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[quote=Anonymous]Hi OP.  One thing I want to say that no one has addressed here is that your biologic could be causing the weight gain.  I am a 50 year old female and have an autoimmune disease and have been on Cimzia, Humira, Cosentyx and Xeljanz. I am an obsessive tracker of my food intake (weigh and track EVERYTHING), work out 6 days a week HIIT wearing a heart rate monitor and generally burning over 600 calories per workout, weigh myself weekly on an InBody that tracks muscle and fat, and yet I still continued to gain pounds and fat with every single weigh in.  My doctor swears it's not the medicine but I stopped the Xeljanz eight weeks ago to see what would happen and magically lost 10 pounds and 4 percent body fat.

All that to say, continue to watch your diet but don't be so hard on yourself.  The biologics are magical but could be a piece of the weight gain puzzle.

And yes, you can take Ozempic, Mountjaro or the other weight loss drugs while on a biologic.  I haven't started any weight loss drugs because I wanted to see if it was my Xeljanz first.

Good luck and give yourself some grace, OP.[/quote]

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