Thereβs a better way to GLP-1, and Elizabeth McGann will show you how. The Holistic GLP-1 Podcast brings a body, mind and soul approach to GLP-1s that works alongside your medical care. Itβs the #1 podcast on the subject for a reason: Elizabethβs practical, healing approach inspires thousands of women to reach their happy weight, regain their confidence and get their sexy back. Youβll hear from brilliant doctors and experts, discover research-backed tools you can actually use, and dive into refreshingly honest conversations about your body, your health and your life. Whether youβre taking a GLP-1 or want to stimulate it naturally, youβll learn about microdosing, strengthening your metabolic health and supporting your bodyβs natural GLP-1 response. This isnβt just about weight loss. Itβs a full-life reboot.
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What if your GLP-1 journey could change more than just your weight?
What if it could become an opportunity to transform your health, your relationships, your mindset, and ultimately, the life you're creating?
Maybe you've spent years struggling with your weight, putting yourself last, or carrying around emotional baggage that you haven't quite figured out how to let go of.
And maybe you're finally ready for something bigger than another weight-loss plan.
In this solo episode of The Holistic GLP-1 Podcast, Elizabeth McGann shares a powerful realization she had while facilitating The Shift, a transformational women's retreat in the Catskills: the journey toward better metabolic health can also become an opportunity for a whole-life reset.
Elizabeth introduces her signature framework, The Three Lenses of Metabolism: Physical, Mental & Emotional, and Spiritual, and explores how improving your health can go hand in hand with changing your habits, processing your emotions, releasing old beliefs, and reconnecting with what you genuinely want.
Because the goal isn't simply to lose weight. It's to become healthier, freer, and more intentional about creating a life you love.
In This Episode, You'll Learn:
Why losing weight and becoming metabolically healthier aren't necessarily the same thing.
How to approach GLP-1 medications holistically, with attention to nutrition, muscle preservation, gut health, hormones, and sustainable habits.
Why Elizabeth believes metabolism can be understood through three lenses: physical, mental and emotional, and spiritual.
What Elizabeth calls "undigested life," the emotional experiences, beliefs, and patterns we carry around that can keep us feeling stuck.
How surrender and letting go can help you move beyond emotional baggage and reconnect with yourself.
Three powerful questions to help you identify what you're ready to heal, release, and change in this next chapter of your life.
Episode Highlights
(00:03) | The Shift retreat and the inspiration for a whole-life reset
(01:20) | Could a GLP-1 transform more than your physical body?
(02:13) | Why weight loss doesn't always equal better health
(03:19) | Introducing the Three Lenses of Metabolism
(04:25) | Physical metabolism: nutrition, muscle, hormones, and sustainable habits
(06:18) | Mental and emotional metabolism and "undigested life"
(07:43) | Emotional eating and processing difficult experiences
(08:38) | Spiritual metabolism, surrender, and Letting Go
(11:40) | Using your GLP-1 journey as an opportunity for transformation
(12:43) | Three questions for your body, mind, and soul
(13:37) | Free resources and next steps
Resources Mentioned
FREE Masterclass: How to Microdose a GLP-1 Holistically
Learn Elizabeth's holistic approach to GLP-1s, metabolic health, nutrition, and lifestyle.
You know what you *should* be doing to improve your health. So why can it feel almost impossible to follow through?
What if the problem isn't a lack of willpower, but the biology of your brain?
In this fascinating conversation, Elizabeth welcomes **Dr. Sasha High**, a board-certified obesity medicine physician, internist, and founder of High Metabolic Clinic and Best Weight, to explore how GLP-1 medications influence the brain, quiet food noise, reduce cravings, and create new opportunities for lasting behavior change.
Discover why old habits can be so difficult to break, how cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness can help interrupt self-defeating thought patterns, and why self-compassion may be one of the most powerful tools for sustainable weight management.
They also explore the hormonal and metabolic changes of menopause, the science of appetite regulation, and a liberating new perspective on obesity as a chronic medical condition rather than a failure of personal discipline.
If you've spent years knowing what to do but struggling to do it, this episode could change the way you understand yourself.
You released the weight. Youβre feeling healthier. Your confidence is coming back.
So why do some of your relationships suddenly feel different?
In this episode, Elizabeth explores something we donβt talk about enough: when you change, your relationships may need to change with you. A significant weight release can shift far more than your body. It can change how you see yourself, how you show up in the world, and the roles youβve always played in your marriage, friendships, dating life and even professionally.
Elizabeth shares her own experience of changing her relationship with food and alcohol, becoming healthier and more confident, and discovering that some of the relationships built around her old lifestyle no longer worked in quite the same way. She also talks about the uncomfortable βin-betweenβ: when youβve outgrown parts of your old life but havenβt fully built the new one yet, and what you can do to navigate that space while your new life takes shape.
Sometimes relationships deepen. Sometimes they need to evolve. And sometimes you realize youβve simply outgrown each other. The key is understanding that grieving and growing can happen at the same time, and the new life will continue to take shape.
IN THIS EPISODE:
Why weight loss can create an unexpected identity shift
What happens when people are still relating to the old version of you
How greater confidence can change friendships, marriage, intimacy and work
The loneliness and grief that can come with the βin-betweenβ
Why some relationships become stronger while others may no longer fit
How to create new ways of connecting with the people you love
How to navigate the in-between while your new life takes shape
100 Lbs Released: How a GLP-1 Ended the Bingeing (with Kat Carter)
Tuesday, September 22, 2026 β’ Duration 57:22
What if overeating, struggling to stick to your weight-loss goals, or bingeing, things youβve spent years blaming yourself for, arenβt simply a lack of willpower?
In this episode, Elizabeth speaks with Kat Carter, co-host of the award-winning Plus SideZ Podcast, about what happened when a GLP-1 addressed something years of dieting, exercise, therapy, Overeaters Anonymous, and weight-loss medications couldnβt. Nearly four years later, Kat has released 100 pounds and says the compulsion to binge is gone.
Kat shares what it was like to feel like a prisoner to food, how tirzepatide changed everything, and why she believes biology was the missing piece. She also opens up about losing weight slowly, navigating perimenopause, continuing to support herself with nutrition, movement, sleep, and emotional work, and finding a level of body acceptance she had never experienced before.
This conversation may change the way you understand your own struggles around food, with less self-blame, more compassion for yourself, and hope that a more peaceful, freeing relationship with food and your body may be possible for you, too.
(00:00) What Happens When Food Noise Finally Goes Quiet?
(04:15) Why Doing Everything βRightβ Still Wasnβt Enough
(07:55) βCan I Live Normal?β Breaking Free From the Obsession With Food
(12:10) Discovering the βStop Buttonβ Around Food
(17:00) Why the Inner Work Is Important
Why Your GLP-1 Stopped Working: 5 Proven Strategies to Get Unstuck
Tuesday, September 8, 2026 β’ Duration 25:52
Your GLP-1 was working beautifully. The food noise got quieter. You started releasing weight.
And thenβ¦the scale stopped moving.
Does that mean your GLP-1 stopped working? Do you automatically need a higher dose?
Not necessarily.
In this episode, Elizabeth walks you through her 5-part Holistic GLP-1 Plateau Auditβthe key areas to investigate before assuming the answer is more medication.
Youβll learn how to look at your nutrition, blood sugar, metabolic health, gut, sleep and stress to better understand what your body may need. Elizabeth also shares what wearing a CGM for nearly a year taught her about her own metabolismβincluding the surprising impact stress had on her glucose.
IN THIS EPISODE
The 5 things to check when your GLP-1 results stall
Why a 5β7 day nutrition check can reveal important blind spots
How to become a βmetabolic detectiveβ using your own data
Why Elizabeth loves CGMs as a window into metabolic health
What your gut and internal βterrainβ may be telling you
How sleep and stress can influence your progress
The deeper body-mind-soul question: What are you carrying?
(00:25) β Has Your GLP-1 Stopped Working? Why a plateau doesnβt automatically mean you need a higher dose.
(02:07) β The Holistic GLP-1 Plateau Audit. Five things to investigate before assuming the answer is more medication.
Why GLP-1 Weight Loss is a Spiritual Opportunity (with Dan Go)
Monday, August 24, 2026 β’ Duration 01:19:05
What if a GLP-1 could do more than help you lose weight?Β
In this episode, Elizabeth sits down with high-performance coach Dan Go to explore how these medications can create a powerful window for deeper physical, emotional, and behavioral change.Β
Dan shares why he sees lasting transformation as βa spiritual process disguised as a physical one,β and explains how identity, self-talk, emotional awareness, and sustainable habits determine whether weight loss truly lasts.Β
They also break down Danβs high-performance GLP-1 approach, including protein intake, resistance training, walking, sleep, supplementation, and the importance of having an exit plan rather than relying on medication alone.Β
Along the way, they discuss emotional eating, urge surfing, journaling, the power of the pause, and why becoming the person who naturally lives at a healthier weight matters more than chasing a perfect diet.
For years, women have asked me the same questions:
What does it really mean to take a holistic approach to GLP-1s? Why am I so passionate about microdosing? And is it possible to naturally support the body's own GLP-1 production?
In this special solo episode, I'm sharing the philosophy behind my work and introducing my new free masterclass, How to Microdose a GLP-1 Holistically.
After years of working alongside physicians, studying the research, interviewing experts, and helping women achieve remarkable results, I've become convinced of one thing: this conversation is about much more than medication. It's about healing and ending your struggle with weight once and for all.
You'll hear why I was initially skeptical of GLP-1s, what I learned from some of the earliest women using these medications, why I believe a truly holistic approach produces the best results, how to naturally support your body's own GLP-1 production, and why the ultimate goal isn't dependence, but helping the body remember what it already knows how to do.
In This Episode You'll Learn:
Why I was skeptical of GLP-1s when they first appeared
What I learned from the earliest GLP-1 success stories
The surprising truth about your body's natural ability to produce GLP-1
How to naturally stimulate your body's own GLP-1 production
Why microdosing is only one piece of the puzzle
How nutrition, sleep, movement, stress, and mindset influence your results
Why I believe "less is more"
The difference between using GLP-1s as a tool and becoming dependent on them
Why lasting freedom is the true goal
What you'll learn inside my new masterclass, How to Microdose a GLP-1 Holistically
How to apply for a complimentary Holistic GLP-1 Microdosing Blueprint Call
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What Every GLP-1 User Needs to Know (with Dr. Robert Kushner)
Tuesday, July 28, 2026 β’ Duration 01:12:27
GLP-1 medications have changed what is possible in obesity treatment, but the medication is only part of the story. In this episode, Elizabeth speaks with Dr. Robert Kushner, a pioneer in obesity medicine and author of The Six Factors to Fit, about how to turn weight loss into better health and lasting change.
Dr. Kushner explains how GLP-1s reduce hunger, cravings, and food noise, why metabolic adaptation makes weight regain so common, and why lifestyle support still matters even when the medication is doing much of the biological work. He also introduces six common weight-management patterns, from the βeasily enticed eaterβ and βfast pacerβ to the βself-criticβ and βall-or-nothing doer,β with practical ways to work with each one.
This conversation offers a clear, compassionate framework for using GLP-1s more safely, protecting muscle and nutrition, and measuring success far beyond the number on the scale.
(00:00) What Turns GLP-1 Weight Loss Into Lasting Change?
(04:15) A Biological Breakthrough in Obesity Treatment
(08:30) The βSecret Sauceβ Was Inside the Body All Along
(12:45) Making the Healthy Choice the Easier Choice
(17:00) Why Medication and Lifestyle Are Never Either-Or
(21:15) The Risks of Taking a GLP-1 Without Proper Support
(25:30) Measuring Progress Beyond the Scale
(29:45) Why the Body Tries to Regain Lost Weight
(34:00) Hunger Is Biology, Not a Character Flaw
(38:15) Discovering Your Weight-Management Personality
(42:30) Turning Self-Awareness Into a Personalized Strategy
Why Some Women Thrive on GLP-1s (And Others Don't)
Tuesday, July 14, 2026 β’ Duration 10:56
Why do two women follow the same nutrition plan, take the same GLP-1 medication, and get completely different results?
In this episode, Elizabeth introduces one of the most important concepts behind the Holistic GLP-1 Methodβ’: the difference between the Outer Game of weight loss and the Inner Game that quietly determines whether change actually lasts.
While nutrition, protein, strength training, hormones, gut health, and GLP-1s all matter, lasting transformation happens when you also change your identity, beliefs, and relationship with yourself.
Through the story of one client, Rebecca, Elizabeth shares why healing your inner world often becomes the catalyst for lasting changes in your outer worldβand why true freedom isn't just about losing weight, but becoming the healthiest version of yourself.
In This Episode You'll Learn:
Why two women can follow the exact same plan and experience completely different outcomes
The difference between the Outer Game and the Inner Game
Why information alone rarely creates transformation
How your identity shapes your daily habits and decisions
The role self-talk and beliefs play in long-term weight loss
Why you can't heal a body you're constantly criticizing
A powerful mindset shift that changes your relationship with food and your body
How the Holistic GLP-1 Method integrates body, mind, and soul for lasting results
A real client story illustrating the power of identity work
Details about Elizabeth's upcoming free masterclass on holistic GLP-1 microdosing
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(00:00) Welcome to the Holistic GLP-1 Podcast
(00:54) Why Two Women Can Get Completely Different Results
(01:37) Most Women Are Playing the Wrong Game
(02:00) The Outer Game: Nutrition, GLP-1s & Lifestyle
How Hormone Therapy Can Improve GLP-1 Results (with Dr. Arianna Sholes-Douglas)
Wednesday, July 1, 2026 β’ Duration 01:02:44
In this episode, Elizabeth welcomes back Dr. Arianna Sholes-Douglas β board-certified OB-GYN, author of *The Menopause Myth*, founder of Tula Wellness and Aesthetics, and host of the *Stay Juicy* podcast β for a powerful and wide-ranging conversation about menopause, metabolism, hormone therapy, GLP-1 medications, inflammation, and what it really means for women to thrive after 40.
Dr. Arianna brings her signature mix of medical expertise, humor, candor, and whole-person wisdom to a topic so many women are quietly struggling with: why their bodies suddenly feel different, why weight loss becomes harder, why sleep, mood, sex drive, energy, and brain function can all shift in midlife β and why none of this is a personal failure.
Together, Elizabeth and Dr. Arianna explore how estrogen, insulin sensitivity, thyroid function, gut health, cortisol, inflammation, nutrition, muscle mass, and GLP-1s all intersect. They also discuss why women using hormone therapy may experience better outcomes on GLP-1 medications, why estrogen is not simply a βweight loss tool,β and why menopause can be understood not only as a biological transition, but as a "body, mind, and soul" transformation.
SHOW NOTES
[ 00:00 ] GLP-1s, estrogen, and the anti-inflammatory lifestyle
[ 00:53 ] Key question for women over: βWhy is it so hard to lose this weight?β
[ 03:05 ] Why so many women in perimenopause and menopause feel like their bodies have changed overnight
[ 05:00 ] Estrogen, metabolism, gut health, inflammation, and abdominal fat
[ 07:00 ] Why estrogen alone does not simply make midlife weight gain disappear
[ 08:22 ] The hormone βorchestraβ: estrogen, cortisol, testosterone, progesterone, thyroid, and gut health
[ 10:00 ] Why midlife weight gain is due to biology, not personal failure
[ 10:30 ] Thyroid health, Hashimotoβs, and why βnormal labsβ may not tell the whole story
(12:45) Can GLP-1s Help You Rewire Your Brain?
(17:00) How Long Does Lasting Habit Change Really Take?
(21:00) CBT and ACT: Powerful Tools for Changing Your Behavior
( 25:45 ) Your Thoughts Aren't Always Facts: How to Break Negative Thinking Patterns
(30:15) Breaking the Shame Cycle and Escaping the "Start Again Monday" Trap
(34:30) Perimenopause, Menopause, and the Biology of Weight Gain
(38:45) Obesity Is a Medical Condition, Not a Failure of Willpower
(42:30) GLP-1s, Insulin Resistance, and the Brain: What's Really Driving Weight Loss?
(46:30) The Future of Obesity Medicine: New Treatments and New Hope
(00:10) β When Weight Loss Changes More Than Your Body. Why a significant transformation can ripple into your marriage, friendships, sex life and even how you show up professionally.
(02:31) β Elizabethβs Own Transformation. How changing her relationship with food and alcohol improved her health and confidence and unexpectedly changed some of her relationships.
(04:25) β The Lonely βIn-Between.β What happens when youβve put down old behaviors and outgrown parts of your old life, but havenβt fully built the new one yet.
(05:02) β When Your Identity Changes. New confidence, boundaries and self-care can shift the role youβve always played, and the people around you may need time to adjust.
(05:39) β Your Relationships May Need to Evolve. Why some relationships get better, while others may need to take a different shape as your life changes.
(07:16) β Creating New Ways to Connect. How healthier choices can reveal which relationships are nourishing and how couples and friends can build new experiences together.
(08:35) β Grieving and Growing at the Same Time. How to recognize the uncomfortable transition between the life youβve outgrown and the one youβre still creating.
(09:45) β Keep Going. The New Life Will Take Shape. Give the people you love an opportunity to meet you where you are while giving yourself permission to notice what no longer fits.
(04:09) β #1: Know Your Numbers. The 5β7 day nutrition check that can uncover protein, fiber, calorie and food-quality blind spots.
(06:09) β #2: Become a Metabolic Detective. What Elizabeth has observed about metabolic health and GLP-1 resultsβand how a CGM can help you see whatβs happening βunder the hood.β
(10:36) β #3: Check the Terrain. Gut health, digestion, environmental exposures and why your internal terrain deserves attention.
(14:24) β #4: Protect Your Recovery. Could poor sleep be contributing to your plateau?
(16:12) β #5: Turn Down the Alarm. Stress, overtraining and what was happening in your life when the scale stopped moving.
(19:28) β The CGM Discovery Elizabeth Didnβt Expect. How stressβnot foodβwas creating some of Elizabethβs biggest glucose spikes.
(21:16) β What Are You Carrying? The body-mind-soul side of getting unstuck and Elizabethβs Name It. Feel It. Love It. Release It. practice.
(23:37) β Measure. Learn. Adjust. Live. Use the data, learn your body, make adjustmentsβand get back to living your life.
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