I’m Embarrassed to Tell Others How I Lost Weight

What this episode is about

The content discusses the author's decision to use GLP-1 weight loss medication after consulting with a doctor, highlighting their starting BMI of 30 and the desire to lose 30-40 pounds due to associated health issues. The author shares their initial experiences on the medication, describing it as life-changing for reducing food cravings, while also acknowledging the personal struggle of discussing their weight loss journey with others.

Key takeaways

• GLP-1 meds reveal a surprising truth: weight loss often follows improved mental health, not the other way around.
• BMI is good for population stats but fails as a personal measure; individual journeys require deeper insights.
• In a world drowning in food abundance, our biology struggles; choosing a GLP-1 is a strategic adaptation, not a weakness.
• Shame around weight loss medication highlights society's unhealthy obsession with self-sufficiency; it's okay to seek help in modernity.
• Instead of anger at intrusive questions, respond with compassion—it's a signal of shared struggles and the search for answers.

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: GLP-1, Zapound
2. 3:00 – 6:00: Uber Eats
3. 6:00 – 9:00: GLP-1
4. 9:00 – 12:00: Hila monster

Notable quotes from "I’m Embarrassed to Tell Others How I Lost Weight"

• The deal. After many months of test, experiments, and discussions with between me and my doctor, we finally decided that the right next step for me and my health was to go on GLP-1 weight loss medication.

  about GLP-1 · at 0:07

• It's pretty magical to be honest with you. the way that it just turns off all the food noise.

  about Zapound · at 1:50

• Not to mention Uber Eats and gas stations and hyper palatable foods and hyperprocessed like we just aren't supposed to live in this environment.

  about Uber Eats · at 5:46

• Live in a time when our brains have been hacked and we live in a time when somebody studied what is it Hila monster poison or something and came up with these GLP1s and so far…

  about Hila monster · at 11:46

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

Companies & orgs

• Uber Eats — Company · Referenced example · 1 mention · first at 5:46
  Used as an example of modern food availability contributing to weight management challenges.

Products & tech

• Zapound — Product · Case study · 1 mention · first at 1:38
  Mentioned as the specific GLP-1 medication the speaker is taking, highlighting its effects and benefits.

Concepts & topics

• GLP-1 — Concept · Core topic · 3 mentions · first at 0:17
  Central theme of the episode, discussing the use of GLP-1 medications for weight loss and their broader health benefits.
• Hila monster — Concept · Referenced concept · 1 mention · first at 11:50
  Mentioned in passing as part of a discussion on the origins of GLP-1 medications.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 Here's the deal. After many months of test, experiments, and discussions with between me and my doctor, we finally decided that the right next step for me and my health was to go on GLP-1 weight loss medication.

0:21 Outstanding. Awesome. Thank you. So, for context, my starting BMI is about 30. Okay. Um, I'm comfortable with this decision, but I realize that I have only told two people about it. One is my husband and the other one is a good friend who is also on the same journey. So, we're bouncing off of ideas off of each other.

0:47 How how long have you um and by the way BMI at the population level is a helpful metric. At the individual level doesn't tell me a whole lot. Um, are are you overweight? Are you have you been struggling with your weight? Tell me where you are.

1:04 Yeah, so I'm overweight. Um, I'm not I don't consider myself obese. Okay. Um, I'm about 30 to 40 pounds heavier than I want to be.

1:15 Okay. And is your desire is that based in reality or is that based in some sort of distorted view of yourself?

1:22 No, it's pretty real. Okay. All right. Your doctor agrees you could you you could use to lose 40 pounds.

1:28 Correct. Okay. And and the weight gain has caused some real medical issues as well. Perfect. Okay.

1:34 It's not just the How long have you been taking uh what are you taking? Uh I'm I'm on Zapound.

1:41 Okay, great. So, how long have you been on it? Just a couple weeks. What have you seen? What have you experienced? Um, it's pretty magical to be honest with you. Um, the way that it just turns off all the food noise.

1:58 Yeah, people keep talking about it, but it just once you experience it, it's it's hard to believe.

2:06 And I'm asking this for the audience as much as as as anything else. Um, what have you noticed about other positive side effects? Um, I can't say much yet. I think it's too early to tell.

2:23 Okay. What what I've what I've heard from so I've had up some of them on this show before and these have become some of my close personal friends. Um, but there [clears throat] are fitness experts across the the globe and not influencer dorks but like actual trainers and actual scientists. Um, many of whom when these things came out, when GLP1's came out, they took them not because in any shape, form or fashion, they needed them, but they wanted to be able to speak from insider knowledge. Right.

2:56 Mhm. And to a person, 100% of them have come back in personal conversations to me and said, I stopped drinking. I stopped worrying all the time. these thing like that basically that weight loss is a downstream benefit of a whole host of other powerful benefits. And so

3:20 I'm looking forward to that. Yeah. You're like, "Oh, sweet. Sign me up for that, too." Um, so let me get to the root question here.

3:26 Yeah. Where in the world does your shame come from that you happen to live in a sliver of history when we have some amazing medications that can that that are pretty transformative?

3:36 Yeah, I'm trying to figure it out myself to be honest. Um again I'm comfortable that this is the right choice but I realize that um I don't want to tell people. So the expectation is it's going to be visible right people are going to start noticing and if people start commenting about it my initial reaction is that I don't want to talk about this at all but I'm not a liar so I don't know what to do.

4:05 The question beneath it why do you feel like you need to tell anybody? Why can't you just say thank you so much? What have you been doing? Been working hard. Tada.

4:14 But but is that true? Like yes, I have been working hard, right? But I have been working hard for a very long time and it hasn't been working for me.

4:27 Okay. So, you just found you found different ways that that it didn't work and now you found one that did.

4:34 Yeah. I think at the at the core of it is that I feel like I should have been able to handle this myself.

4:41 And where does that should come from? Because that should is a lie. You got dropped into a world ecosystem that your body was not designed to live in. Period.

4:54 What do you mean by that? The human body from the cellular level to the neurological level to the physical level was designed for environments of scarcity. All of our brain chemistry is designed to go, "Oh god, there's apples once a once a year." Or, let me put it another way. My great-g grandandmother got a sack of oranges for one Christmas. And the thought of having oranges in December was madness. It was worthy of a Christmas gift. the Christmas gift they got that year. And now we go to the store and we have oranges stacked in a pile as tall as we are 24/7 365.

5:44 True. Not to mention Uber Eats and gas stations and and hyper palatable foods and hyperprocessed like we just aren't supposed to live in this environment. And I want to applaud you for scratching and clawing and trying so many different paths for so long. What that tells me is you're committed to trying to find ways to be a good steward of your body. That's awesome. And now you found one that works. Hooray. Awesome. And nobody else gets a vote. And I guess I guess I want to give you

6:29 how would you respond? How would you respond to that question? What have you been doing? And and I I feel angry that people are actually entitled to ask that question of people about people's bodies.

6:39 Yeah. But hold on. How do you respond to that? Don't don't you can choose anger if you want to or you can choose deep compassion because you've been there too.

6:47 True. You've had somebody in your life that lost a bunch of weight and you had to know cuz they must have the secret elixir. What's the secret path, the super workout, this the the atomic diet? Like what is it? And so if somebody asks, take that as a sign that you are a light in a dark place for them. And you can just say it's a whole bunch of stuff. Um, I'm still working on it, so I don't want to talk about it too much, but it's been a lot of hard work. or just say I met with my doctor and these GLP ones are magical and then going on about your day

7:28 because that's a good way to look at it. I think at the end of the day I'm generally like a pretty high achieving person so I try to excel at everything that I do.

7:38 Do you use the internet? One thing. Do you What's that? Do you use the internet?

7:47 Yes. Cheater. Do you use a laptop? Correct. Yeah. Cheater. Do you have a smartphone?

7:57 Yep. My granddad was an engineer and he used a protractor. Cheater. Do you drive a car?

8:05 Yeah. Yeah. My great-grandfather had to get around on a horse. Cheater. Like it it takes the tools that we have and every tool we has we have comes with tradeoffs. My great-grandparents walked a lot and so they were thinner and healthier. We drive a lot. We can get places a lot faster. Both of us would say we should trade. Great. Cool. If you take GLP1s, you have to have to exercise. You have to work out.

8:38 I do. Okay. You have to lift weights. Great. You have to be intentional about protein and fiber. Great. But we just live in a sliver of history where we have this both this amazing abundance. And if you read the data on global starvation, it has fallen off a cliff in the in recent decades. Amazing. They're still hungry people. Make no mistake. But awesome. We've figured out abundance in this little snapshot of history. Cool. We're burning out the soil and all that, but fine. We've we've solved abundance for a while. Great.

9:11 And that comes at a cost which is we have light switches in our minds that are not [clears throat] designed to have food everywhere all the time 247. Especially food engineered by scientists who are trying to flip switches in our mind that make it almost impossible to stop eating. Cool. Or as John Stewart says, scientists become amazing solving problems caused by science. Cool, right?

9:36 That's true. It's just hard to turn off the noise, right? the noise of like, oh, if you just go keto for 2 months, it's going to be fine. Or if you just lift heavier, then you're going to be fine. If you And then you try all of those things and it just doesn't work. That's

9:51 right. Correct. The hardest thing is just mostly doing the right thing over and over again for a long, long time. It's hard. It's hard. I'm exhibit A. It's hard. And so you found something incredible. Great. I don't think you're a cheater. I think you're doing the next right thing for you and your body. And you're not doing it on a whim. And you didn't watch a YouTube clip and be like, "Oh yeah, I'm good." Like you went and sat with a doctor. And I don't think other people will get a vote in your life. And I would not have one second. This is me personally of shame about telling somebody that I was on a GLP1 if I was taking one. And also, I can't control what stories other people choose to take with that information and make up about me. So, I'm not going to try, but I'm not going to cash in my integrity. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to be a person who just suddenly stops telling the truth or telling my story.

11:02 But I'm gonna be a guy that can't I can't decide. I can't make you not make up stories about me. Great. Cool. I'm gonna move on with my life. But I guess hear me say, Amy, I'm proud of you. As a guy who sat at my kitchen table and wept when I first took anxiety medication. I thought I'd failed my son. Thought I'd failed my wife. I thought I'd failed my everything. I wept. And those medications for a short season turned down the noise enough that let me go sit with a counselor and get back into the gym and and and and and I've been there. I get it.

11:40 And there's also a place just to be of insanely deep gratitude that man we live in a time with all this abundance and we live in a time when our brains have been hacked and we live in a time when somebody studied what is it Hila monster poison or something and came up with these GLP1s and so far with the right intentionality about what we eat and how much protein we get, how much we're lifting weight, whatever, they can be magic for a large swath of a hurting population Incredible.

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What is "I’m Embarrassed to Tell Others How I Lost Weight" about?

The content discusses the author's decision to use GLP-1 weight loss medication after consulting with a doctor, highlighting their starting BMI of 30 and the desire to lose 30-40 pounds due to associated health issues. The author shares their initial experiences on the medication, describing it as life-changing for reducing food cravings, while also acknowledging the personal struggle of…

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4 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including GLP-1, Zapound, Uber Eats, Hila monster. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "I’m Embarrassed to Tell Others How I Lost Weight"?

The episode runs 12 min; the transcript is about 1,993 words in 37 timestamped sections.

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