5'5" need to lose 12 lbs, looking at my BMR...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I say this as someone who is on it myself at a very low dose. It’s about $300 for every 5 months but is the difference between those 15 lbs no amount of exercise or diet would get off. My starting weight was 145 and now I am 128, work out 4x a week, eat healthy, 5’4, look healthy and not overweight or too thin.

I dunno. You were already ok, not sure why Ozempic was necessary here. Forget the cost, there are serious side effects for some, and what is the plan going forward? You can't take it forever.

[Anonymous]

Use a tdee calculator to figure out how many calories you burn in a day.
https://tdeecalculator.net/

Then get a food tracker like MyFitnessPal or a million others. And track everything you eat with a goal of eating about 500 less calories than you burn a day.

Ozempic is an amazing life changing medicine for many people and there is absolutely nothing wrong with using that. But it is a lifelong medicine and shouldn't be the first thing you try. Try cutting calories first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Use a tdee calculator to figure out how many calories you burn in a day.
https://tdeecalculator.net/

Then get a food tracker like MyFitnessPal or a million others. And track everything you eat with a goal of eating about 500 less calories than you burn a day.

Ozempic is an amazing life changing medicine for many people and there is absolutely nothing wrong with using that. But it is a lifelong medicine and shouldn't be the first thing you try. Try cutting calories first.

Oh man, the calculator is helpful for calories but it says that according to the formulas my ideal weight is between 105-120, with the specific recommendations being either 105 or 112. I haven't weighed 105 since before puberty! I have been 112 in my teens and 20s when I was seriously restricting food and running a lot, but in general I have to work really hard to maintain a weight under 120. That's intense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Use a tdee calculator to figure out how many calories you burn in a day.
https://tdeecalculator.net/

Then get a food tracker like MyFitnessPal or a million others. And track everything you eat with a goal of eating about 500 less calories than you burn a day.

Ozempic is an amazing life changing medicine for many people and there is absolutely nothing wrong with using that. But it is a lifelong medicine and shouldn't be the first thing you try. Try cutting calories first.

Oh man, the calculator is helpful for calories but it says that according to the formulas my ideal weight is between 105-120, with the specific recommendations being either 105 or 112. I haven't weighed 105 since before puberty! I have been 112 in my teens and 20s when I was seriously restricting food and running a lot, but in general I have to work really hard to maintain a weight under 120. That's intense.

Ignore the ideal weights. Focus on the tdee.