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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I could afford it but never would do it.[/quote]
Why?  What are your concerns?[/quote]

DP. I'm normal BMI, but gained 12 pounds and want to quickly drop them. I'm concerned that all the data shows these a lifelong drugs. [b]I'm concerned that I would totally screw up my metabolism and gain way more if I stopped even after short term use.[/b]

If I had diabetes, then I might be willing to be on drugs for life.[/quote]

This is something I've thought about too.  There's a handful of the people I know on GLP-1 meds for weight loss who have talked about having very little appetite and eating very few calories over the period of months, one person I know is going on two years.  I do wonder about how that continued calorie deficit is affecting their metabolism.  [/quote]

you mean like dieting? that continued calorie deficit? [/quote]

DP.  I think like extreme dieting.  Similar to people back when liquid diets were popular and would take in maybe 500 calories a day, even in medically-supervised liquid diets.[/quote]

There's so much ignorance and misinformation on this thread. I'm on Wegovy. I meet with a nutritionist periodically, a coach twice a month, a doctor as needed. I eat 90 grams of protein a day and walk a few miles every day, and I'm on a strength training plan but with mixed consistency (hence the coach). I've lost 30 lbs in 9 months, which is a very modest 3 lbs a month and frankly slower than when I lost with WW in my 20s.

Can you get meds and then make poor nutritional choices? Sure, people can do a lot of things that aren't great. But if you listen to the PPs who are actually taking this, they are losing at similar slow rates and making positive changes.

Also, re: these people concerned with whether someone "needs" it -- I'm tall with a waist, so I don't fit DCUM's idea of what obese/overweight looks like. I'm sure one of the PPs would say it's vanity weight going by my appearance, but in fact I'm still 25 lbs away from a normal BMI. I have lost (and regained) 40-50 lbs several times using more traditional methods. Even before getting meds I didn't drink or eat fast food: we have chicken and salad every night and have done so for years. So maybe chill with the assumptions about who is obese and what willpower accomplishes. [/quote]

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