Ozempic not working

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I am 15 weeks in and only 6lbs down. I am eating way way less, exercising more and pretty much given up alcohol. But I am a 51 year old menopausal woman and I think it’s hard to overcome that.

I'm also 51, pre-diabetic, and am going in to talk to a doctor next week about Ozempic or Mounjaro. Question for you, I currently exercise 5-6 times a week. With the lower calories you're ingesting on Ozempic, are you able to get through your workouts?

It’s not the lower calories that make it tough, it’s the nausea/vomiting. But when I’m feeling okay I have plenty of energy. If you can eat a reasonable amount without triggering the side effects you will be fine.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I am 15 weeks in and only 6lbs down. I am eating way way less, exercising more and pretty much given up alcohol. But I am a 51 year old menopausal woman and I think it’s hard to overcome that.

I'm also 51, pre-diabetic, and am going in to talk to a doctor next week about Ozempic or Mounjaro. Question for you, I currently exercise 5-6 times a week. With the lower calories you're ingesting on Ozempic, are you able to get through your workouts?

It’s not the lower calories that make it tough, it’s the nausea/vomiting. But when I’m feeling okay I have plenty of energy. If you can eat a reasonable amount without triggering the side effects you will be fine.

Exactly. During the pandemic I finally became a morning exerciser but the Wegovy often makes me nauseous in the morning so that’s affected my ability to work out. I even once threw up in the middle of a work out.

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Here are my full stats:

45yrs old
5’9” tall
start weight 201
Todays weight 192
I’m exactly 6 weeks in
I’m still only taking .25.

I’d love to drop weight faster, but this isn’t a bad balance. I’m still hungry, ozempic just takes the edge off.

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^^^ oh and no side effects. No nausea or vomiting. I feel normal, just don’t crave junk food. That’s the big difference.

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Anonymous wrote:3rd week on this and not working. I’m so happy it’s only $5 with insurance because this doesn’t work for weight loss. Hopefully it at least helps lower my a1c! I was so hopeful.

You do understand that it doesn’t likely magically shed your pounds for you? You need to eat less, move more and cut out the carbs. Do that and it will work.

If that worked for OP she wouldn’t need the medication lol. Yes, the medication does essentially magically suppress your appetite so you eat less.

Of course it would have worked for OP had she done it.

Look, I take Ozempic because I got a diagnosis of type 2. Before I took it I lost 50 pounds by walking 5 miles a day and limiting carbs to about 125 mg a day, and most of them with fiber. I wrote everything I ate down so I could also see calories were more limited (about 1,800 a day). That was BEFORE Ozempic.

I went on Ozempic and started being a little more lax. I gained back 10 pounds during a period of work travel and the holidays. But my A1C is under six. The doc said if you really want to continue losing you need to do the things you were doing before, don’t just expect Ozempic to be some magical weight loss pill (or injection, as the case may be). I am now on 2 mg dose as of a couple of weeks ago so we will see if I can make more progress on the weight front.

But no, you can’t just take it and continue your old eating and exercise habits and expect it to work.

Shrug. It actually does work like that for a lot of people. That’s how it worked for me. I’ve lost 60 pounds so far with no change in diet and almost 0 exercise.

If it sounds too good to be true it is too good to be true. You lost 60 pounds by overeating and not exercising? Um. Ok.

Oh no, I’m not overeating. I just eat as much as I want to, which is much less than I wanted to before Ozempic. That’s why I’ve lost weight.

Well. If i ate what i wanted, i’s be overeating. I don’t believe you that you aren’t overeating.

The whole point of the drug is that you lose your appetite. So you can eat what you want and still lose weight, because the drug makes it so that you don't want to eat much. But it doesn't work for everyone, as OP is discovering. OP, maybe ask if you can switch to Mounjaro?

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I wouldn’t describe it as “eating whatever you want” I would just describe it as being able to plan and execute a healthy diet, even in the presence of restaurants, snacks etc, without making yourself insane and sapping all of your executive energy. It just makes the part of me that wants to eat healthy stronger than the constant craving. And I can eat like, half a cookie and then stop. Whereas before I really had to go full monk and never go out or indulge in any way, like an alcoholic going dry except obviously I still needed food which made it even harder.

I think one of the craziest things about Ozempic is I had not really considered that my problem was being hungry. I didn’t know you could be “hungry” if you’d already eaten more than enough. I thought it was just “emotional eating” or weakness or whatever. Now that I’m not hungry I suddenly realize how hungry I was. And I’m not talking about like, getting hungry for the next meal, which I now experience and can easily manage. It was more like a constant buzzing in my head.

Anyway godspeed to everyone, I hope if you try it it works for you. Consider keeping it private, because this whole discussion is so fraught and you kind of need to protect yourself and your relationships.

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Anonymous wrote:3rd week on this and not working. I’m so happy it’s only $5 with insurance because this doesn’t work for weight loss. Hopefully it at least helps lower my a1c! I was so hopeful.

You do understand that it doesn’t likely magically shed your pounds for you? You need to eat less, move more and cut out the carbs. Do that and it will work.

If that worked for OP she wouldn’t need the medication lol. Yes, the medication does essentially magically suppress your appetite so you eat less.

Of course it would have worked for OP had she done it.

Look, I take Ozempic because I got a diagnosis of type 2. Before I took it I lost 50 pounds by walking 5 miles a day and limiting carbs to about 125 mg a day, and most of them with fiber. I wrote everything I ate down so I could also see calories were more limited (about 1,800 a day). That was BEFORE Ozempic.

I went on Ozempic and started being a little more lax. I gained back 10 pounds during a period of work travel and the holidays. But my A1C is under six. The doc said if you really want to continue losing you need to do the things you were doing before, don’t just expect Ozempic to be some magical weight loss pill (or injection, as the case may be). I am now on 2 mg dose as of a couple of weeks ago so we will see if I can make more progress on the weight front.

But no, you can’t just take it and continue your old eating and exercise habits and expect it to work.

Shrug. It actually does work like that for a lot of people. That’s how it worked for me. I’ve lost 60 pounds so far with no change in diet and almost 0 exercise.

If it sounds too good to be true it is too good to be true. You lost 60 pounds by overeating and not exercising? Um. Ok.

Oh no, I’m not overeating. I just eat as much as I want to, which is much less than I wanted to before Ozempic. That’s why I’ve lost weight.

Well. If i ate what i wanted, i’s be overeating. I don’t believe you that you aren’t overeating.

How am I overeating if I’ve lost 80 pounds in a year, exactly?

You seem to be missing the point. The medication makes it so you don’t overeat because you only desire a modest amount of food.