Denise: So welcome back everybody, and on today’s podcast we are going to continue our conversation about GLP-1s. If you did not hear the conversation a couple podcasts ago, then you can go listen to that. Today we’ll specifically be diving into your experience on a GLP-1. What should you be looking out for?

How can you care for yourself best? What are the skills that you still need to learn that medication may not fix? And what needs to happen when you’re coming off so that you don’t rebound weight gain? And to do that, I have a Catholic registered nurse with us, Tana Steiner. Welcome, Tana.

Tana: Thank you, Denise. I’m excited to be here.

Denise: So can you tell our listeners a little bit about your experience, your education, where you came from, and the women that you’re working with now? Who’s the typical woman you work with?

Tana: Okay. But before I start, I just want to say that this is for educational purposes only. It’s not intended to diagnose, treat, or replace medical advice. I am sharing my experience. I have been a registered nurse for over 30 years, had my own experience of getting sick and conventional medicine failing me, and turned to holistic medicine, and that was back in 2005.

And that was before we even knew anything, or knew very little about holistic health, about lifestyle medicine, about functional medicine. But those were the avenues that I took, and that’s what I found to heal me. So as I had continued in my nursing journey, it was like I needed to focus more on that aspect.

And then in 2021, 2022 I guess it was, I became a certified nurse coach, so I’m a board certified nurse coach through the American Holistic Nurses Association. And since then I’ve done a lot of training in holistic health and lifestyle medicine and functional medicine. But we have to recognize that everybody’s different and everybody’s different. Their medical history is different.

But I also believe, and that’s why I dug into lifestyle and functional medicine, is because we have to look deeper than the symptoms. Management alone isn’t gonna help. Pharmaceuticals are great, but they don’t look deep enough to the symptoms. They’re not treating the root cause. And so I feel like that’s important, and I also want to say that I’m not anti-GLP-1s. I’m not anti-medicine. These medicines can be very helpful tools for some individuals.

And so my goal today is just a thoughtful conversation about our stewardship and how we should be caring for our body because God designed us, and he shows us the way. He’s given us all the tools that we need. And that lifestyle can be sustainable, and it also can support the body as a whole. Yeah. So that’s a little of my background.

Denise: And, I love that because truthfully, symptoms are just our body trying to talk to us. And I love the concept of getting to the root cause, because when we get to the root cause, the symptom takes care of itself. The symptom can be healed instead of just quieted.

An example, when I was first introduced to functional medicine in 2016 because of my own health journey. It was said to me this way, and it made so much sense. It was said, “Denise, we can manage your symptoms with medications, but if you stop the medication, your symptoms will return.”

And I thought that’s not what I want.” And again, I am not anti-medicine. I have children who take medicines. I’m not anti-medicine. I just totally appreciate that there is a philosophy of medicine now that says, “Wait a second. Let’s look even deeper. What’s beneath that?” Because that’s the way that you said once we see that, we can start to truly heal the body, and the symptoms do take care of themselves.

Tana: Yeah.

Denise: Who is the typical woman that you work with?

Tana: I typically work and support women through their identity and embodiment. So I support women who have tried everything. They’ve done all the work, but yet they still feel stuck. So then they come to me, and I help support them in creating lifestyle management, health rhythms, that part to move from awareness, because we are a society where we’re just so full of information.

But it’s hard to take that information and determine what is good for you, what is not good for you. Consider how God designed you, and move you into embodiment and how to use that information.

Denise: Yeah, so it sounds like you help women take their information and decide what works best for them, and be able to live that, to integrate it into their life.

Tana: Exactly. Because we are all very different, and we have so much information thrown at us throughout the day, even social media and influencers, and if we don’t understand who we are, that we are, children of God, and that our bodies are different and may not be doing exactly what the influencer says. So it’s important to understand that.

Denise: You know, to piggyback on that, and this is what we were gonna talk about, I just find so many women have not been given permission to trust themselves, to know that the Holy Spirit lives in them. They can trust themselves. They can know what is best for them.

But so often we aren’t given that space to sift through all the noise and say, “But, ooh, what works best for me?” So I love that you’re holding that space for women and helping them discern that. And it changes depending on what season of life you’re in.

Tana: Exactly. Exactly.

Denise: Yeah, like what worked five years ago might not be what works now, and it might not work next year. So just being like, like you said, knowing yourself and being able to care for yourself is a skill that will last a lifetime.

Tana: Exactly. Yeah.

Denise: So let’s dive in. In the last podcast that I did about GLP-1s, we talked a lot about what they do, the ups and downs, and the ins and outs, but we didn’t really talk about the woman who is actually on a GLP-1. So is there anything that you wanted to give us as a foundation about GLP-1s before we dive into the woman who’s actually on them?

Tana: The first thing is our bodies naturally make GLP-1s when it’s supported in the right way. You know, protein, fiber, healthy fats, the foods that we like to call fermented foods that are full of probiotics. These are foods that we can eat that will naturally increase our GLP-1 without the medication.

And so leaning into those before you even consider taking a GLP-1 might be important for you to learn those and how your body responds. And you may not even need the medication if your body responds. And another thing we need to realize is that when we eat, it takes 15 to 30 minutes for our body to respond and to send the signal, the GLP-1 signal, to our brain to say, “Hey, you’re full.”

And so learning that aspect of slowing down, chewing your food, doing those things will help support the body before you even go on a GLP-1. And then the things that we can do while we’re on the GLP-1 is gonna be very similar to what we’re encouraging you to do before and then afterwards.

So it’s helping, as you’re on a GLP-1, but you need to develop the health habits that will be sustainable after you’re weaned off the medication. Now, not everybody will be off the medication. The goal would be for you to be off of it, but some people will have to be on it lifetime, and that’s just dependent on a lot of factors to look at.

Denise: So that’s very interesting, and I’m sure some ears just perked up thinking, “Oh my gosh, I can actually optimize my GLP-1 production by my diet, by what I’m eating, and by waiting 15 to 20 minutes after I eat.” Where can people find out more about the specific foods that support this?

Tana: I think if you just look at lifestyle medicine or talk to nutritionists, they’ll tell you that these are the foods that are important. Okay. The protein, the fiber fermented foods, the healthy fats. There’s a couple things that also that are very rarely talked about, and that’s bitter foods. We always talk about, “Oh, I’m craving sugar, I’m craving salt, I’m craving fats.”

But actually bitter foods also help stimulate your GLP-1. An example of bitter foods are like arugula, dandelion greens, lemon, ginger, parsley because they actually help stimulate digestion. And so when we’re eating those bitter foods along with the other, it can support that healthy digestion is what we’re looking for in the long term to stimulate the GLP-1s.

And on the other side of the GLP-1s, we have the foods, the highly processed foods, the sugars, the desserts, the artificial sweeteners, the fried fatty foods, excess alcohol. Those blunt your GLP-1 formation that you’re naturally making.

So when you think about I always think about how God designed us. He gave us all these amazing foods to eat to support our health, and then we are turning to these ultra-processed foods, sugars, candies, things that we’re using in excess that God did give us. Like God did give us sugar, but we’re using it in excess and in the wrong way.

Denise: That’s an interesting take on this conversation, that there are things that can improve our GLP-1 production, but there’s also things that blunt it. Very interesting. That’s very interesting. Is there anything else that before we talk about optimizing your natural GLP-1 production?

Tana: I think that pretty much is, your nutrition is really important to optimize your gut health to produce that GLP-1.

Denise: So now let’s say someone does go on a GLP-1. What does she need nutritionally as well as strength training-wise to really support herself while she’s on the medication? What are the lifestyle changes she needs to make?

Tana: Interesting. It’s gonna be very similar to what we just talked about. They’re gonna wanna optimize their protein 80 to 120 grams of protein per day. And that again is very individualized dependent upon the woman. You have to always look at their kidney functions. You also look at their exercise habits. If they’re sedentary, then that changes their protein intake. You wanna make sure that you’re getting all, just array of colorful fruits and vegetables.

You can think about getting adequate amount of fiber because on a GLP-1 people tend to get constipated, so having adequate fiber is important. And along with fiber, if you’re increasing your fiber, you also need to have adequate hydration ’cause they kind of go together to keep things moving.

And one example that I like to bring to women especially is flaxseed is a good form of fiber, but it’s also a phytoestrogen, which can help with perimenopause symptoms. So just taking one to two tablespoons of that a day can help increase your fiber but also help with perimenopause symptoms in some women.

So we talked about the bitter foods are important. One thing I guess I failed to mention when we talked about optimizing your gut health before the GLP-1 is taking apple cider vinegar. It’s also considered a bitter food, and it also can help balance out your blood sugar.

There’s caveats with that. Certain women shouldn’t take it if you’ve got bad reflux, if you’ve got let’s see, certain digestive issues. There are certain areas that you would have to have a conversation with somebody about that before you dove in. So but that’s just something that you can also do to optimize your gut health before being on a GLP-1.

We talked about chewing slowly, eating slowly because at when you’re on the GLP-1, it’s telling your brain not to eat ’cause you’re not gonna be really hungry. It’s shutting off that food noise. And so finding a regular scheduled time to eat, whether it’s 7:00, 1:00, and 5:00.

So then you know that you need to eat at those times because one of the bigger things is if you’re not hungry, you’re not eating, you’re losing muscle mass because you’re not eating the protein to support what you have. And so eating very nutritionally dense foods. Eliminating the processed foods. Anything, the quick and easy. Foods that don’t have labels are the best.

Denise: Yes.

Tana: So when you think about going to the grocery store, if it has more than three or four ingredients on the box, you probably wanna pass because it’s just processed food, and it’s not very nutritionally dense. I think that covers most of the nutritional part.

Denise: It sounds like that there’s. And I don’t know if this is the right way to say it, but it sounds like there’s a significant amount of responsibility, that when you are on the medication, then it’s like you really have to level up your self-care and your nutrition, especially ’cause your body won’t naturally want to eat.

So you’ll have to be intentionally eating and making sure that you’re just eating very nutritious food. So for our listeners, what is the risk… somebody might say, “Well, what does it matter if you lose muscle mass?”

Tana: Muscle mass is actually very important for metabolism. It helps control our blood sugar. It helps, If you think about that old adage, muscle burns, more calories than fat, that’s been around forever, and so you think about the more muscle I have, the better I am health-wise.

On the GLP-1s, women can lose up 30 to 40% of lean muscle mass if they are not eating the protein and not resistant training, and that can lead to increased risk of fractures. It can decrease the bone density that we have.

So long term it’s not a win for our bodies to be on a GLP-1 and not support that part of it. Because losing fat is one thing, but we also wanna support it and build strength along with losing the fat.
Because if you go off a GLP-1 and you haven’t made these changes, you’re gonna fall back into the old patterns that you were in before you started the GLP-1, because it’s not gonna change anything. It’s just gonna shut that food noise off, make you feel full, slow down your digestion, but as soon as you go off of it, everything comes back the way that it was before.

Dennise: Everything comes back.

Tana: Yeah. Your patterns come back, your eating habits come back, your emotional eating, your food noise, all of those things just return, and you were just blunting them for a short period of time to lose the weight.

Denise: Yeah. And, I really, as a personal trainer and my background is in exercise science, I really just wanna drive home the point that strength training is so crucial and vital. Muscle mass is the most vital and beneficial tissue that we have on our bodies, everybody.

So not only does it help us burn calories, which is fine, and we’re burning more calories the more muscle we have on our body when we’re sleeping, when we’re in the shower, but it is. You guys, it’s the key to independence. If you are not strong, you can’t get off the toilet seat.

We need to make sure that we are women that can care for ourselves, that we can open jars, that we can carry our groceries, that we can get in and out of a car It’s just I believe that strength is the key to independence, and I don’t want us to turn a blind eye to that.

And I think strength training is fantastic at any point, but now it becomes very crucial. If you’re going to be on a GLP-1, typically 35% of the weight that you’re losing, like Tana said, will be muscle mass.

Now, you might say that’s with all weight loss.” No, it’s not. That’s not with all weight loss. I keep body composition records on the women that we work with in our program, and they’re losing two to maybe 10% of the weight they lose is muscle. Maybe 10. That’s the most I’ve seen, but mostly it’s 2% or 0%. There’s a way to lose weight that does not mean that you sacrifice your muscle. Okay, I just had to say that.

Tana: Oh, that’s good. Women need to know that, we start losing muscle mass, and bone density in our early adulthood, before we even recognize it, before we even get into our 60s, 70s, when then it becomes evident that you’ve lost it because then you’re not independent anymore. You are relying on other people to bring in your groceries.

You’re struggling to get off the toilet. You’re struggling to go upstairs. You’re struggling to do all the activities of daily living that you shouldn’t be struggling with because it was preventable by just adding a little bit of resistance training. Whether you’re on a GLP-1 or not it’s still vital for longevity.

Denise: Yeah. And I think that’s the point. I mean, Tana and I are not saying only the people who do GLP-1s, because there’s probably some people who say, “Hey, listen, I absolutely need this,” and we absolutely know that you need it.

But every human needs to be strength training. Every woman absolutely needs to be strength training. And there’s very easy ways to get started. You can go on YouTube and put beginner strength training, and there you go. Just start.

Tana: Yeah, exactly, and you just need to start. And whether. If you live a sedentary life, if you work from home and you’re on your computer all day, you can take five minutes for what we call maybe a little exercise snack and get up and do a few squats, a few wall pushups. Start very simply.

And even actually going for a 10 or 15-minute walk after each meal is very beneficial for our blood sugar. And it’s that simple. You don’t have to walk for 30 minutes. You can go for 10 or 15 just to help. And to move the blood sugar into your system, stimulate your muscles, and it’s very simple to start.

You don’t have to be, “I’m gonna run a marathon in a week,” because that’s not realistic. Start where you are, what your body likes. I mean, do something that you like. Don’t force yourself to do something you don’t like, because you’re not gonna stick with it, and that’s important.

Denise: So we know that we need to change our diets, we know that we need to strength train while we’re on a GLP-1. What are the things that a GLP-1 will not solve, that women still need to learn skills around?

Tana: It’s not gonna solve your emotional eating. That’s something that you’re gonna have to work on yourself and dig deeper in getting to know who you are. There’s always those questions of, like, when you feel like you’re gonna emotionally eat, what am I feeling in this moment and what do I need, are important questions.

Sometimes it’s hard to do those things in the moment, so that’s important thing to look at. One thing that I think is really overlooked in our society, that is important that we don’t think about is our sleep.

I mean, you think about you have had a bad night’s sleep, how’s your next day look? Are you reaching for that sugary food because you need that dopamine hit because you didn’t get enough sleep?

So I think focusing on sleep before, even after, and during your on a GLP-1 is important. I just think we kind of blow that over as “Oh, I can’t sleep.” Well, why can’t you sleep? And, you know, dig a little bit deeper into that. Sleep is very nuanced for people. Some people are like, “Well, I survive on four hours of sleep.”

And it’s like, that’s great, but should you be surviving on four hours of sleep? I mean, ideally we should be getting seven to nine hours of sleep. And that looks different for every person. It’s just developing those good healthy habits around your sleep. A good bedtime routine, turn your screens off two hours before, don’t eat, three hours before bedtime.

If you wake up in the middle of the night, don’t lay there. Get up and get out of bed and do something quietly, but don’t turn your screens on. One thing that I like to do is just keep a sticky note by my bed, and if I wake up and I have something on my brain or I need to write something down, I can just write it down on a sticky note and just leave it, and even give it to God and be like, “Okay, God, I’m giving this to you. I’ll deal with it tomorrow.”

So that will help develop those sleep patterns, because it’s just so You know, not looked at. And another important thing about sleep is getting 10 to 15 minutes of that early morning sunshine can help reset our circadian rhythm. It helps increase our dopamine in the morning, and then in the afternoon it will stimulate our melatonin to kick in, and our melatonin is the hormone that helps us sleep. So that’s an important part of sleep as well.

But, just developing the habit around sleep will also help with your overall health, and you’re not in your emotional eating. GLP-1s are not gonna, like we’ve talked about, they’re not gonna make you lift weights. They’re not gonna make you eat healthy. They’re not gonna support you in the ways that you need to do intentionally to move forward once you get off of this.

You know, we have to look at stress management, too. I mean, we are going, going, going, going, and do we really need to be going, going, and going? And what does that look like to slow down and take a Sunday that’s truly a Sabbath day of rest, where your entire day is focused on Jesus.

You go to mass, you receive the Eucharist. You, maybe have some adoration time. You do some reading. You spend family time, and actually intentionally slow down for a day and just let everything else be, because everything else will be there on Monday morning. You know it will.

So why do we have to focus on it when we really should be having a Sabbath that’s really focused on Jesus and how he wants us to care for ourselves, because he told us that we need to rest on the seventh day.

Denise: Yeah.

Tana: Sometimes that even looks like taking a Sabbath on a Wednesday afternoon when you’re overwhelmed. Maybe it’s taking a walk in the afternoon or going to adoration. There is places for us to actually lean in to what God gave us and is asking us to do to steward our bodies.

Denise: Yeah, I can hear your lifestyle medicine coming through. I can hear your holistic approach coming through that says we are just an entire being, physically, emotionally, spiritually. And I can hear your heart just saying, “What is it that you need? What do you need right now?”

And giving us permission to slow down and not just look at the world and the way that, how fast the world lives, but to say, you know, what does God want for you? Where does he want you to put your self-care, your attention? Is it on sleep? Is it on your nutrition? Is it on stress?

I think what we’re getting at is there’s just many areas of our health that can improve when we put attention to ’em. And what you said about sleep is so interesting, and I just wanna circle back on that for just a second.

You guys, what happens when you’re sleep deprived is that your blood sugar is so whacked out the next day that you will find that you are more snacky, you want to emotionally eat, you’ll have more cravings.

So if you do have a sleep deprived day, I really encourage you to plan extra food. Plan extra food that you feel good about so that you’re not caught off guard or you feel out of control. I also encourage you to plan extra protein on those days to help stabilize your blood sugar. Anything else, Tana, that you would say would be helpful the day after not getting enough sleep?

Tana: No, I think you covered it. You know, like, keeping the healthy snacks with you, the high protein, so you’re not tempted to go through the drive-through. Because you are wanting that quick fix, but instead you have created the space to take care of yourself in that time

Denise: Yeah, and then the other thing that you mentioned was that GLP-1s will not fix emotional eating. Friends, it will not fix emotional eating because you have created patterns in your brain and in your body that when you feel certain emotions or when you want to feel certain emotions, then you use food to do that.

Maybe you want to feel happy or joyful or excited or appreciated. Any time that we’re eating to feel something, that’s emotionally eating. Any time we’re eating to not feel something, sad, lonely, offended. I always use the word offended. I don’t know. I feel like I ate because I was offended a lot.

That’s emotional eating, and a GLP-1, you will still experience those emotions, and you will still believe, your brain still believes that food is the solution, just because that’s the pattern that’s been created.

And I’m not saying that for any other reason than to remind you that it’s so important that you find other tools to be able to allow the Lord to heal that area of your life, and that’s the work that we do at Weight Loss with the Holy Spirit, as you all know.

Tana: Yeah. And I mean, it. the GLP-1 doesn’t fix any of that. It just makes it harder for us to use that food to cope. Because when we don’t have that food noise turned on, so we’re not thinking like that, but yet when we wean ourselves off the GLP-1, guess what shows back up? Because we never did any of the work in between to recognize that you were using that food to cope.

Denise: So while you’re on the GLP-1, get the skills so that when you come off. You have the skills. So let’s talk about that. What does a woman need to do about coming off so she can prevent rebound weight gain?

Tana: I think one of the important thing is making sure you’re working with a provider that is knowledgeable in taking you off and just not pulling you off of it, but actually slowly weaning you off of it.

You know, and asking the questions, are your eating habits stable? Are you getting the adequate protein that you need? Have you established that resistance training program? Have you addressed that emotional eating, and what did that look like for you? And do you have the skills to address that when that food noise comes back on?

How’s your stress management? Have you improved in that area, or does that need some work? Again, do you have these healthy habits in place as we slowly wean you off of this? Because if you don’t, all of it just returns.

And another thing to think about, too, is when we talk about GLP-1s, especially since, , this is a Catholic base and, what is the identity that you’re tying your weight to? I mean, your identity should not be that you’re skinny.

Your identity should not be that you’re overweight. Your identity should be truly that you are a child of God, and then allow him to speak to you through that area. Because I think that’s an important part of the identity piece as you come off the GLP-1, is just working on finding out who God created you to be.

Denise: That’s very interesting, ’cause I’ve heard some women in our community saying, “You know, I noticed that my medication was becoming a false god.” Where they were finding their identity, like, in their body. Can you speak a little bit more to that?

Tana: To find your identity in God, you really have to develop that relationship with him and listen to who he says you are and not what the world is saying to you. We just focus so much on the world and what the world says we should be.

You know, we should be thin or we should be this or we should be that. But in reality, you know, God is calling us and that’s the most important piece, I think. And to develop that, you need to really develop a relationship with him.

Denise: Tana, I like to say that secular dieting h- really is very dangerous for women’s souls, for Catholic women’s souls, because it makes false gods out of our body. It makes false gods out of the way that we eat. You know, we’re good if we eat this way, and we’re not good if we eat that way.

And It makes false gods out of our weight, and it’s just so distracting that we then just chase the perfect way of eating, chase the perfect body, chase the magic number on the scale or the magic dress size. And what I hear you saying is it’s just so distracting. It is so not the way the Lord wants us to live.

He wants to be our God, and that we take our identity and who we say we are from what He said we are, that we truly talk to Him and say, “Lord, what do you want from me? How do you want me to care for me?” need to have with God.

Tana: You know, you could ask him, “What am I hoping this medication will do that you can actually do?”

Denise: That’s an interesting question. This is just so good. I think it just brings up this conversation. I just wanna have Catholic thoughtful and honest conversations about things that are out there with regard to health and weight loss so that women can truly hear the truth.

And I know this has just filled in so many holes of the conversation that people are not seeing online, or they’re not seeing in, on the TV, if anybody watches TV anymore. And I hope that their practitioners are truly helping them. But the story that I heard too often, which was what made me pursue talking to Catholic practitioners, physicians, registered nurses about GLP-1s.

Was people would get off, and they weren’t supported getting off, and they gained more weight afterward, and the GLP-1 became just another thing that left them sort of empty-handed. And I thought, that’s so silly. Why is that even happening? That shouldn’t be happening.

Tana: It shouldn’t be happening, and, you know, if we’re really on a GLP-1 and we’re digging deep and . looking for the root cause and crafting a lifestyle that is sustainable after the GLP-1, after you lose the weight, then you’re able to move forward without medications and conventional medicine don’t really treat the root cause. They’re just treating the symptoms. We have such an epidemic of obesity or people with obesity, and it’s considered a chronic disease.

But from a lifestyle medicine perspective, it can be reversed, and it actually can be cured- by making lifestyle changes that are sustainable to move you forward. So you don’t have to be on a GLP-1 forever, though some people may be if it’s for other reasons besides weight loss.

But you just have to. I don’t know. I’m just passionate about listening to your body, being aware of what it’s telling you to do and what it wants from you, and not silencing the symptoms like you said in the beginning.

Tana: You know, let’s get to the root cause of this. But then there’s, it’s multi-leveled, and too, it’s not like it’s just simple, you take a GLP-1, you lose the weight, you move on. It’s just not that easy. I wish it was that easy, but we didn’t get to this point, you didn’t get to weigh 300 pounds overnight, so you can’t expect it to go away as quickly without creating the patterns that will sustain it moving forward.

Denise: And what I want everyone to hear is that there are conditions that GLP-1s are absolutely necessary for, that you should be on them for the rest of your life. I recall it being… and Tana, you can tell me if I’m getting this wrong. But just like some people take blood pressure medicine for the rest of their life, some people need a GLP-1 for the rest of their life.

And that’s not saying you’re doing it wrong, but there are some conditions where you absolutely need that. So this is a total individual decision between you and your doctor. We just want you to start talking to the Lord about this, and to make sure that you are supported and you know how to care for yourself while you are on it.

Tana: Yeah, exactly. Exactly. I found just in my research and talking to people that they’re just not getting the support that they need. They’re being prescribed it, and then that’s the only… they just are prescribed it. for weight loss, and that they don’t have any support. They’re not checking their body compositions.

They’re not checking in how they’re eating. They’re not checking in on the things that are important when it’s time to get off, and I feel very disheartened about that because we have, and we know what the research is showing us that says, “Do these things and your outcome will be much better than if you don’t do these things.”

Denise: Yeah. And, you know, Tana, I was about ready to wrap up the podcast, but you brought up a beautiful thing, that body composition should be monitored while you’re on a GLP-1.

Tana: Yeah. Should be.

Denise: Body composition is the ratio of fat mass to lean mass, so that your provider can see, are you losing muscle at too high of a rate?

Tana: Yeah, because your body doesn’t distinguish between muscle and fat. It’s just losing weight.

Right, when you step on a scale. Yeah. So you need to have a fancy scale or maybe a scale in your doctor’s office that has electrical impedance or maybe even doing a DEXA scan. Is there any other method that you would recommend?

Tana: Those are the, you know, the most simpler ones that are out there Yeah and the easiest ones to access.

Denise: And you guys can, you can do it at home. And, you know, they might not be precision, precision, but it will at least show you trends. You can buy a scale like that for, like, 30 bucks on Amazon. It’s very easy.

Tana: Yeah, and that’s the most important thing. With anything that we look at is to monitor their trends. You know, if you have one day that’s off, okay, well then let’s continue to move forward doing what you’re doing, and if things go back to where they were, this is great. You know, trends can tell us a lot of information.

Denise: Yeah. Well, Tana, thank you so much. Is there anything else you want our listener to know?

Tana: I think I would just, want to just remind women that they’re not broken and that they do have God’s design, and He’s got their back if we just turn to Him and ask Him how He wants us to move forward with taking a GLP1. What does life look like? Yeah. What is our identity in Him? Those things are important when we really turn to Christ, and He fulfills all our desires and our needs and what He wants from us.

Denise: Well, I just love it. It’s so obvious that you just walk so closely with the Lord. And so thank you so much for sharing your expertise and your faith with us today.

So Tana, where can the women listening find you?You can find me on Instagram at tjsteiner, on Instagram. And also my website is tanasteinercoaching.com. And those are the two easiest places to get a hold of me. T

Denise: Thank you, Tana. Thank you. Well, you have a blessed day, and thanks everybody for listening. t’s just been such a gift.

Tana: Thank you for having me.