I didn’t watch the Super Bowl this year, but I met with a client Monday morning after the game. She told me she was surprised by how many commercials promoted GLP-1 medications — enough that she started feeling uncomfortable with her kids hearing this repeated message.

It isn’t just the Super Bowl. Serena Williams recently appeared on my television sharing how a GLP-1 helped her lose weight. I’ve noticed advertisements in magazines, my doctor’s office, and even at the pharmacy.

If you’ve found yourself wondering whether medication is your only real option, you are not the only one asking that question.

Before we jump in, I want to introduce myself. I’m Marla, a women’s health coach. I help women with weight loss coaching in St. George and all over.

About one in eight people in the United States are currently using — or have used — a weight loss drug.

When a message shows up this often, it can start to feel like it’s the only real solution to weight loss.

But medication is not the only path.

There is Another Way to Lose Weight

There are women who lose weight, free themselves from constantly thinking about food and learn to move throughout their day without the constant pull of food.

That kind of work happens inside coaching.

I worked with one client for fifteen months. She lost sixty pounds, then spent six months maintaining before deciding she was ready to continue on her own.

Before we met, she had gone to her doctor discouraged about her weight and left with a GLP-1 prescription. She came home, called me, and we began working together.

Six months later, she returned for a checkup. Her doctor commented that it looked like the medication was working.

She told her she never filled the prescription.

Instead, she learned how to eat in a way that supported her body and worked through the patterns that had been keeping her stuck.

Recently she said, “Food used to take up so much brain power. I thought about it constantly. Now I think about it very little — and when I do, there’s no stress or shame.”

What Happens When You Get Educated About Food

When you take the time to understand food and what your body needs — when you create new habits and new thoughts around eating — you become a woman who not only loses the weight, but is equipped to keep it off.

This is the difference between temporarily managing weight and learning how to live in a body you understand.

Medication may support some people. Coaching teaches you the skills that stay with you.

You Do Have Options

If the current conversation around weight loss has you feeling like medication is your only choice, remember that it isn’t.

There is more than one way forward.

And lasting change often begins with learning how to care for your body in a way you can sustain.

If this resonated with you, I’d love to chat more about women’s health coaching. You can learn more and contact me HERE.