Still On GLP-1: My Second Book Is Here and This One Goes Way Deeper

Why I wrote a second book about GLP-1 medications

When My Life On GLP-1: The Honest, Hilarious, and Gassy Truth About Losing Weight and Finding Myself came out, the response from this community floored me. People wrote to me from their cars during lunch breaks. They messaged me at midnight from their bathrooms. They told me they finally felt seen in an experience that, until then, they had been navigating completely alone.

But the messages that hit me hardest were from readers who had already lost the weight. People who were a year in, two years in, who had hit their goal numbers and then found themselves standing in a Costco or a Target or a random Tuesday afternoon just feeling confused about who they were now. They had done the hard part. The scale had cooperated. And yet something was still unresolved.

You told me that you were not done. Moreso, you told me that I wasn’t done. I listened and observed and realized there was so much more to this story.

That is exactly what the second book is about. Not how to start. It’s about how to keep going. How to stay. How to live in the body you worked so hard for. And how do you do it without the noise in your head convincing you that the whole thing is about to fall apart.

Introducing Still On A GLP-1: The Honest, Hilarious, and Surprisingly Emotional Truth About Reaching Your Goal and Maintenance

Three years. Ninety pounds. And more unexpected emotional territory than any clinical pamphlet ever prepared me for.

That is the honest premise of this book. It picks up exactly where the first one left off. If Book One was about getting through the door, Book Two is about figuring out what to do now that you live here. And it turns out, living here is a lot more complicated than anyone wants to admit.

This book covers the stuff that comes after the confetti. The maintenance phase that nobody warned you would feel like parallel parking while your whole family watches. The identity shift that sneaks up on you when you realize the funny fat guy is gone and someone else has moved in. The social dynamics change when the people around you start treating you differently. The fear of regaining that lives in the background of every dinner out and every vacation. It appears every time your jeans feel slightly different on a Monday morning.

And yes, the science. Explained the way I always do it, which is to say in plain language, with zero clinical jargon, and occasionally using a metaphor involving a Honda Civic.

What makes this book different from every other GLP-1 book out there

Go search for GLP-1 books right now. I will wait. What you will find is a sea of beginner guides. How to start. What to eat. How to manage nausea. When to call your doctor. All useful, all important, all aimed at the person who just picked up their first pen.

This book is not for that person. This book is for the person who has been doing this long enough to know that tirzepatide and semaglutide are not just brand names but genuine turning points in their actual life. It is for the person who has already navigated the early side effects and the plateaus and the weird food dreams and now finds themselves in new, uncharted emotional territory that nobody mapped out in advance.

The questions this book answers are the ones that come up in year two and year three. What does maintenance actually look like when the medication is still doing its job but your psychology has not quite caught up? How do you handle the people in your life who cannot figure out why you are still on the medication now that you have lost the weight? How do you keep your identity stable when your body keeps changing? What happens to your relationship with food when the noise in your head finally goes quiet?

Nobody is really writing about this. But, after three years, you know I have stories to write about this.

A sneak peek at what is inside

The book moves through the emotional arc of long-term GLP-1 use in a way that mirrors what the community has been telling me for years. It opens with the psychology of change, because the mental game on these medications is more complex and more surprising than anyone prepares you for. We move through the social territory, covering the conversations that get awkward, the friendships that shift, and the family dynamics that nobody tells you will get weird. It digs into the data and the culture surrounding long-term use, because three years in you deserve to understand what is actually happening inside your body and why.

And then it lands on maintenance. The real, honest, sometimes terrifying, occasionally hilarious experience of living at your goal weight and figuring out how to stay there without losing your mind in the process.

There is a chapter about the moment I hit my goal weight and felt absolutely nothing I expected to feel. And there is a chapter about the social life that changes when you stop being the person who always orders the salad, ironically. There is a chapter about the fear of regain and how to build an actual relationship with that fear instead of just letting it ruin your Sunday mornings. And there are chapters on the science of what long-term semaglutide and tirzepatide use actually does to your body, appetite regulation, and brain chemistry, written the way you would explain it to a smart friend over coffee.

This book is for long-term GLP-1 users who have never felt fully represented

If you are on Zepbound or Wegovy or Mounjaro and you have been at this long enough to have strong opinions about injection timing, you already know something important. The early days of a GLP-1 journey get all the attention. The before photos, the first month updates, the dramatic side effect stories that get thousands of views. The long haul is quieter. It is less dramatic. It does not generate the same kind of content.

But it is harder in ways that nobody talks about out loud.

You stop losing and start maintaining and suddenly the whole support structure you built around active weight loss does not quite fit anymore. The metrics change. The goals change. The conversations change. And you are supposed to just figure out the rest on your own because you have already done the hard part, right?

Wrong. The hard part shifts. It does not end.

This book is for anyone who has felt that shift and wanted someone to put words to it. Someone who has been there, who is still there, and who is willing to be completely honest about what it actually looks and feels like from the inside.

Where to get the book

Still On A GLP-1: The Honest, Hilarious, and Surprisingly Emotional Truth About Reaching Your Goal and Maintenance is available now on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle formats. If you have already read the first book, this is the continuation you have been waiting for. If you are new to this community, you can read them in order or jump straight into this one if you are already a year or more into your journey.