Health and wellness influencer Janelle Rohner had been documenting her weight loss journey long before she admitted to using a GLP-1 to help her progress.
The nurse initially kickstarted her wellness journey after giving birth to her two daughters, looking for solutions to shed the extra pounds she gained during pregnancy. After her progress stalled, Rohner turned to the controversial weight loss medication to assist the process.
“I started working with a doctor, and we decided to add a GLP-1 to my plan. GLP-1s are not magic, [and] they don’t change your lifestyle overnight,” Rohner said in an April 2025 YouTube video. “It’s just a tool to help; I still had to show up.”
The social media star supplemented her dosage with working out, tracking meals and drinking plenty of water.
Health and wellness influencer Janelle Rohner has been using a GLP-1 medication to lose weight. “This isn’t easy to say, but I owe it to you to be honest. Janelle Rohner is microdosing a GLP-1,” Rohner, 37, wrote in a YouTube description for a Wednesday, April 23, video. “I’ve quietly been working on my mental […]
“[Taking a GLP-1] just helped me regain a sense of control, and it’s something that I don’t want to be ashamed of,” Rohner noted at the time. “I don’t think other women or men, who are using this tool should feel ashamed either because if there’s a tool out there that can help with your mental and physical health, you deserve to explore that without feeling guilty.”
After dropping approximately 10 pounds, Rohner said that she started “microdosing” the GLP-1.
“I switched to microdosing for maintenance, and I would, maybe, do a microdose once a month,” she added. “I also paired those new lifestyle changes with something that was a real game changer for me — I started seeing a therapist regularly.”
Keep scrolling for everything Rohner’s said about her weight loss journey:
Quitting the Keto Diet
In 2021, Rohner switched from following the Keto diet to a low-carb meal plan. (A ketogenic diet involves consuming a very low amount of carbohydrates, replacing them with fat to help the body burn fat for energy.)
“Keto was the right answer for me for a long time,” she said in a November 2021 YouTube video. “I enjoyed it, it was fun [and] I was having fun with food. I felt great [and] I was losing weight.”
She claimed that an onslaught of fan criticism and “hate” brought her to a toxic place that made her no longer want to keep up with the plan.
“People were mad I wasn’t eating ‘bread.’ Then, I ate bread and they were like, ‘She’s a quitter. She’s a yo-yo dieter.’ I just felt, like, I couldn’t do anything right. I always said I would do keto as long as it was fun and sustainable and felt good and worked for me. The hate and negativity has really pushed me to a place where it’s not good for me anymore.”
Instead, Rohner started working with a nutritionist to plan her meals while prioritizing “balance.”
There’s ‘A Difference’
“‘You look the same’ — well, I don’t feel the same. I see a difference and are proud and happy with my results and how far I’ve come,” she wrote via Instagram in November 2022. “Not only with my fitness goals, but my relationship with food. I went from eating 20 net carbs/restricting to complete food freedom.”
Sharing Her Tips
Rohner often offers fans advice on nutrition via YouTube and her social media channels. (In addition to working as a nurse, Rohner is also a registered macro coach.)
“I want to stress that you should not be in extended deficits for extended periods of time,” Rohner said in a February 2023 YouTube video, discussing her month-long workout and diet challenges. “All it’s going to do is lower your metabolism and it’s going to become your new normal. We don’t want that. We want that metabolism burning and firing, so I suggest taking a diet break about every 12 to 15 weeks … let your body recover and then you can go back in to the deficit.”
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Postpartum Weight Loss
In February 2025, Rohner called her postpartum weight loss “a journey” in a candid Instagram update.
“I have always been into fitness ever since I was in my 20s. A lot of life happened since I had kids, I struggled with postpartum depression with my first. I had medical emergencies when delivering both my girls,” she said of her four-year experience. “COVID-19 and TikTok happened and, about, overnight my postpartum weight loss journey was all over the internet when I would eat: bell peppers, cream cheese and everything bagel seasoning.”
She added, “To make a long story short after losing 50 lbs since I had my second daughter (when I only gained 15 when I was pregnant with her) this is my body. And lately I’ve been feeling insecure about the skin on my stomach, but I want to share that just because I look fit or toned from the front view or when I flex my body also looks somewhat of a Shar Pei puppy from some angles. And if you are seeing influencers online and you’re comparing your body to theirs just remember they probably look just like I do from some angles.”
A Peek at Her Daily Diet
Now that Rohner has lost around 45 pounds, she makes sure to eat a protein-heavy diet. In a February 2025 Instagram video, she revealed her daily meals during an 8-hour nursing shift. Her day starts with overnight oats for breakfast, followed by chicken breast with rice and cucumber for lunch and a banana-flavored yogurt topped with walnut pies as a snack. Then, she served herself a modest helping of chicken alfredo with broccoli.
Addressing the GLP-1 Backlash
The fitness coach addressed the controversy of using a GLP-1 to slim down in April 2025.
“This hasn’t been easy to talk about, but it’s important to me to be transparent. I’ve been using a GLP-1, and I want to be clear about that,” Rohner wrote via Instagram. “My journey has never been about perfection, just growth, health, and honesty. If anyone felt misled, I’m truly sorry. I’m sharing this now from a place of sincerity, and I appreciate you being here with me.”
Rohner also runs an online class about macro proteins, subsequently offering refunds to any clients who felt duped by her secretive semaglutide use.
“I still wholeheartedly believe in tracking macros and the workouts that I do and my classes. I did not take a GLP-1 because I don’t believe in my classes and macro wasn’t working,” she explained. “I did it for other personal and health reasons to use as a tool to hit my goals. If people felt deceived by that, I really truly am sorry and I am willing to do a refund for anyone who bought a class in the last 11 months.”
