Anyone here able to maintain weight after stopping meds?

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Anonymous wrote:I see an endo for a hormone disorder. I asked her about these drugs and was told everyone gains the weight back when the stop the medication. And unless you're so morbidly obesse you should not use them period. I trust her.

(But people have ALREADY lost the weight, gone off the drugs, and not regained the weight due to lifestyle changes…… so it’s not true)……
and if something isn’t true and someone is repeating it, why should you trust them? She wants to keep you fat, metabolically and hormonally busted and dependent on her interventions and checkups to validate her life’s work…..

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Anonymous wrote:My doctor has a patient who has been successful in going of the "meds" and maintaining an 80 lb weightless, amazing or so I thought. She shared this with me because I wanted to start taking the drugs ( and not for vanity weight) because she wanted me to understand the commitment I would have to make after taking the medicine to keep the weight off. This particular patient has to work out every single day, to include "weights" and walking, up to two or three hours a day, at least that is how this patient is keeping it off. On top of that, she still eats NOTHING, like a bird was the phrase my doctor used. How sustainable is that for a lifetime, for me, to be honest, not sustainable hence I chose not to go on those meds. I walk 12,000 to 15,000 steps every day, because I enjoy it and she did not want me to start resenting my exercise. I'll try harder the next time normal way, I trust my doctor's knowledge of me as a patient. I will not get into the side affects she shared with me that many of her earlier patients now have from the "meds", so much so that she no longer prescribes it for vanity weight loss, in fact it is a policy that the four doctors who run her office came to together.

The side effects are coming from the over prescription of this medication and the ridiculously high doses that doctors are pushing on their patients. Do you know who came up with those doses? The companies that have created the drugs to sell them to you at a ridiculously high price. Do you stop and wonder who has vested interest in selling you more medicine? Yep, it’s them. The truth of it is that if you were going to lose weight and keep it off, you were going to have to enact some pretty radical lifestyle changes and sustain them for the rest of your life ANYWAY. Everybody I know who has lost weight has a body that wants to return to that higher weight as a set point. Only you know how much it is worth for you to lose the weight. I am perfectly fine with the level of exercise And the amount of protein and calories that I am eating now to sustain that over the long-term. I am not fine with living with an obese BMI and prediabetic A1c levels. I really counsel people who are interested in this to look into the wonders that very low-dose compounding can do to effect change in your body and help your metabolism heal itself so that all of your hard work can actually pay off.

After the new vials it’s the same cost regardless of dose. And previously they were all the same cost.

is that for the wegovy or Mounjaro name brand ones? And you can customize the dose like PP said? That’s great!!
And fyi no documented dangers with compounding pharmacies, it’s fearmongering and capitalism at
play.

Zepbound. All the pens were $550/month (without insurance but with the savings card). Now there’s single-use vials for 2.5 and 5mg for $550, and everything higher is up to $650 (unless you’re grandfathered in from this past year, in which case it’s still $550). You can’t customize your dose but you’re not paying more for a higher dose the way you do with compound.

Not all companies charge more per dose… ZAPPY charges the same amount which is 290 per vial no matter what the dose …. they use the highly regarded and independently tested Ouisia labs …. And there are others

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Anonymous wrote:My doctor has a patient who has been successful in going of the "meds" and maintaining an 80 lb weightless, amazing or so I thought. She shared this with me because I wanted to start taking the drugs ( and not for vanity weight) because she wanted me to understand the commitment I would have to make after taking the medicine to keep the weight off. This particular patient has to work out every single day, to include "weights" and walking, up to two or three hours a day, at least that is how this patient is keeping it off. On top of that, she still eats NOTHING, like a bird was the phrase my doctor used. How sustainable is that for a lifetime, for me, to be honest, not sustainable hence I chose not to go on those meds. I walk 12,000 to 15,000 steps every day, because I enjoy it and she did not want me to start resenting my exercise. I'll try harder the next time normal way, I trust my doctor's knowledge of me as a patient. I will not get into the side affects she shared with me that many of her earlier patients now have from the "meds", so much so that she no longer prescribes it for vanity weight loss, in fact it is a policy that the four doctors who run her office came to together.

I have never, and will never be on meds for weight loss, but I'd like to comment on the bolded. All the slender people I know, including myself, eat "like birds". For us that's what a normal portion is called. Some of us exercise, some of us don't. The common factor is that we've never eaten a lot, and that's how we stay slim. I enjoy my food, I eat a wide variety of cuisines... just not a lot of anything.

There is no secret to weight loss. It really is calories in, calories out. The problem is that some brains suffer agonies if they eat that little, and some brains are fine with it. Can you reset your brain to eating very little all your life? Resetting one's brain is so hard to do. So hard. I suffer from generalized anxiety and social anxiety, and I cannot seem to ever get rid of those, however hard I try to reset my brain.

I hope you can all achieve your goals.

I love it when people who have never had a weight problem try to share their wisdom with those of us who do. There IS a secret to staying slim: having a brain and metabolism that makes you uninterested in food/ satisfied by small portions. It's not superior self control - it's a brain that doesn't crave food 24/7. I am unable to be satisfied by small portions of food, my metabolism is slow, and I'm not alone in this. Genetics, medications, stress, age, all kinds of reasons why food is irresistible to many of us. I stopped drinking, cut calories, went high protein low carb, worked out like crazy, and even that didn't move the needle. Nothing has worked until Wegovy. These medications make it so that those of us with strong appetites can quiet the food noise in our heads and be able to eat less and feel full sooner, rather than starving and miserable from cravings. If I cannot maintain my weight loss and have to stay on this stuff indefinitely, I'm fine with that...I have other lifetime meds and this is just one more. Better that than remaining obese which increases my risk of cancer, cardiac disease, Type II diabetes, etc.

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⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️ once you refuse to be obese or metabolically broken for the rest of your life you can see that the medication is. It the problem. It’s the system that wants you fat, or inflamed, or just chunky with a fat middle. It will all lead to an early death. I take a SUPER low dose of this medication. Have had almost no side effects, and was having really bad side effects from being overweight. I was 50, doing EVERYTHING right and couldn’t lose the weight. I actually didn’t have to change my lifestyle at all because I already ate at a calorie deficit, ate super healthy, I moved my body daily with weight training and exercise. Every slim fit woman I know in her 40s and 50s has to limit what she eat, and exercise often. If I have to do that for the rest of my life to maintain the weight loss, I’ve attained, that’s not unattainable – that’s called healthy, eating, and healthy living! I will be going off the medication in a few weeks and was only on it for 16 weeks.
I managed to lose all the way I needed it and change my life.
Please stop hating overweight people who traded statins, berberine, thyroid meds and anti depressants for a GLP1 agonist that is optimizing their body. Please stop spreading lies from doctors who don’t understand this med and prefer to keep you on traditional meds or let you die young.
The truth is, people are out there, taking very low medication doses with no complications, and they are changing their lives, and then they are getting off of the medication and with a considerable amount of effort, keeping the weight off and staying healthy. Like any weight loss journey it will have ups and downs.

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Medication is NOT the problem (that’s what I meant to type above!). Ah up early to exercise and haven’t had coffee yet.

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I have read that the majority of people will need to continue or the weight will return. That means some will be able to stop and maintain. If diet and exercise didn't work before the drugs for some people maybe it's not enough when they stop. If it really was a case of overeating and now they've learned to stop, they may not regain. More time and research is needed for an accurate response to your question.

While drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic might seem like a miracle to those with diabetes and obesity, the truth is the effects only last while you are taking the semaglutide medication.

A studyTrusted Source published in April 2022 which sought to examine changes in body weight and cardiometabolic risk factors upon the termination of the drug, found that after a year people had regained two-thirds of the weight they had lost.

The positive changes they had seen in cardiometabolic risk factors like blood pressure, blood lipids, HbA1c, and C-reactive protein had similarly reversed.

According to the study authors, these findings reinforce the need to continue treatment in order to maintain the benefits of the medication.

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Anonymous wrote:I am on Wegovy. I see why it is difficult to get off it. I just don’t think about food so much. If I got off it, I would probably start again. FWIW my eating/exercise habits prior to starting were really good. Extremely heavy weights (200lb deadlift), no sugar, high protein etc. I just put on 15lbs once hitting peri-menopause with same eating/exercise habits. The calories I now require have dropped by around 40% - it is hard to just start eating like that.

I could've written this same thing. I'm on compounded semaglutide and the way it has decreased my food noise is such a gift. I too was working out regularly and consistently, and meeting my protein goals, etc. but I always was thinking about food and eating out of boredom. I gained 30 pounds in perimenopause and was getting really depressed at how nothing fit. I've been on the GLP-1 since May have lost 25 so far, and feel great. If I need to stay on a maintenance dose for [insert long length of time here], that's fine with me. I take meds for anxiety and don't have any plans to go off of those just to see how well I can manage my anxiety without them, so I look at this the same way.

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Anonymous wrote:I did not maintain. I'm not very overweight, but just a stress eater. The meds just made me sick when I ate so I couldn't eat much at all, which is why I couldn't stress eat.

This is what's happening to me. 5 weeks in and I'm nauseous all the time so I'm hardly eating. I hate this feeling. I've not increased from the starting dose and think I'm going to lower it next week. I'm worried I'm not getting anywhere near enough food in.

FWIW, my side effects were non existent when I took the shot after eating protein. And while drinking lots of electrolyte water and eating protein forward meals all week long. If you’re already doing that, then you should consider changing injection site.

Where should I move it to? I was told to inject in my stomach.

I started in the front area of the thigh (you can look up a video online). It was extremely easy, I never had any complications or bruising and I have really had very little side effects. Can you move your dose down a little? And yes to eating small protein forward meals throughout the day. I eat every 2-3 hrs a small meal with lots of fiber and lean protein. Salmon with asparagus on quinoa, shredded chicken soup, shrimp and couscous veggie salad, and so on. For those of you pretending that this sounds unattainable or not sustainable, that’s absolutely ridiculous. Every healthy, slim woman I know is eating low calorie protein forward meals, weight training, and exercising almost daily. If that’s the one thing that you will refuse to do or find unsustainable, how are you ever going to lose weight?
The electrolytes also help a ton too!!! Be super kind to yourself and don’t believe glp 1 treatment means nausea or side effects, it doesn’t have to!!

Can you talk more about the injection site and your protein/electrolyte plan for injection? Your post gives me hope. I’m 46 and suddenly gained weight out of nowhere -like literally overnight. I eat well and work out and my labs are all normal other than now having high cholesterol. The weight suddenly piled on what was already my mom bod and it just won’t budge. I’d like to start GLP1 at a low dose but I’m very worried about side effects. How do I find the thigh injection video and what should my plan for injection day? Should I eat high protein and just load up on electrolyte the days leading up? Any particular electro brand you recommend? I’d like to start this and am nervous!

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Anonymous wrote:My doctor has a patient who has been successful in going of the "meds" and maintaining an 80 lb weightless, amazing or so I thought. She shared this with me because I wanted to start taking the drugs ( and not for vanity weight) because she wanted me to understand the commitment I would have to make after taking the medicine to keep the weight off. This particular patient has to work out every single day, to include "weights" and walking, up to two or three hours a day, at least that is how this patient is keeping it off. On top of that, she still eats NOTHING, like a bird was the phrase my doctor used. How sustainable is that for a lifetime, for me, to be honest, not sustainable hence I chose not to go on those meds. I walk 12,000 to 15,000 steps every day, because I enjoy it and she did not want me to start resenting my exercise. I'll try harder the next time normal way, I trust my doctor's knowledge of me as a patient. I will not get into the side affects she shared with me that many of her earlier patients now have from the "meds", so much so that she no longer prescribes it for vanity weight loss, in fact it is a policy that the four doctors who run her office came to together.

I have never, and will never be on meds for weight loss, but I'd like to comment on the bolded. All the slender people I know, including myself, eat "like birds". For us that's what a normal portion is called. Some of us exercise, some of us don't. The common factor is that we've never eaten a lot, and that's how we stay slim. I enjoy my food, I eat a wide variety of cuisines... just not a lot of anything.

There is no secret to weight loss. It really is calories in, calories out. The problem is that some brains suffer agonies if they eat that little, and some brains are fine with it. Can you reset your brain to eating very little all your life? Resetting one's brain is so hard to do. So hard. I suffer from generalized anxiety and social anxiety, and I cannot seem to ever get rid of those, however hard I try to reset my brain.

I hope you can all achieve your goals.

I love it when people who have never had a weight problem try to share their wisdom with those of us who do. There IS a secret to staying slim: having a brain and metabolism that makes you uninterested in food/ satisfied by small portions. It's not superior self control - it's a brain that doesn't crave food 24/7. I am unable to be satisfied by small portions of food, my metabolism is slow, and I'm not alone in this. Genetics, medications, stress, age, all kinds of reasons why food is irresistible to many of us. I stopped drinking, cut calories, went high protein low carb, worked out like crazy, and even that didn't move the needle. Nothing has worked until Wegovy. These medications make it so that those of us with strong appetites can quiet the food noise in our heads and be able to eat less and feel full sooner, rather than starving and miserable from cravings. If I cannot maintain my weight loss and have to stay on this stuff indefinitely, I'm fine with that...I have other lifetime meds and this is just one more. Better that than remaining obese which increases my risk of cancer, cardiac disease, Type II diabetes, etc.

This.

I spent the first 33 or so years of my life very thin, with little interest in food. I liked good food once in a while, but in general, I didn’t think much about eating. I didn’t ever want much food. I always wondered how on earth people finished an entire can of soda, because I couldn’t.

Then I went on psych meds. Within the first year of taking them, I had gained a lot of weight, and all I thought about was food. I found myself doing weird things like getting in the car to go buy a piece of cake to eat, when I never even really liked cake before. Still didn’t really, but felt the need to go get a piece and eat it. I would order a pizza and eat the entire thing. It was crazy. it was almost like I was doing these weird things —binging—on automatic pilot. And I couldn’t fight it. Fast forward, 10 years, and I found myself obese. The drugs had totally changed my brain, and my metabolism. I lost close to 100 pounds twice, on WW. Both times it was like wrestling a huge monster every single day: obsessing over points, thinking about nothing but food. It was horrific. And of course, I gained the weight back each time. Now that I’m on Wegovy I am losing weight and I don’t feel like I’m wrestling a monster, or obsessing about food. I just feel kind of back to normal, like how I was before I went on the meds and didn’t really think about food all the time.

People don’t understand. Which is fine. But people not understanding and then jumping into judgment, that is not fine. Not understanding, and still wanting to tell everybody how you think it is, that is also not fine. I’m getting used to it though.