physical lightness, the lightness that comes when you're no longer carrying years of pressure, years of proving, years of feeling like something is wrong with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was as though she wasn't just releasing weight, she was releasing everything she'd been carrying along with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And once that burden lifted, she had room for other
[SPEAKER_00]: a bigger vision for her life.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that bigger vision, that's something I just adore about our holistic chili one programs.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's something I've seen again and again, because the moment we stop spending all of our energy fighting ourselves, that's when it gets really good.
[SPEAKER_00]: So there's one thing I'd love for you to take away from today's conversation.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's this.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a different way to do this, a more intelligent way, a more sustainable way.
[SPEAKER_00]: A way that works with your body, instead of constantly trying to overpower it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when you approach your health differently, you often get a very different result.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if today's conversation resonated with you, I'm excited to share that this July, I'll be releasing a free masterclass called How to MicroDose a GLP1 holistically.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll be sharing the framework I've developed after years of helping women approach, wait release, their metabolic health, and GLP1s in a more intentional and supportive way.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll be sharing all the details soon until then, be kind to yourself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Give yourself some grace and remember, your body may not have been working the way you wanted it to, but it has been communicating with you all along.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the moment you stop fighting it, you can finally begin listening.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for being here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll see you in the next episode.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.