Start here: on a GLP-1

If you are on a GLP-1 medication, this is the short list of what to read and in what order. Everything below is a link to a fuller page.

Loopa never gives medical advice and never sets, suggests or changes a dose. Your prescriber does.

First, what the medicine is

• GLP-1 medications explained. What this class of medicine does.
• Semaglutide, tirzepatide and liraglutide. What separates the three.
• Titration, and why doses change. Why a dose moves, and why Loopa has no opinion about yours.

Then, set it up

• Medication protocols. Where protocols live and how to add one.
• Logging a dose, a missed dose or a change. The record everything else is built from.
• Reminders for supplements and medications. The day before, an hour before, or on the day.
• The refill runway. So you do not run out on a Friday.

The two things that make the biggest difference

• Protein first on a GLP-1. Eating less makes what you eat matter more.
• Protecting muscle while losing weight. Roughly a quarter of the weight lost is lean mass unless you work at it.
• Closing the protein gap. Three things you could eat right now, one tap to log.
• The lean-mass score. A weekly read on whether you are doing those two.

Living with it

• GLP-1 side effects, and how to track them
• Food noise, and how Loopa tracks it
• Symptoms and food patterns. What your own log keeps putting next to a rough afternoon.
• Your cycle pattern. The shape of your week, after three complete cycles.
• Your week, around your cycle. Training arranged around your dose days.

Appointments, and afterwards

• Preparing for a prescriber appointment. Your questions on the first page.
• Progress and plateaus. What moved when the scale did not.
• Coming off a GLP-1
• GLP-1 medications and anesthesia. Read this before any procedure.

Where this comes from

Every health claim in these pages cites a published source, and the full list is at loopahealth.app/sources. Loopa does not give medical advice.