For about two years, I stayed quiet about the GLP-1 medications — Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and the rest of them. Not because I had nothing to say, but because I had too much, and I wanted to watch first. So I watched. I watched the headlines and the before-and-afters. And I watched something quieter that almost nobody is talking about: the way the women in our own community bring it up.
They whisper it. They lower their voice, or they soften it in an email, half-defending themselves before I have said a single word. “I know you probably do not approve, but…” As if they have been caught. As if taking a medication their doctor prescribed is a sin they need to confess to me.
So I am done whispering. It is time I told you the truth — all of it.
Faith and medicine were never enemies
I have walked alongside women for almost forty years. And in almost forty years, I have watched us hand our bodies to one rescue after another — the grapefruit diet, the points, the cleanse, the powders, the surgeries, and now the shots. Different decade, same hope: maybe this is the thing that finally fixes me.
So let me say what I suspect is already happening as you read this. You have braced. You have decided you already know what the faith lady is about to say about the GLP-1s — that I am going to tell you they are cheating, or a lack of faith, or taking the easy way out. You braced because almost every voice in your life has had an opinion about your body. Your mother. The magazines. The pulpit. The scale. Everyone has weighed in except the One who actually made you.
So hear me clearly. If you are on a GLP-1 medication of any kind, that is between you, your doctor, and God. It is not a moral failure. It is not a spiritual failure. I am not here to shame you into stopping, and I am not here to sell you the opposite. Faith and medicine were never enemies. God is not standing at the pharmacy counter with His arms crossed. He has used physicians and medicine to heal His people since the book of Luke was written by one.
What a medication cannot touch
Medicine can change the number on the scale. It cannot renew your mind. Only God does that — and He has been waiting in the slow, daily work the whole time.
Here is the part the headlines cannot tell you: a medication can do something to your body that it can never do to your mind. It can shrink your appetite. It cannot touch what you believe about your worth. It can change the number. It cannot change the woman who steps on the scale and still does not feel like enough. That untouched place is exactly where God has been waiting the whole time.
Renewed mind, restored body — notice the order
That is why, this month in Weight Loss God’s Way, our focus is on renewing our mind as we restore our bodies. Notice the order. The mind first, then the body — never the other way around. Because you can restore a body and leave the mind exactly as anxious, as ashamed, as unconvinced of its worth as it ever was. We have all met the thinner version of a woman who is still at war with herself. The scale moved. Nothing underneath did.
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
Romans 12:2
Your one honest question this week
So before you read one more headline or argue one more side of this, sit with one honest question — on paper, where you cannot dodge it:
“If the weight came off tomorrow — by a shot, by a diet, by anything at all — what would still be unhealed underneath?”
Whatever name rises up — the fear, the old wound, the belief that you are too much or never enough — that is the real work. Not the shot. Not the scale. That. And no medication on earth was ever designed to reach it.
No shortcut ever reached the place that actually needed healing. The slow, daily, honest work still does. That is not the bad news. That is the door.
This is the beginning of a conversation I have been waiting a long time to have with you — the good, the bad, and the truth about these medications, told without panic and without shame.
I want to hear from you. If the number on the scale changed tomorrow, what is the one thing underneath that you would still want healed? Tell me in the comments — I read every one.
