Could you share with us - were you just not able to maintain the dietary and exercise habits you’d used to lose the weight? |
Most people will gain back most of the weight they have lost if they do not change their eating and exercise habits FOR LIFE. That applies to any weight loss method. Semaglutide is no different. I’ve worked very hard to lose 40 lbs while on Wegovy and have accepted that I will have to count calories/macros daily and keep up my 3-4x week strength training and 5-6x week cardio indefinitely. I’m never going back to how I ate before. Right now I’m ecstatic that I am off blood pressure meds and have seen great improvements in lipid panel values. |
This was my internist's first reaction when I asked if I was a good candidate for it - "you've got to change your habits or it will all come back" |
Not everything is due to “inflammation” the new buzz word for all our bodies problems. Ozempic makes you feel full longer and thus, eat less. Once you stop, feel more hungry and go back to old habits you’ll gain the weight back. Many think losing weight is hard. What they don’t realize is maintaining that weight loss is even harder. |
+1 Exactly, it makes you feel full so you don’t eat as much. It’s not about inflammation. If you exercise, and burn more than your caloric intake, you lose weight. If you stop ozempic and go back to your old eating habits and don’t exercise, the weight will come back. Guaranteed! Many had the same issues with gastric bypass. You have to change your eating habits and change your lifestyle. |
I lost the weight on WW. Both times. Once I met my goal I stopped obsessively counting points. And then the weight returned. Both times. I don't ever want to go back to WW, the points counting became obsession (it kind of has to take over your life if you want it to work) and that is no way to live -- being obsessed all day every day with your food intake. That is how it was for me, anyway. It took me a year and a half to lose 90lbs, and when I met my goal I saw my doctor because I couldn't figure out why I was almost fainting and my hair was falling out; it was the sustained calorie deficit. That is the main reason I stopped counting the points the last time. But, yeah -- then the weight came back. And here I am. Obese again. |
And I read this article saying that a majority maintain their weight loss after a year. Im going with this research finding. https://epicresearch.org/articles/many-patients-maintain-weight-loss-a-year-after-stopping-semaglutide-and-liraglutide |
The only semi permanent weight lost is the gastric sleeve. Even then you still need to watch your diet. You can never out run the fork. |
Inflammation may be a buzzword but there is a lot of evidence on the association of inflammatory markers and obesity. In any event Ozempic corrects an underlying physical defect. Without it, the disease will return, often worse than before. |
The common line about senaglutides is that it isn’t “habits” that keep some people obese. It’s food noises and whatever hormones/chemicals the semaglutides suppresses . It stands to reason then that simply changing your habits won’t work once those people go off the semaglutides. The food noise will just return and the hormones that were suppressed will come back. We also know that fat cells store memory and are predisposed to holding fat once a person has been obese. I don’t see how keeping the weight off long term without the semaglutide would be possible for people who are truly chronically obese. |
New study:
Key Findings Two-thirds of patients are able to maintain weight loss achieved while on semaglutide or liraglutide even a year after discontinuing the medication. However, a portion of patients who stop taking either medication experience weight regain, with 18.7% of liraglutide users and 17.7% of semaglutide users regaining all the weight they had lost or more. https://epicresearch.org/articles/many-patients-maintain-weight-loss-a-year-after-stopping-semaglutide-and-liraglutide |
Why go off it? I lost 40 pounds. To maintain I’m playing around with a low dose and spreading out the shots. My doctor is monitoring and we’re figuring this out together. I’m fine with the idea of this for a long time. It’s life changing for me in wonderful ways. |
This is what I’m planning to do. I haven’t injected myself in two weeks and I’m still getting great results with no food noise. I hope to take the meds 1-2x a month when I get to maintenance. I’ve been on the medication for a year, and I’ve completely changed my eating and exercise habits. I’m not going to let myself go back to eating like “normal” and not exercising at all. |
The studies show that 20% gain it back...not "the vast majority" |