Wegovy - best thing that ever happened to me

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Anonymous wrote:How does the change in eating habits impact family meals for you all? Do you have children that see you eating tiny portions of food that may start to believe this is a normal way of eating?

My eating habits have changed for the better; dinner portions aren’t tiny, but I generally have no interest in and skip the carbs like bread, potatoes, or rice. No dessert afterwards, no snacking. I’m setting a better example now than pre medication.

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Anonymous wrote:How does the change in eating habits impact family meals for you all? Do you have children that see you eating tiny portions of food that may start to believe this is a normal way of eating?

Isn’t this how someone who was dieting without medication would eat as well?

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to you all on your weight loss!

It think it’s important to get it off in any medically approved safe way that works for you.

But beyond cost, given the various health risks (newest reported is an increased risk in eye strokes resulting in partial blindness), I hope some of you will consider ways you can change your lifestyle to maintain the weight loss without taking these drugs forever.

Chuck Carroll is host of The Exam Room, a podcast of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine which focuses on eating for health and as much plant based as possible. It’s a great resource. Carroll lost a few hundred pounds following weight loss surgery, and maintains it by following a plant based diet and moving his body for physical as well as mental health.

Eating a high fiber diet is the only way to cultivate a truly healthy gut biome which then produces an abundance of short chain fatty acids that are critical to overall health in the body.

Eating less of a diet poor in nutrition will result in weight loss, and carrying less weight improves health - but only a truly healthy diet will result in overall excellent health.

So you’re advocating getting off these meds and instead want us to listen to a man who lost 265 lbs in a year after weight loss surgery which shrunk his stomach- saying…listen to him, his method works!

To clarify: his method works but we are not giving any credit to the weight loss surgery…

He credits his weight loss surgery with being the tool that broke his really bad food addiction, because he was so sick in the aftermath and could eat so little food that the weight melted off. That’s how WLS works for most people- they are too sick to eat much and there is a lot of vomiting and absorption issues etc., like semaglutide drugs cause in many people.

The percent of people after WLS long term who regain most or all of the weight is 70%. It is not a long term success tool for most because they haven’t broken addictions to junk foods and they begin drinking their calories until the stomach stretches and they can eat more and more do them, back to the old ways. I personally considered surgery and then spent months in support groups and saw how much transfer addiction was happening and how many people were scheming 24/7 to find ways to consume old favorite junk foods within weeks of surgery. You have to break the habits of eating hyper palatable nutrient poor foods to get the sweet and savory fixes and the dopamine high.

It’s better to make the transition to plant based whole food diet and lifestyle instead of surgery because the stomach surgery has major potential complications that can be deadly (Lisa Presley) and cutting out so much of one’s stomach makes it more difficult to eat a fiber rich nutrient plant based diet because the stomach isn’t large enough to accommodate the volume of such foods that are optimal. And it creates very unnecessary absorption issues that will require lifelong supplementation when a healthy diet can meet most nutrient needs.

It’s almost like the human body was designed for eating mostly plants. As if our teeth and the way our gut works is evidence that this is the path to optimal health. Huh.

He lost his weight due to weight loss surgery. Period. And fast. Taking advice or seeing the benefit in his approach is no different from appreciating the approach of those who used injectables to lose weight.

Yep, he kept it off, but it isn’t like 100% of the people who do bariatric surgery regain except him, so his word is gospel. Listen to him…by all means. But please don’t hold him up as the example of how to lose weight and keep it off Without relying on medical intervention.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How does the change in eating habits impact family meals for you all? Do you have children that see you eating tiny portions of food that may start to believe this is a normal way of eating?

I'm eating the same food, just eating less of it. It's not impacting my children at all, because smaller portions for me (5'0) is what I should always do. It's not like I'm starving, or not eating X. I'm eating more of a child sized portion.

Since I'm staying on a low dose as much as possible, I do not have side effects, and still have a small appetite when it's time to eat.

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I am afraid of going past the 1.0 dose because it does kind of make me sad that food is not remotely enjoyable. Does anyone also just skip a week here to feel more normal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am afraid of going past the 1.0 dose because it does kind of make me sad that food is not remotely enjoyable. Does anyone also just skip a week here to feel more normal?

Why not go down a dose? A slower weight loss is better for the body anyways.

[Anonymous]

I just moved up to .50 from .25. I’ve lost about 7-8 pounds in 4 weeks with no problems. I’m not sure if I’m eating less but I am eating healthier so that is helping. It will be interesting to see what happens at .50 in terms of suppressing my appetite. I’m on prescription Wegovy with no insurance and since I’m on Medicare I can’t take advantage of the manufacturers discount so it’s $1200 per four weeks. That is painful. At some point I will move to a compounded version to save money and any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

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Anonymous wrote:I just moved up to .50 from .25. I’ve lost about 7-8 pounds in 4 weeks with no problems. I’m not sure if I’m eating less but I am eating healthier so that is helping. It will be interesting to see what happens at .50 in terms of suppressing my appetite. I’m on prescription Wegovy with no insurance and since I’m on Medicare I can’t take advantage of the manufacturers discount so it’s $1200 per four weeks. That is painful. At some point I will move to a compounded version to save money and any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Orderly Meds is $250 for four weeks for sema. $399 for tirzepatide, no membership or admin fees. That's the all in price.

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Anonymous wrote:For the women in this thread, did any of your boobs get smaller? I haven’t tried this yet but I’m a 38L (!!!) and hoping if I go this route they’ll become a bit more manageable.

Yes! Just had a mammogram after losing 40 lbs on Wegovy and the tech commented on it.

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Anonymous wrote:I am afraid of going past the 1.0 dose because it does kind of make me sad that food is not remotely enjoyable. Does anyone also just skip a week here to feel more normal?

I’m working with a medical weight loss program and the NP said I can stretch the doses out for up to 2 weeks if they are bringing my appetite down too much. It’s been an issue for me because I can’t hit my protein goals since I’m not hungry, but still trying to lift weights to build muscle.

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Anonymous wrote:I am afraid of going past the 1.0 dose because it does kind of make me sad that food is not remotely enjoyable. Does anyone also just skip a week here to feel more normal?

I’m working with a medical weight loss program and the NP said I can stretch the doses out for up to 2 weeks if they are bringing my appetite down too much. It’s been an issue for me because I can’t hit my protein goals since I’m not hungry, but still trying to lift weights to build muscle.

I wonder what the difference is between .25 dose every week or one .5 dose every 2 weeks?

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Anonymous wrote:I am afraid of going past the 1.0 dose because it does kind of make me sad that food is not remotely enjoyable. Does anyone also just skip a week here to feel more normal?

I’m working with a medical weight loss program and the NP said I can stretch the doses out for up to 2 weeks if they are bringing my appetite down too much. It’s been an issue for me because I can’t hit my protein goals since I’m not hungry, but still trying to lift weights to build muscle.

I wonder what the difference is between .25 dose every week or one .5 dose every 2 weeks?

Same question

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Anonymous wrote:I think that pp works for big fiber. Getting kickbacks for pushing this diet

No, this is a person thing. This is not about the message, but being the messenger.

NP. Is that the disturbed PP who posts lovingly long descriptions of her bowel movements in these threads? I think she is a fetishist who haunts this threads for disgusting gratification reasons. 🤢

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Anonymous wrote:I am afraid of going past the 1.0 dose because it does kind of make me sad that food is not remotely enjoyable. Does anyone also just skip a week here to feel more normal?

I’m working with a medical weight loss program and the NP said I can stretch the doses out for up to 2 weeks if they are bringing my appetite down too much. It’s been an issue for me because I can’t hit my protein goals since I’m not hungry, but still trying to lift weights to build muscle.

I wonder what the difference is between .25 dose every week or one .5 dose every 2 weeks?

Same question

I’m not a medical expert but I assume there must be an effectiveness curve such that there is a diminishing return after 7 days of some sort. Otherwise, why not a 1.0 dose every four weeks? In terms of protein, drink a high protein shake.

[Anonymous]

I stated on Wegovy 4 weeks ago at .25 and I lost 6-7 pounds in two weeks but nothing since. I’m now on .5 and I’ll see if that makes a difference. I haven’t had any negatives using it but I also haven’t felt full or lost my desire to eat. I am eating better but I’m sure that much of the early weight loss was water loss. At some point I sure hope that the benefits kick in because it is obscenely expensive.