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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I recently passed 1 year since taking my last dose of a GLP-1 and after losing 52 lbs over about 15 months. I have regained about 15 lbs in that year. [/quote]

Can you share how your body changed? Do you have loose skin and if so where?  How has your face/neck changed?  Are your energy levels better? Sleep? Cholesterol? Other health improvements?  Muscle loss?[/quote]

No muscle loss that I am aware of— it helped me kick start my exercise so I feel in much better shape than I was in before I started meds. And I’ve kept up that exercise since stopping. 
No loose skin. Obviously my face is thinner, but I think it looks good on me. And it must to some degree because my sister is jealous— if I looked bad she would delight in pointing it out. 
My energy is fine— good now. I did have a period of about 3 months when my energy was low after starting the meds. It resolved eventually and has never returned. My sleep in the meds was fine, but after stopping I started having hot flashes from menopause and had a lot of trouble sleeping. hRT helped. 
My HbA1c went down on the meds, from 5.8 to 5.4 as of a year ago. I don’t know how it has changed since then (I go for bloodwork next week). My cholesterol went up while on the meds, though still within normal ranges. My cholesterol used to be pretty low and now it’s just ok. My triglycerides went down, though are still a bit high. They have always been high, back to my early 20s, even when I was addicted to exercise. It seems to run in my family. 
All in all, taking the meds was a positive experience. I took them as part of a clinical trial. By the end I was ready to go off. I had chronic constipation while on them. It was always annoying, and sometimes really so. But after a year, I am considering going back on in hopes of restarting weight loss. [/quote]

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