Beware “Ozempic Face”
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Anonymous
| Unfortunately after Bombarding your brain with dh ethic satiation hormones that glp-1s do, the receptor become used to being flushed with them and when you go off it no longer respond to your bodies own satiation hormones. So you feel a lot hungrier than you did before you started the meds. One person wrote how they could eat 10000 calories after going off and not feel full. It’s sort of akin to how you feel depressed the day after doing cocaine.. your brain is like hey, I used all my happiness chemicals yesterday and now don’t have any left! |
Anonymous
Well, one can hardly argue with a straight face that the satiation hormones of obese people were working well prior to Ozempic. It is so weird how many of you are so angry about the existence of this drug. |
Anonymous
| It is not just satiation - there are some people whose hormones aren't working right and giving your body the instruction not to lose weight - I gained 50 lbs in 18 months after going through menopause WHILE on weightwatchers - before that i had maintained a healthy (below max weight for my height) weight for my entire life. These medicines are supposed to balance out those crossfires and let your body use the food properly again. |
Anonymous
I was thin for most of my life weight ballooned up during covid and it’s incredibly hard to take it off and keep it off, it like someone said the greatest predictor of being fat is getting fat. Once you are in that metabolic space it’s hard to get out. The way I’m treated by a lot of people now is absolutely shocking. All of a sudden I’m not smart or capable or deserving of respect it’s truly shocking. People can really be mean and the total accumulation of daily insult really can be quite depressing. I would never fault anyone for using any means to make it easier to lose weight. It’s hard to be fat. |
Anonymous
True. Best thing is to start reducing the mountain of toxic processed food most Americans consume. |
Anonymous
I wholeheartedly agree with responding poster here. I gained a huge amount of weight over the last decade while battling a kaleidoscope of health issues which are slowly resolving after I finally found doctors who looked past middle aged obese woman and believed me when I said something was wrong with my body, not just with my lifestyle choices. It turned out I was chronically deficient in B1 as well as suffering chronically elevated cortisol resulting from chronic insomnia and stress. Other health issues in play, but basically for years I had insatiable hunger which it turns out is a red flag that your body is SCREAMING and begging for NUTRITION. I was consuming the typical American diet and strict adherence to caloric restriction was not really working to release weight, even when I got my hormones in order and my sleep in order and my vitamin deficiency addressed. BUT, six weeks ago I embarked on a pledge to avoid all processed food for at least 30 days - I felt so good at the end of that time that I didn’t want to eat anything prepared outside my own kitchen - or I’ll do so only rarely and in very limited quantities. I’ve been applying my cooking skills to learning to prepare new foods that are mostly blue zone/Mediterranean diet compliant. These dishes are nutrient dense (I’ve never eaten so much spinach!) but also delicious. I use a lot of evoo, high quality that I purchase online straight from an olive grove in California. I almost never use butter anymore, just here and there as a treat. I do use cream in moderate quantities for quiche and some sauces, but it is always balanced with lots of good stuff. Every day I eat some walnuts, some garlic, some evoo, some raw unfiltered honey, some veggies. In the last couple of weeks my hunger has just GONE. It just isn’t there. It is beyond easy for me to stay within the caloric restriction set by my diet app, which is very reasonable. Sometimes I don’t even eat my whole allowance. But the foods I am eating are so healthful and so delicious my body and mind are sated. And I have more hope for the future than I have had in years, because outside of the typical standard American diet the inflammation that has plagued me has largely resolved and my body, though still obese, feels better than it has in many years - energy and vitality, it almost feels like my body is buzzing with life. Hard to explain beyond that, but it has made a huge impact on me. After years of reading volumes about nutrition, diet, exercise etc. I’ve made the connection that we are all powerless over our weight and food choices when we don’t have the basic building blocks of restful sleep and hormones in sync that we need to regulate our hunger in a world that is highly obesegenic with fast food on every corner and aisles of crap in the grocery store. Many people don’t even have a living memory of what it actually feels like to be in a body that is eating clean for any length of time - the difference between that and what a body feels like that regularly consumes processed crap, even a slender fit body, is remarkable. |
Anonymous
I saw this article on Today.com and it made me think of this thread. It's great that so many people getting healthier and happier on these drugs. This person lost 30 pounds. |
Anonymous
I’ve been on it since 2019. It stopped working for me in 2022 when I went through menopause and a health issue, and I rapidly gained back most of the weight I lost. While still taking the drug. I’m more hungry than usual. Anyone else have this happen? |
Anonymous
Pp here - when I was at peak Ozempic working I was just mildly hungry at 800 calorie a day and satiated at 1200. My A1C dropped from pre-diabetes to 4.8. It’s risen since. Maybe I messed up my metabolism? |
Anonymous
So, I am obese; however, my normal diet is fewer than 1800 calories a day (not the 10k or whatever people think obese people eat). For whatever reason (likely hormones), my metabolism is slow. I can only diet so much to lose weight — if I eat 1200 calories/day, I *might* lose a pound here and there, and eating fewer than 1200 is really hard and not sustainable, especially if I exercise regularly. I have mixed feelings about Ozempic. In one way, I think it’s a miracle drug; but in another way, it sucks because you basically just don’t eat, which is in healthy. I am trying to head into retirement healthy, so I am focusing on eating well and exercising, but I’m still fat. Maybe one day, scientists will figure this out! |
Anonymous
| *unhealthy (not in healthy) |
Anonymous
Can you do strength training to increase your metabolism? |
Anonymous
I'm not the PP you responded to, but strength training makes me hungrier. (I do it for the health benefits, but it is sort of goes counter to my goals. Lol) |
Anonymous
I think she looks better “before”. She looks sick in the second photo. |
Anonymous
This is what frightens me so much. I remember maybe a decade ago people were using adderall to lose weight off label. A lot of the people I knew who did that are obese now and they were only a little overweight before adderall. I read some where it messes up the metabolism so I guess different mechanism, but bad news. I also wonder, can people develop a tolerance to things like ozempic and do they eventually need a dose higher than what is allowed? |