My Amazing 100 Pound Weight Loss on Wegovy

My 100 pound weight loss on Wegovy didn’t happen overnight, and it wasn’t a straight line either. I hit a wall around 65 pounds, had a rough stretch coming off the medication for two months, then came back and pushed through to where I am now. If you want the full walkthrough of the ups and downs, check out what a GLP-1 diet actually looks like for how I built the eating framework that made this stick.

This 100 pound weight loss story is really about food more than the medication itself. Wegovy did its job, but the real shift came from cutting seed oils, dropping processed junk, and rebuilding meals around whole ingredients my stomach could actually handle. A big part of that was learning what hidden sugars actually do to your blood sugar and metabolism, which changed how I shop just as much as the medication did. If you’re looking for something to cook this week that fits that approach, my chuckwagon chili with stew meat is one of the easiest wins I’ve found, high protein, no seed oils, and it reheats well if you’re meal prepping around a GLP-1 schedule.

My Amazing 100 Pound Weight Loss on Wegovy Video Transcript

Where I Started

Hey, what’s up? It’s Lizard Bites. I want to give you a story about how I lost 100 pounds taking Wegovy and following a GLP-1 diet.

For those who don’t know the backstory, I had a heart attack about 20 months ago. I was at my highest weight of 454 pounds. Obesity and being overweight raise cardiovascular risk significantly, and the FDA has since approved Wegovy specifically to reduce that risk in adults with heart disease and obesity or overweight. That’s not something I knew going in, but it lines up with exactly where I was at.

I had been trying really hard for a few years to lose the weight. But, I just wasn’t able to do it. I was metabolically resistant to any amount of dieting.

That’s rough, because when I was younger I could gain and lose weight pretty easily. If things got bad, I’d just attack it, get it down, and then lose the discipline again. It was a repetitive cycle my whole life.

The medication stepped in and did what I was hoping I’d be able to do myself. It gave me the ability to follow through and make better choices.

A lot of people misunderstand the medication. They think it’s cheating, or a magic bullet. Maybe in a way it is, because at the end of the day I was still the one eating too much.

But if your body is screaming at you that it’s starving, and you try to cut even a few calories, you’re not going to be able to sustain it. Your body will fight you the whole way. So we move on from that argument. It’s just something from the pharmaceutical industry that actually works for once.

Losing the First 35 Pounds

I found it pretty easy to lose the first 35 pounds when I started the medication. It took five months after the heart attack to get through insurance.

Then the company that makes Wegovy came out with an offer. I paid around $4.99 a month out of pocket on an uninsured plan. Even that was a nightmare at the register.

If a pharmacy saw I had insurance, they’d say I couldn’t buy it without going through insurance. The insurance price was $1,600. I had to shop around to find a pharmacy that would process it correctly.

After all that, I lost 35 pounds in the first 13 weeks. It was pretty effortless, honestly, because I’d been eating so badly and uncontrollably before. I just wanted to eat better than I had been.

So, I made small changes. I cut out huge overeating and avoided the worst foods and worst places to eat. That first stretch came without too much difficulty.

*Wegovy first got FDA approval back in 2021, and its approved uses have expanded since then. You can see the full approval history and current indications if you want the medical background instead of just my personal experience with it.

Taking It More Seriously

Once I hit that point, I started taking it more seriously. I asked myself what else I could clean up, what else I could eat less of.

The medication dose increases over time, and that helps push things further. If you’re just starting the medication, you don’t need a heavily restricted diet from day one. You can take it incrementally, like I did. That’s a sensible approach.

Once I hit 50 pounds lost, my body started telling me things were different now. Don’t come at us with a bag of chips or a pint of ice cream anymore. We don’t do that here.

You have to adjust to those changes. As I took the diet more seriously, I started looking for grilled options instead of fried. Fast food approximations of healthy food aren’t a great idea, but we’d been dealing with a kitchen issue for three months by that point.

Back when we had nothing set up to cook with, I’d get an egg white grill from the Chick-fil-A around the corner for breakfast. If I had two, that was too much. I’d get sick.

Once I realized not everything had to be fried or breaded, I made another leap. Everything became grilled. I got an electric grill since we have a patio close to the house and can’t have open flame.

I researched it and got an HOA-compliant electric grill. Then the city fire marshal didn’t like it. That turned into its own fight with the city, and the grilling plan got shut down temporarily while I sort it out.

Hitting a Plateau and a Setback

Moving on from that, I hit about 65 pounds of weight loss. My body basically said no.

I’d reached another dosage increase, up to 1 milligram, and started throwing up again. My doctor sent me for a bunch of different tests. Looking back, I probably could have solved it just by backing the dose down.

I was told I’d get coverage for Mounjaro or Zepbound instead. My insurance didn’t approve it. That turned into another dead end.

After that, I went two months without any medication while sorting out scans and tests. I gained back about 15 pounds. In the end, everything came back fine. I’d probably just overreacted.

Getting Back on Track

So I got back on the medication. But since my stomach had rebelled and my digestion had slowed, I knew I had to work harder on the diet side too.

That’s when I realized I couldn’t go much past about 1,700 calories a day without causing digestion problems. Definitely no seed oils, no fried food.

I’ve always loved eating greens: broccoli, kale, dark leafy vegetables. I’ve always preferred that over petroleum-based artificial vitamin supplements, and my digestion really doesn’t tolerate those well now.

When I came back to the medication, I made another dosage increase, up to 1.7 milligrams. I’ve been able to maintain that by watching my intake and watching what kinds of foods I eat. If you’re curious about how dosing works or want the full safety details, Novo Nordisk publishes the official Wegovy prescribing information online. Always talk to your doctor before adjusting your own dose.

Nearing 100 Pounds

It’s been about three months since then, and I’ve been working my way back toward the 100-pound mark. I was around 90 pounds down a couple weeks ago, hovering near 95 coming into this video. I think I’m at about 97 now.

If it weren’t for the kitchen situation and some other difficulties, we’d already be past 100. We’re right on the edge of it now.

I figured this was a good time to recap the story: the changes, the evolution, where I’m at now, and some of what I’ve been eating. That’s really what I set out to share, coming from a background in photography and food blogging.

But the kitchen going sideways has had me talking about logistics just to keep the blog project alive, instead of working on new recipes.

What I’m Eating Now

Just to give you an example: right now we don’t have a kitchen. I’ve got a hot plate set up. But I’m staying away from anything processed, anything loaded with a high glycemic index or hidden sugars and starches.

I’ll go to Costco and get top sirloin steaks, about $9.99 a pound, five to a pack for around $38. I break those down myself.

One meal yesterday was one of those steaks with about three-quarters of a cup of broccoli. That’s a full meal for under $10. I don’t think you can get much cleaner than a steak and organic broccoli with zero processed ingredients.

Closer to bedtime, I had a bowl of soup I’d made ahead of time, a version of the viral swamp soup with andouille sausage, black-eyed peas, navy beans, potatoes, and greens. My stomach didn’t like that one.

That was probably too much food for where I’m at right now. I woke up this morning and almost got sick. Just need to dial it back. I was living a little too indulgently for this stage of the diet.

At 100 pounds lost, this is a pretty clean way of eating. That’s just what it takes, given the situation.

Kitchen Update

Quick update on the kitchen situation, because these guys deserve an honorable mention. Going back to previous videos, we had water damage in the kitchen, and our insurance company hasn’t been cooperative about things we’re clearly covered for.

The adjuster lied about coming back and ditched the job entirely. The cleanup crew never tested for mold. He said he’d handle it, then never showed up.

We had old moldy cabinets, and the remediation guys said they couldn’t leave that material in the house because it smelled too bad. I told them to go ahead and remove it.

Then the insurance company said they wouldn’t pay for the cabinets since we’d already gotten rid of them, as if we could have just repainted moldy cabinets. That’s how difficult they’ve been.

We ended up getting a public adjuster involved. The insurance company wouldn’t work with him either. He asked them to put their position in writing, and they refused, saying they simply weren’t paying.

So we filed a complaint with the Department of Insurance. A few days later, a letter showed up in the mail, backdated to before we filed the complaint, claiming they’d be willing to discuss an adjusted scope of work.

Meanwhile, half the flooring is ruined. The remediation crew dragged brand-new appliances across the floor and gouged it. The electrical was left exposed, with live wires out in the open in my kitchen. The insurance company has done everything possible to avoid paying.

Hopefully we get the kitchen put back together soon. Once we do, I’ll share the recipes I’ve been making. Losing this weight means replacing a lot of store-bought convenience food with things you make yourself.

Once the kitchen’s fixed, I’ll push past 100 pounds even easier, without relying on so much processed stuff. Until next time, thanks for following along.