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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since she's losing weight, she's eating less. [b]You can lose weight eating any kind of junk if you just eat very little.[/b]

But for her health, she's supposed to be getting a lot of protein, calcium, and water. Because when you eat a lot less but most of it is junk, you'll have health issues. (And I'm with PP, I can't tolerate fast food on glp-1.)[/quote]

I don’t understand this or how anyone on glp-1s loses weight by eating junk foods (clearly there are more than one per this thread). I’m on Weight Watchers (have been on “maintenance” for several years), and on that program foods are assigned point values mainly based on their macros. Even small amounts of pizza and ice cream are enough points that if I consistently eat them, I exceed my daily allotted point value and start to gain weight. Eg, today I ate a plain yogurt with fruit for breakfast, a turkey sandwich for lunch, snacked on fruit and avocado, and had a big salad with grilled chicken sausage and roasted veggies for dinner. So no junk. This brought me close to my total point value for the day. We went out for ice cream for dessert and just a small cup of vanilla basically doubled my total points for the day.

All I can imagine is that glp-1’s do more than curb appetite, but also change one’s metabolism. And this is why people like me would love to go on a glp-1, even though I am “only” 130 lbs at 5’4”. [/quote]

I’m not on a GLP1 or WW. But I am very aware of calorie intake. I don’t know what you mean by “small cup” of vanilla but 1/3 of a cup of ice cream is not calorically the same as all the other food you listed combined. For example Haagen Dasz is about 160 calories. 
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I went out for ice cream - typically a small size at an ice cream is 5 oz or so, which would be 300 calories of Haagen Dasz vanilla. But WW points values are based on more than calories, they take into account fats, sugars, carbs, fiber etc and also some “grey area” factors such as likelihood to overeat that specific item (quick example of that is that fruit is zero points, but a fruit smoothie has some points), etc.

Ice cream was just an example anyway. And OP said that her mother is eating pizza and ice cream daily. Even in small quantities, I don’t understand how she’d lose weight with that diet unless the glp-1 is also boosting her metabolism or something along those lines. Which if it does, this is why I personally am so envious of those who can take them because all the food restricting and exercise in the world won’t achieve that piece. [/quote]

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