Insurance tip: document everything. Every phone call, every denial letter, every appeal. Having a paper trail when you get to the peer-to-peer review stage is critical. Your doctor can reference speci…

My doc kept me at 0.5mg for almost 3 months because I was losing well and tolerating it fine. I pushed back a bit because I'd read about faster titration schedules, but looking back I'm glad she slowe…

I was terrified of the needle too. Now it takes me about 30 seconds on Sunday mornings.

Your labs look incredible. That A1C drop is massive — your doctor must be thrilled.

Prior auth is such a game. Three denials before approval — persistence is key.

Have you tried injecting in the evening? That helped my nausea enormously.

Reached my goal weight yesterday and I'm still processing it. 14 months ago I weighed 298 lbs. Today I weigh 183 lbs. 115 lbs. I don't have the words for what that means to me. I'm going to write a fu…

Anyone who says GLP-1 is 'the easy way' has never dealt with week 3 nausea.

I want to address the elephant in the room with compounded medications because I see a lot of misinformation. Here's what I've researched: FDA-approved brand-name medications (Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounja…

Fitness update at month 8: started doing resistance training at month 3 after losing significant muscle mass in the early months. Since adding lifting 3x/week, my rate of fat loss has actually increas…