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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You find more productive ways to be social that don’t involve eating or drinking. Take up hiking. Get a kayak. Get a bike. Go running. Go to the spa on vacation.

Enjoy the sunshine (with skin protection). There will be a time when you are older that the only thing to enjoy will be sitting somewhere and eating. [/quote]

Is this what people taking Ozempic, etc., have done?  I am just curious about real/on the ground experience.[/quote]

People on Ozempic are typically making major lifestyle changes. They're given the prescription not because of their weight but because they are diabetic or pre-diabetic. So, the drug comes with instructions to change eating habits (namely, to eat few carbohydrates) and increase cardiovascular exercise -- 150 minutes a week, minimum.

Typically, no good doctor will prescribe it to help a non-diabetic achieve 10 pounds of weight loss. And typically, a good doctor will want to see some evidence of weight loss BEFORE prescribing the drug as evidence you're doing the other things you need to do while on the medication to manage diabetes.

Because it is a diabetes drug. It's not a weight loss drug. [/quote]

Yawn.  We get it - you don't like the fact that very soon this drug (or similar, e.g., Wegovy) will be widely used for weight loss by the general (mildly overweight) population.  Doesn't matter that you don't like it, you need to get over it/accept that it is already happening and the number of people so using it (for ten lb weight loss or weight maintenance) will continue to increase (as cost comes down/accessibility increases).  And newsflash - this class of drugs is very easy to get in other countries (e.g., Mexico) where prescriptions are not required.  Or you can get a "prescription" easily from online doc-in-a- box.[/quote]

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