5 Months - 60 Pounds Lost on GLP-1 Tirzepatide - Weight Loss Update

[00:00:01]Wow. So, five months ago, I weighed 330 lbs. Today, I weigh 270 lbs. That's 60 lb gone in 5 months. And uh honestly, it still doesn't feel real in all the ways.

[00:00:17]It's uh pretty incredible to be sitting here and to to experience the complete transformation of my body and know that even though I've got a lot of weight to lose, I'm Jeremiah Gibbs, by the way. Uh and I've got a lot of weight to lose and uh and still have a lot of weight to lose, but I have hope that this is going to go well. Um and uh looking forward to what this looks like uh in the coming months as I continue to make progress.

[00:00:44]So, I'm not going to give you a big dramatic story of, you know, big um motivations that are magical kind of things that I'm trying to solve or whatever. This is a this is a boring story. My weight loss story is a boring story. Um but I believe that for most of us, the way that we're going to see success on a weight loss journey is by doing a lot of really boring, mundane things and doing them consistently.

[00:01:09]Consistency matters more than perfection. And I think I've been able to do consistency well, and that's why I've been able to see uh some progress.

[00:01:18]I'm still tempted by food. Sometimes I still want to have, you know, some delicious cookie or or a greasy pizza, but uh I make the difficult choices most of the time. And um and have been able to have a pretty good success so far along the journey. Certainly some weeks have been faster than others, especially at the beginning, but even recently and 5 months in, I had a 12 lb month this last month. And so, um, sometimes you you just have some some variances and then some things start going really well and and you just kind of have to live with the fact that if I do the right thing that the goal for me is not that I the scale does a certain thing, but that I'm making the right choices consistently. If I make that the goal, then I can know that I'm doing it and that eventually the results will come.

[00:02:09]And for me, um, that has, uh, absolutely worked. Certainly, this whole thing has only worked because I've been on Tzepide GLP1s. Um, if you have not tried these meds, you think, I want to do it all natural. Let me just tell you, I'm a United States Marine. I've earned a PhD.

[00:02:26]I know how to do disciplined things. And yet, um, I was at 1,700 calories for about 2 and 1/2 years. Um, I was running about 5 days a week, 2 three miles a day. Um, and still during that that time period, I lost about 30 or 35 lbs and had plateaued for quite a while at the end and not making any progress in spite of a strict calorie deficit, lots of exercise. Um, the tepatide changes the way your body processes food. It certainly helps with the hunger noise as people call it. It it helps you to stay away from foods that are not good for you. But even more important is it changes the way that your body processes food. It slows the gastric emptying and uh and increases your insulin sensitivity so that the choices you've always made now work. So instead of 30 pounds over two and a half years, I did almost the same exact thing, but actually less exercise and I've lost 60 pounds in five months and I've not even slowing down. So I'm hopeful that this will continue to go. I certainly have had to focus on eating the right foods.

[00:03:36]Um, high fiber, low carbs, high protein.

[00:03:40]Um, I eat about 180 grams of protein a day and about 1,700 calories every day.

[00:03:48]very very rarely have I missed either of those marks. Almost every single day I'm hitting my protein goals. I'm keeping my calories low enough um almost every day.

[00:03:58]And so this isn't like some heroic act, but it is consistency. Um I have increased my movement a little bit. And the thing that I've I'm doing better this time than on any of my previous uh weight loss journeys is I have added in some strength training. And what I'm learning is that that is really critical for long-term health. In the process of losing 60 lbs, I've actually gained about 2 or 3 lbs of muscle according to the measures that I have on my scales and so on. And so I'm probably at the very least I'm not losing a lot of muscle. Um, and that's important for long-term uh health and longevity and and quality of life. And so I'm doing that primarily by getting all the protein and by doing some modest strength training. I'm not busting it in the gym either. I've got a b dumbbell under my desk. I'm lifting uh in between, you know, uh work tasks and and then occasionally uh going to the gym and and doing a little bit heavier lifts and stuff like that. But for the most part, it's pretty modest kinds of things. And it's making a difference.

[00:04:59]you know, some of the things that have been really uh a great pleasure uh over this this journey. One of them I just recently flew I used to fly probably uh you know about once a week I would have a a a flight plane trip uh traveled a lot and I haven't traveled very much at all for about the last year and a half and I sat down in an airplane and was able to buckle the belt and tighten it up, you know. Um few times I've even had to do the belt extenders. I've always just for a long time I've just been at the end of that belt and to be able to tighten that thing up because now I have all this extra uh loss from my waist. I was about a 46 in pant and now my 40s are too big. I'm probably going to have to jump down to 38 uh in my pant size.

[00:05:45]Um, again, that's not the picture of health, but that is an incredible change to lose six or more inches off of your waist, to lose 60 lbs, to be able to fit in that airplane seat and and do so comfortably. Uh, the other one again that was a big difference is the way that my clothes are fitting. I'm all the way back down. I was I was a size 4X.

[00:06:07]Um, I'm now wearing 2X in shirts. I was a size 46 in pants. and I'm now somewhere between 38 and a 40 in pants.

[00:06:15]So, that is an incredible uh incredible progress and is a lot of fun. You know, um I've got some of my own motivations for this. Certainly, health and longevity is a big part of it. I uh walk Camino to Santiago on a regular basis.

[00:06:31]You can check out my other channel, Camino Guide, where I tell people about how to take this spiritual walking pilgrimage through Spain. Um but I walk about 140 miles every year. I'm so excited to go back in September. I'm already down to 269. Um I imagine I'm going to be in the 230s or so by the time I get to September, maybe even lower, but certainly at least that low.

[00:06:52]Um and the idea that I could walk my 160 mi now at 100 lb less than than what I did it the last time is just an incredible uh exciting uh thing. I'm excited to be able to be more active with my boys, to be more active around the house and getting tasks done that before I just would have said I'm not going to climb that ladder because it feels dangerous at this weight. Um, but now I can get get those tasks done. So, um, those kinds of things uh are pretty incredible. Certainly, even at this point, I'm I certainly have some anxieties that I worry about. one, I'm worried about how much loose skin that I'm going to have, particularly around my belly, um, and on the insides of my thighs. The the insides of my thighs are already showing uh quite a lot of loose skin. Um, and so I, you know, there's not a lot that we can do about that. I'd rather have loose skin than have a bunch of fat that will kill me. Um, but, uh, I am a little bit worried about how to take care of that and and losing weight fast enough that that and I was fat for a long time. So, um I certainly think that that's a a likely um outcome and I've got some anxiety about that. I did have a lot of anxiety about pres preserving muscle and now I don't I've been able to already see progress actually gaining muscle mass. Um so I don't have the same anxieties about muscle loss that I did when I started this whole thing. Um, but uh it is a a bit of a an adjustment and honestly one of the biggest fears that I have is losing access uh to this medication. Um I'm thankful that as long as there are compounded versions available, I'll be able to afford that. Um but I I just know that there are things that could prevent me to be able to have access to the medicine that has made it possible to be successful in this. And so I want to make sure that the that I have those uh options available. So, as I look ahead, I'm my goal really is to be somewhere around 200 lb. I think that is where I would get to about 20% body weight. Really, my goal is a 20% um body fat. Uh I think that's where we start to look at at real genuine health uh for a person. And so, that's my hope is to continue the sustainable weight loss of about 10 lbs a month uh until I get down to uh that neighborhood of 200. That's seven more months if I were to keep at 10 lbs a month um that it would take me to get there. So, I'd be about the one year mark that I would be starting to get close to my goal if I'm able to continue the path. Um I'm expecting though that it's um I'm going to slow um I've continued to expect that that would be happen. So far though, it's not happened. I've continued to to lose at a quick rate. Um I want to continue to build muscle. I want to have long-term health. I want to be able to live uh well at the end of my life. And so eating eating plainly, exercising modestly, getting the medicine that helps put my my metabolic health back in place um is incredible. I went from a 5.7 A1C uh one year ago to a 4.3 A1C uh just about a month ago. So, just the change in that right there to tell you of how much my blood sugar is is in uh better health. My insulin sensitivity is in better health, and it's just because of this weight loss and and a medication that's helping me along the way. 60 lb seemed impossible when I started.

[00:10:22]Certainly, 120 lb or 130 lb that I might lose eventually seemed impossible when I started. And now, I'm incredibly hopeful that I'm going to make it. I believe you can too. I hope that you'll share your story in the comments. Tell a little bit about where you are. Uh it will be an encouragement to other people who are watching this video and finding their way uh along this journey as well. And I hope that you'll subscribe and and check back because I I continue to give updates and I hope that you'll get to see me uh get to that 100 pound goal