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[quote=Anonymous]I'm reading The Magic Pill right now by journalist Johann Hari as an audiobook.  In it, he chronicles his own research on GLP1 drugs and his own decision to go on Ozemipic to treat his obesity of many decades.  I haven't finished it yet but so far it has REALLY opened my eyes to the systemic food supply changes in our society that have resulted in so many overweight and obesity diagnoses, and also the dramatic individual health transformations that GLP1 inhibitors have made possible.

The side effects are not to be dismissed, and no one has any idea what being on drugs like this will do to a person if they have to stay on them for 10, 20, 30, or in the case of your daughter, potentially 60+ years!

If she starts and loses, say, 30 pounds, she will need to keep taking these forever.

They are not indicated to her for any medical reason.

Now...I understand.  I was a size 10-14 in high school and it was horrible.  Then I went up to a 16 in college.  Then got on antidepressants in my 20's and ballooned to size 24.  Once you perceive yourself to be fat, it's very difficult to change that perception, and fat cells don't just sit on your body; they change everything about your metabolism.  I'd eat powdered ground up rats on the daily for a week if it would bring me back to a size 10 forever.  But even I, in my mid-50's and hovering between size 20-22, have hesitated to get on the GLp1 bandwagon.  The only reason I'm even considering it is to try to avoid getting dementia or diabetes younger than I might if I stay this size.  I would never do it just for vanity.

That said, the obnoxious poster who said it will make a huge lifelong distance for her marriage and career prospects is not wrong.  I lost 70 pounds a few years ago when I found a depression treatment that worked dramatically, and I couldn't believe how differently I was treated by the world, including women, and I was in the middle of a career change and I as offered every position I interviewed for, which had never happened when I was heavy.  All of a sudden I was hugely popular at work and among other moms, too, which was shocking at my age.

When my depression treatment stopped working and the pounds found me again, all of that changed dramatically for the worse, and I honestly don't feel like my external personality is at all different.  The world in general is just really, really cruel to fat bodies.  We are assumed to be stupid, weak, and not worth knowing.  I am no different in my character or skills or personality, but I am perceived very differently.

If I could go back in time, I wish I had a health coach to work with me on eating unprocessed foods and cutting carbs dramatically.  That plus exercise can make a 20 pound different for your daughter, and that is what I would advise her now.  The upsides of being thin are HUGE at her age, but we have no idea whether they are worth the downsides of long term use of GLP1 inhibitors.

You and she could listen to the audiobook of The Magic Pill together and may get some good info and insight there.  Good luck.[/quote]

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