Semaglutides: do you still enjoy food/wine?

[Anonymous]

Changed but not in an overall bad way. We love new restaurants and going out. Still do but split meals, which I see all the time because everyone in DC/Arlington is one glp-1.

Still love a cocktail or glass of wine when out but never drink wine at home anymore. Used to have a glass at night regularly but never even remember to now. Same with coffee. Still love my first cup but sometimes forgot to finish it and almost never think about a second cup.

[Anonymous]

While on Wegovy - No
Now on Zepbound and occasionally

[Anonymous]

Yes and no. There is a high probably that I feel or will get sick from something. It's really eye-opening for what it must be like to have chronic digestive issues.

Do I enjoy it? Absolutely not, but I need to get to a healthy weight and the usual way (diet, excercise) stopped working thanks to years of miscarriages, PCOS and fertility treatments.

[Anonymous]

I still enjoy it all, and generally eat/drink whatever I want. But I want MUCH less, and get uncomfortable if I eat too much. And what qualifies as "too much" in a way that is uncomfortable is a pretty typical full meal (salad, roll, main protein, two sides, dessert, glass of wine = that's now WAAAAY too much food for me.)

So I have to plan a bit intentionally - what do I want to enjoy, focus on that, eschew things that I might like but aren't my favorite. So I almost never have bread/rolls w/ a meal, will often get one or two appetizers instead of an entree, etc...

It has taken some adjustment, and can mean wasting food when out to eat - which I don't like to do, but it's certainly a lifestyle adjustment I'm happy to make to maintain the 90+ weight loss I've achieved.

[Anonymous]

Not really. I don't drink and I have become much more neutral about food. Tbh I could go without proper meals, and I do that most of the time (empty nester so no need to cook). I'm fine with a veggie wrap or yogurt for dinner and some fruit. I do still really like sushi so look forward to that once a week or so. Very rarely I'll think that ice cream or a cookie sounds nice and I'll just go for it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nope. I have a real aversion to most food and all alcohol now. If I have a special event coming up, I have to skip my dose.

This.

For me it was -
- lack of getting a signal for hunger or thirst,
- a lack of appetite, smells/sights/taste/imagination of food was very muted and it was a real aversion
- inability to eat more than a few bites because the food that I ate in my previous meals was just sitting in my digestive system like concrete
- My digestion did not work. Nothing was moving in my colon. All the cilia in my color was dying inside me unable to push food forward.
- My poop was no longer effortless. I was pooping hard goat pellets
- My gut biome did not recover even after several years. I was either constipated or getting diarrhea. After each meal I had to run to the bathroom. It was like IBS.
- I would get stabbing pain in my liver, kidneys. I would get sudden cramping. I was taking it for my diabetes but I switched back to metformin.

[Anonymous]

It has no impact on how much I enjoy food and drink. The only difference I have noted is that I am eating and drinking slightly less. and this is on 15mg (the max dose) of zepbound. I found ozempic did almost nothing for me...