This is where Michelle E. Gordon D.O., a board-certified obesity medicine physician (DABOM, DACLM, FACS, FACOS), puts the education you can use today. If you are starting a GLP-1 medication, begin with the $19 Beginner’s Guide. If your weight keeps returning in midlife, watch the $99 training. If you want to read along every month, subscribe free. All of it is education, not individual medical advice.
Expect the first weeks to bring side effects, mostly nausea and constipation, and expect your appetite to drop faster than your habits change. Eating too little protein while the weight comes off costs muscle. Many of her readers say they were told almost none of this when the prescription was written. The guide covers it in plain language.
At checkout you can add The Predictable Pattern training for $49, half its $99 price. The offer appears on the order form only.
See what’s inside the guide →After a period of weight loss the body adapts. It spends less energy and turns hunger up, and the hormonal shifts of perimenopause and menopause add to that. Regain follows a pattern, and seeing the pattern changes what you do about it.
About 45 minutes, in short chapters, on metabolic adaptation, fat-mass defense and regain in midlife women. Full replay access.
Visceral fat is the fat around your organs, and it tends to rise in midlife. GLP-1 medications can reduce it, and a few habits with good evidence behind them help them do it. The free guide explains what visceral fat is, why it matters and the four levers that move it.
A short clinical guide you can read tonight.
On Substack. Dr. Gordon | Obesity Medicine is her newsletter on midlife metabolism, hormones and GLP-1 medications, read by more than 16,000 subscribers. Free subscribers get new issues and previews in their inbox.
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Education helps you ask better questions. It does not replace a physician who knows your history. If your weight keeps rising despite consistent effort, or you are on a GLP-1 medication without real clinical oversight, Dr. Gordon runs a small direct-pay telehealth practice for women in perimenopause and menopause. It is a one-year partnership, by application.
How the practice works →No. Everything here is general education written by a physician. It cannot account for your history, your labs or your medications, so it is not advice for you. Talk to your own prescriber before you change anything.
No. The guide is written for people who are starting a GLP-1 medication or already taking one, and it helps you get more from the conversations you have with your prescriber. It does not prescribe or recommend a specific medication.
Michelle E. Gordon D.O., a board-certified obesity medicine physician (DABOM). She holds DACLM in lifestyle medicine and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) and the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons (FACOS).
It is a PDF. After checkout you go straight to a download page, and a copy is emailed to the address you used at checkout.
When you buy the Beginner’s Guide, the order form offers The Predictable Pattern training for $49 instead of its usual $99. It is the same video training sold on its own page, with full replay access.
Yes. Free subscribers get new issues and previews by email. Most full clinical deep dives are for paid subscribers, and you can upgrade any time, or never.
Last updated October 20, 2026.
DABOM · DACLM · FACS · FACOS
Board certified in obesity medicine, lifestyle medicine and general surgery. Fifteen years in surgical practice before specializing in midlife women’s metabolic health.
