Reply to Anyone here able to maintain weight after stopping meds?

Forum Index » Diet, Nutrition & Weight Loss

Reply to "Anyone here able to maintain weight after stopping meds? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My doctor has a patient who has been successful in going of the "meds" and maintaining an 80 lb weightless, amazing or so I thought.  She shared this with me because I wanted to start taking the drugs ( and not for vanity weight) because she wanted me to understand the commitment I would have to make after taking the medicine to keep the weight off.  This particular patient has to work out every single day, to include "weights" and walking, up to two or three hours a day, at least that is how this patient is keeping it off.  [b]On top of that, she still eats NOTHING, like a bird was the phrase my doctor used. [/b] How sustainable is that for a lifetime, for me, to be honest, not sustainable hence I chose not to go on those meds.  I walk 12,000 to 15,000 steps every day, because I enjoy it and she did not want me to start resenting my exercise.  I'll try harder the next time normal way, I trust my doctor's knowledge of me as a patient.  I will not get into the side affects she shared with me that many of her earlier patients now have from the "meds", so much so that she no longer prescribes it for vanity weight loss, in fact it is a policy that the four doctors who run her office came to together.[/quote]

I have never, and will never be on meds for weight loss, but I'd like to comment on the bolded. All the slender people I know, including myself, eat "like birds". For us that's what a normal portion is called. Some of us exercise, some of us don't. The common factor is that we've never eaten a lot, and that's how we stay slim. I enjoy my food, I eat a wide variety of cuisines... just not a lot of anything.

There is no secret to weight loss. It really is calories in, calories out. The problem is that some brains suffer agonies if they eat that little, and some brains are fine with it. Can you reset your brain to eating very little all your life? Resetting one's brain is so hard to do. So hard. I suffer from generalized anxiety and social anxiety, and I cannot seem to ever get rid of those, however hard I try to reset my brain.

I hope you can all achieve your goals. 
[/quote]

I love it when people who have never had a weight problem try to share their wisdom with those of us who do. There IS a secret to staying slim: having a brain and metabolism that makes you uninterested in food/ satisfied by small portions. It's not superior self control - it's a brain that doesn't crave food 24/7. I am unable to be satisfied by small portions of food, my metabolism is slow, and I'm not alone in this. Genetics, medications, stress, age, all kinds of reasons why food is irresistible to many of us. I stopped drinking, cut calories, went high protein low carb, worked out like crazy, and even that didn't move the needle. Nothing has worked until Wegovy. These medications make it so that those of us with strong appetites can quiet the food noise in our heads and be able to eat less and feel full sooner, rather than starving and miserable from cravings. If I cannot maintain my weight loss and have to stay on this stuff indefinitely, I'm fine with that...I have other lifetime meds and this is just one more. Better that than remaining obese which increases my risk of cancer, cardiac disease, Type II diabetes, etc. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics