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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did Calibrate for a year and really liked it until about the 11 month mark when my Wegovy was cancelled without notice because of insurance issues.  Apparently there was a limit to the coupon Calibrate was using to get Wegovy. So I had to go off it cold turkey. Now they’ve gotten it approved but it would cost me $350 monthly which I can’t do.  It’s disappointing that it ended this way. Now that I’m off the medication I’ve already gained back several pounds. :([/quote]

Unfortunately studies show that once you go off the drug you rapidly gain the weight back to baseline.[/quote]

I have been taking the medication for nearly 2 years (was a part of the study), I would disagree that you “rapidly” gain the weight back. But from “my experience”, it takes about a month for your body to adjust to no longer taking the medication. Then your brain rapidly goes to work talking to you and doing whatever it did to get you overweight originally. But that was my brain. But I learned that physically I really wasn’t as hungry as my brain would lead me to believe. The medication definitely taught me some cues and I have to willing lean into them and turn away from what my brain is trying to get me to do. Not sure if I’m articulating this well. But like last night I didn’t. I had two ice sandwiches when I knew I only really wanted one. $hit, I didn’t even need 1! I wasn’t hungry at all, but my brain…why did I even buy them?  My brain.  When I was on the medication, I wouldn’t have even bought them. I do not understand why insurance won’t cover it!

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It’s not my opinion. There is not a single study that shows anything, but rapid weight gain after going off the drug. It’s doesn’t reset your metabolism, it does not permanently curb your hunger. Once you go off you are back that the same place waging an uphill battle. It’s a lifetime drug if you want to stay a healthy weight and nobody know what decades of this stuff might mean.

It’s not to say that will deter me from taking it. However people need to understand this won’t do a reset as calibrate claims. 
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