90g Daily Protein vs Generic Dieting: Why Wegovy Users Need More
2026-08-29
The Wegovy User's Protein Dilemma: Why Generic Advice Falls Short If you're taking Wegovy or any GLP-1 medication, your body is in a fundamentally different metabolic state than someone following a standard diet. Your appetite signals are suppressed, your calorie intake has dropped dramatically, and your body is burning through stored energy faster than you might expect. This creates a unique nutritional crisis that generic diet advice simply doesn't address: you need more protein, not less, precisely when you're eating fewer total calories. Most people who start GLP-1 medications eat around 800-1200 calories per day naturally (thanks to the drug's appetite-suppressing effect). That's genuinely less food. But here's what the standard playbook gets wrong: dropping calories doesn't mean dropping your protein requirements. If anything, they increase. Your muscles are your metabolic engine, and without adequate protein, you'll lose them along with the fat. That's not just an aesthetic problem. It's a metabolic one that makes weight regain far more likely. We built the GLP-1 Protocol specifically because we watched people on Wegovy and Ozempic get frustrated with this exact gap. You're