You’re Not Missing Content. You’re Missing Company.
Why this publication has two memberships, what each one is for, and why I built it that way.
I get some version of this question almost every week.
“What am I actually missing if I stay free?”
It’s a fair question. If you’re going to spend your money somewhere, you deserve to know exactly what you’re paying for. But before I explain the difference between the free and paid memberships, I want to explain something that matters even more to me.
I never wanted to build a publication where the free readers felt like they were standing outside with their faces pressed against the glass.
We’ve all experienced that version of the internet. You subscribe to something because you genuinely need help, and within a few days it becomes obvious that you aren’t actually welcome unless you pull out your credit card. The free version exists to remind you of everything you don’t have.
I hated that feeling.
So I built this differently.
What Free Actually Means
If you stay a free subscriber forever, I am genuinely happy you’re here.
Every Saturday you’ll receive a full article and a full podcast. Not a teaser. Not something I didn’t care about enough to reserve for paid members. Every week I choose something I believe deserves to be shared with everyone because I know there are women reading who simply aren’t in a season where another subscription makes sense.
I don’t want money to be the thing that keeps someone from hearing something that could change the way they see themselves.
That’s why free exists.
It isn’t a trial.
It isn’t a waiting room.
It’s a real relationship with this publication, and if Saturday mornings become our rhythm together, then I’m grateful for that.
Why Paid Exists
The paid membership wasn’t created because I had more things to sell.
It was created because one day a week wasn’t enough.
The deeper I got into my own GLP-1 journey, the more obvious it became that the hardest parts almost never happened on Saturdays. They happened on Tuesday when the scale jumped three pounds overnight. On Wednesday when the appetite suppression disappeared and I convinced myself the medication had stopped working. On Friday when I was exhausted, retaining water, and wondering if I’d somehow ruined everything.
That’s when people need support.
Not once a week. While it’s actually happening. That’s what the paid membership became. Not more content. More conversation. More context.
More places to ask questions, celebrate wins, make sense of setbacks, and remember that your body isn’t damaged just because it isn’t behaving the way you expected this week.
What We Actually Do Together
Every Monday we begin the week together.
The Monday Focus isn’t another motivational post telling you this is your week. It’s a chance to reset before life gets loud. We decide what matters, where we’re putting our energy, and what we’re letting go of before the week has a chance to make those decisions for us.
By Wednesday, most diets have already fallen apart.
That’s exactly why we have the Wednesday Check-In.
I’m there in the comments with everyone else. Members talk through cravings, side effects, frustrating weigh-ins, stressful weeks, victories they almost didn’t notice, and all the little moments that never make it onto Instagram. It feels much more like a conversation than a comment section, and over time you start recognizing names, celebrating people you’ve never met, and realizing you’re not doing this alone anymore.
Friday is one of my favorite days inside the publication.
It’s our weekly wins.
Not because everyone lost weight that week, but because weight loss isn’t the only thing worth celebrating. Someone finally hit their protein goal. Someone slept through the night. Someone walked into a restaurant without anxiety. Someone maintained instead of spiraling. Those things matter too, and I refuse to let them disappear just because the scale didn’t cooperate.
Then Sunday comes.
Every Sunday I post my weigh-in. The real number. Every single week. Even when I don’t like it. Especially when I don’t like it. Because if I’m asking you to trust the slow parts of this journey, then I have to show you mine too.
The Resources I Wish I’d Had From The Beginning
Alongside the weekly rhythm are the resources I wish someone had handed me when I started GLP-1.
The Missing Piece is the one I’m proudest of.
It’s an entire guide and workbook built around sleep, stress, and recovery, because those are the things quietly influencing your hunger, your energy, your cravings, your workouts, your water retention, and sometimes even the number staring back at you on the scale. Instead of wondering why your body keeps doing things that don’t make sense, you’ll build your own personalized 3R Recovery Plan so you leave understanding your body instead of fighting it.
Paid members also receive the GLP-1 Girl Code Journal, where you’ll start noticing the progress that never shows up in a weigh-in. The Bestiies Playbook answers the questions almost everyone has when they start medication but doesn’t know where to ask them. The ChatGPT for GLP-1 Success guide includes the exact prompts I use to work through stalls, side effects, confusing symptoms, and the weeks when my body isn’t behaving the way I expected.
You’ll also have access to the revamped GLP-1 Girl Method series, the weight loss tracker I built because I wanted one place where everything finally made sense, and Protein When You’re Not Hungry, which exists for those days when eating feels like a chore but nourishing your body still matters.
Founding Members have one more layer.
Every other Sunday morning we meet live.
They’re not coaching calls. They’re not webinars. They’re not presentations. They’re simply a room full of women who understand this journey sitting down together for an hour to talk about what’s real.
Honestly, those mornings have become one of my favorite parts of everything I’ve built.
Why You’ll Still See Every Post
One thing surprises people. Every post I publish goes to every subscriber.
Paid.
Free.
Everyone.
If a paid article goes out on Tuesday, you’ll still receive the email. You’ll see the title. You’ll read the beginning. You’ll know what we’re talking about inside the publication that day.
That isn’t a mistake, and it isn’t a marketing trick.
I could hide every paid post completely, but then free readers would never actually know what this publication is. They’d think I show up once a week, when the truth is we’re having conversations here every single day.
I want you to see the rhythm. I want you to see the questions we’re asking. I want you to know what exists before I ever ask you to pay for it.
The Honest Difference
So what are you actually missing if you stay free? You’re not missing me. You’ll still hear from me every Saturday. You’ll still receive every email I write.
You’ll still have a place here.
What you’re missing is everything that happens in between. The conversations that make a hard week feel survivable. The tools that help you stop guessing. The people who understand exactly why gaining two pounds overnight can ruin your mood.
The comments.
The check-ins.
The resources you come back to months later.
The feeling of opening your inbox on a random Wednesday and realizing someone is already talking about the exact thing you’re struggling with today.
That’s the difference. Free is a relationship. Paid is a community.
Free lets us stay connected. Paid lets us walk through this journey together.
There really isn’t a wrong door into this publication.
I just hope you choose the one that gives you what you need right now,
you always know where I’ll be,
» Nyk