Beware “Ozempic Face”

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04/15/2023 12:26

Subject: Beware “Ozempic Face”

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Anonymous wrote:The number of people who are absolutely furious that semiglutide works well for weight control and so who desperately want to believe made-up negative stories about it is truly staggering.

They’re soooo mad. So so mad.

They are mad that people are fat?

They're mad that fat people have access to a relatively easy and painless way to be thin.

Remember, there's always a price to be paid when you take a shortcut.

Oooh I'll remember that when I wake up tomorrow and weigh in; if it's anything like the previous 32 weeks, i'll be down another 2 pounds!

OMG you are going to make all of those skinny people jealous! They just can't stop thinking about it 24/7!

Yes, we’re all soooooo jealous of someone who had more than 32 pounds to lose.

100 actually! And I’m glad to hear you’re happy for me having access to an easy way to lose weight without having to diet and exercise.

I'm happy you're losing, but sad that you think diet awareness and exercise isn't an important part of life. No matter how much weight you lose, you'll never be successful with that belief.

Well I haven’t been exercising as I have been recovering from a shattered ankle, and my nutrition is great! I don’t have to count calories or limit any food groups or consciously diet. I’ve always eaten very healthily so that hasn’t changed, I just don’t get as hungry anymore. But not everyone wants to or can eat mostly nutritious whole foods or make exercise a big part of their life. It’s better for them to eat crap and never exercise and be a normal weight than have it and remain obese. That’s why these medications are so great.

I am also on Ozempic and lost almost 50 lbs so I'm not against the drug at all. I think it's great that you and I are losing weight. But the bolded part above is absolutely not true. You can improve your bloodwork significantly by changing what you eat even if you don't necessarily lose weight. Excercise can also help great for many many reason even if you are obese. So I wholeheartedly disagree that it's better to eat junk and not be fat.

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.

I have also found eating less processed food and more plants in their natural state or minimally processed has helped me a lot. I am not think or even back to normal weight yet, but mentally and physically it does make a difference and my bloodwork, etc is amazing.