Alcohol on a GLP-1: What Changes When You Drink on a Smaller Appetite

Alcohol brings kilojoules and no nutritional benefits, so on a smaller appetite a drink takes room that food would have used. Australian guidelines for healthy adults are no more than 10 standard d...

Nausea on a GLP-1: What to Eat, What to Avoid, How Long It Lasts

Nausea, with diarrhoea, headed the adverse events reported in the STEP 1 trial, and it clusters in the first weeks and after dose changes. Australian guidance is to eat small amounts more often and...

GLP-1 Plateau: Why the Scale Stalls, and What to Change First

Protein, resistance training, sleep and alcohol are the first things the research points to. A stall is expected: in one adult energy-balance model, the bodyweight response to a change in intake ha...

GLP-1 Headaches and Dizziness: What Hydration, Electrolytes and Eating Enough Have to Do With It

Headache and dizziness appear among the side effects reported in weight-loss trials of this medication class, and they also follow from eating and drinking much less. Health services name dehydrati...

GLP-1 Hair Loss: Why It Starts 2 to 4 Months In, and When It Settles

Hair shedding after fast weight loss is usually telogen effluvium, a delayed shed that DermNet NZ places 2 to 4 months after the trigger and tapers over 6 to 9 months in most cases. Sudden weight l...

A 7-Day GLP-1 Nutrition Plan (Australian): Small, Protein-First Meals and the Protein Added Up for Every Day

A reduced appetite calls for small, protein-first meals about every 3 to 4 hours. This printable seven-day plan has five small eating times a day, with protein and dietary fibre added up from the A...

Sustagen Side Effects: What the Label Says About Lactose, Sugars and Who It Suits

Sustagen's own pages list no side effects, only labels. The facts that bear on tolerance are lactose (its FAQ says every product has some, OPTIMUM 0.28g a serve), 27g of sugars in a Hospital Formul...

GLP-1 Weight Loss: What the Scale Hides About Muscle and Micronutrients

The scale cannot show what kind of weight came off. Lean mass includes muscle, organ tissue and water, so it is not the same as muscle. In the STEP 1 body-composition substudy roughly 40% of the we...

Optifast vs Lady Shake: 850 kJ on Both Labels, Two Different Categories

Optifast and The Lady Shake are different categories, not rivals: Optifast is a very low calorie diet (VLCD) program used under supervision, and The Lady Shake is a meal replacement sold direct. Th...