For years, I lived in a space a lot of you will recognize. On paper, I was fine. I had a good job, I showed up for the people I loved, and from the outside nothing looked wrong. But underneath, I was running my whole life on default settings; quietly tolerating a version of “fine” that was costing me my energy, my health, and my trust in myself.
It showed up in a lot of ways. I was drinking every single day; a bottle of wine a night was the floor. My weight had crept up over the years, my habits had eroded, and I’d started leaning on a GLP-1 medication to manage it. I was high-functioning and completely exhausted, and I knew deep down I was capable of far more than the way I was living.
The turning point wasn’t one dramatic rock-bottom or a single magic fix. It was realizing that none of it, the drinking, the weight, the burnout, was really a willpower problem. It was a systems problem: my environment, my routines, and the standards I’d quietly lowered. So instead of forcing my way through on willpower alone, I went under the hood and rebuilt them, using the same mindset research, neuroscience, and behavioral strategy I teach today.
That work is what got me sober. It’s how I lost 100 lbs and built the nutrition and fitness habits that finally stuck; and it’s how I came off the GLP-1 after a year, because the habits were now doing the heavy lifting. Whether you stay on a GLP-1 or come off it one day, that’s exactly the part I help you build.
Here’s what I do with all of it now: I help women lose the weight and keep it off; especially the women navigating a GLP-1. Not another quick fix, but the nutrition, movement, and habits underneath it. Getting sober was part of my story, but the work I coach is helping you lose the weight the healthy way and become the strongest version of yourself.
I built Cowboy Up Wellness for the people like me; the ones who are “doing fine” but are tired of settling for just “fine.”
