Summer Kessel, RD, CSOWM, LDN, is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and a board-certified specialist in obesity and weight management with nearly twenty years of health care experience. As a busy mom of two, she is a champion for realistic, individualized, and sustainable nutrition—whatever that means for you. In addition to her professional skills, Summer is also a person living with obesity who has lost and maintained more than 140 pounds (63.5 kg)—of course, not without challenges—over the past twenty years. GLP-1 medications changed her life and she now works to advocate for and educate others on this exciting new world of weight loss and nutrition.

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• FOREWORD BY DR. SPENCER NADOLSKY, OBESITY AND LIPID SPECIALIST PREFACE INTRODUCTION: GLP-1s CHANGED MY LIFE CHAPTER 01 Defining Obesity as a DiseaseCHAPTER 02 Everything You Need to Know About GLP-1sCHAPTER 03 Building a Care Team and Navigating Insurance CHAPTER 04 Getting Started on a GLP-1CHAPTER 05 Developing Your New Nutrition and Movement Philosophy CHAPTER 06 Eating Well and Staying HydratedCHAPTER 07 Putting What You Know into Real-Life PracticeCHAPTER 08 Sample Nutrition Plan CHAPTER 09 Living in the Maintenance PhaseAPPENDIX: TOOLS REFERENCES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR INDEX

Summer Kessel, RD, CSOWM, LDN, is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and a board-certified specialist in obesity and weight management with nearly twenty years of health care experience. As a busy mom of two, she is a champion for realistic, individualized, and sustainable nutrition—whatever that means for you. In addition to her professional skills, Summer is also a person living with obesity who has lost and maintained more than 140 pounds (63.5 kg)—of course, not without challenges—over the past twenty years. GLP-1 medications changed her life and she now works to advocate for and educate others on this exciting new world of weight loss and nutrition.

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• FOREWORD BY DR. SPENCER NADOLSKY, OBESITY AND LIPID SPECIALIST PREFACE INTRODUCTION: GLP-1s CHANGED MY LIFE CHAPTER 01 Defining Obesity as a DiseaseCHAPTER 02 Everything You Need to Know About GLP-1sCHAPTER 03 Building a Care Team and Navigating Insurance CHAPTER 04 Getting Started on a GLP-1CHAPTER 05 Developing Your New Nutrition and Movement Philosophy CHAPTER 06 Eating Well and Staying HydratedCHAPTER 07 Putting What You Know into Real-Life PracticeCHAPTER 08 Sample Nutrition Plan CHAPTER 09 Living in the Maintenance PhaseAPPENDIX: TOOLS REFERENCES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR INDEX

Summer Kessel, RD, CSOWM, LDN, is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and a board-certified specialist in obesity and weight management with nearly twenty years of health care experience. As a busy mom of two, she is a champion for realistic, individualized, and sustainable nutrition—whatever that means for you. In addition to her professional skills, Summer is also a person living with obesity who has lost and maintained more than 140 pounds (63.5 kg)—of course, not without challenges—over the past twenty years. GLP-1 medications changed her life and she now works to advocate for and educate others on this exciting new world of weight loss and nutrition.

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• FOREWORD BY DR. SPENCER NADOLSKY, OBESITY AND LIPID SPECIALIST PREFACE INTRODUCTION: GLP-1s CHANGED MY LIFE CHAPTER 01 Defining Obesity as a DiseaseCHAPTER 02 Everything You Need to Know About GLP-1sCHAPTER 03 Building a Care Team and Navigating Insurance CHAPTER 04 Getting Started on a GLP-1CHAPTER 05 Developing Your New Nutrition and Movement Philosophy CHAPTER 06 Eating Well and Staying HydratedCHAPTER 07 Putting What You Know into Real-Life PracticeCHAPTER 08 Sample Nutrition Plan CHAPTER 09 Living in the Maintenance PhaseAPPENDIX: TOOLS REFERENCES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR INDEX