The Weight Conversation Nobody Is Having with Dr. Meghan Garcia-Webb

What If...

What if the reason your weight feels impossible to manage has nothing to do with willpower, discipline, or how hard you are trying? What if the system that was supposed to help you has actually been working against you this whole time, and the missing piece was never the prescription at all? Dr. Meghan Garcia-Webb has been asking that question for years, and what she found will change the way you think about your body, your health, and the stories you have been carrying about both.

The Summary & Guest Intro
Dr. Meghan Garcia-Webb is triple board certified in Internal Medicine, Lifestyle Medicine, and Obesity Medicine, and she runs a first of its kind concierge practice that combines cutting edge weight medicine with life coaching because she knows the prescription is only part of the story. After years of watching the same conversations fail her patients over and over again, she realized that the information was never the problem. The missing piece was always the mindset. In this episode, she and Erica go deep on GLP-1 medications, the one thing blocking most women's results, why the healthcare system has been failing women long before Ozempic hit the headlines, and what it actually takes to build a relationship with food and your body that lasts.

Inside the Episode

• The One Big Thing: It is not your meal plan, your medication, or your macros. Dr. Meghan says the single most important shift women can make is recognizing that they are fully autonomous in their health decisions, even inside a system that was not designed to support them.
• The System Was Never Built for Us: From childbirth narratives to menopause myths to SSRIs prescribed as a first response to a woman's very reasonable distress, Dr. Meghan breaks down the specific ways women have been mistreated and misled in weight medicine for decades.
• The Truth About GLP-1 Medications: If you are only hearing the highlight reel about Ozempic and Wegovy, this is the conversation you actually need. Dr. Meghan prescribes these medications every single day and she has things to say about lifelong commitment, wildly varied side effects, and what happens when insurance stops covering them.
• Why Cortisol, Sleep, and Chronic Stress Are Running the Show: The go-go-go productivity lifestyle that most women in corporate are surviving is not just burning them out. It is biologically working against their ability to maintain a healthy weight. Dr. Meghan explains exactly how and why.
• Perfectionism and the Fresh Start Trap: Monday diets, January reset plans, the all-or-nothing death spiral. Dr. Meghan names the pattern that keeps women stuck in a cycle of starting over and never actually arriving, and she offers a completely different way to track progress.
• Untangling Diet Culture: Before any protocol or prescription, Dr. Meghan starts by finding out what each woman is actually carrying, the food rules, the body expectations, the shame she inherited. The work begins there.
• Give Yourself the Gold Star: Nobody is coming to applaud you for the 10-minute workout, the lunch you actually sat down to eat, or the doctor's appointment you finally scheduled. Dr. Meghan makes the case for why you need to start celebrating yourself now, without anyone else's permission.

Resources & Links

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Transcript

[00:00:00] Welcome to Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors, the podcast where we stop playing small, start calling things out and actually do something about it. I'm your host, Erica Rooney, executive coach, speaker, and a little bit of a movement maker, and I'm on a mission to get more women into positions of power and keep them there because let's be honest, we've been told to lean in, but not too far to speak up, but not too loudly to be ambitious, but somehow still likable.

And y'all we're done doing that. This is the space where we break it all down. The sticky floors, the ceilings, and the gaps that are shaping who gets ahead, especially in this next era of AI and leadership. Some of its mindset, some of its burnout, and. Saw that is the system working exactly as it was designed.

Either way, we're not staying stuck in it. Each episode is your nudge to move. One decision, one shift, one bold [00:01:00] step forward. No overhauls y'all. No waiting until you feel ready. Just real momentum. So if you're ready. Think bigger, move smarter, and build power on your own terms. You're in the right place.

Let's smash the ceilings and close the gaps. Alright, y'all, for too long, women have been handed a prescription and they've been sent along their me little way. There's no context, there's no coaching, no real conversation about what is actually keeping them stuck. And the result of that is decades of shame.

Yo-yo cycles and a whole lot of results that are just left on the table. But what if weight wasn't just a medical problem? What if it was also a mind one y'all, we've got Dr. Megan Garcia Webb, who is triple Board certified in Internal Medicine Life. Style medicine and obesity medicine. So it's like the trifecta here.

And she runs a first of its kind concierge practice that blends cutting edge weight medicine with life [00:02:00] coaching because she really understands that the prescription is only part of the story. So we're here to talk about all the things GLP ones, the one big thing that is blocking your results and why the system has been failing women long before Ozempic ever hit the headlines.

Y'all. Let's welcome Dr. Megan. How are you? 

I'm great. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here. 

Well, girl, I'm super pumped because my very first career was as a personal trainer. I worked Verizon Corporate Wellness, and I mean, back then Ozempic wasn't a thing, but bariatric surgery and the LAP band were all the rage, and I would see people go out, they would get these results, and then 3, 4, 5 years later.

They would be right back where they started. Mm-hmm. And I could not believe it. So I'm ready to dive in and I'm gonna hit you with a good question right off the bat, but you're a doctor [00:03:00] that has decided that traditional medicine was just not doing it for us. And I wanna know, at what point did you look at your patients and think the prescription's not the problem, but it's also not the solution.

Right? Right. It was. Several years ago, actually, I think it was after I got board certified in obesity medicine, which is a wonderful field and I really love it. But it's just after you have the same conversations with people over and over and over, it's like there's no lack of information. Everybody has all the information, right?

And so it's just. Things weren't connecting, and I knew it wasn't just me, it was all the other doctors I was talking to. Everybody was just trying to really help their patients. But it's like the message wasn't getting through. And that's when I really started thinking like, whatever we're doing, it's not working and it's not working on a very.

Broad, [00:04:00] nationwide level. And so that's when I really started thinking about, okay, how, how else do people make changes? And I really started thinking about coaching and got certified in that. And that's really been the missing piece in terms of not just obesity medicine, but I also practice, um, internal medicine and just any sort of decision making for patients, helping me understand where they're coming from and also how they can.

See the mental obstacles that are getting in their way of being their healthiest self. 

Hmm. All right. Well, I've teased this a few times here, but we've talked about the one big thing already. 

Yeah. 

I'm gonna need you to tell me what is it? 

I think the one big thing is realizing that you are fully, um.

You're fully autonomous in making your health decisions, especially for women. I think for women we always have this running script of I have to, I should. We're always thinking about other [00:05:00] people and really putting yourself first in the sense of, you know, what does that even look like for you? Right? But realizing that.

Yes, you may have circumstances that may make it a little bit more challenging for you to get to the health goals that you want. Maybe you have four kids. Maybe you have a really busy job, maybe you travel a lot, but everybody's always got something going on. And so the minute we can accept like, okay, these are the things that I'm dealing with, but I can find a way to be my healthiest self in the midst of all that, and that is entirely within my control.

Hmm. I like that. And it is, and that was one of my challenges just on the physical fitness piece of it back when I was doing that, is everyone was just busy. That was their reason. Yeah. Their excuse, their whatever. Right. And we had this quote on the wall that said the pain of discipline or the pain of regret, which is a little harsh, but it's kind of true.[00:06:00] 

It is. Yeah. It's, you know, I'm busy, you know, I'm in Massachusetts. Everybody tells me, look, I couldn't work out 'cause it was cold. Like, there's so many reasons that we give ourselves and we're, we're kind of letting ourselves get away with it. And I really don't want. People to do that to themselves. And so that's where coaching comes in, is really just holding up the mirror and being like, you know, I don't think that's true.

Like, I think you think that's a fact, but it's actually just your brain coming up with reasons why you shouldn't exercise. Right. 

Well, and I think it's so easy to be like, I'll start tomorrow, or like, I'm just missing only today. But then you would, you know, I don't know about you, but I would get these women, they would come in and they would sit down for an assessment and they're like, I'm here.

To lose the baby weight. Mm-hmm. And I was like, oh my gosh, how old is your baby? And they're like five years old. 

Right, right, right, right, right. It's like, 

okay, that's not a child. They're like, or [00:07:00] that's not a baby. They're in kindergarten girl. Like, 

you're in kindergarten. 

We gotta do something. But I do wanna talk about the system.

Right. Because women in corporate are already navigating. The system. Yeah. System. Which isn't designed for us, right? Mm-hmm. Not at all. How does that same dynamic show up in the way that women have been treated or mistreated in weight medicine? 

Um, I think there's a lot of. Like I, I, I wanna be very clear, like I really feel like we have full autonomy, but I also recognize that like there is a system that is working against women in particular, right?

And so I think it's important to notice that and realize that in some cases, you know, we have to navigate things that other people might not. Um, and I think for a lot of women. There are just some very unhelpful narratives like childbirth, for example. Like there's this narrative [00:08:00] of, well, you're gonna have kids and you're just gonna gain weight, and that's that.

Right? And it's so not true, right? But I think we just accept like, oh, when I turn. And it's always a different number. People tell me, they're like, well, when I turned like 35 or when I turned 40 or when I turned six, it all 

went to hell. 

Right? It all went to hell. And but the interesting thing is like, that number's different for every person, right?

So it's not like a medical number. Um. And so, you know, the narrative about childbirth and or just, you know, baby weight, not that people don't gain weight after this, but that it's somehow impossible like that the weight is just not going to come off. Um. And or that, you know, menopause, you're automatically gonna gain like 20 pounds.

Like, I think it, it kind of sets us up for these expectations that aren't very helpful. Um, and also what I think is, is not helpful is that, uh, around the time of childbirth [00:09:00] and menopause, many women are started on medications. Like an SSRI or an SNRI. And those medications actually can be weight promoting and a lot of women don't know that.

So they might gain 10 or 20 pounds, but it's not because they had a baby, it's because they started Paxil, uh, which is a weight promoting medication. And I always think I'm always. Careful whenever I'm prescribing these medications, I don't love, not that they aren't very useful, but I never want to pathologize what a woman is going through.

Right. Or kind of try to like quote unquote calm somebody down when they're not the problem. The problem is like a system that doesn't support them, or maybe like a spouse who needs to do more, or a family that's going through a difficult time. I think a lot of times we really put the, you know. Onus on women to like, well, you, you can't be having any feelings other than being [00:10:00] pleasant and accommodating.

Right. And, um, like everybody. Wants to like take the edge off and I'm, I just feel like let's, let's keep it on because I think it's there for a reason. 

Let's feel it. 

Yeah. 

So when it comes to medicine, my book that's coming out in June is called the AI Gap Women AI in the Next Great Leap Forward. Mm-hmm.

And I talk about how. The system is designed and trained on a history of failures, and one of those failures that I discuss is the failure to include women and women's bodies in different medical studies. And I talk about it really in the cardiac sense. Mm-hmm. They were always trained on men, men's bodies, men's hormones, and then so when women showed up with these different signs and symptoms, they were just told, oh, you probably have anxiety like go home, which then led women to be more likely to be misdiagnosed and mistreated for cardiac events.

Do you ever see that when it comes to weight loss or weight management, or is there any [00:11:00] difference that you've noticed in even just how doctors interact with their patients with regards to the topic of like weight? And then they're in comparison with their gender. 

Yeah, I think, um, I think, you know, women's bodies change over.

Our lifetimes and they change a lot. Um, and I think that can be very disturbing or disconcerting for people. And I don't think we, um, I don't think we're really as sensitive about that as we could be. Like, I think a lot, like when I talk to a lot of women, they're like, well, my primary care doctor or, you know, my endocrinologist, or they just told me it was like, just deal with it, you know?

And. I think there's this, you know, we certainly, there's a, a balance between like accepting natural changes and not pathologizing them. And also like listening to people and [00:12:00] asking like, oh, is there something going on? Right? Is there a thyroid issue? Is there, you know, does this person have like Cushing's disease?

Does this person have um, pre-diabetes or PCOS or, or all these other things. So I think it's. Just, you know, just listening to the patient and not taking, uh, you know, women as a group of, you know, well, you know, they're gonna have these problems. Right. And so they, and that somehow people just need to accept it and deal with it.

Right? Yeah. I think is what a lot of women have been told, especially about like, menopausal changes and things like that. 

Yeah. It's just very interesting because I, and this could be an assumption on my part, but. It feels like from a societal standpoint, women are supposed to be much more aware of how they look physically, including their weight and the shape and size of their body versus men kind of like that.

Men get more distinguished as they get older and women just get old kind [00:13:00] of bullshit. And so I was interested to see if that kind of applied in the weight area, but I don't know. What are your thoughts? 

I think, you know, I always tell. Women in who are in that kind of perimenopause or menopausal changes that it's not that menopause is gonna be like, okay, here's 20 pounds, you know?

But, uh, there is a dis, a redistribution of. Weight that is like, it's kind of like reverse puberty essentially, right? Mm-hmm. So there is, um, you know, you may notice that there's more weight around the middle than there was before, and that's pretty normal and natural. Um, and then I also always tell them about, you know, also there are these medications that a lot of people are taking that can cause waking.

But I think, um, a lot of times women just feel like that is not acceptable and. To me, [00:14:00] uh, that, that is sort of sad, um, that we have this idea that these natural changes with time, that it's just kind of causes widespread panic in a way that my male patients don't have that it's like things are, 

I haven't done the research.

Yeah. 

But I would love to see the dollars that women spend on preventative aging. Products, and I don't just mean like face moisturizer, I mean all of the things, the Botox, the diet pills, the protein shakes that you know are supposed to keep them full, but. You know, I know that stress and cortisol and burnout, which is like all of the things that the women who are listening to this podcast experience affect your weight at a biological level.

And I would love to hear, can you tell me just a little bit about that so that we can get a good understanding for it? 

Yeah, I mean, [00:15:00] there are so many things that we do in our everyday life that do not. Help keep us at a healthy weight. So like sleep is huge in terms of just regulating, um, regulating our weight, you know, and there's good research to show that, you know, when people start doing night shift work, like they typically gain weight.

So I think sleep is typically one area that is under prioritized by women. That makes a huge difference. Um, I think everybody is. Kind of accepting this chronic stress of like the go go go productivity lifestyle. And I get it, like everybody's busy, right? But I think we never have an idea of like questioning that, of like, we're kind of all like, I have to do this, I have to do this, I have to do this.

But like, you don't have to do any of it. Right? And so I think the more we [00:16:00] have. Kind of recognize our own agency of like, okay, I am gonna go to work because I wanna go to work and I wanna stay employed. Right. Versus like, I have to, I think making everything more of like, this was my choice to do that is a small switch, but is very.

Helpful for women in terms of that narrative because when people are in that, then they're eating faster, they're, um, distracted more easily, right? They're thinking they're too busy, they can't exercise, and so it's just one of those ways that I think has a large downstream effect that we don't really recognize.

Ugh. Sleep. It's just so elusive. Sometimes 

it's yes, yes, 

but I do love it. Oh my goodness. Okay. I wanna talk about all these GLP one medications. Mm-hmm. That has come in like the biggest fad. It's like all the [00:17:00] needles that these kids have these days, those squish melow, they're everywhere. Okay. There's Ozempic.

There's Wegovy, there's other ones I can't even pronounce. Mm-hmm. It's a lot of noise. Too. Yeah. But so what do you think that women, since it's a women's podcast mm-hmm specifically need to know about these weight loss drugs that maybe they're not hearing? Right. They're only hearing how wonderful they are.

I lost 20 pounds in two weeks. 

Right. Um, I think one really important thing to know is that there forever, so regardless of what they hear on social media, this is coming from somebody who like prescribes this all day, every day. Um. I never have any intention on weaning somebody off, taking them off, having them exit sometime in the future.

And, you know, that's 2026. Who knows where we'll be in five years. Right. Things will be different. 

It's crazy, 

right? But, um, they really are meant to be taken lifelong. And so it's just a commitment. They can be extremely [00:18:00] helpful, but it is a commitment. And so, um, so that's something to be really aware of. Um.

I heard 

the side effects are wild too. Nausea, dizziness. 

Yeah. The side effects are really, they are so all over the place. I feel like it's a very. Uh, you know, there's some medications that I know patient, just in general, I know like most people tolerate this very well and there are some medications that I know like, hmm, this one is hard for most people.

With the weight medications, it's really all over the map. You know, at least once a day I have somebody who has just lost weight and has zero side effects. And then, you know, the next patient I have can just, you know. Feel like they took the baby dose and they're wondering like, did I get food poisoning?

Right? And so, and, and on top of that, it al also, the side effects can change over time. So you can be, have a really kind of easy [00:19:00] way with the medication and then you bump up to a medium dose and all of a sudden like that was a little harder for your body to handle. So there's just a lot of, um.

Fluctuations, I would say, and side effects. So it's a good thing to be aware of, um, as you go, but my goal eventually is to get everybody to the place where it's very boring for people. Like the medication's very boring, it's very calm, and everything's kind of settled. Yeah. 

Is there guidance for when people get prescribed wegovy?

I know that when I first heard of this drug come out, I assumed it was a, for morbidly obese people, for people who really needed to lose a lot of weight. 

Yeah, 

but I swear I see all these moms who are running around. They're size six four. They look healthy to me. I know. Now, again, I looks can be deceiving, right?

I don't, I'm not a doctor. I don't know, 

right? 

But they tell me they're, oh, I do that like once a week or every other [00:20:00] day and it's just, it just keeps me where I wanna be. But they were never super overweight to begin with. What is up with that? 

There, there is pretty clear criteria in terms of who would benefit from the medications and who to prescribe them to.

And so it's people who have a BMI in the obese category, which is, uh, BMI of 30 or above, or it's people who have a BMI of 27 or above, and at least one weight related medical issue. 

Hmm. 

And so, but yes, there are, there are people who, maybe they have a BMI of 24 25. You know, that's not a 

pre-diabetic or something.

Um, it could, they could be pre-diabetic, but they still wouldn't meet criteria for the medication. 

Okay. 

Yeah. And so, um, I don't have a lot of of people who ask me who are in that range, but it typically, I don't prescribe for people who are under A BMI of 27. The only time I will really think about it is.[00:21:00] 

And again, this is kind of off-label use, which is very expensive because insurance will not cover it. 

Right. 

Um, but if somebody had like a, like binge eating disorder, I think that can be like a really lifesaving thing for them. Mm-hmm. And so there's a couple different reasons that aren't necessarily approved for, but I will.

Make it exception for, or if there's a very clear case of medication induced weight gain and I just, you know, maybe somebody just started a medication and it's gonna, their weight keeps going up and like we can tell like eventually they're gonna get over that BMI threshold and it's like, I don't really necessarily wanna wait till until that happens for somebody.

Are you able to wean off the drug? Because I will tell you, I was just shocked that you told me it was a lifelong commitment. 

Right. Yeah. Um. There's always that one person who's gonna go off the medication and not gain weight. But typically what we see, and we have more and more [00:22:00] literature now, is that over time the weight does tend to come back on.

And there was just a really good review in the British Medical Journal that actually looked at not just GLP one medications, but all weight medications that were available, or even ones that had been discontinued and kind of what the study showed. And typically like within less than two years, most people.

Had regained a significant amount of their weight. And so, and I see it real time too because I'll have patients, especially this year where all the insurance companies have just decided that. They're not gonna cover these medications anymore. And so that leaves a lot of people in the lurch. And so they can go a couple months without their weight medication and then like they gain weight and it's, I can just see it happening in front of me.

So for some people it's very slow. And you know, I have some patients that, you know, within a couple weeks they notice. 

Yeah. Wow. I mean that to me, I had no idea. So I'm very glad we talked about that because I like to think that I'm a little bit [00:23:00] savvy about the things that are happening in the world, and that one just blew my mind.

I think a lot of it's probably because that mindset piece is never discussed, right? Like, why are we doing these things? Why are we making these bad choices about how we're fueling our body? And I'm not talking about the people of course, that have a medical condition or medical right. Medicine induced weight loss, right?

There's always going to be exceptions to the rule. Sure. But Dr. Megan, in your work is you really. Think about the mindset piece. Like what is your process? How do you coach these women? How do you work with them so that they are, you know, really changing their approach to their health? 

Right? Yeah. So people come to me from so many different perspectives and reasons and.

A lot of what I'm doing is just, um, you know, part of what I'm doing is untangling diet culture to start, right? So how does that, how has that affected [00:24:00] them? And, and everybody has their own. Pieces that they've held onto, whether it's like, I can't waste food, you know, or I have to be this certain size, or, um, you know, there's just so many.

Or, you know, these are the foods that I just can't eat, but I really want to. Right? So a lot of what I do initially is seeing where they are and where the big pitfalls are. And then we're really designing what they want their relationship with food to look like, and my goal is always that. To, to get somebody that, to the place where they are healthier and they also like their life more.

'cause I know it's a hundred percent possible that you can be really happy with, um, your health. And also you're not white knuckling your way through the day. I have no interest in making life harder for people. I really want them to [00:25:00] have an easier, more relaxed, calm approach to food. Um, I think that's.

Very possible, but it's just not what we're taught in America. We're taught like your weight is gonna be a struggle, it's gonna be a project, it's gonna be really hard. You have to adhere to these rules. You have to count everything, you know. And a lot of what I'm doing when I'm working with women is like turning the their attention inward so that we're working more off their biological cues, their hunger cues.

No one knows when they're full. Absolutely no one. Everybody's doing five things at once. Right. I've had people tell me like, they're doing the most ridiculous things while they're eating. Um, so it's real and slowing down. And I know you talk to, to your people about this all the time, just like really being intentional about, and I, I think when we say slow [00:26:00] down, it sounds so vague, but it's like, no, I mean like really slow down and take like.

15 minutes for your meal. I'm not saying take an hour, right? I'm not saying you have to like cancel everything, but like you really, your body doesn't run on your work schedule. And so you really, we have to accommodate that, um, and give ourselves enough time for the signals from our stomach to reach our brain.

And so, you know, and, and then we talk about if somebody has a big. You know, roadblock with that. Then we're talking about like why that's an issue for them and how we're gonna get around it. 

Yeah. One of the things like I've always seen as a big issue, and I'd love your perspective from the medical side, is perfectionism when it comes to diet and exercise.

Right? And it's almost like they marry perfectionism with the fresh start like theory, right? Like I can only. Start [00:27:00] this program, this healthy lifestyle on a Monday, on the first of the month, right? On January one. And then, you know, two weeks go by, you have a birthday party, or you eat an entire cake in one sitting.

'cause you had a really bad day, right? And then it's like, well, can't start again until next week. What do you see, 

right? No, I think you're a hundred percent spot on. There's so much like all or nothing thinking, and it's really detrimental to people. It's like, well, I couldn't do that, so I'm not gonna do it at all.

And I think a lot of people, they get into this. Cycle of like nothing works. I've tried everything. Like it's just, and that's kind of like the death spiral of hope for people, right? And they get into this really tricky place and then it makes starting anything difficult again. And so I really like to have patients and clients track the things.

That they can control. Like [00:28:00] everybody likes to track their weight. But I really like to track things like, okay, how many times this week did you stop eating when you were physically full? Right? Like, because usually the issue with weight is overeating, but everybody's so focused on the scale. But really it's like, why don't we just focus on like the actual.

Practice of how you're eating, right, and what you're eating, and get really specific about that and track that. Like how many times in a week did you have? Half the plate was fruits and vegetables, right? These are things that are a hundred percent your control. The number goes up and down right throughout the course of a day.

And so I like to kind of disengage people from that somewhat, because some people are, they're just living and dying by that scale number. 

Hmm. 

And I think that's really hard. 

How has your thought process about like your trifecta of all your [00:29:00] board certifications, right. Obesity, internal medicine, what was the other one?

Uh, lifestyle medicine. 

Thank you. Lifestyle medicine. Okay. How has your viewpoint, or I should say, has your viewpoint evolved at all from when you've gotten all of those to where you are today? 

Um, yeah, I think it's. I think people are very overwhelmed and I think, you know, coming from doing all these certifications and te and you know, treating people for years, um, you know, it's easy as a physician to get very wrapped up in like the methods and the, you know, the tactics and things like that.

But I think really. When I'm meeting with patients and clients, especially because everybody has social media now and so they're getting a lot of different information, and so it's really about not all 

good, [00:30:00] 

not all good. Right. It's really about not 

accurate. 

Right. Right. It's really about recognizing that, um, they're probably really overwhelmed and getting a lot of different, um, you know, views and so.

How can I make this like so accessible and easy for somebody and not contribute to that overwhelm and really, and also just really find out what the problem actually is for somebody, what they're going through. 

Hmm. Yes. I will just put a little shameless plug in that if you are looking all over the YouTubes and the TikTok for actual real medical content, which I know a lot of people do, Dr.

Megan has a YouTube show, so you can go hit that up. But Dr. Megan, I would love to wrap it up with just one last question, and that's really gonna be focused on the woman who's listening today, who's maybe. Not happy with her health, the state of her body, whatever the situation is. But she is a busy working woman.

She's go [00:31:00] Gogo. Mm-hmm. Girl, she hadn't been to her physical in three years. She knows she needs to go, you know, to the OB, GYN. She knows she needs to give a skin cancer check. It's just another thing on her list, but she feels that immense frustration. What piece of advice would you give her? 

I would say, you know.

Recognize, like don't take all the blame on yourself. Like recognize that the working world, the nine to five, the school hours, like none of that is really set up to help women, um, get through the day easily. So there's a system that we're in currently that is not very helpful to us and, and also a system that is not.

Helpful to our health, right? 

Mm-hmm. 

Like staying so busy and the availability of convenience foods and all of that is just kind of going around, um, in the [00:32:00] background. And so I think a lot of times we internalize this shame about not getting enough done. And I would say to start with, um, you know, giving yourself compassion, but also, um.

Trying to stay out of the overwhelm and just break things down piece by piece. Yeah. So I think, you know, confusion, overwhelm, those are never, uh, helpful emotions for us in terms of getting things done. And so I think, um, not blaming yourself and also imagining that like, you know, what would it look like if you could get.

25% of this done. If you could get a third of this done, like how, if you had, one of my favorite questions to ask people is like, if someone was gonna give you a million dollars to get these things done, like you could make it happen. Like, but how would that work? Right. Right. You'd definitely make it happen.[00:33:00] 

Right. 

Oh, absolutely. I ain't leaving a million dollars on the table. 

Right, right. So I think it's just a great exercise that encourages us to be creative, but I also never wanna blame women for all the things that they have on our plate because I, I get it a hundred percent. Yeah. 

No, I love that. I love not taking the blame and I think a lot of it just really routes to that.

Perfectionism for the high ambitious achiever. You know, we always want to do our best work, and if we can't do our best work, we often just don't do our best work. Right. And I've shared on this podcast many times about, I used to have this very warped mentality about what. What a workout was supposed to be.

Yeah. And if the workout wasn't a very certain thing, it wasn't worth it at all. 

Right. 

And that my diet had to be this certain way and it took a long time to unravel that. And that's why I think having someone like you that is both a doctor and has that coaching background that really understands how the brain plays into that is so important for people who [00:34:00] actually want to have a healthy body, a healthy lifestyle, and have that last them.

Yeah, I agree a hundred percent and, and I think we don't really stop to realize that. Like we can give ourselves, we can tell ourselves we're doing a great job. We can tell ourselves like, you did a gold star for you. Right. And I think that is so like there's no mom police, there's no work police, there's no one, like, it's all in our head.

Right? And so I think if we, if the default is, you know, always telling ourselves all these things we have to do, like we should at least spend some time intentionally, like congratulating ourselves on, you know, can be the smallest thing, but. No one else is gonna do it for us, so you might as well start telling yourself, you know what?

Like you can decide that you did a great job and no one else has to agree with you, but you can decide like that workout was fine, or that workout was great. Not right 

now. Not a single one of my friends [00:35:00] cared if I actually worked out today. No. Or if I only worked out for 10 minutes or if I worked out for an hour, 

they don't care.

Great. Mm-hmm. 

Oh my goodness. I love it. I love this power combo of Doctor Plus mindset Coach bringing it all together really. Going for that lasting change, which I think is so important. 'cause there's a lot of stories we have up in our heads that we gotta untangle and unwind and that is such a piece of it that you do not have time for in your annual physical when you go once every few years.

Don't 

That's right. A hundred percent. 

All right. Well, Dr. Megan, thank you so much for joining us on the podcast, y'all. If you are listening, check out her YouTube, her LinkedIn, her webpage, all the places she is there. Thank you so much Dr. Megan. 

Thank you so much for having me. 

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