485-Coaching Weight Gain in the GLP-1 Era

The first thing, and these are the things that I talk with my client about.

By the way, it's not just the things in my head.

I'm a practitioner of cognitive behavior coaching, so it's all about coaching the thoughts and sharing thoughts, right? It's a very intense, talkative experience, cognitive behavior coaching, so...

These six reframe, I'm going to drop in at some place in the conversation with my clients.

So the first one, when people are coming to me with the experience of weight regain, my foundation is nothing has gone wrong.

Like in my head, I'm meeting them with, oh, okay.

Like it was expected.

Like I'm not saying that to them because that would be extremely confronting for me to say that to them.

But in my head, I'm like, okay, nothing has gone wrong.

it's expected that you regain the weight after a diet.

It's expected that you regain the weight after a GLP-1.

So I'm not meeting them with, oh my God, there's a problem and I need to fix it.

Like the weight regain is not a problem.

Now, before I get to talk to that with the person who's panicked about her weight regain.

That may take a few sessions.

That may take 30 minutes, 40 minutes before we get there.

But I'm approaching from the perspective of nothing has gone wrong.

If they were doing a quote-unquote classic dieting, it's normal to regain the weight.

There's a whole set point theory behind that.

It's known.

And it's also known in GLP-1.

So it was expected to regain the weight, but for whatever reason, this person that's in front of me right now wasn't aware of this, or they were expecting to be the outlier to be different, which by the way, is what we're seeing a lot right now.

We're seeing a lot of people that are coming, when I say we, I'm talking about me, I'm talking about the people that I train, my mentee, the people I supervise, We have the rebound area of GLP-1 that are starting to come where people thought, I'll go into GLP-1, I'll change my health promoting habit, I'll come off of this, and I won't regain the weight.

I'll be the exception to the rule.

I'll be the outlier to the statistic, but it's not what happened.