I ate more and still lose weight on Ozempic

[Anonymous]

Just make sure you can afford it long term, because once you stop, the increased calories plus the increased cravings will cause bounce back gains.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am slim-ish and it's really really hard to stay that way - under 1200 calories a day. Now I'm thinking I should go on this so I can eat more. Sounds great!

Me too!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m 20 lbs overweight and eat about 1400 calories a day. I have been so tempted to try the meds but I’m terrified it would make my current constipation issues even worse.

It will. Have you tried daily Miralax?

DP

I take Miralax every single solitary day and it does almost nothing..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have been watching my calories for 25 years, I was able to lose weight if I eat less than 1200 calories when I was younger, and 1100 calories with age. It was always hard work, liking managing a project that never stops. As soon as I stop I gain weight.

I was put on Ozempic. I am losing weight on 1400-1500 calories. It is speeding up my metabolism instead of suppressing my appetite. I am so pleasently surprised. I never understood why my friends could eat a lot more than I and stay slim.

There is a recent study on this -

https://www.ucd.ie/newsandopinion/news/2024/august/22/newobesitytreatmentscouldspeedupmetabolismfindsclinicaltrial/

Well I am sorry to say when your magic meds get taken away, you'll be fat again. How about exercise? Eat whole foods? Eat less?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been watching my calories for 25 years, I was able to lose weight if I eat less than 1200 calories when I was younger, and 1100 calories with age. It was always hard work, liking managing a project that never stops. As soon as I stop I gain weight.

I was put on Ozempic. I am losing weight on 1400-1500 calories. It is speeding up my metabolism instead of suppressing my appetite. I am so pleasently surprised. I never understood why my friends could eat a lot more than I and stay slim.

There is a recent study on this -

https://www.ucd.ie/newsandopinion/news/2024/august/22/newobesitytreatmentscouldspeedupmetabolismfindsclinicaltrial/

Well I am sorry to say when your magic meds get taken away, you'll be fat again. How about exercise? Eat whole foods? Eat less?

I work out daily- no days off- and am very healty. Perimenopause struck. I'm on the low dose of tirespizide to lose 15 and it's working great! I will pay whatever for however long.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been watching my calories for 25 years, I was able to lose weight if I eat less than 1200 calories when I was younger, and 1100 calories with age. It was always hard work, liking managing a project that never stops. As soon as I stop I gain weight.

I was put on Ozempic. I am losing weight on 1400-1500 calories. It is speeding up my metabolism instead of suppressing my appetite. I am so pleasently surprised. I never understood why my friends could eat a lot more than I and stay slim.

There is a recent study on this -

https://www.ucd.ie/newsandopinion/news/2024/august/22/newobesitytreatmentscouldspeedupmetabolismfindsclinicaltrial/

Well I am sorry to say when your magic meds get taken away, you'll be fat again. How about exercise? Eat whole foods? Eat less?

Are you also terrible in real life or is this just an Internet persona for you? People use technology in all kinds of ways to make their lives better without it being a moral failing. Why the assumption that it's different with this medication?

You don't tell people who wear shoes that they'll be sorry when they can no longer afford footwear. Why are they so soft and dependent on the labor of foreign children? Why don't they just toughen up their feet?

[Anonymous]

I wonder if there is any connection between metabolism and the food noise that goes along with calorie restriction in the absence of the medication.

Like, whatever it is that makes your brain really, really focus on the next meal or fails to send the signal that you're full is also slowing down the metabolic consumption of the available calories.

With the medication, even though you're maybe not eating as many calories, your body is also not getting persistent signals about starvation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How much weight did/do you have to lose when you started?

I need to lose 40lb, I lost 10 lb in 12 weeks so far.

Watch your gallbladder.

That's less than a pound a week?

40lbs is a big weight loss if done in 6 months or less, and stresses the gall bladder. That's all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How much weight did/do you have to lose when you started?

I need to lose 40lb, I lost 10 lb in 12 weeks so far.

Watch your gallbladder.

Being overweight is also bad for your gallbladder

True, but rapid weight loss is even worse for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been watching my calories for 25 years, I was able to lose weight if I eat less than 1200 calories when I was younger, and 1100 calories with age. It was always hard work, liking managing a project that never stops. As soon as I stop I gain weight.

I was put on Ozempic. I am losing weight on 1400-1500 calories. It is speeding up my metabolism instead of suppressing my appetite. I am so pleasently surprised. I never understood why my friends could eat a lot more than I and stay slim.

There is a recent study on this -

https://www.ucd.ie/newsandopinion/news/2024/august/22/newobesitytreatmentscouldspeedupmetabolismfindsclinicaltrial/

Well I am sorry to say when your magic meds get taken away, you'll be fat again. How about exercise? Eat whole foods? Eat less?

Why do you think they are getting taken away? They aren't. They are developing more, and better ones

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been watching my calories for 25 years, I was able to lose weight if I eat less than 1200 calories when I was younger, and 1100 calories with age. It was always hard work, liking managing a project that never stops. As soon as I stop I gain weight.

I was put on Ozempic. I am losing weight on 1400-1500 calories. It is speeding up my metabolism instead of suppressing my appetite. I am so pleasently surprised. I never understood why my friends could eat a lot more than I and stay slim.

There is a recent study on this -

https://www.ucd.ie/newsandopinion/news/2024/august/22/newobesitytreatmentscouldspeedupmetabolismfindsclinicaltrial/

Well I am sorry to say when your magic meds get taken away, you'll be fat again. How about exercise? Eat whole foods? Eat less?

Do you really think that overweight people have never tried to lose weight by exercising and eating less? If it was that easy, there would not be an obesity epidemic!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m 20 lbs overweight and eat about 1400 calories a day. I have been so tempted to try the meds but I’m terrified it would make my current constipation issues even worse.

I had 25 lbs to lose, am on 2.5 of tirzepatide and take Mag07 every night. Works fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been watching my calories for 25 years, I was able to lose weight if I eat less than 1200 calories when I was younger, and 1100 calories with age. It was always hard work, liking managing a project that never stops. As soon as I stop I gain weight.

I was put on Ozempic. I am losing weight on 1400-1500 calories. It is speeding up my metabolism instead of suppressing my appetite. I am so pleasently surprised. I never understood why my friends could eat a lot more than I and stay slim.

There is a recent study on this -

https://www.ucd.ie/newsandopinion/news/2024/august/22/newobesitytreatmentscouldspeedupmetabolismfindsclinicaltrial/

Well I am sorry to say when your magic meds get taken away, you'll be fat again. How about exercise? Eat whole foods? Eat less?

I exercise daily, hard. I'm 58 and the things I've always done to stay slim don't work any more. Stop assuming you know everything about ppl.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have been watching my calories for 25 years, I was able to lose weight if I eat less than 1200 calories when I was younger, and 1100 calories with age. It was always hard work, liking managing a project that never stops. As soon as I stop I gain weight.

I was put on Ozempic. I am losing weight on 1400-1500 calories. It is speeding up my metabolism instead of suppressing my appetite. I am so pleasently surprised. I never understood why my friends could eat a lot more than I and stay slim.

There is a recent study on this -

https://www.ucd.ie/newsandopinion/news/2024/august/22/newobesitytreatmentscouldspeedupmetabolismfindsclinicaltrial/

No, you were not living off 1200 cal previously. You were over eating. Sure maybe you ate 1200 for a few days a week but I would seriously bet my life you were not doing that for 365 days a year for years. and still fat.

Unless you are 5 ft tall and 100 lbs your BMR is not so low that you NEED to eat 1100 cal to lose weight. Most women can lose weight on 1400-1600 calories. The drugs have reduced your craving and overeating so now you are losing while "eating more"

but, but but... no really you are not broken or a metabolic anomaly. You just could not CONSISTENTLY eat in a deficit before. This is typical because eating 1100 cal ALL the time/long enough for results is freaking hard. Most people do not stick with it. They do it a few days, overeat on weekends and repeat the cycle of spinning their wheels.

Now as someone who has taken semaglutide for fat loss I will say I lost weight while eating with more freedom because it reduced cravings, made me feel full faster and overall reduced my food struggles and overeating. In many ways I felt I was "eating more" but in reality I was just eating more consistently in a deficit without the days of eating 1200 followed by days of 2000 cal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been watching my calories for 25 years, I was able to lose weight if I eat less than 1200 calories when I was younger, and 1100 calories with age. It was always hard work, liking managing a project that never stops. As soon as I stop I gain weight.

I was put on Ozempic. I am losing weight on 1400-1500 calories. It is speeding up my metabolism instead of suppressing my appetite. I am so pleasently surprised. I never understood why my friends could eat a lot more than I and stay slim.

There is a recent study on this -

https://www.ucd.ie/newsandopinion/news/2024/august/22/newobesitytreatmentscouldspeedupmetabolismfindsclinicaltrial/

No, you were not living off 1200 cal previously. You were over eating. Sure maybe you ate 1200 for a few days a week but I would seriously bet my life you were not doing that for 365 days a year for years. and still fat.

Unless you are 5 ft tall and 100 lbs your BMR is not so low that you NEED to eat 1100 cal to lose weight. Most women can lose weight on 1400-1600 calories. The drugs have reduced your craving and overeating so now you are losing while "eating more"

but, but but... no really you are not broken or a metabolic anomaly. You just could not CONSISTENTLY eat in a deficit before. This is typical because eating 1100 cal ALL the time/long enough for results is freaking hard. Most people do not stick with it. They do it a few days, overeat on weekends and repeat the cycle of spinning their wheels.

Now as someone who has taken semaglutide for fat loss I will say I lost weight while eating with more freedom because it reduced cravings, made me feel full faster and overall reduced my food struggles and overeating. In many ways I felt I was "eating more" but in reality I was just eating more consistently in a deficit without the days of eating 1200 followed by days of 2000 cal.

Agree with this. You were eating/drinking more than you thought.

There's pretty much no way you can eat MORE on a GLP1, if the medication is working and you're taking it appropriately. It reduces your appetite. Are you saying that your appetite is more now, than when before Ozempic? Because that would be very odd.