Ashley tried everything. She tried all the diets: Weight Watchers, Nutrisystem, SlimFast, Houston Methodist Medical Weight Management program. Even after a gastric sleeve, her weight climbed back up to 320 lbs.
Going to therapy for binge eating was good, but still didn’t help her lose weight.
In 2024, exhausted from trying to lose weight yet again, she thought, “screw it, if I’m going to be fat, why not just get rid of my double chin?” So she decided to have neck lift surgery and found a plastic surgeon, and that’s where she discovered GLP-1s by accident.
Not long after that, she started on the medication and the rest is history.
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Eva + Kami are two old-ish moms kids confronting our reasons for being obese while losing weight on semaglutide and tirzepatide, and roasting our past selves. Sarcasm is our happy place.
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After a friend (who is a plastic surgeon) talked Eva into starting semaglutide in February of 2023, she lost 70 pounds in 14 months, alternating between long stretches of being stalled at the same weight and consistent but slow weight loss. With the dream of being considered just overweight and not obese by the BMI calculator, Eva switched to tirzepatide after 14 months to try and reach a goal that still seems just out of reach.
A prolific eater of her feelings, Kami was tired of being uncomfortable and when she heard through a mutual friend how semaglutide had changed Eva’s life, she found a trusted medical weight loss provider and took the first step.
As Kami starts her life on semaglutide, Eva adjusts to a world with less food noise and figures out how to let go of the crippling negative self-talk.
On each episode, we connect on how our lives are changing in real time as semaglutide and tirzepatide help us be smaller people, and try to answer the bigger question for ourselves:
When there’s less of you, what is left?
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Host: Eva Sheie & Kami Gamlem
Assistant Producers: Mary Ellen Clarkson & Hannah Burkhart
Engineering: Daniel Croeser and Spencer Clarkson
Theme music: Old Grump, Smartface
Less of You is a production of The Axis
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Contents of this video:
00:00 - Welcome Ashley!
01:10 - Ashley’s weight loss journey
20:16 - Why I’m an advocate for the skinny shot
22:44 - The reality of binge eating
27:04 - Why I decided to get post weight loss plastic surgery
30:30 - My arm lift results & scars
32:50 - Future surgery plans
35:40 - Gaining weight back after gastric sleeve
36:45 - How life is different after losing weight
40:20 - How I felt at Dr. Basu’s office
41:05 - My advice to anyone considering the skinny shot
43:57 - Lingering body dysmorphia after losing weight
48:21 - Clothes after losing weight
50:45 - Why are people nicer to you after losing weight?
52:30 - Learning how to dress myself with a stylist
56:00 - Eva’s JuiceLand addiction
57:27 - What’s next for Ashley?
59:44 - Outro
