Resilience Through Diabetes, Multiple Organ Transplants, and GLP-1, w/ Ty Gipson

What does resilience really look like when your life depends on the next decision? In this episode, Ana Reisdorf talks with Ty Gipson about growing up with type 1 diabetes, losing kidney function, facing dialysis, undergoing multiple organ transplants, and the mindset that helped him keep moving forward through every stage of the journey. They also discuss why his medical team later recommended a GLP-1, what benefits he experienced beyond weight loss, and why he says he feels better now than he has in years.

About Ty Gipson:
Ty Gipson is a speaker and mindset advocate whose message is built around one core principle: there are no options when it comes to doing what it takes. After facing life-altering challenges that forced him to either grow or die, Ty learned firsthand that progress comes from discipline, ownership, and action, not excuses. Today, he teaches leaders, athletes, and everyday people about his No Options Mindset centered around mental toughness, resilience, and choosing to grow when you have no options.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

When I got the choice of do I want to go through that first transplant with that with the wrist there, I didn't really have an option if I wanted to be here for my daughter. If I wanted to be here to walk her down the aisle, if I want to be here to see her, my grandkids.

SPEAKER_00 0:12

Welcome to the GLP One Hub Podcast. I'm Hannah Reisdorf, registered dietitian and GLP1 user. And on today's episode, I'm joined by Ty Gibson, who shares an incredible personal story of living with type 1 diabetes, going through dialysis and multiple organ transplants, and the mindset that helped him keep moving forward through it all. We'll also talk about his experience on a GLP 1, why his medical team recommended it, and why he says he feels better now than he has in years. And if this episode is helping you, please consider leaving a quick review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And if you're listening on YouTube, be sure to share your thoughts in the comments. Now let's get on to the episode. I want to welcome Ty Gibson today. He has an incredible story of resilience to share and is also a GLP1 user like the rest of us. So, Ty, can you talk a little bit about your background and how you got to where you are today?

SPEAKER_01 1:12

Absolutely. Thank you for having me on. I'm excited to be here and uh I will be glad to share. You know, resilience is a good word, you know. It's been it's been a road of resilience. And I think resilience is makes us stronger. But I want to uh as a young kid growing up in Southeast Texas, I um, you know, my my parents were one of those, my dad especially was one of those boys. Just be you'll be all right, just dust off, put a band-aid on it, you know, nobody wants to hear your problems. And so being raised that way, I truly feel like it helped us, it helped me in a mindset to prepare for what I'm kind of about to talk about. Was growing up at eight, I was ju I was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. And so I'm gonna age myself a little bit here. So when I was eight, the technology wasn't there. I'm 56 today, so it's that was back in the 70s. So technology was way different than it is today. So, but but I I really struggled, and my parents really kept me just wanting me to be a normal, you know, boy. I mean, I played sports and I I went fishing and I did everything everybody else did as a boy. And anyway, I uh I really had I struggled though a lot. And so they finally got me to a doctor and in Houston that was doing it was a diabetic specialist, and and they were doing a lot of work and research on the insulin pump um at the time in the 70s. So I went down there and I was one of the early ones to try this one pound nine ounces. So it was like a it was like it was like having a brick on your side. But anyway, they took us, they took a chemotherapy machine, put insulin in it, and started regulating. And so I was on the floor for research for year at for at Texas Children for months, and I'd go back and forth and try different things. They try this, you know, change that, do all these different things, right? But over the years, the pumps changed, technology's gotten better. So I started wearing all these different pumps, kept getting smaller. Well, then as a diabetic, I went through my high school days, again, played sports, very involved with everything. I never missed anything. Um, and then went on to college, did the same thing. And obviously, your lifestyle changes and all these, you know, your sleep deprived and all those good things we went through in college, right? So, and I I didn't, you know, I mean, I was one of those guys that kept hitting my head sometimes and trying new, trying to think that I could figure it out. And and and a lot of times I was reminded that I couldn't. But anyway, at the age of 30, after I had gotten through all that, um, I um I was working and I just was absolutely out of energy. So I'll go to the doctor and he and he says, Hey, uh Ty, I just want to tell you, he said, You're you you've lost your kidney function. He said, You have minimal kidney function. And I'm like, wow, okay, that's new. Because I was thinking, diabetes, what's wrong with my, you know, what's going on. Anyway, so he says, Well, you need a transplant. But he said, here's the problem. He said, if we transplant this kidney, you have such brittle diabetes, I feel like we're just gonna go through kidneys a lot, right? I mean, there'll just be a lot of them. Um, he said, so, but he said, there is a doctor in Baltimore, Maryland that's doing a a study right now on on doing a kidney pancreas transplant at the same time. Now, this was years ago, so now they used that that transplant's being done more and more. But at the time, that was really new. Well, so I went up and I I I I went up there and we did all the blood tests, we did all the work, and if sure enough, I was a candidate for this surgery. There had been four of them, and two of them had been successful. So a little bit of uh uh, you know, a concern, right? I mean, as a 30-year-old, and at the time I had a six-year-old daughter who was my, you know, and still is my world, right? Um, and so I I knew though, here was here was where I really I like to try to talk about is I wanted a better I knew I could go on dialysis and I knew I could go through that, or I could go through this surgery that may have had some risk, but I knew on the other side of that risk maybe I wanted to be there for my daughter. And I knew as a di being on dialysis that would have been very challenging, right? The lifestyle. Plus, like dialysis doesn't work forever, and it's just uh it's a it's a hard road.

SPEAKER_00 5:20

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 5:21

And so I chose the surgery. And so anyway, we go through months of uh getting ready. We go up there, and my mother says, Ty, she said, I know I'm I'm 60 years old. She says, but God gave me two kidneys. One of these is your is that doctor says you can use mine, you're getting my kidney. And I said, Yes, ma'am. So, and sure enough, she matched, and it was it was awesome. So, as you know, now I have my kidney, but as a pancreas, I've got to wait for a deceased donor, right?

SPEAKER_02 5:47

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 5:48

Which is always really hard to because I'll I always want to say, you know, at this point, I talk tell people, I'm so thankful. I never have met the family, but there was a family that had a loved one that had signed up to be an organ donor, and uh, and there was an accident, and I received their their pancreas. And I'm always so thankful because of that, what you know, from a tragedy, which I is the worst thing someone could ever imagine, but that small little gift of things that they gave that was given has just changed my life and uh and many others probably. So I go into this surgery. I see here's what's happened. I get the call, and this is crazy. So eight months into this thing, I get a call midnight on Super Bowl Sunday, and I was just so tired. I was barely getting through the days. I mean, it was hard. In fact, I'd gotten to the point where I went to the doctor and said, Look, I know I've been trying to stay off dialysis because I don't want to go on dialysis because they say once you go on dialysis, the risk of rejection goes up. So I was really trying to not stay on it. And I had just gone into the doctor and said, I don't think I can do it. You gotta have to put me on dialysis. And they put the stint in on a Thursday. On Sunday, I get the call. And so I am, I get the call that night at midnight, and and I'm thinking, you know, immediately I I just my nerves kick in, right? And I call my mom. My mom, we're all move, it's like the movies. We all take off to Baltimore. We're all living in Texas, and we've we get to Baltimore and rush, rush, rush, but then you get there and you wait, right? It's kind of sure the wait for this, get the paperwork, get me prepped, get my mother prepped. And at the time, there was a team working on the organ, you know, getting it ready. And then in the middle operating room was myself, and then my mother was in the one beside me. It was a 16-hour surgery.

SPEAKER_02 7:33

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 7:33

And what was amazing though, and this is where it's really cool, they said when they the doctor said when he was trying to sew up my mother's kidney into me, it started working, which caused some challenges. But it was just an to me, it was a miracle. And he said it was amazing because sometimes it takes weeks and months sometimes for those things to start working.

SPEAKER_02 7:50

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 7:51

In my case, it started working immediately, and and so I um I was very thankful for that. But come out of surgery, I woke up and my mother was sitting beside me in her in a chair, and um um I was I felt better, but I will tell you that first year after that surgery was probably one of the most challenging things I've ever been through because I came out of there on so many meds and and and you know, but I had to for a person that's never really taken medicine, I was taking 65 pills a day.

SPEAKER_00 8:19

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 8:20

Yeah, can you imagine? I mean, I mean, I I grew up where I mean, we didn't even take, you know, stuff for headaches, much less, you know, any kind of but so all this medication and your in the and then now you got two organs in there that are new to your body. So your body's go fighting, right? I mean, trying to figure out what's going on. So we get through that over the time, over that year, it was really hard, but I they started obviously lowering the meds and slowly taking some of that stuff off of me. But anyway, at that year point, I f it was amazing. I mean, I felt I it they were dead on. I mean, it was like a week between that year that I just started feeling, I mean, I felt amazing. Well, and so I was very, very, very thankful. I mean, I could I didn't realize how bad I had felt, right? But what I what I always say because of that though, after that surgery, I was I was able to get married, I was able to adopt my daughter, my second daughter, and I was able to open a business. And so, you know, I'm always so, so, so thankful. But I try to one of my points I always try to talk about is on the other side of some of our challenges. Everybody deals with something. Sure. But on the other side of our challenges, there's some pretty some pretty amazing things. And so I always say, whatever battle, whatever that road or that wall looks like for you, um, I always encourage people, you know, get it's worth it. On the other side is but is amazing. And so I got through that and I opened a business and I got married. I have all going well and I felt amazing. And and it and I did for a long time, but organs don't last forever, right? So my my my pancreas lasted me for uh 12 years, which was amazing. And then my mother's kidney lasted me for 20. Yeah. So 20 years with that kidney was absolutely a gift. Anyway, so now 20 years later is my kidneys fail. I've got 45 employees now, I've got businesses I'm running. And again, the reason I told you that story earlier, I have the mentality that I don't tell my story, nobody wants to hear my problems. So I never really talked about what was going on. So I was kind of very private with my my challenges and my illnesses of going, you know, going through all this. And so a lot of my employees didn't even know what was going on. But so I would go to Dallas three days a week from 4:30 to 9 in the morning, and then I would go to the office and try to act like nothing's happened.

SPEAKER_00 10:33

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 10:34

Cheering the team on and, you know, trying to keep keep work going. And so that was that was a really hard time. And my sister at the time ended up being a match for me. So we were excited. I'm thinking, I'm gonna get my kidney, my another kidney from my sister, which I was so thankful for. But then right towards the end, they uh came back and said there was some something with the filterations of her kidneys, and they didn't think that that would be a good, a good match. So my wife said, Ty, I'm watching you really suffer through this dialysis. And I'll tell you, dialysis is a hard place.

SPEAKER_02 11:05

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 11:06

And um, I always say, if uh if you know somebody going through dialysis, I mean, just say a quick prayer. Those people, it's that's a hopeless place. And um, I always talk about that. That I had that was a something I never knew about until I was there. But now every time I drive by, I I get to drive by my when I leave my neighborhood, and and there's one right out there where I was at. And I always just I'm very I'm very thankful for the people in there that are helping, but also I'm very hopeful for those that are sitting in those chairs that they get organs because it is a hard, hard place to be. Um, so anyway, we go through this, and my wife goes in, it's the time watching you go through this. I'm I'm gonna go donate my. She thought she was a different blood type. So she said, I'm gonna go donate my kidney, and then in return, somebody else donates one to you and you get moved up on the list. I said, Awesome. So we do this, she goes in that day. She calls me and she's in tears. And I'm like, what? I thought, I mean, I had no idea. I thought something tragically happened. What has happened? And she said, Ty, I match you perfectly. And I'm like, what? So all that to say, six weeks later, I received my wife's kidney and uh and everything is it's been amazing. I can't, I can't say enough about the way I feel today. Now, have I had my challenges? Absolutely, I have. And still to this day, I'm taking 35 pills a day, and I still do there's a lot, but I'm so thankful for what I've got. But but again, I go back to say, you know, whatever's on the other side of adversity is well worth it. And I talked about that six-year-old daughter that that I left that night going, I don't know if what I'm coming back to or how I'm gonna come back. Um, two months ago, I got to walk her down the aisle.

SPEAKER_00 12:48

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 12:49

So uh I just another reason why, you know, it our battles are our battles, but there's nothing that we can't handle and get through it.

SPEAKER_00 12:59

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SPEAKER_01 14:24

It's yeah, it is. Now that's that's been you're talking about the best I've ever felt. You and I are talking before we started recording just briefly, but I mean in the last five years I felt the best I ever had. But so I go into my my uh I was talking to the one of my tran the uh transplant teams that kind of handles my diabetes side of it and said uh she said I wanna she said I've got an idea. She said, I want to I want to put you on a GLP one in one of these one of these uh medications. And she said, and I and I'm thinking, what why would you why are we doing this? And she said, Well, there's a lot of really good results coming out of these things that uh some benefits, and it's not just a weight a weight issue here. It's it's uh She said, I you know, I think you know, we could lose 10 or 15 pounds, but she said mainly it's all the other side effects that we want to see. And let me tell you something. I have been on that thing now for about I don't know, six months.

SPEAKER_00 15:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 15:21

Six months, eight, six to eight months. I already feel better than I ever have. And I've just went back about a month ago for my RDO. I go back and do a lot of obviously all my doctors, and and uh they they all came back and said, man, everything's going great. And and I can't tell you the last time I've gone to a round of doctors without having some type of issues come out of them. So I'm just I'm so thankful for um, you know, for the GLP one. I mean, I'm assuming this has helped me tremendously, and my the doctors are just really excited about what's going on with it.

SPEAKER_00 15:53

Yeah, that's awesome. So, how did all of this shape your no options phys philosophy? Can you talk a little bit about that?

SPEAKER_01 15:59

I sure can. I love I love that topic. I you know, again, I was never I never in my wildest dreams thought that I would be talking to people about stuff because I mean, especially about my own self because of my the way I was raised. You know, I grew up that. But what happened was I while I was going through dialysis, uh, we went down to a family reunion of my on my wife's side and a really big family, and she said, Ty, do you mind telling the story? They keep asking me about it. You do you mind telling? And I said, you know, Crystal, I'll be glad to tell them, but I as long as they want to hear my problems, you know, that's because that's the kind of way I and so I told the story. And and on the way home that night, driving back home, like six texts came through and just said, Hey, thanks for sharing. I'm gonna, you know, we're gonna sign up to be organ donors or we're gonna do the, you know. And I thought for a minute I was driving, and and I said, you know, how selfish am I if I can simply tell my story and help others, right? And so I go back and I look at all that story I just told you about all the things I've gone through. You know, there was a lot of things in those points where I didn't really have an option but to move forward.

SPEAKER_00 17:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:06

When I got the choice of do I want to go through that first transplant with that with the wrist there, I didn't really have an option if I wanted to be here for my daughter, if I wanted to be here to walk her down the aisle, if I want to be here to see her, my grandkids. And then when we opened the business, right, my wife and I both left corporate jobs and we kind of took that same mind. You know, we don't have a choice. We opened in 06, 08, the financial crisis dro I mean, you know, and we I mean, we looked at each other like, what? And I said, we, you know, we don't really have a choice. Let's put our head down and let's go. We don't, I didn't want plan B. And so there's a three-step process that I kind of put together and I'll go real quick through this, but it's the it's a three-step process that that that we call the no options mindset. And we'll and what it is, it's my first one is grow or die. When something comes up, I look at my, you know, my thought, my first thought is grow or die. And when I say die, I don't mean death. I mean, am I gonna let that dream go? Am I gonna let that goal that I have set up to be, you know, whether that be a a weight loss goal or whether that be a career goal, whatever that looks like, right? Am I gonna really let that win kind of thing? Or am I gonna grow? And number two, and that's what we do, right? Grow or die is what we do. And then the number two was hope or despair. And that's how we think. Am I gonna be a positive thinker or am I gonna be kind of that victim, take that victim side? You know, why did I have to have diabetes? Why do I, why did I have to have these transplants? But that's how we think. And then number three is humor or drama. Sometimes we gotta look at these situations and just really look at it from a from a different perspective. Because, you know, I I I sometimes had to make myself laugh of some of the stuff that I was going through. But that's how we how we talk to ourselves, right? And when I say talk, what are we telling ourselves inside? I mean, like sometimes, and and I'll give you an example. I mean, you know, we can say, man, I don't know how I'm gonna get through this. I mean, this, you know, this really stinks that I'm having to get up at four in the morning and then go to the office. And or I can say, man, I am so thankful that I'm able to get up and, you know, and then I and and I'll, you know, hey, there's no traffic at 4 30. And you do, I make up stupid, I think of the positive stupid thing, but sometimes you just gotta make yourself laugh. And go, you know, I I I I'd go into the office sometimes and I'd tell my wife, I said, I'm I'm good. I've been taking a nap. You know, I've had a good nap, I'm ready to go. But we would laugh at each other about silly things. But I mean it really, it's what we do, think, and how we talk. And when we do these small three things, it puts our mind into a positive mindset.

SPEAKER_02 19:42

Right.

SPEAKER_01 19:42

Because when somebody's really going through something and we say, Oh, just have a be positive, a positive thinker, that's the worst thing people want to hear because what does that mean? So these are just three little steps that I try to say. And you know, like it's kind of that 1% thing, right? Just do a little bit each day and we'll get better. But these are three little small steps. And when we do these, it just aligns our mind into that positive mindset.

SPEAKER_00 20:06

So for my my community of GLP1, while these medications can be very miraculous, there's still a lot of fear and shame involved in either being on them or afraid of gaining the weight back. You know, it's not every most people's first rodeo of losing weight. So, how would you apply this to them? Like how what advice would you give to them if they're kind of feeling like scared? Uh this is gonna get taken away, or I'm gonna backslide, or I'm gonna fail, or whatever the thoughts are there.

SPEAKER_01 20:34

Well, you know, I mean, I I think fear is fear is normal in anything we do, right? I mean, we're always, you always want to, uh fear always comes up. But I'll tell you this, we always have we don't let fear overcome our goals. So what I say is, what if, I mean, yes, we can think about what what's gonna happen, but what if, what if we do do it and look at the results? I always try to say instead of thinking about what's good could go wrong and the fear of if we fail, what if it goes right and look at where we're gonna go? You know, start thinking that way because our minds, our mind, we have to, our mind is a muscle. And the more we feed it positive things and talk little, you know, whatever our whatever we're exercising, if we're exercising negativity, then that's where our mind's gonna go. If we're net if we're if we're exercising positivity, that's where our mind's gonna go. So start thinking of what's gonna happen as you get through this and on the on the successful side versus working on the negative side. Because and that's what I would always say. In fact, my daughter, my youngest daughter is this morning was talking about she's got a playoff soccer game today. And she's like, Deb, but what if they have this really good player that's gonna do this? And I said, Well, what if you have a really good game and you stop her from doing that? Think about think about what you're gonna do versus what's that could happen. And I always think just look. On the positive side of things on that, because absolutely anything could happen, but what you want to happen is the positive things, not the negative things.

SPEAKER_00 22:07

Sure. And to some extent, like you have more control than you think. You know, sometimes we think that life happens to us or the obesity happened to us, but there were a lot of steps that can be taken.

SPEAKER_01 22:18

Absolutely. I mean, I'll tell you this. This has been amazing to me. As I I've been really studying the the way our mind works. We have so much control within our. I tell I tell people all the time, we gotta go look in the mirror sometimes and say, if we want it to happen, that's who's gonna make it happen. Not anybody else. Not not if this happens or if I don't do this or no, it's up to you to determine what that end result looks like. And I and I really believe that here too. I mean, we could, you know, we could always we can always, you know, think of where it could fall or where it could what could happen. But but I think it's it's our mind is so, so, so powerful. And I mean, more so than I ever knew, talking to these different doctors about our the way our mind works is just been incredible exercise for me because I didn't realize how much our mind can really control our destiny.

SPEAKER_00 23:15

Do you have any like exercises or habits or anything that you do to keep your mind in the right place? See it's easy to go down the spiral.

SPEAKER_01 23:24

Yeah, for sure, for sure. No, you know, I and going through all this, I never really thought about this. I never really thought about taking exercises for myself, if that makes sense. And I think we all do that, right? We talk about businesses, we talk about stuff we're running. So we're too busy, we're too, but we gotta, we gotta pull something out and say, what is what are we doing for ourselves? Because you think about all the stuff that we do, um, you know, for all these other things, for weightlifting. They got all these equipment, this thing. Really, the most powerful thing we have is our mind, and we don't really think about that, right? And so um, I over the last several years have really started diving into that part. And what I, I mean, be honest with you, is is I like to get up early before the chaos of kids and getting ready for work or phones ringing or texting or all that, and just have time for myself, right? I mean, I think about my day, I think about what it looks like. And I'll tell you, I write down my goals for the day. And not only do you want to write down your goals for the day, from what I'm understanding now, is you want to you want to picture your goals for the day. What does that look like? Take it one step further, not just write them down, now visualize them. And so in the morning, a lot of times I I I kind of visualize my day. This is what I, you know, or if I have a, if I know I've got a big call with someone, or if I have a, I kind of visualize how that's gonna go. And I and I see it in my mind, and I and I'll tell you, that's helped me tremendously. You know, uh, I and I'm a man of faith, so I and I and I spend some time in prayer. Uh, that's in the morning, I just that is where I I um I take time for myself and whatever that looks like for the each individual.

SPEAKER_00 25:09

How long do you spend doing that?

SPEAKER_01 25:10

I try usually be about anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes. Um I just try to, you know, it's not a it's not an all-day deal or a morning, you know. I just kind of get up a little bit and walk outside, and depending on the time of year and the weather is, uh, I'm outside or I just go into, you know, another room and and just sit and and uh and that's where I really uh but I'll tell you, I didn't do that for a long time, and I've it's not something that I've done. And it's been and in fact, when I first they're they were telling me about it, I'm like, really? I mean, I don't I don't have time for that. I got you know, I want to get up and get going. I I need to get, I could go ahead, I could have sent a bunch of emails in that, but it really prepares me for the day, and it's been very helpful.

SPEAKER_00 25:50

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SPEAKER_02 26:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:56

But there's very legit studies about like basketball players visualizing, making the basket, and then they do way better, like not even a little bit, like way better.

SPEAKER_01 27:05

That's right. That's right.

SPEAKER_00 27:08

So for the GLP one users that are still on this journey or or struggling or going through something, what is a kind of final piece of advice that you have for them if they're if they're in the thick of it right now?

SPEAKER_01 27:18

I just encourage, I will, first of all, congratulations of taking the first, I mean, the first step. That's the that's the big one. I mean, you guys are so, you know, and I'm I'm in the I'm on that ride with you. So uh it's not that, but I'll tell you, now that we've taken the first step, I would encourage you just to keep taking those small steps. You know, nothing's gonna happen amazingly overnight, but what worthwhile does, right? A lot of things, it everything takes a little bit. That 1%. Um, and I want to encourage us to keep thinking about that 1%, that one small step. And then just think about over a week. We've got seven big steps. If we take a step a day, we've taken seven big steps, and then the 14 and 21. I mean, it just it just keeps going, right? So take those small steps. And I'll tell you a quick story I thought was really cool. That 1% thing, right? I don't know if you heard you know the story about the cyclist coat. The there was a uh national cyclist coach that came in and he came into this this team and he said, they never had won the Tour de France. And he said, he said, our goal is to win this thing in five years. He said, We're gonna come in and we're gonna change, we're gonna do some different training and all that. But he said, So we're gonna talk about the small things. He said he looked at the type of clothes they wore. We got a better aerodynamics. He looked at the pillows and the seats that they were sleeping on, and they changed those because they get a better night's sleep. And all these little bitty things that people don't even think about. But over time, and and a different training and all these things. But what his point was was find the small details that that sometimes that help you. And it's not gonna, again, just because you get a new different pillow doesn't mean the next day you're gonna wake up and feel like a new pillow. But over time, you're gonna get more sleep, you're gonna get better sleep, you're gonna be able to produce. So find the little the little wins, because in his case, they they won the Tour de France in three years. But it was it was the little steps that they did to get there. And I just encourage everybody on this track to find the little steps because and and you know, down the road we're gonna see these wins. And um, and I'll tell you, I you guys have already taken the first step and you're doing some amazing things. So don't let all the success um, you know, start to dwindle. Let's keep taking those next steps to get to the end of this line.

SPEAKER_00 29:30

I agree. I think that people get real uh thinking like it needs to be like a big thing, a big change, a big, you know, go completely change your diet, never eat a cake again, like whatever, whatever they think. And that usually backfires.

SPEAKER_01 29:44

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 29:45

So if you can pick, you know, one time a piece of fruit over a piece of cake or whatever, something very small that doesn't seem like a big impact, that's where the changes happen.

SPEAKER_01 29:55

That's so true. Just the small the small things. You're right.

SPEAKER_00 29:57

Yes. So where can people find out about your work and and everything that you do?

SPEAKER_01 30:02

Yeah. Um, well, thank you for asking that. Tygibson.com, t-yg-i-p S-o-n.com, um, has all my information on there. Uh I I I really am doing this because I want to help. I just love um because I guess for so long I didn't talk about it. And I just see now and I love being able to talk people through. If there's questions, people and that phone number on that website is my cell phone. Call me. I mean, I'm it is call me. But I, you know, on there you'll see all my um I have a podcast too that I do stuff with. I have different links that you guys can find all that on. And then also, again, my website, my cell phone email, reach out to me. I would love to help in any way that I can.

SPEAKER_00 30:43

I appreciate it. Thank you so much for being here and sharing your really powerful story of of resilience and yeah, and keep one foot in front of the other. I really appreciate it.

SPEAKER_01 30:52

You're very welcome. And I'm I I'm so excited for you for for your audience and and just let's let's keep up the good good work.

SPEAKER_00 30:59

Thank you. Thank you so much for listening to this super inspiring episode with Ty Gibson. And now it is time for our question of the week. So, this is one that I am getting a lot from the audience is why is the weight loss slowing down as I continue on my GLP1 journey? This is very, very basic physics. When you are bigger, you have a faster metabolism because you have to move more body through space. So you burn more calories doing that. And then as you lose weight, your metabolism is going to slow down because now you are smaller and you don't have to use as much energy to move your body through space. Additionally, when you're on a calorie deficit for a period of time, your body sort of adapts and slows your metabolism down even more. And the only way to really combat that is to be sure you're not cutting your calories so low that it gets used to only ever having 18, like 800 calories a day. And also that you're doing that strength training that's going to help keep those muscles in place because that's really where the calorie burn comes from long term. So it is not the medication is not working. Some people experience, you know, the first month five, 10 pounds of weight loss, but it will slow down throughout your journey because you are getting smaller and your metabolism is adjusting. And that doesn't mean the medication isn't working. It just means that it's working exactly the way it's supposed to. And if you want to submit a question to the show, now you can text the show. It used to be that texting didn't allow me to text back, and that was really annoying to me because you would text me a question and I couldn't respond. But now you can text back. So you can have that in there, just click the text the show button in the show notes and you can send me a question that could be featured on one of the future episodes of the podcast. And thank you so much for listening. If you want to stay in touch, make sure you are signed up for the Steady State newsletter, where I provide all sorts of nutrition and health advice all about your GLP1 journey. And I'll see you in the next episode.