By Coach Cecilia Basbus, MD, CHC Meals with protein and fiber can help you feel satisfied as your appetite changes. If you have lost weight with Ozempic or Wegovy, you may be wondering what will happen when you stop taking it. Many clients ask me the same question: “Will I feel hungry all the time again?” It is a reasonable concern. In the STEP 1 extension study, participants regained, on average, about two thirds of the weight they had lost during the year after semaglutide

If you have been eating the same way and training the same way you always have, and your body is responding completely differently, you are not imagining it, and you are not doing anything wrong. Two things are happening inside your body at the same time during perimenopause, and together they explain why the plan that used to work has stopped working. Your Body Is Storing Fat More Easily Coach Cecilia explains why perimenopause causes fat storage and muscle loss to happen at

Estrogen crashes. Progesterone disappears, sometimes years before your period ever stops. And your body pays for it long before anyone says the word menopause. If you have felt like your body suddenly stopped listening to you, this is exactly why. Three hormones are behind it, and one of them surprised me even as a physician when I first learned how early it actually starts declining. Perimenopause hormones do not decline in a straight line, they swing, which is part of why s

I am a medical doctor, a certified health coach, and I follow a whole food plant based diet. I have spent years coaching women through weight loss and metabolic health. Perimenopause still caught me off guard. I did everything right and still gained weight, perimenopause video by Coach Cecilia. Watch video HERE What perimenopause weight gain actually feels like I gained weight I could not explain through diet alone. I lost muscle I had spent years building. My energy dropped,

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