My GLP-1 Journey!

[00:00:00]Hey, hey guys. It's been a minute since we've done a little car vlog. It is a beautiful day outside and I was trying to sit outside. I just couldn't find the right like setup and my tripod wasn't out here. So, I was like, "Let me just set it up in my car." And the noise is just noise reduction is better in here.

[00:00:15]There's a lot of people outside today, which is great. It's a beautiful summer day and I hope you all are having a great summer. I love summer time.

[00:00:21]Which I never used to love summer time.

[00:00:24]Just recently since I've had my kids, I like love summer time cuz it's just like slows down and you know, all their classes are done. So, we can just like hang by the pool and just like have a very chill time. They love the beach now, too, which is really great. I just love summer. It just feels like a chill time. Um hi guys.

[00:00:40]Okay, as you can see by the title of this video, I just want to jump right into it cuz I really felt like I wanted to talk about my GLP-1 journey.

[00:00:51]If you have followed me for any amount of time here on YouTube or just social media in general, like specifically on this YouTube channel, I have talked about weight.

[00:01:01]Uh but as as long as I've been on here, I think I've I've talked about every single struggle I've had with my weight.

[00:01:08]I've always been overweight my entire life. Um I've steadily gained weight my entire life. Like I've never lost a significant amount of weight at one time. Um and it was if I did, it was never intentional or healthy. It was usually depression, not eating, water diets, fad diets, all that stuff like that. So, I wanted to come on to talk about this because it really has changed my entire life and my relationship with food.

[00:01:39]And um I I just want to talk about it.

[00:01:42]And I just want to be really honest about it. So, GLP-1s, like Ozempic, Mounjaro, uh there's just so many different options.

[00:01:50]Those are like the big ones, obviously.

[00:01:51]There's Trulicity, Zepbound. There's just so many. Wegovy. There's so so different options now, but you think of Ozempic when you think of when people lose a bunch of weight and everyone's like, "They're on Ozempic." and Ozempic face and all stuff like that.

[00:02:01]I want to say first and foremost that uh losing weight for me, I always thought like when I was younger that if I like lost weight, it would fix all my problems and my insecurities.

[00:02:12]Um and then I really just started healing myself. I went on like a spiritual healing journey. I met my husband. I had my kids. I had a new appreciation for my body. I went on a 40-city tour. I just like crushed it every time. I felt great. I felt confident. So, it was never about the weight and that was all at my heaviest, by the way. Like weight tour and stuff last year, you know, I was 265. So, it was all at my heaviest, but I did have confidence. I had what you may what maybe like reverse body dysmorphia where I really like kind of thought I was like smaller when I went on the scale and thought I saw that I was 265.

[00:02:44]I will say I was pregnant with my son last tour, but the beginning of my first pregnancy, I was 225. That was 5 years ago when I was pregnant with Malibu.

[00:02:52]Uh then the beginning of my second pregnancy, I was about 235. And the beginning of my third pregnancy, I was like 245. So, I was like losing weight here and there, but I was like steadily gaining as I have my entire life.

[00:03:03]I haven't been under 200 lb since probably 2019, but that was super unhealthy.

[00:03:08]Um I had a lot of mental health problems, depression and stuff like that, like lack of eating. So, it was not healthy.

[00:03:16]Um but even then I was like 185, 190 and I don't I don't think I've ever seen the scale in like the 160s ever. Um which kind of is my goal. Um 100 lb just sounds very nice.

[00:03:30]Uh and I would like to be there, but I'm not really too focused on the number on the scale. The reason I do do the scale and I don't weigh myself that often, I would say I weigh myself like once a month is to just kind of track the progress in a statistical way, I suppose.

[00:03:47]Um Why GLP-1? Well, everyone's been talking about it and I have been pregnant for 4 or 5 years straight basically. Like I got pregnant in 2021 with my first child and my last child was born in 2025. So, about about 4 4 years uh of just being pregnant or postpartum.

[00:04:07]And so, I wasn't really an option for me anyways to do a GLP-1, but I was kind of like, you know, looking like everyone else where I saw people getting really, really thin and it was like, gosh, are we going back to that this where we're just like promoting these lifestyles that are unhealthy that everyone just wants to be as thin as possible and there are dangers to that. I I definitely feel I I definitely feel like some people I don't know. I'm not a doctor, but I'm assuming there's some people who maybe don't need or use a GLP-1s as they're intended to or their bodies are intended to.

[00:04:44]Um but for me personally, GLP-1s have saved my life. The GLP-1 I'm on, I'm on Zepbound. Um and that's the one I can speak to has saved my life.

[00:05:02]So, I was a bigger person that was as healthy as an overweight person can be. I still am, by the way. I'm I'm 217 as recording this, okay? So, when I started the GLP-1, I was 2 43 in May.

[00:05:23]Now we're at the end of June, mid-June.

[00:05:26]So, I've lost a pretty significant amount of weight and I you know, obviously from 265 to 217, but 240 243 to 217, I lost a significant amount of weight. I exercise, but I've been exercising I've exercised all through my pregnancies. I always went on like daily walks. I was doing Pilates.

[00:05:47]Um and I really was determined after giving birth to my son that I was going to do it last July of 2025 that I was like, "I'm going to just do it on my own. Like I'm just going to lock in and have the willpower." I've always said that, right? I just got to lock in.

[00:06:01]Like one day it's going to click for me and it's just going to like lock in and I'm going to lose it and I'm going to, you know, feel feel good and it just And I was really determined because I just wanted energy. I love the way I look. My career has never been better. All of that at from anywhere from 240 to 265 in the past 4 years. I flourished. I've thrived. We've seen it. I've been on Broadway. I've been on TV shows. Like stuff I've never gotten before when I was like smaller and I don't think it had to do with my weight necessarily one way or the other, but I was just saying like I lived this very happy, fulfilled life as a bigger person. I was healthy throughout my pregnancies. I never had like gestational diabetes, which doesn't really correlate to weight in pregnancy necessarily, the gestational diabetes Um I was proof of that cuz I was overweight through all my pregnancies and I never had it, but I digress.

[00:06:51]And it wasn't any of that. It wasn't like, "Okay, yes, I live a great life.

[00:06:56]My husband loves me as I am. I look great. I was wearing the hot outfits on stage."

[00:07:01]It really was going to the park with all three kids and just sitting on the bench.

[00:07:09]Not even being able to hold Aquaman while sitting. Like putting him in the stroller and just sitting there watching my husband run back and forth, push them on the swings. I couldn't even I'm going to cry.

[00:07:22]I couldn't even push Aquaman in the swing.

[00:07:27]I couldn't stand for more than 5 minutes. And I was like And I was busting my butt. I was walking every single day.

[00:07:38]Trying this put Pilates. I was eating a great fruit and egg for dinner every night and I was not losing weight and I had to like get on the scale to see and I just wasn't and I was like how is this possible?

[00:07:52]And I just I just could not I just couldn't do it and I was so frustrated and I was like I cannot My oldest Malibu who's three would be like can you carry me up the stairs now that you're not pregnant? When I was pregnant I was like oh mommy has a belly I can't do it. And then once I wasn't pregnant she said now you can carry me up the stairs and I couldn't carry her up the stairs. My knees were hurting and I thought okay Pilates is going to fix my knees or you know I was my felt my body for the first time at 38 after three pregnancies obese 250 pounds. I probably lost the 15 after giving birth.

[00:08:30]5'3 My quality of life was deteriorating and it doesn't matter how long I live. If I had 20 years, 30 years, 50 years I don't want to live life this way. I don't want to sit on the sidelines to my kids and not being able to pick them up at the age where they want to be picked up and I was like no like you waited your whole life for these kids like you are going to show up for them and you're going to be active with them. So I was like let's try it. I tried every other This channel's testament to that. I've tried drinking water for 5 days straight. I've tried I've tried every calorie deficit, every Atkins, every every diet that's out there, any fad diet.

[00:09:15]Okay, just drink some liquids in the morning, intermittent fasting.

[00:09:20]I was miserable. I wasn't losing weight and I was like and all like ultimately a lot of those were harmful to my body and harmful to me and my mental health. I would get angry. I had I have severe food issues where if I wasn't eating and I was smelling food I was just mad at everyone around me.

[00:09:34]So I was like you you tried everything else, okay? I tried diet pills back in the day when those were like a thing, okay?

[00:09:42]Back when I was growing up there was like a fedra in diet pills, okay? And I was I was like just give me all You know what I mean? So, I'm like, "What? Why am I Why am I not wanting to try this {quote} miracle thing that everyone's losing weight?" And you know, you see all these bigger people all of a sudden lose weight. Some denying using the use of GLP-1, maybe they didn't, I don't know, but it is, you know, we're seeing it. Big people are losing weight that have always been big and they're finally losing weight. And you know, people people are getting Oh, this is the easy way out. This is this. And I was like, "Trisha, why aren't you taking the easy way out? This is what you waited for your whole life." Like I would have loved Oh, there's a miracle, there's something there's a miracle thing that'll help me lose weight, take it.

[00:10:20]So, I was like, "You're doing all these other harmful behaviors for your body."

[00:10:23]It's like, "What's the worst that can happen?" And you know what?

[00:10:27]GLP-1 has so many positive side effects as well. Like there's so many benefits to a GLP-1 besides just weight loss.

[00:10:36]And I was like, "Let's just try it." And it's the best thing that's ever happened. So, I did start on Ro because Ro has been sponsoring my podcast. I've been doing ad reads for them for years.

[00:10:49]Obviously, I was pregnant, I never was like, "I use this." Um but I was like, "Hey, this is like a company that I work with." I was like, "Let me Let me try this route." Like this is this is like it's literally like the universe like here. And people would be like, "I see Trisha advertising GLP-1." Like there was like a usage, you know, part of the podcast that like they would, you know, use the clips on social media. And everyone's like, "Trisha, you're advertising GLP-1." And I'm like, look, I never knocked people that try them. I was like, "Okay, that's for you. I'm going to just try and do it on my own."

[00:11:20]But the thing is, there are so many people who can't do it on their own. And I've always said this about being overweight is like if I could lose the weight, don't you think I would do it? It's so much more than just don't eat as much. It's there's there's chemical imbalances, there's mental issues and struggles, there's physical struggles. There's so much so many reasons why people can't lose weight and it's not just lack of willpower.

[00:11:46]I could never feel full.

[00:11:49]I could never feel full. I could eat and be thinking about the next meal. I could stuff myself and then want to eat an hour later. I just could never feel full. And I thought my stomach's too big or there's something you know, there's there's there's something not computing. There's something not normal about me.

[00:12:09]I started the GLP-1 at the smallest dose. Um like full disclosure that I do work with Ro.

[00:12:15]Um but I have been working with them for years before I started it. But it is very simple. Again, this feels like talking points because I I do do commercials for them and stuff like that. But for real, it is very simple to So when you go and they kind of tells you it gives you options. Like I was like I was for sure interested in the Wegovy pill um because I'm like Wegovy pill like that's great. I'm just going to take a pill. But you know, they kind of give you an estimate based on what you fill out. You fill out your weight, your weight loss goals, your medical history and stuff like that. And they'll be like, "Oh, you may lose 30 lb a year on the Wegovy pill." for me personally, my like stature and everything. But then the Zepbound quick pen, they were like, "You could lose up to 54 lb a year." I was like, "Okay, I'll take that option."

[00:12:48]So it's the quick pen. It's on a syringe and it just you just click it in and it's been wonderful. And they start you at the smallest dose. So I'm starting at the 2.5 mg. Then after the 2.5 mg, they kind of be like, "Okay, how did you feel on it?" I wasn't feeling any side effects and you know, other than feeling I was feeling a little full. I was like, "Wow, I would eat something." I'm like, "Okay, I'm kind of feeling it. I'm kind of feeling like not as the food noise wasn't there. I wasn't thinking about my next meal." I was like, "Okay, I'm kind of feeling it."

[00:13:12]So the next month is June. I got to do 5 mg of it and it has been it has been the best and I think I'm going to stay on this dose for a while because again, no side effects. I have not felt nauseous. Like the thing that kind of deterred me from GLP-1s was two things. People like, "Well, you will be sick for like a week of the day. You'll feel really nauseous after that first day after." And I'm like, "I don't have a day to feel nauseous." That's what I really thought. "I don't have a day to feel nauseous because like I want to be there for my kids." But also, girl, you're sitting on the bench, so you can be nauseous for a day if that's what it takes. But I have not been nauseous.

[00:13:46]I really think it was meant for people like me. So again, I'm sharing this as like my personal testimony. Obviously, after your consultation, you can see if it's like right for you and stuff like that. I'm just sharing my experience and like again, when I would hear so many people talk about like the food noises come and they're like, "You like just don't crave sugar." I was like, "What?

[00:14:01]That sounds amazing." And And it is. For me, it was very true where it was like I wasn't craving processed foods. I wasn't craving sugar. I had to have a sweet treat after every dinner and it just like was It wasn't that anymore for me.

[00:14:14]I was also scared when people like, "I just don't even like food anymore. It doesn't even taste the same." And I was like, "But that's my happiness." And I've always said that. I was like, "My joy, my husband is such a good cook. He cooks great pastas and steaks." And I was like, "I couldn't imagine. And now I finally found a husband that like cooks this delicious food for me and I can't even enjoy it." And with my kids, well, like eating is such It's always been such like a a happy part too. It's like eating with people. And so I was like, "I don't want to like not like food."

[00:14:39]I still like food. I still crave Moses' bolognese.

[00:14:44]But instead of eating the giant bowl that he prepares for me, you know, I truly cuz I like also can't help myself.

[00:14:51]If you're going to give me a big portion, I'm going to eat the whole thing. Truly, I just feel full after six or seven bites. And that's not to say like that's all I'm eating. I'm eating consistently throughout the day, which is like mind-blowing to me. Like I used to do intermittent fasting. I would be like, "Okay, I have to skip breakfast." No, I'm eating breakfast.

[00:15:11]I'm eating a snack. I'm eating lunch.

[00:15:12]I'm eating like a second light lunch.

[00:15:14]Like if I'm eating lunch, I'm saving half for like a couple hours later.

[00:15:17]I'm eating dinner. Um and it's just like a And you just feel fuller faster. And I it obviously is going to work different for everyone, but this is one of the things I heard people say and it's like I don't understand it. I don't understand how that works.

[00:15:31]But it's for me, it's nothing short of a miracle because I've never felt full in my life ever. And so truly, it's it's almost like as if you feel as full as you possibly can't can be after like a Thanksgiving dinner like I can't even eat another right. That's how I feel eating a quarter of what I did before, which was what I what was my my issue was overeating. I was eating these large portions, which if you go to a restaurant, they give you large portions and I cuz I just wasn't feeling full and I thought like okay, that's my portion.

[00:16:04]That's what I'm eating for my meal.

[00:16:06]And it's it's changed my entire relationship with food. I don't even think about should I be eating this? Should I not be eating this? I don't crave the processed foods.

[00:16:16]I crave the good foods and it's not even like oh, I only want salads.

[00:16:22]No.

[00:16:23]Okay. I again, I eat I eat my breakfast sandwiches instead of having two breakfasts and I'm eating one breakfast sandwich. Um my lunches, you know, for if we're going out and we have like a pasta for lunch, I like save half of it for for later.

[00:16:35]My Benihana meal that I love so much too. It's like a Yeah, you could eat the whole thing and then like another person's fried rice. Eating half of it and getting to take it home and having it for dinner later that night. And it's something that I think a lot of people just do naturally. They're like That's what everyone does. That's why people take leftovers, but I was never a leftover girl cuz I never had leftovers.

[00:16:51]So it's just it's a it's a new concept for me and it's it does work so well for other people who are like me and I think there are a lot of people like me that have the issue with food that are thinking about their next meal, that are eating the wrong kinds of food or craving the wrong kind of things or that sweet tooth craving that we can't control.

[00:17:09]GLP-1 for me specifically, the Zepbound, is giving me that control and it's beautiful. And you know what? I'm more energetic now. Instead of going for a daily walk, I'm going for daily runs.

[00:17:21]And I posted a Tik Tok with my daughter and I am running back and forth.

[00:17:26]Honestly, like my hair's greasy and oily cuz I was just I had oil in my hair cuz I was going to wash it that day. I wasn't planning on filming, but my husband saw me run with Malibu. I got up. I was like at the park.

[00:17:38]And I was like I'm like, you know what? Let me Let me run cuz she loves running. Malibu loves running. She loves running just like back and forth. I'm like, let me race.

[00:17:46]Let me race her. You know, like race her. And you know, like Moses is a very fast runner and he kind of like paces with her, lets her win or something like that. Like I wasn't letting her win. She was She was smoking me. But I was up and I think my husband saw that and was like, I need to film this.

[00:18:00]Cuz like you're running. You're running with her. And it felt so good and I was lightly running and I was slow and she was smoking me, but it's like I would love to just And I did maybe like five back and forth. She does like 50 to 100.

[00:18:12]And I would love to get up to doing 50 to 100 with her and that's my goal.

[00:18:16]But oh my gosh, I have this new this whole new outlook. Malibu's giggling with me and she's laughing so hard. She's like, oh my gosh, like Mommy's running with me.

[00:18:28]I carry her up the stairs. I can carry Elvis and Malibu up the stairs, my my 2-year-old and my 3-year-old.

[00:18:36]I can eat. I'm never I'm never deprived.

[00:18:39]I'm never sad. Oh, I can't have a couple french fries?

[00:18:42]And a couple I have a couple french fries. And I I'm telling you, it's the most bizarro thing to me where I'm just like, oh, I'm good. I just need a few.

[00:18:54]And again, I think for some people who don't have these issues, it's like, yeah, of course. Like it's called moderation.

[00:18:59]But it just it's not like that for everybody. And for me personally, and I think everyone has seen my struggle and my weight gain for the past 20 years online, really.

[00:19:11]But confidence has been through the roof. Intimacy, not to get too, you know, get my own here, but you know, it was never my husband's issue with my body. He was He was always down. We have three kids in 4 years, okay? He was always down. But, it was me. It was me wanting to be in one position and at nighttime. And it's like if we can do nighttime, don't look at me. And it's like I don't want to I don't want you to see this. Now, I'm like, Okay.

[00:19:40]I'm ready. I'm ready. You know what I mean? Cuz it was always just like, "Okay, like yeah, I guess." You know?

[00:19:44]And I'm like, "Anytime, anyplace. I'm ready." You know? And it feels it feels good to have that back, too.

[00:19:50]Like, "Oh my gosh, it feels just like dating again and getting dressed up."

[00:19:54]What I have on now, I'll show you guys when I get out of the car. I have this I just bought a size 14 in this skirt that I always was a size 18, 16 and an 18 pregnancy I was size 20. And I'm like, "God, I bought a size 14 today from American Eagle." And I have this cute little halter top and I'm show And I'm just showing my shoulders again. And I'm just like, It's I Instead of going to Pilates once a week, I'm doing three times a week Pilates. And um and I love going to the park and just We were flying kites and running the other day.

[00:20:21]And I can bring up Aquaman and run with me. And now, he's walking. So, it's like we're all just enjoying life again. And for me again, the food the food noise was the biggest thing. The fact that I can eat what I want, it still tastes good. And I just feel full. It's a miracle. I I tell Moses every single day, I'm like, "This is a crazy. This is crazy." And I, you know, weighed myself in May.

[00:20:47]I weighed myself at the end of May. And then I weighed myself again now. And I was 217.

[00:20:55]And I was like, "How? I haven't I feel like I haven't changed that much like my lifestyle." Okay, maybe I don't like the processed foods. Maybe I'm not eating like cake and cookies at night, which I was doing or ice cream or something like that. You know what I mean?

[00:21:06]And if I want a cookie, I mean, I can eat a little cookie, but I don't I don't think about it that often. Sugar is not something that I'm like craving ever, and I had such a sweet tooth.

[00:21:15]Like I might guess my vices would be pastas and cheese, but I've been eating that. That's why I was like, "Yeah, I've been eating pasta and cheese like We still do pizza nights every every week." And I was like, "That's it's just um it's just miraculous."

[00:21:28]And so, I wanted to share my story because I feel like there's there's so much out there, right?

[00:21:34]There's so much out there, and I have been very honest and real about this for a long time, and I like I said, I've been working with Ro for a couple years without taking it, so I couldn't give this personal endorsement. I work with a lot of company and brands on the podcast, okay?

[00:21:53]Sometimes they can give a personal endorsement, sometimes they can't. Um you know, sometimes I can just rave and be like, "Oh my gosh, this is the brand." You know what I mean? Like obviously like a Skims, I'm like, "I wear this all the time. This is wonderful." And there's there's brands out there that I'm like, "Oh, this is a cool brand. Maybe my listeners will like this or whatever." But this one is so personal to me, and I I feel very lucky to get to work with them because I do love it so much. I love the options, the flexibility, the privacy it can give people. I love that it's not a one-size-fits-all. So well as Zepbound quick pen works for me that can go up to like I believe 15 mg, which is great. I have You know, I'm staying on my 5 mg for as long as I can, for as long as I still feel it's working cuz I don't want to like go up too quickly. But I love that there's other options for different people depending on again weight and medical history, weight loss goals, what you're using it for, you know, there's just so many different options, and they find the one that's right for you. Like they give you that suggestion. They do a check-in after after your your month doses are up and see where you're at and kind of give you a recommendation on where to go for that. So, I love it. It's easy. And now that I can give like a personal endorsement, I mean, I all I've used is Ro and the Zepbound quick pen. So, like that's what I can attest to. Like I said, there's different ones on there, but I like that it's again, it's it's legit. We hear about it all the time and I I feel I feel happy to you know, share my stories then share my testimony and also let you guys know like what works for me cuz I feel like this has all been trial and error for the past 20 years. Like I'm sure I have like a grapefruit diet on here. I have a water diet on here.

[00:23:32]Oh, my health and wellness on here and this is like such a big part of it. I talk about meditation, I talk about all this and this is like that secret ingredient that I needed to make it all work and now the weight is just falling off. It's just coming off and I'm not really doing anything and I think there's that bright people like, "It's the easy way.

[00:23:54]It's the lazy way. Everyone's getting thin now because, you know, it's easy and lazy." And it's like, "Well, why not? Why not take an easy method? Why struggle? Why struggle if like this medicine is meant for obviously people like me who have that food noise, who have the cravings, who has this the the not feeling full? Like if it's if it's a medicine, FDA approved, all the Ro's FDA approved, and it's out there, why not take it?" And I've always talked about my food issues as very serious as, you know, as a very serious thing. It's not something I take lightly. It's not something that just changes overnight. I've struggled with it my whole life. So, for someone who's struggled with food and diet culture my whole life to finally find something that just assists me in having a healthier lifestyle, just eating in moderation, and giving me more energy, my knees, my back, everything has felt better. The inflammation, everything is just calmed down, felt better.

[00:25:00]I just feel everything my skin's better, so everything is just like hormonally just feels better without having all that sugar and processed food. And I had a great stories and successes. When I was on tour, I seen so many people who were like using a GLP-1 and they would look amazing and they're like, "I feel amazing." And it really is the best thing and it's like I I was always curious about it. I was always curious.

[00:25:20]I was always just so scared that I am so happy and I found my happiness and success in life and I'm like, "Maybe This is working for me. Why should I Why should I change something?" But gosh, it's changing for the better. It you know, I if if nothing else comes from it, it's like my energy and my quality of life with my children and my husband and myself, it's amazing. Like I said, I've always I've always felt good. I've always looked in the mirror and felt good. I mean, not always like in my 20s, but really in my 30s and my married life and stuff. I have in my tour in life, I always felt really good, you know, I you know, I pose. Like it's just I'm a baddie.

[00:25:56]But it has taken to a whole 'nother level, too. And And the weight loss is Is it Is it not a bonus? I mean, it's it's great and I would 160 may still be big to some people, but I'm 160, I'd be amazed. I'd be happy.

[00:26:07]I'd be beyond happy.

[00:26:09]But I want to get under 200 and I feel like I'm so there, but you know, with the uh GLP-1 journey, I just kind of wanted to document it, how I'm feeling. And this is, you know, about 2 months into it and I feel great and I'm excited to see like what the year brings, you know, I was like, "Okay, let's try it for Let's try for 6 months. Let's try it for a year."

[00:26:31]Um and I know people who've been on it for 2 years, 3 years. So, I'm excited to just see where it goes and I'm so thankful for for medicine and uh for all this and I'm I I wanted to share with you guys cuz it feels like for the first time I am in control of my body, my life, my food and it's not controlling me and it's not me.

[00:26:53]And I just feel good and I don't need to step on the scale to know that.

[00:26:59]But it's nice. I was shocked when I saw 217. I was like How did that happen? How did that How did that happen?

[00:27:07]You know, and you know, I work out and stuff like that, but it's for me personally, you know, it's it is it's it's a lot easier than anything I've tried.

[00:27:18]And I'm so thankful for that cuz I've struggled and I've been miserable and it's affected my mental health. So, I don't know. I don't know why people complain like this is the easy way out.

[00:27:26]It's like great.

[00:27:28]Something that's helping people become more healthy in in every sense of that word and that's all I ever wanted and in turn I get to become stronger and a better person and better version of myself and I just feel better mentally, physically, strength, all of that. So, I just want you guys to know, too, this is just my personal experience with any sort of weight loss, do it when the time is right, if you feel it's right. You know, it's been years in the in in the thinking about it for me. It's been years. I, you know, I really I really went back and forth with it.

[00:28:02]But obviously, I've been pregnant for the past 4 years, but I wish I would have had this when I was in my 20s. Oh my gosh. Like my 20s, I struggled so much with body image and confidence and all of it and food issues and just not eating and all of that I struggled with so much.

[00:28:23]And I just wish I would have had this sooner. I wish I would have done this sooner, but it's never too late. The time to start can always be now. And this is this could be life saving to so many people.

[00:28:33]Uh my Uncle Joe, who I was very close with my whole life, he's written about in my book. We lived with him. He was my dad's brother.

[00:28:41]We lived with him a lot as a child and he just he really understood me in so many ways and we always connected over just having weight issues. He was a diabetic in life and he passed away in 2022 to complications of surgery when he was getting his foot amputated and um we'd always talk about like wanting to lose weight. He'd always be like, "No, one day I feel like you're you know, you'll you'll do it." You know, he's always a heavy guy and I was always heavy and he was like, "One day you'll like do it." And you know, we just had the same food issues, right? We liked food and we bonded over it. We'd go to Benihana for Christmas and Buca di Beppo for, you know, Thanksgiving and get the big ziti and all stuff like that and cheesecake and um and I just know he like this medication could have like saved his life and um it makes me makes me sad that this wasn't out sooner for people who again really really need it and and me, too. You know, there's just the older you get your health becomes more complicated. It catches up to you and I'm thankful that I got this at 38.

[00:29:45]Wish I would have had it sooner, but I'm thankful for it now.

[00:29:50]And I just wanted to share my really positive experience with it.

[00:29:53]And again I'm not obligated to make this video.

[00:29:57]Obviously, like there's probably going to be enough of me with Row everywhere.

[00:30:00]I just wanted to do like a testimony like this to you guys cuz it just it really it really has like changed my life and um I'm just I'm so thankful. I'm so thankful for where I'm at now. If I'm 217, bro, I was like, "Wow, that's really great."

[00:30:15]Goal is to be under 200. I say 160, but I'm like, "If I'm If I'm 199 cuz I just feel so great and I feel so strong and so much energy. I can run. I run up hills now. I run up hills. I haven't I haven't ran my entire life. I never ran in school. I couldn't finish a mile. Like I'm a runner.

[00:30:34]>> [laughter] >> It's crazy.

[00:30:36]Um but yeah. I love you guys so much and take care of yourselves.

[00:30:41]You are always enough.

[00:30:43]You're always beautiful. No matter what weight you're at, you can always thrive.

[00:30:46]You can always succeed. You are always deserving of love, okay? I always thought, "Well, when I lose weight, I'll find love. When I lose weight, people will hire me." No, I I did all that at 250 lb, okay? It's not about weight.

[00:30:57]It's about the way you feel.

[00:30:59]It's about how you can show up for yourself. It's about feeling strong.

[00:31:02]It's about taking care of your body cuz the older we get, it just doesn't keep up the same and just taking care of it for as long as possible and that's all I aim to do and I just, you know, the older I get, I'm going to be 40 in 2 years, you know, I just I want to live to 100.

[00:31:18]So, I got to I got to keep doing it all, the fitness, you know, just, you know, enjoy life.

[00:31:25]But, you're enough. You're enough. I want you to know that you are you are enough exactly as you are.

[00:31:31]When the time's right, whenever you feel like, you know, if you want to make a change, you can make that change. There is no pressure. Do not let society sway you in one way or the other. I'm not looking to be skinny, okay? I don't you know, I don't need that. I don't know if that would look good on me. I don't know if I'd feel good on me. I don't I don't really need that. I'm happy. I know I'm meant to be in this body. Do not compare yourself to other people and the weight you're at. It's like that was that's the secret to my life and my happiness and my change. I stopped comparing myself to everyone else. I just started living life and life for me and it's it's been wonderful. It's like I look good. I look good.

[00:32:03]I look good. I feel good. I'm doing good and just stop comparing yourself to anyone else. So, um anyways, I always appreciate everyone who shared their stories about GLP-1 and again, so many people who I met on tour who I would see, you know, have a transformation and they're like, "No, it's like the best thing." And then it's like, "Okay, you know what?

[00:32:19]Let me look into this." And I'm glad I did. So, uh I don't think it's just a trend. I think it's going to be here for a while.

[00:32:24]I think they're going to become more accessible to people with people with companies like Ro and stuff where they're they find low-paying options um because that's the other thing, too. I was looking at like to get like shots, you know, at like a um What are those places called?

[00:32:39]I don't know what they're called. I don't know like aesthetician places, right? $400 for one shot is crazy. It's crazy. I was like that's just not sustainable. So, they're they do you know, they are making it more affordable and more accessible to people with or without insurance, which is like really great, too. So, I think it's going to be there for a while and it's again for people who need it, right? If you have the food noise, if you have the struggle, if you have you know, the same sort of feelings I had with food, you know, but this is this is meant for people like us. It really feels like the perfect It really feels like it's perfect for me cuz I'm like I'm not getting sick. I feel great. I have more energy than ever and like this is This was meant for me.

[00:33:15]All right, guys. I love you and um thanks for always being here and uh the support. And this has been a great year.

[00:33:22]This has been a great past couple years.

[00:33:24]I'm excited for the rest of 2026, 2027.

[00:33:27]There's already some big things coming up.

[00:33:29]Australia.

[00:33:31]>> [gasps and laughter] >> And um yeah, my book I'm on my book my book my book tour.

[00:33:36]There's so much happening this year, but I'm enjoying the summer. It's going to be a nice little slow summer in the best way. I'm going to organize my house, I'm going to spend with my kids, I'm going to get my fitness. I'm in really into pickleball lately. That's been wonderful. So, yeah, I hope you guys have a great summer.

[00:33:49]And I love you and I'll see you guys soon.

[00:33:52]Bye.