The GLP-1 Code

The medication quiets the hunger. The food noise stops. The scale starts moving. Then, somewhere around month four, everything stalls.

If you're on a GLP-1 or considering one, the prescription is the easy part. Everything around it is where most patients lose their way. Without resistance training and adequate protein, 25 to 30 percent of GLP-1 weight loss comes from muscle instead of fat. Side effects send people to forums full of bad advice. Plateaus arrive without warning. The playbook from the prescriber's office often stops at "eat less and move more."

This book gives you the system that should come with the prescription.

Derek DiCamillo, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, started this work as a 400-pound healthcare provider. After losing 135 pounds with GLP-1 plus the five lifestyle pillars he teaches in his clinic, he wrote this book for the patients he sees every week - the woman in perimenopause whose weight loss has stalled, the dad with creeping prediabetes, the post-bariatric patient who feels their tool slipping, and the maintenance-phase patient afraid the medication will stop working.

Inside:• The Five Pillars: body composition, the Fuel Code, Dynamic Movement, Stress and Sleep, and Cooling Inflammation• SLOW & SHIELD, the side-effect playbook he uses with patients in clinic to manage nausea, fatigue, constipation, and the harder-to-name symptoms• The plateau-breaking protocol for when the medication stops feeling like enough• A printable Vitality Tracker, protein cheat sheet, 7-day meal plan, and red-flag symptom card you can use this week

Grounded in 115 peer-reviewed citations and built around what actually happens in clinic, not what reads well on a supplement label.

The medication is the tool. Here's how to use it.