Welcome to Peptides for Women. I'm Jennifer Woodward, and this
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Welcome back to the Peptides for Women podcast.
I'm Jennifer Woodward, and I'm very excited to welcome Aaron
Goodman to the show today. Aaron's got a great story.
She has been in fitness for a really long time.
She's a master trainer with Beach Body Live with the company
for 14 years and a trainer for 23 years.
And this past January, in 2025, she just felt stuck.
She started microdosing to her Zapatite and lost 25 lbs and 10%
body fat. But here's the catch ladies.
She kept her muscle up because she's teaching people the non
negotiables and she definitely leans into the support and the
accountability factor as a fitness and nutrition coach.
So I can't wait for her to share her story because it does answer
some of those questions for people.
Why am I not losing weight? Maybe it's because you're not
optimized and, you know, can I preserve muscle while I'm losing
body fat? And Aaron is the answer that
says absolutely, you can. And today she's going to tell us
how. So, Aaron.
Oh, welcome to the show. Thanks for coming on.
Well, thank you so much for having me.
I'm super excited. I love your podcast.
I share it often with my community, with my newsletter
because I believe that people educate themselves.
They especially with GLP ones, I feel like there's so much fear
mongering and skepticalism around them that I feel like you
have to make your own informed decision.
So thank you for having. Beautiful.
Yes, thank you. Thanks for listening and sharing
the podcast. You guys can't see me out there,
but I'm just smiling so big. It makes my whole day.
So Aaron, you've been in the industry for decades.
You're 43 years old yourself. What got you into this industry
to start? What were you like as a child?
OK, so as a child, I was I, I actually grew up in particular.
And I resonate with you a lot too, because I've seen you share
some of the stuff. I feel like my mother did every
diet known to man, like every diet.
And I was like always. I was like the chubbier kid when
I was younger. So I was on the cabbage soup
diet. I was on the Atkins diet, the
grapefruit diet. I was always that person.
I felt like that was on a diet like literally go out to eat.
What's Erin's going to look at the menu for an hour before we
go. She's going to find what she
needs or I can't go have ice cream because I'm on a diet, you
know, just that type of thing. It always felt like that.
So I basically got into working out as a way to lose weight when
I was younger. And I always share the story
with people. Like I let it become too much of
A obsession. So I got really too, really too,
too thin when I was about 17 years old.
Just kind of let the, you know, restricting a food over
exercising get to me. And it wasn't until I hired a
trainer myself at 17 years old because I knew like I, I did, I
lost my menstrual cycle for two years because I was way too
thin. And I hired a trainer and she
just taught me how to actually eat, how to lift correctly, and
just showed me all the things to be strong and healthy.
And I think that's really what kind of set me into wanting to
help people in as a trainer and as a personal trainer, as a
master trainer with Beach Body. So I got into the fitness space
when I was 17 years old. I worked out at a local YMCA.
I was there all the time and they asked me if I wanted to
start teaching spin classes. So I thought that was like the
perfect route to get into, you know, the group fitness aspect
and the whole fitness space. So I started doing that, started
training clients like on the sly, wasn't even a personal
trainer yet and was just, you know, have people handing me
money and I would, I remember stuffing it down in my sock and
I would just train people in the gym, right?
But I, I think that really helped me to know that it was
something I wanted to do. So I, you know, I just kind of
got my certification through ace and alpha.
I was both certified through DID personal training and then I
decided to become a beach body live master trainer, work with
Shanti for years with our Insanity live program.
And with that I would go to local like gyms or I had like a
certain geographic area that I would cover and I would run 8
hour certifications to train the trainers.
So I did that, fell in love with the group fitness world and you
know, I started online training clients and just in person
training clients. I developed a macro course for
clients and just really fell in love with the community aspect,
the one-on-one training. And I mean, a lot of times it
was just helping women because I feel like a lot of times women,
especially now, I still see it in the gym.
They need that guidance specifically because I feel like
there's all this around them, like don't lift heavy, lift
heavy, don't eat this, don't eat that.
So I just kind of really felt in that space.
Amazing. I love that journey.
I kind of want to go back to Shanti.
I mean hip hop really. Like I was obsessed for a while.
Tell me about that a little bit. Tell me about body in person.
Yeah. So with Beachbody, we would,
like I said, train the trainers. And I remember when I first
auditioned to be a beach body live master trainer, it was like
a cutthroat thing. Like they, they tore you down to
build you up type of thing, right?
Like, and I remember him saying this and I always LED with this
when I taught my classes is that if you're the instructor, you
should be able to walk into a room full of people and they
should automatically be able to know you're the instructor
without knowing you're the instructor.
And that always stuck with me. And I think that's where like
the community support and the accountability factor was
because I loved going into a room and teaching for I mean, I
taught for five people. I've taught for 500 people,
right? And I love that aspect of just
that, like surrounded by that good energy and that community.
And I feel like if anybody knows Shanti and his workouts, you
could be in your living room with him on the TV and you feel
that, you know, so that was a big part of my journey.
God, right before my 9, before he was born, and I just felt
like that led me down a path of just just different aspects of
the fitness world too. It was, it was awesome.
I am forever grateful for that opportunity.
That is just the coolest. I love it.
What? Yeah.
What a what a fun kind of differentiating factor for the
trajectory of your career. Yeah.
It was awesome. Yeah.
Were you ever nervous teaching in front of, like, you know, 100
to 500 people? Not really.
I I would rather be nervous walking in front of people then
actually going up there and doing tuck jumps and you know
what I'm saying? And being on a microphone.
It was just a weird dynamic, but something about the music, about
the energy of the room, like just lit me up like nothing.
So fun. Yeah.
Early 2000s with Body Pump and Body Combat in my local all
women's gym, Total women. It was just like it was
everything. It's I would bring all of my
babies into the gym. I would nurse my child,
whichever one I was nursing at the time.
There's four of them. And then I would leave them
there for an hour, go to body combat, come back, nurse again,
maybe eat like a snack or something, go back for a body
pump. I was like, this is the best
thing ever. I'm a great mom the rest of the
day because I've gotten all the labels out and I feel like my
workout's done. They're happy because they're
playing with other kids. Great time in life.
And you surround yourself with that community of people and you
know what I'm saying? And like, something about that
was just, you know, the people that show up to the class was
just, it's unmatched, I always say.
Totally. Do you feel like your time in
Group fitness affects your choice of music now?
Oh, 100 percent, 100% So I am, I actually right now do a lot of
the Peloton workouts on like the Peloton treadmill or I do fall
like a lifting program. But anytime I am doing a workout
to music it has to be all about the music 100%.
Like I look at playlists before I even do the workout.
Does like. What are some of the songs on
your current playlist right now for working out?
Oh. My God, I am a big rock fan, so
I love anything by like The Killers, 3 Doors Down.
I'm just a big 80, like 80 or 90's rock, like Def Leppard,
like Guns and Roses, like anything like that.
And I love, I like a lot of EDM tracks too, because I feel like
there's a lot of different remixes and stuff and I used to
use a ton of those at my classes.
Yeah, I'm pretty much obsessed with EDM.
So fun and great to workout too. Yep, it's funny you say that too
because my youngest is 14 years old and he's trying to impress
me with his music choices sometimes because we're like a
big music family. So he put on Blink 182's damn it
yesterday in the car and he just started like rocking out and he
just side eyed me. He's like, I've never seen you
react this way before to any of my songs.
I was like, bro, that's my song. Music will motivate you in a
different way. 100% believe that.
Yeah, I think that's part of the catharsis of exercise for me for
sure. Yeah.
Yeah, me too. The music that goes along with
it. So you basically, I mean, you
grew up in this space, right? 23 years starting at the age of
17. So walk me through a little bit
of your personal journey. Obviously you had a child in
there like around 10 years ago. So that changes things to where
did you get to the point and how did you get to the point where
you thought, OK, there needs to be a different tool because
things are starting to change. Yeah, so my son's nine years
old. I went through a divorce when he
was about 6 months and at that point I utilized workouts for
more of the mental aspect. Like it wasn't about the outside
aesthetic periods. It was about like mentally
getting through that. I always worked out.
Like I did all of the beach body workouts for years, all of
Shanti's programs. Right now, I coach my clients
through the Faster Way workouts, right?
I haven't. I have an app and I trade my
clients. So I always was a person who was
showing up on social media, working out, doing all the
things, talking about macros. So the the switch that hit was
in January of this past year, I found myself up 13 lbs and I had
no idea why. Like I could see if I was eating
bad or I could see if I wasn't moving.
And I was just to the point where like my rings were tight
on my fingers, my jeans were tight and anybody to look at me
would have been like, you look great.
You know, I'm tall, so I carry my weight well, but I knew I was
just like I always said, like my fighting weight, like I just, it
was like 13 lbs over that. So I happened to see a friend on
Instagram, my friend Danny, and I was just like interested in
the GOP ones, kind of like looking at him.
And she shared her story with me and I was a huge skeptic.
I was like, as a person in the fitness industry, this is an
easy way out. Like 100% like I am not going to
do what it's eat right, track your steps, do your macros, all
those things. And it wasn't till I started
basically going down a rabbit hole now of educating myself and
I was like, you know what? I have to stop being a skeptic
and just do my own education. Well, that led to podcast after
podcast and YouTube video after YouTube video.
And I was like, I came to the conclusion where I was like, you
know what, I have to just try it for three months.
I was at that point where I just did not feel good on my own
skin, right? And then scale was going up 3
lbs down, one up to down. And it just was like this
constant yo-yo. And I actually think I was at
the point where I was like over depriving myself, like, you know
what I mean? Like I was just like stuck in
this hamster wheel. So I started researching,
decided to do a low dose of tirzepatide, a micro dose.
And within two weeks I think I lost like 6 or 7 lbs.
But I felt like just the puffiness and the inflammation
like melted off. And I was like, I gotta start
talking about this to people, you know, because I feel like I
help so many people in that space that are doing the same
exact thing. And I feel like that's kind of,
I'm not really, I'm not like any of my social media stuff is not
really towards women who need to lose 5100 lbs.
It's like the women who are like Aaron, I'm dialed in my
nutrition, I'm getting my steps in, I'm working out and
nothing's happening. So I, I always like to tell
myself like, I got to be a product, the product first.
So I was like, how am I gonna talk to people about this if I
don't have my own journey, my own story and my own experience?
So I looked at it from that and haven't looked back since then.
Amazing. I think your story is very
similar, I think, to a lot of people in the health and fitness
space who kind of feel a little bit taken aback when they
realize that all these things that they've done for 1020 years
that I've always worked just stop working.
Like you said, it's not like you were sitting on the couch eating
cheese puffs, right? And watching TV and like
drinking wine every night. And I think so many women
coaches, medical professionals or lay people are in that boat.
But they, they've been, you know, sold this false bill of
goods where people are like peptides cheating.
But what you realize, you realize, you know, the thing
that really sets people apart in using peptides is whether or not
their foundations are met. If those foundations are dialed
in, gosh, that peptide response is so much more enhanced.
So tell me some of the things because you said within, you
know, two weeks you're down 7 lbs.
That's, that's incredible. Did you change anything else at
that time or did you just keep doing what you were doing?
All right, so tell us what those things are.
So I kept doing everything that I was doing and I, like I said
before, I manage a busy coffee shop for my day job.
I literally probably come home with 20,000 steps every day just
from being at the coffee shop, right?
And I intentionally would string train maybe four to five days a
week, maybe do one hit workout. And then I love to walk.
Like that is my mental place. Like right now where I live
right now, you can't really walk outside because it's snowing,
but I have a treadmill. I would walk for 30 minutes
every single day. All the things I was already
doing, trying, making sure I was pretty much aiming for at least
1g per pound of protein, which I, you know, teach to my clients
anyways. I was always tracking calories
and protein and doing nothing different.
And just layering in this tool was like the little push that I
needed. And I think honestly would help
me shift like from the skepticalism too was like
realizing that these aren't drugs.
So many people I think associate them with the big pharma
versions and realize and that it's a peptide that we already
make in our body. Like that changed my mental
aspect of it too. But I did nothing different in
those two weeks. Yeah, yeah, it's very comforting
when you understand the Physiology of what a peptide
does in humans, for sure. Yeah.
So I let's go back to the protein aspect because you were
on a microdose, so that's probably where a lot of your
clients would start to, I would assume.
One of the things I do hear from my women and sometimes my men
is, you know, I've, I know I need to eat a lot of protein.
I like to eat a lot of protein, but I just don't feel like
eating as much protein now that I'm on a micro dose and I find
it hard to get it in. So what are some of your best
tips for people struggling with that?
Yeah, so I always say let's start like start at the
baseline. So I have a lot of clients like
in my in my groups, in my community, we'll do like 100
grams a day protein challenge, right, Just to get people
started. Because I feel like if someone's
tracking their protein and they're at 50 grams of protein a
day, it's not really going to be feasible, say, to go up to 150
overnight. So let's have like little
stepping stones to get there, right?
So if you're at 50 grams of protein start, go to 75 for a
week, then try to get to 100. But I really think, I mean, as a
macro coach, I think it's important to at least know what
your current intake is like. People are always so like put
off, but I'm not tracking anything.
OK, I don't want you to track everything because I used to
track every little thing and now I just look at my protein,
right? And I feel like get yourself a
food scale on Amazon, at least track the protein grams because
a lot of times people think they're eating enough protein
and they're not even close. So I always like to use that
guide with people. And for me, I always start every
single day, my first meal with anywhere from 40 to 50 grams
protein. And I think that sets me up.
And I try to make sure my last meals around the same so that
now I'm not coming at dinner being like I have to get 100
grams of protein and at one meal, you know, and I feel like
it can be different. Like it doesn't have to be like
breakfast foods, doesn't have to be oatmeal.
It doesn't have to be toast and cereal, which are no protein.
Like I'm a big component of taking some leftover chicken
thighs that I made at night or some meat, throwing it with a
couple eggs. So I feel like you just have to
change that, that like what you really think would be like a
breakfast meal or a meal and just really try to incorporate
different proteins and try. I think my key is really trying
to get people the least front load their protein in the
morning. I think that's key.
I really like that and that's funny because I have the same
issue. I think the thing that I get the
most pushback from on my clients is trying to get them to eat
something besides breakfast food like oatmeal or chia seed
pudding or a smoothie. This morning for breakfast, I
had ground Turkey, rice and shredded carrots with like a
homemade peanut sauce. It was, I felt great afterwards.
It was delicious. It felt like breakfast, but you
know, switching from maybe more traditional breakfast foods like
those carb heavy crisp foods or no breakfast at all to, you
know, being a little bit more open minded with your protein
sources I think can be a really good benefit for people who are
starting their their peptide journey.
Yeah, yeah, IA 100% believe that.
And I think you just have to change like what you've always
known to try something different.
And I, I'm a big component of that too.
And I always tell people to at least kind of least track your
protein so you have an idea of where you're going.
Because you won't know you know what I'm saying, if you don't
start tracking it and have an idea.
For someone who's never tracked their protein or macros before,
where would you start? Guy I always tell people to I
mean download any app that you like one of my favorite ones is
the lose it app it's free or my fitness pal is always a big one.
And I would say at least start tracking your protein.
So get a cheap food scale at least weigh out what your 4
ounces of chicken is, you know what your your meat is or
anything like that. I just really try to have people
just track the protein just because I think everything else
can kind of, I mean, it's kind of like a swing.
Like some days your cars might be higher, some days your fats
might be higher. But I feel like take the average
of your five days. I always say like Monday through
Friday because I feel like Saturdays and Sundays are a
little different for people and look at the average.
So if you're averaging 75 grams of protein every day, let's at
least try to get to 100, right? And then my ultimate goal is
let's try to maybe get to 110 the following week.
And my ultimate goal is always 1g per pound of lean body or
your goal weight, right? And that seems to be like the
sweet spot for a lot of people. And I'm type, I could eat
probably 200 grams protein a day now because I always, you know
what I'm saying? That's like what I crave now I
feel like. So I feel like just getting
people that on ramp system helps a lot.
What are your top three foods for protein?
I love boneless skinless chicken thighs.
I love chicken but I feel like for years I just was always
eating like plain chicken. Like so I'm just like over
chicken. I just love boneless skinless
thighs. I love.
Love eggs, 100% fresh eggs. And then I love just like grass
fed ground beef. I feel like that's so easy to
make like a Taco bowl or some sort of bowl.
And that's my eating style. Like, give me a bowl, give me
some protein, maybe some sweet potatoes, some pickled onions,
some avocado. Like just throwing it all in
there with like some good hot sauce and I'm I'm golden.
Easy. I love it.
I did a reel this week where I was trying to explain to you
like how you can pull down some of the other expenses in your
life to, you know, pay for your peptides because yeah, it can be
a little bit expensive. But I was doing some of the
math. I'm like, if you sit in the
drive through line for just 10 minutes a day as opposed to meal
prepping for 60 minutes and literally that's what it takes
me. I DoorDash my grocery, so it
doesn't take me any longer. I just have to put them away.
And then spending an hour on Saturday or Sunday meal
prepping, particularly protein and even like taking time to
portion it out has saved me and my kids.
Really it saved my kids too, because they're all athletes.
So much time and so much effort, so much money.
Every time I'm like, why are you going to Taco Bell to my 16 year
old? I'm like, that's $10 at Taco
Bell of like the world's tittiest food.
Yeah, I. Know just.
Eat what we have here. And I always, like you said, I
bulk prep like 2 proteins on Saturday or Sunday and then I
just build meals throughout the week with that, you know what I
mean? And I feel like that sets me
especially I work 10 hour days. So I need something that is like
quick and easy. I can throw in a throw in a
bowl, you know what I mean? And have a meal prep like some
sweet potatoes. And I feel like that just helps
me. I feel like if you're prepared,
that's half the battle. A.
Lot. Absolutely.
I'm a big fan of planned daily
treats in my practice, like something fun just to have
people to look forward to. But this takes on a whole new
meaning when you own a chain of coffee shops.
Yeah, tell me, what is your indulgence or go to at work?
Oh God, at work we have everything.
Like literally, we have the most delicious cinnamon rolls,
scones, everything. But I love that you said that
because I'm a big person on you can't deprive yourself too much
because I feel like once you start saying I can't have
something, you want it even more, right?
So I love, I love just these little treats we have.
They're macaron. I think they're called macarons.
Macaroons. You can get them.
They're like French little cookies.
And I feel like it's just enough that I look forward to that
little sweet treat. And it's just it's portioned,
you know what I mean? So like for me, it's that.
And I also love like a good piece of dark chocolate or you
know, some dark chocolate with some almond butter, stuff like
that. But I always try to teach people
too. It's like I have a nine year
old. Am I not going to want to go out
for ice cream with him in the summertime?
Like, am I not going to want to go out have pizza?
So it's not this all or nothing. And I I feel like being on the
tirzepatide for almost a year, I feel like I am the most normal
eater I have ever been. Same.
It's crazy. It's a gift.
Wild. Des.
I still cannot believe that but my brain just works normally
around food. My body just works normally
around food. I'm like this is how my normal
size normal brained friends feel all the time and my husband all
the time. It's just it.
It is mind blowing. Yep, Yep, 100%.
So when you, when you kind of started introducing this in your
own life, you were a little hesitant about it, I think as
most of us were. But then as you started seeing
the benefits, I remember you saying, like, I, I want to start
talking about it. So how did you start introducing
the concept of peptides to your your clients?
Well, I have a good presence on social media already and I feel
like a lot of people follow me. A lot of I, I feel like a lot of
people trust me. They know what my, you know, my
opinion matters. And I honestly just put it out
there, like, look, I was a skeptic.
Like I had this huge, huge post, right?
Like I was a skeptic. I thought that was the easy way
out. I thought peptides were cheating
until I started educating myself.
And what I started doing was anybody who came to me for
information, I would be like, hey, here's a great podcast I
listen to that, change my trajectory.
Listen to it, give me your thoughts.
I feel like I've really LED with education more than anything and
having people make their own informed decision like I did.
And I feel like, you know, having that like know and trust
factor already from being in the fitness space and being in the
nutrition space that people knew that I wasn't just trying to
sell them anything or trying, you know, they were like, OK, I
air in a new air. I was struggling.
I was staring at before I started the peptides.
Like I don't know why I'm gaining weight.
I don't know what's happening. So I just feel like having that
education piece was like the missing piece for a lot of
people. And I still to this day always
sharing education weekly, you know, podcast, your podcast
weekly in my newsletters and not only peptides, but like today I
had a newsletter that went out and it was like from the Mind
Pump media guys, if you follow them.
And it was like how walking is so like underrated.
And it was like that type of education.
Like it's not all peptides, it's nutrition, The Walking, all the
other supportive healthy habits that we should be doing.
So good not discounting those things that you would do anyway
if you were trying to push into your health and fitness and
Wellness and midlife. This is just the amplifier and
maybe make some of those things work a little bit better.
I'm curious too, a little bit about macros because I worked
for the company who did macros for their clients.
And I just, I, I actually ended up not working for that company
anymore because I felt like I was beating my head against the
wall with some of these clients are like Jennifer, I upped my
protein, I lowered my fat. Like I keep losing and gaining
the same 2 lbs over and over again.
And I just wanted to like tear my hair out.
I'm like, I'm so sorry. I don't know what else to do
with you. It's good work, but there's this
growing swell of women that were promised, you know, results with
macros, maybe got him for a period of, but then they just
stopped working along with everything else.
So how excited are you to be able to like use that great tool
because macros are a great tool for your women.
But now with this extra tool, are you seeing that maybe you
know, they're they're working better with that macro
component? Yeah, and I feel like they're
it's working better because I feel like their their food
noises may be gone. And I feel like a lot of times,
like people will say they track macros and they're doing it, but
like then they, I don't track those.
I call it BLT's bites, licks and tastes, which we're all guilty
of that. You know what I mean?
Like I have a nine year old. He I'm making peanut butter and
Jelly sandwiches. You know how many times I've
licked the spoon on the peanut butter?
But like you don't take into account like how many calories
that is or your coffee Creamer, just little things like that
that you don't take into account for.
But I, I feel like macros are good for some people and
probably not for a lot of people, right?
So I feel like it's a tool and I feel like anybody that comes in
with me now, I just focus on calories and protein.
Like that's much easier because you can kind of let your fats
and carbs kind of vary throughout the day.
And as long as you're in a calorie deficit, if that's your
goal and you're meeting your calorie number, then you can
kind of let everything else kind of sway back and forth, so to
speak. But I think that's make it made
it a little bit easier for people just to focus on the
calories and protein. Absolutely.
I love that. Just keeping it simple.
It can feel very overwhelming to feel like you have to track
everything. And I was I was teaching this
week and there's a study that that I read that said dieting is
stressful for the body will raise stress hormones like
cortisol. But also this study showed that
even the act of tracking your calories, your protein, your fat
is also enough to raise cortisol in the body.
And I thought, that's so interesting.
And maybe that's some of the pushback I've gotten in the
past, like from clients is like their nervous systems are
already stuck in fight or flight mode.
They're like, I just can't do one more thing.
And then I'm like, well, you know, chuckle, your fiber for me
and your potassium. You're like, Jennifer, I hate
you. Yeah.
I know I feel like a lot of people come into that and
they're just like, I don't want to do any of that, you know what
I mean? So it's like I can start with a
baby stuff. I'm just letting me know how
much protein you're currently getting.
And then we'll try to like ramp it up a little bit, like one
step at a time. I really love that urine.
It's kind of freeing for women for sure.
I want to ask you too. So within the first couple weeks
you were down 6 or 7 lbs, but you did end up losing more than
that. So can you walk me through kind
of the rest of your journey to where you gotten now at this
point? Yep so I have been micro dosing
now since April. My first injection was April
29th so I think this past Wednesday.
I don't know why I did a Wednesday.
I just happened to do a Wednesday.
And so it's been 45 weeks. I have one of those Hume Bodpod
scales. I love it.
I'm a data nerd. So like I love it.
So I lost, I believe I lost about 20, about 20 ish pounds by
August, mid August. And then I so the cool thing
with the Hume bodpod scale is that you hear all these horror
stories of people like, oh, you're going to lose all your
muscle mass, you're going to lose.
But if person A is taking tirzepatide and not doing
nothing birthday person B like myself and who I'm talking to,
their strength training, they're doing all the things kind of
vastly different results, right? And my muscle mass actually went
up. My body fat went down about I've
been now it's down about 10% since when I started.
And I've started kind of playing around with other peptides right
around like mid August. But so I'm down.
I right now I'm kind of maintaining, I'm doing even a
lower dose of a micro dose just to maintain and I've been
maintaining about that 25 LB weight loss within like a 1 to 3
LB normal fluctuation. Yeah.
Also, which is a gift I feel like for some, I mean just for
me, knowing that in the past I've, you know, I can fluctuate
5 to 10 lbs any given month. Just being able to know I can
wake up in the morning, put on any of the jeans in my closet.
I know they're going to fit 1 to 3 lbs and no big deal.
Before my period. It's definitely 3 lbs.
Oh yeah, period. I just go right back to normal.
Like I like I said, it is mind blowing and it absolutely is
almost feels miraculous to me. I'm like, do people just live
like this all the time? Because I felt like for years I
was just that person that was in that constant, like, you know,
it was the food noise, it was the obsessiveness, it was the,
you know, compulsive behaviors around food and around exercise.
And I just feel like, I just feel like a weight's been
lifted, you know what I mean? Like.
So physically, literally, metaphorically, 100%.
I'm just looking at my Hume data here and I I, I love this too.
So my skeletal muscle mass is on the high side of standards of
71.8 lbs of muscle, which feels pretty good to me.
And my metabolic age. I put put this up a little bit
ago because I was also proud of myself. 32 years.
I feel like with muscle, muscle mass a little higher, body fat a
little lower, bone density a little bit stronger, it
definitely reverses some of those effects of aging that I
was experiencing. You know, as I entered into
perimenopause, a lot of my blood lab markers are also down.
Hemoglobin A1C is down, triglycerides are down, LDL is
down, HDL is up. So being able to track some of
those things, like with the Hume or any other, I mean any other
scale that does that or Embody or DEXA or whatever is very
motivating for people because we always say it's not just about
the weight and it's not, but these are easier ways to
understand and, and you know, really take in that it's not
just about the weight. There's deeper things happening
in the body. Oh yeah, 100%.
And I feel like the Hume was great too for when I started
doing some of the human growth releasing peptides because I
could see the body fat going down and the muscle going up.
Maybe the scale went up 1 or 2 lbs.
So you know, I kind of just like brought me down back to a level
to know like OK, that's what I want.
If the scale goes up and the body fat went down, I'm still
building, the skeletal muscle went up and I'm still on the
right track. And I always plug in all my data
every week into ChatGPT because I have a thread going and I
just, yeah, I say like, give me a rundown.
And I'm going to be working on like a body recomp kind of
thing. So I'm trying to play around
with that to give me give the trainer chat PPT is going to
give me my own, you know, guide to recomposition.
But I think it's just cool knowing those data points and
just kind of shifting your perspective around it.
Oh, absolutely, for sure. And there's always a next step
to get to a team, which is fun, you know?
So you started stacking. You didn't just stop.
It turns up tide. So tell me about it.
So my first peptide after Trespatide and I'm on it right
now still is, was the Tessa Moreland slash IPA Moreland.
I really love that one. However, I just noticed that I
could not take it at night. I had to take it in the morning.
It was, I don't know, I couldn't sleep if I was taking it at
night. So I actually reached out to
doctor Jason Peznik and he told me, he said just try it in the
morning and I felt a lot better in the morning taking it.
I did a cycle of that, cycled off of it and then I'm just a
big component to him. Like if I want to know about
these peptides, I have to be product the product.
I have to be able to take them and talk about them.
And then I started doing GHK CU and I've cycled on and off of
that one since, God, maybe probably September.
I love that one. That's one of my favorites.
And then what other one did I do?
OPC 157, I've done that one for. I had like a shoulder.
It wasn't anything that showed like anything on MRI, like maybe
just like a ligament, something going on.
I swear to God, after 10 days of doing BPC 157, my shoulder was
like, I could have had so much more range of motion that I did
like 10 days before that. So I used that one.
And then right now my current stack is just the Tirzepatide
and the GHKCU. And then I'm still taking BPC
157 right now. When you were on the Tessa Eppa
blend, did you notice any of the water weight that a lot of women
experience? OK, tell me about that.
I. Noticed about a 2 LB water rate.
But when I kind of started looking into more of the Tessa
Eppa and knowing like look at the body fat a little bit more
and the skeletal muscle, I noticed that my skeletal muscle
jumped, my lean mass jumped, my body fat went down when I was
actually on the Tessa EPA. So I, I kind of just, you know,
even though I was looking at the scale number, but I think the
old me would have been assessed about that.
I knew that the body metrics, everything was going where it's
supposed to be going. I think it kind of subsided
after about a month of taking it.
Then, you know, the water retention went down.
So a. Fantastic reason to track that
is that's. What I tell people, you know,
you have to track so you can just not rely on the scale
because the scales and show everything you know.
But I noticed muscles popping like I'm excited to actually try
the one with the KPV here coming.
I just ordered it. Yeah.
Did you come today? I'm excited.
I love that too because yeah, when I did it been Tessa in the
past, I did have that 5 lbs of water weight.
So I ended up giving it to Bo, my husband.
It went back to summer Ellen. He loves it.
But I, I preferred summer Ellen. So when I saw that KPV was
compounded with the Tessa, knowing the anti-inflammatory
benefits of KPVI was like, oh, hey, heck yes.
Like I'm ordering this today. So I can't wait to report to
everybody and and let you guys know what's going on.
But you know, I'll be tracking on my hum pod too.
Oh yeah, yeah, and I think it too, it's important to like play
around like just cuz it says it's at night.
If you can't, maybe try it for a week in the morning and kind of
find where that sweet spot is. You know what I mean to see.
But for me, just the night time dose just made me wired.
But if I took it in the morning, I was fine.
So. GHKCU, you said that it's your
favorite and you've done a couple rounds of it.
So what is your experience then GHKCU?
So with GHKCUI just feel like my skin looks better than ever.
Like I feel like I just wear like mascara and a tinted
moisturizer. I don't need any kind of
foundation. I feel like the elasticity of my
skin is great. I feel, I feel like it's very
very like kind of similar to BPC too.
Like what I've read about GHKCU is it's very good for tissue
regeneration, for wound healing, the anti-inflammatory benefits.
So that's one that I recommend to a lot of women and I feel
like as women too, like we're big on the beauty side of it and
to be like this hair, skin, nails, collagen, that one's just
one of my favorites. I I noticed like a glow with it
so to speak. Truly, truly.
Yes, yeah, the. Glow.
The glow. So when you started introducing
peptides to clients, what were some of the things that you
began noticing with your clientele as they, you know,
kind of ran their own journeys? Yeah, so I started noticing like
right off the bat, like they were sending me messages all the
time of, Oh my God, the scale has finally moved.
Like I think that was the biggest 1.
And I mean, this was a point where like they were doing all
the things and nothing was happening and it kind of just
was that tool to get the needle moving in the right direction.
And I feel like the micro dose is so important.
And that's, that's probably 98% of my clients.
Because like I said, it's like the women I'm talking to are
like 10 lbs to 20, 2020, 25 lbs is where they want to be.
And I feel like it's just enough not to crush their appetite, but
it's just enough to get that food noise reduced, maybe to get
their cravings under control. And I, I mean, I, I always share
screenshots of what I check in with my clients and they're just
like, I can't believe how good I feel, how less inflamed I feel.
And I think you don't know until you actually, you know what I'm
saying, Try it. And you actually realize, like a
lot of people, like I noticed right away in my rings on my
fingers when they were tight. And then like, Oh my God, you
know what I mean? Like just little things like
that, You know, a big one for me too, I always share with people
too, is like I said, I love peanut butter.
And I noticed one day I was like, I didn't even want any
peanut butter. Like I didn't even want to go
like, like, just like weird stuff like that, you know what I
mean? But I feel like that was for a
lot of my clients was just that final, like, uh, finally
something is working, you know? Absolutely.
Yeah.
They're just, they're just so energized and hopeful after for
some of these women, you know, my clients, me 20 years, 30
years trying all of these things.
I was laughing because you brought up the cabbage soup diet
and I went to school, UC Davis. And I remember we in our dorms,
we had a communal kitchen at the end of the hall and there was
boys and girls in these dorms. And I remember I made myself a
huge pot of cabbage soup and literally everyone on the floor
was like, what are you doing? It's.
Yeah. Disgusting.
Yeah. So I'm sorry I.
Remember being in high school bringing the little grapefruit
juice and the grapefruit diet, like, you know what I mean?
While my friends were sitting here eating pizza.
It was just this, it was, you know, it was something just, I
always was brought up around diet culture and, you know,
always trying to lose weight. So it just resonates with me.
When I heard you say you had a a video the other day saying all
these different diets that you tried, I was like, Oh my God,
it's so weird. Every single one of them.
Thanks a lot, Mom. Yep, Yep.
What's next on your wish list for peptides?
So what do you think is going to happen the next couple months
for you? Well.
I'm definitely want to do the Tessa and the KPV and I'm just
really but a point now just kind of maintain and kind of feel it
out and kind of cycle on and off for a few things.
I might, I might try cycling off a little bit of the micro just
just to kind of give my receptors a little bit of a
break and see how I feel. I feel like that's a big
question. I get a lot of times is like,
oh, do I have to stay on it forever?
And I'm open with people. I'm like, these peptides have
been around for years and they're meant to be long term.
Personally, I feel for me, if I feel as good as I do, if I go
off it for a couple weeks and I, I feel as good as I do now, I
probably, this will probably be something I will invest in for
the rest of my life because I feel so good, you know?
And I don't know, I just feel like just helping to help women
just really be educated. Like that's a big part of who I
am. I feel like just as being a
trainer and being a group fitness instructor and I feel
like I'm just naturally always been some sort of a teacher to
people in that aspect. So I feel like just helping
people stay informed, stay educated, be advocates for
themselves, not listen to the naysayers and all the fear
mongering around that. And you know, I'm just having
fun really building that strong community of women to really
kind of help educate themselves. And that's.
Why yes, I love that you're an educator.
We love you took our peptides for practitioners I.
Love it. I think I finished a course in a
weekend. Yes.
Oh, you're having so much fun with that, So thank you for
doing that. And you're right.
I mean, people all get confused because there is a lot of noise
about peptides online. Most of it's probably fairly
reliable, but some of it is completely unreliable.
And so, you know, your clients having a source to go to and
getting to chat with you, knowing that you've done it
yourself for a long time, that you are educated and getting to
teach on it, I think provides a lot of of clarity, like kind of
grounding, you know, for women. I am curious, when you're
working in the coffee shop, are you talking about peptides with
some of the people there? Because they have to have seen
you and been like, Aaron, what are you doing?
We know you do this for a living, but really, what are you
doing? Oh yeah, no, I 100% have
conversations with staff with customers.
Like I pretty much in my local area.
I've, I mean, I ran a whole gym back in my local area.
So I have a good presence right in the community.
And a lot of people already see on my Instagram, my Facebook
stuff, so they'll like start chatting to me about peptides
and I'm just a social bee. So I'm like in the coffee shop,
walking around, talking to all the customers.
And then I'll just be like, Hey, let's have our conversation.
Message me on Facebook or here's my number, right?
We'll, we'll connect. I'm a big person on getting
people on phone calls. I love to talk to people.
Like I literally like, let's just jump on a 15 minute call.
Let me try to like, like, like deter you of being a skeptic and
give you my journey and give you my story.
And yeah, I'm always constantly talking, talking to people in
person online. And I feel like that that's a
missing piece a lot of times for a lot of people is knowing
somebody who's done it and then following along on their journey
too. It's just it's a little
different way. Yeah, we all want human
connection, right? We could actually read an
Instagram post or a book about getting to talk to somebody
who's been there. I think that's why I love Amazon
reviews. Like, I want to know exactly
your experience with this water bottle.
I. Hate it for everybody, for tank
tops, water bottles like you said.
Anything I'm always reading, I scroll through reviews first.
I need to, it's almost like my downtime.
It's it's ridiculous. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But that, that human connection, especially for something as as
relatively new for, you know, most consumers as peptides can
be just very reassuring. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for
sure. Yeah.
And I feel like that's like where I'm leading my clients
too, is it's just like helping them to understand and educate
themselves. And I'm, I'm a big thing.
I think that's what happened when I was with Beachbody for
years is I always had like these private support groups and
accountability groups. And that's kind of what I
brought into my peptide space was like, OK, I want to check in
on all my clients every week or two.
I want to be able to, you know, text them, have conversations,
but also have this support and accountability factor because I
think that's a lot of times, especially with women, we're
missing that. So if we can even be talking to
women that are in this Facebook group that are like literally
500 miles from each other, you know what I'm saying?
But have that connection and have people doing the same
similar journeys, I think that's powerful for a lot of people.
Yeah, fully agree. Love it Aaron, this has been so
fun getting the challenge. I just loved that we got this on
this time together and I know people are going to want to know
about you. So where can people find you?
So pretty simple on Instagram or Facebook, it's just Aaron
Goodman on either platform. My website is work with
resultsmatter.com. That was my, my, my business
name was Results Matter. So work with resultsmatter.com
or just Aaron Goodman on Facebook or Aaron Goodman on
Instagram, Instagram and you'll see me a hot mess in the
mornings, drinking my supplements and chatting to
myself on Instagram all the time and just really having a lot of
just one-on-one conversations with people.
That's a big part of who I am. And what if somebody's in the
local area and wants a really good cup of coffee in a
macaroon? So if you're in the local area
of Upstate New York, in Utica, Rome area, that's where I'm
from, we have Utica coffee roasting.
We have two locations and then if you want to find us on
Amazon, we have Wake the Hell Up, which is our our product
that we actually have on Amazon right now.
OK, Aaron, send it over to me. I'm definitely going to grab
some of that. Oh God, it's so good.
We have pistachio, cannoli, all sorts of great flavors.
Yeah, stop it right now. Oh my goodness.
OK, getting off and ordering coffee.
All right, Aaron, thank you for your time today.
It has been a joy. And thank you to everyone who
listens to the Peptides for Women podcast.
Much love to all of you. Thank you for your support and
thank you for tuning in. We will see you next time.