09/08/2026
On a GLP-1, the weight comes off fast. It's worth knowing what comes off with it.
I see the same thing, so I wanted to write about it properly.
These meds turn your appetite right down and keep you full on a lot less food. That's the whole point, and honestly, for a lot of people they're brilliant. But what doesnt get said is if you eat that little for long enough, without much protein going in, and the weight you're losing isn't only fat. Some of it is muscle.
I want to be VERY CLEAR before I go on. This isn't me telling you whether you should be on them. That's between you and your doctor, not me. All I care about is helping you make them work for you if you are.
A bit of muscle comes off with almost any weight loss, that's normal. But the faster it drops, and the less protein you're getting, the bigger that muscle share gets. And on these meds, it can drop quick.
The reason I care about this so much is what happens later. When people come off, a lot of the weight tends to come back, and mostly as fat. So if you lost muscle on the way down, you can end up back near where you started, just carrying more fat and less muscle than before. That's the outcome I really want to help people avoid.
The goal I always come back to is a simple one. Lose the fat, hold onto the muscle. Two things protect it, enough protein, and keeping some resistance training in.
The training side is on you. But the protein side is where I watched people struggle, because when your appetite's gone, getting enough of it is genuinely hard. You just can't eat enough ordinary food to get there.
That's exactly what the Recovery range can cover. Protein-forward meals, portioned and macro-counted, made high protein as the focus. We count the calories and the protein so you don't have to think about it.
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