Ernest Stokes Health

10/09/2026

10/09/2026

🤔 Thinking about a GLP because nothing else is working?

🩺 I spent 25 years inside cardiac surgery. I’ve watched people survive the hardest procedures in medicine and slowly come apart in the years that followed, not from what happened on the table, but from what nobody told them afterward.

⚠️ Here are 8 things I wish people considering a GLP knew:

1. The scale will move. That does not mean you are winning.
2. Part of the weight you lose can be muscle, and the scale will never tell you.
3. Muscle is longevity currency. Lose it and you lose strength, energy, and metabolic health.
4. Eating less without lifting is the fastest way to lose the wrong tissue.
5. Your protein target goes up, not down.
6. Get baseline labs and body composition before day one. You can’t track what you never measured.
7. Appetite goes quiet. The habits that keep weight off don’t build themselves.
8. The GLP is the tool. The plan decides what you keep.

🔥 The goal is not just a lower number. It is fat loss, not the tissue keeping you strong.

👇 Comment MUSCLE and I’ll send you the Muscle Preservation Framework we build with clients. What to eat. How to train. What to track. 💪