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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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I think you are actually proving the PP's point - if you continue along this path (2 ice cream sandwiches!!), you will in fact rapidly gain back weight. Especially if your body is used to a lower calorie diet.[/quote]

NP. Would you stop with the moralistic and fake horror? Jesus, ignorant people like you are why the obesity epidemic is so bad. The fact is that PP has a biologically and metabolically different body than people who have never been obese. Her body and brain will drive her to eat in a way that normal weight people do not experience. That is what this drug changes: the biological signals driving obese people to eat. And that doesn’t change with weight loss, unfortunately. Weight loss doesn’t make an obese person metabolically the same as someone who is the exact same weight but who never was obese. Their bodies are completely different, on many levels.

This should be regarded as a lifelong or very extended drug. Personally, I am convinced there is a state of pre-pre-diabetes that isn’t detected by A1C but that is common among obese people, and I think these drugs essentially treat that. Off the drugs, regardless of actual weight, the body reverts to that insulin-seeking pre-pre-diabetic state.

We know so very little about the physiology and metabolism of obesity, in part because people so desperately want to make a medical condition into a moral condition. [/quote]

Are you and I reading the same thing? I AM obese, I tried Wegovy and it didn't work for me (too many side effects), and that PP doesn't seem to realize that it is the DRUG that affects her metabolism/her hunger hues and not her own personal willpower. I have taken drugs that shut down my hunger cues, I know they work. I also know that I gained the weight right back once I went off them. I don't know why she thinks she's different.[/quote]

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