Bringing Up Bates alum Erin Bates told viewers of her "Chad and Erin" vlog on October 17 that she lost 30 pounds after her seventh child without using a GLP-1 medication. "I did not do shots or any GLP-1s," Bates, 35, said. "I chose not to do that route just because of the side effects that it also has."

GLP-1 drugs are peptide-based medications that mimic a gut hormone involved in appetite and blood sugar regulation, the class that includes semaglutide and tirzepatide. Bates did not name any specific drug or specify which side effects she was weighing, and Us Weekly's write-up does not press her on it.

What she says worked instead

Bates described two things done together: a carnivore diet, which she characterized as "basically all meat, all dairy and eggs," and intermittent fasting. She said she ate within an eight-hour window, cut snacking, did not count calories, and stopped at around 80 percent full.

She added a weekly 24-hour fast, dinner to dinner, and later worked up to 36 hours, which she called the point where "the weight was falling off." She said she avoided fruits, vegetables, sugar, seed oils and white flour, and listed glutathione, vitamin C and magnesium as her only regular supplements.

Where the evidence stops

This is one person describing her own experience on her own channel, with no clinician quoted and no measurements beyond the 30-pound figure she gave herself. Bates called the carnivore phase "super great for your body," which is her framing, not a finding from anything.

There is also context worth keeping in view: Bates was hospitalized in September 2025 for septic shock after giving birth. A weight change in the months after a serious postpartum illness is not a clean test of any eating pattern, and nothing in the vlog separates those variables.

Why the denial is the story

The interesting part is not the diet, it is that a public figure now has to say out loud that she did not use a GLP-1. That expectation has become the default assumption around visible weight loss, and it is reshaping how celebrities talk about their bodies.

Bates said she began strength work only after losing roughly 25 pounds, having previously just walked daily with her two youngest children. What remains unanswered is anything about durability, since she is describing a few months, not years.