Andy Lavery

I get asked about fat loss jabs a lot. Here’s my honest take.
The “cheating” label bothers me. Not because it’s entirely wrong, but because it’s asking the wrong question.
Cheating implies there are rules. That there’s one correct, virtuous path to a healthy body.
There isn’t.
What I care about is this: does it move someone toward a healthier life, or does it become a shortcut that skips the work that actually lasts?

Because the jab doesn’t build muscle. It doesn’t retrain your habits. And for a lot of people, when they stop, the weight comes back, because nothing underneath changed.

So my position? If someone uses a GLP-1 medication as a bridge, a way to create space to build real, lasting change, I’m not here to judge that. At all. In fact, I’m all for it.

But if it’s used without addressing the foundations? That’s where I’d push back.

Tool or crutch. The jab is the same either way. The difference is what you do with the window it gives you.

What do you think?
Valid tool or taking the easy road? 👇

MRI results are in:
I have ‘significant cartilage damage’ on the inside of my knee, plus a cyst behind it that can cause its own grief.
Surgery might happen one day, but my job now is to make “one day” a long way away.

What’s changed everything?
Training with a purpose. I started grappling last year which has helped me be more specific with my own strength/conditioning programming. Every gym session now has one job: keep me on the mats.
So I train smart. If the knee flares, I back off and train around it. It’s an upper body day, not a write-off.
I’m not shrinking my goal. I don’t just want to be strong for my age, I want to be seriously strong for decades.
It’s what I preach to my clients, to adopt the same mindset.
So the training changes, never stops.