Join Midi for Weight Loss
You are here, which means you are wondering, if I decide to take Hormone Replacement Therapy, will it help me lose weight? The answer is, yes probably. But HRT is not a magic pill, there is typically more to consider.
I know that's not what you want to hear but keep reading and hear me out. I lost 26 pounds in three months after I started Hormone Replacement Therapy. I was mindful of what I ate, how and what exercise I did, and I also started experimenting with intermittent fasting. In other words, I did it the hard way. The old-fashioned way. (Keep reading to learn what ultimately helped me shed the excess weight)
I truly believe that it was due to the fact that HRT allowed me to feel NORMAL again that I was able to get into a place where I could do all right things and begin to see results and for the weight to finally begin to melt away.
Hormone Replacement for Menopause
What did Hormone Replacement Therapy do for me within ten-days of starting? I no longer had hot flashes, night sweats and I didn't want to kill my husband. I was closer to being back to my normal self than I had been a very, very long time which meant I was in a place where I could get motivated to do the right things to figure out how to lose the menopause 35, I had gained.
Midi Health accepts private insurance
I started HRT in December of 2019. By May of 2020 I had lost 26 pounds. I was within 12-15 pounds of my goal weight. Once I found online Hormone Replacement Therapy providers, I was in love with telehealth for HRT. This type of medical treatment didn't require that I schedule an in-person appointment, drive 40 minutes to the doc's office to sit in the waiting room for 20 more minutes only to have 8 minutes of his undivided attention.
Midi is one of two online companies that accept insurance for HRT and Weight Loss Support. They offer the name brand versions of weight loss drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic as well as a generic compounded version. I became a patient of Midi Health in August of 2024. See full review of that experience and my out of pocket cost here.
The other provider who accepts private insurance and also treats menopause and weight loss is MyMenopauseRx. If you find your insurance is out of network, like I did, you might want to know that Midi charges $250 for the initial consultation and MyMenopausseRx charges $99, which is a discounted price for self-pay patients.
Weight Loss Secret Revealed
I would love to tell you that Hormone Replacement is all you need, but for me it took a combo of therapies to achieve my goal of weight loss.
When you combine the hormonal effects of menopause and a generalized tendency to be overweight, it's a recipe for a very un-happy woman. It was my story and maybe it's yours as well?
According to Menopause Solutions' February 2023 article, Semaglutide and Weight Loss, "Due to the hormonal changes associated with menopause, semaglutide is particularly effective for effective and sustained weight loss in middle-aged and menopausal women."
Was this the missing piece? Was Semaglutide (think Ozempic or Wegovy) the answer I'd been looking for?
Contrary to long held beliefs, weight loss is not simply a matter of willpower. As Julia Belluz writes in the New York Times, “We tend to believe body size is something we can fully control, that we’re skinny or fat because of deliberate choices we make. After talking to hundreds of patients with obesity over the years and to clinicians and researchers who study the disease, let me assure you: Reality looks a lot less like free will.” Weight gain and weight loss are a complex orchestra of hormones that tell the body when we’re hungry and when we’re full.
One of these hormones is leptin which regulates body weight not meal-to-meal, but over time. Disorders in leptin metabolism or the brain’s response to leptin can result in increased hunger, decreased satiety, and weight gain which are beyond the individual’s ability to control with willpower.
Adding a GLP-1 could be the missing piece to Weight Loss during menopause
It's no secret that losing weight and keeping it off once you hit perimenopause or your menopause years is HARD! Believe me, I know, it's no joke.
Most of us have heard or learned that our estrogen levels decrease during this time in our life. Our bodies are starving for estrogen so it searches for it anywhere it can. In obese postmenopausal women, adipose tissue (fat) is the main source for estrogen production. Your body needs estrogen so it hangs on to fat and makes more fat so it can create the much-needed estrogen. That's why it's so hard to lose the fat.
Hormone Replacement Therapy is used to add the needed estrogen to our bodies which helps prevent additional fat from being added, but what to do for the existing fat that needs to go?
This is where the GLP-1 or semaglutide drugs come into play. But isn't this the drug that we hear all over the news is impossible to find because pharmacies can't keep up? Well, the brand name versions, yes sometimes they are in short supply.
However, just like Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy is produced by compounding pharmacies so is semaglutide which is the compounded versions of drugs also known as Ozempic, Rybelsus and Wegovy.
The FDA approved semaglutide for weight loss in June 2021. In January of 2024, semaglutide and tirzepatide were both on FDA's list of drugs in shortage, which meant compounding pharmacies are now able to step in and provide compounded versions of GLP-1 meds.
Midi Health and Weight Loss Options like Ozempic or Wegovy
I've been on Semaglutide just about six months and have lost about fourteen pounds. I have maybe five or so more to go. It's slow and steady but I'll take it.
If you learn that your Medical Insurance doesn't cover medical weight loss drugs and you are stuck paying out of pocket, then I'd suggest you check out Joi Women's Wellness.
Joi offers HRT and generic compounded Semaglutide. You'll put a 2/4/6/ or 8 Monthly supply of Semaglutide in your cart and then check out with the coupon code BRONSON for 10% off. They don't require a 1:1 consultation, however if you want one, they will charge $50 for the appointment. Once you fill out the information, they'll determine if you qualify and if you do, they'll get the process started to have meds shipped directly to your home in cold packaging.
I continue on my HRT journey and plan to take it forever! As I continue to learn more about the long-term benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy, I don't see any reason to stop!
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