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[quote=Anonymous]This is pretty fascinating and I feel like might be the key to figuring out to use tools like Ozempic to kick start weight loss but then wean people off of them, since many of us do wonder/worry about consequences of longterm use. A few thoughts:

- A friend of mine who went on Ozempic continued to eat the way he had before, but wouldn't finish anything. So he'd still order tons of food when out, get snacks all the time, etc. But then he'd eat half or less, sometimes only a few bites. I watched him order a huge ice cream cone recently and then have like 5 bites and toss the rest. I'm curious if at some point this will click to not ordering all the food to begin with. I know his wife is stressed about the waste of money and food, but he *is* losing weight and has more energy so at least that's good.

- My DH is interested in Ozempic but he's not overweight enough to qualify (carrying maybe 15 more lbs than he'd like, but very active and not a big issue). But he has many of the same snacking/overeating compulsions. Part of it is being raised to clean his plate. But then he'll also clean my plate and our kids' plates. He also just has snacking habits that are likely linked to boredom or stress, like always needing a salty/savory snack when he gets home from work, even if we are minutes from sitting down to dinner. We've been talking recently about whether it's possible for him to change these habits without something like Ozempic. Our friend's experience has been educational on this.

- But again, the key is to just not START snacking or over-ordering, and that's the hard part. I've started thinking about this with our kids (who are very healthy weights, and actually we have a picky eater who I often worry is underweight) and snacking or eating when out of the house. Again, there's this psychological component where so often "hunger" is actually driven by boredom, stress, rituals (always getting ice cream at the beach), or advertising. Since our kids are active and healthy, and with the picky eater we just want her to eat most of the time, I'm not really looking to curb snacking. But thinking about *why* we choose to eat outside of regular meals, or choose to eat extra during regular meals, has me thinking a lot about how I'm raising my kids as eaters, and wondering if there are things I can do to teach them to discern between real hunger cues and this other stuff that seems like hunger but is actually something else. Without being super food restrictive as I don't think that's the answer either.

Anyway, interesting responses here. I hope this is something we all keep talking about and studying. I actually think these drugs could hold the key to solving obesity, but not necessarily as the quick cure they are sometimes billed as. More as a way to better understand what causes us to overeat.[/quote]

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