GLP-1 & body composition
Early into your GLP-1 journey?
Your doctor checks your dose. Nobody checks your muscle.
If your prescription didn't come with a plan, here's how to close the gap yourself.
This is the part of starting a GLP-1 that nobody sets you up for.
You have to do it yourself.
We're Henry and Jackson, two brothers from Wyoming. We learned it the hard way.
We watched it happen to our mom.
Ten minutes, then you're on your own
The day our mom got her Wegovy prescription, the appointment lasted about ten minutes.
Her doctor checked her dose, walked her through the nausea, set a refill date four weeks out.
We were all nervous, but excited.
She asked one question at the door. "Is there anything else I should be doing?"
"Keep your protein up," he said. "You're all set."
That was it.
We don't blame her doctor. He did exactly what the appointment was set up to do.
The problem is everything the appointment wasn't set up to do.
Nobody was going to track what kind of weight she was losing.
Nobody was going to check on her muscle.
Nobody handed her a plan to protect it either.
She walked out with one of the most powerful weight-loss tools in history, and almost no support around it.
The same way millions of Americans do every day.
But it doesn't have to be you.
The warning signs
For seven months, the weight came off fast. 32 lbs. Everyone told her she was doing amazing.
Then she started to feel it. Tired. Slower. Weaker. The stairs in her own house left her breathless.
One afternoon she tried to get up off the floor after playing with her grandkids. Her legs wouldn't do it.
She was told it was normal. The "dips in energy" everyone talks about on GLP-1s. We told ourselves it was age.
It was neither.
What nobody was measuring
It took a physical therapist she found on her own to catch it.
She'd seen him earlier that year for hip pain, so her old strength numbers were still on file.
He ran the same simple leg test he'd run in the spring. Then he frowned, reset it, and ran it again.
"When did this start?" he asked. She didn't have an answer. Nothing had started. Nothing felt like an event.
She had lost nearly half of the strength in her legs. In seven months.
And not one person in the system that prescribed her medication, refilled it, and checked on her every month had been measuring it.
She had lost her muscle.
Here's the part that still gets us
This isn't a secret. The people who prescribe these medications already know muscle loss is a real risk.
Read that again.
More than half the doctors writing these prescriptions agree someone should be watching this.
And almost none of them do.
Your monthly check-in
- ✓ Dose
- ✓ Side effects
- ✓ Refill date
- ✓ How you feel
never checked
There's no muscle check.
Nothing is given to measure it at home.
There's no nutrition or training plans.
The system agrees that it matters, but it doesn't give you the tools to protect it.
It's just a gap nobody got around to filling.
The stores have noticed. There's a protein shake for people on these medications on every shelf now.
What still doesn't exist anywhere in the system: a way to know whether any of it is working.
This isn't about distrusting your doctor.
A ten-minute visit covers your dose, your side effects, your refill. It was never built to watch your muscle week to week.
That part was always going to be yours. And a regular scale can't do it.
What's actually slipping while nobody's looking
So let's be clear about what's at stake in that gap.
When you lose weight fast, you don't just lose a little bit of muscle.
It isn't rare.
In a deep deficit, with your appetite switched off, your body breaks down muscle for fuel.
And muscle is your engine. It keeps you strong, steady on your feet, able to get up off the floor without thinking.
It runs your metabolism, and it's the reason the weight stays off later.
Right now you might feel completely fine. So did our mom, for months.
Muscle leaves quietly. There is no warning. You only notice when it's gone.
You don't just get smaller.
You get softer. Weaker. Slower.
And when you ease off the medication, if you still don't have a plan, the weight comes back as fat.
You can end up worse off than where you began.
All of it, because nobody was watching the one thing that mattered.
It's not your fault
If you only take one thing from our mom's story, it should be this.
What happened to her was not a personal failing.
It was a gap in the system.
Nobody gave her a way to see the muscle she was losing.
You can't protect what you can't see.
Her bathroom scale couldn't. And the prescription didn't come with a plan.
That's not on her, and it won't be on you.
We built what nobody provided
We couldn't go back and fix it for her. So we built the thing the system skipped.
It's called the Orvi Protection System.
It measures your muscle at home, and gives you the tools to protect it yourself.
It shows you what kind of weight you're losing every morning.
Not a clinical scan you schedule twice a year. Not a cheap scale that reads your legs and guesses the rest.
The Orvi Body Scan reads your whole body through 8 electrodes, measuring your arms, legs, and torso separately. It's the same 8-electrode configuration used by clinical InBody devices.
You stand on it for ten seconds each morning. Fat and muscle, side by side, in a simple app.
It was never about a perfect lab number. What it gives you is the honest trend, so you always know which way your body is truly headed.
This is the check-in nobody scheduled for you. Now it happens on your own bathroom floor, every morning, in ten seconds.
But seeing it isn't enough. Knowing your muscle is slipping doesn't protect it.
So every Orvi Body Scan comes with the follow-up the system never scheduled.
The Orvi Fuel Plan is the protein appointment that never happened. Your target, set from your goal weight. Three daily protein anchors to hit it. A fueling system for the days after your shot when you can barely eat. Every recommendation labelled by evidence strength, with the sources listed in the back.
The Orvi Protect Plan is the training referral nobody wrote. Twelve weeks of home resistance sessions built for a body on a GLP-1, with a progression rule that tells you exactly when to go harder, and a table of safer swaps if something hurts.
And the Orvi Progress Workbook changes what happens in that ten-minute room. It includes a one-page clinician summary: your protein, your training, your trends and symptoms, filled in before your visit and handed across the desk. Twelve weeks of tracking, turned into a two-minute briefing.
Measure, fuel, protect. That's the follow-up more than half of prescribers agree you need, and almost none provide.
You could try to be your own follow-up with a scale off Amazon and a free plan off the internet.
We tried, for our mom. Nothing was built to work together for a body on a GLP-1. Nothing shares one measurement standard, reads one injection cycle, or produces one record you can put in front of a doctor.
So we built it. The scan, the plans, and the workbook, as one system. Only Orvi gives you the follow-up the system skipped, all in one place.
It's also where the science points: eat more protein, train with resistance, protect your muscle.
You don't have to wait for the system to catch up
You're early enough that the gap hasn't cost you much yet. And you know about it now, something our mom never had.
You can be your own follow-up, starting on day one.
It's the smartest, most in-control thing you can do with a medication this powerful.
Our mom is her own follow-up now. Every morning, ten seconds, on her bathroom floor.
At her last ten-minute appointment, she slid a single page across the desk. Her workbook's clinician summary: three months of protein, training, trends, and symptoms.
Her doctor read it, then asked her to email him her trend screenshots too.
The system that never checked her muscle now starts the appointment with her numbers.
Picture your next appointment.
Ten minutes, same as always. Except this time you walk in already knowing. Fat down. Muscle holding.
You're not waiting to be told how your body is doing. You're the one with the answers.
That's what closing the gap actually feels like.
For less than a single month of your medication, you measure, fuel, and protect your muscle from home.
Try the whole system for 365 days.
If it's not for you, send the scan back for a full refund.
The Fuel Plan, the Protect Plan, and the Progress Workbook are yours to keep either way. Free.
The gap costs you nothing to close, and everything to leave open.
Less than a single month of what you're already spending on your medication.
- 365-day promise
- Lifetime warranty
- 3 guides yours to keep
They gave you the shot.
We'll give you the map.
Founders of Orvi