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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Yep. It’s a load of something that Rebel and Monday just ate healthy and lost so much weight. Definitely using the drug. I am about to start on it and I’ve told my family and friends. I KNOW I don’t eat so much more than everyone else and yet I am the fatty. So I am thrilled that there is a drug that will take dieting out of the “self control” column and put it into the “biology” column. I also have high cholesterol and have my entire life (when I was thin too) — and so does my extremely thin daughter. It’s genetic and no on bats an eye at putting me on a cholesterol medication. So why is everyone so stealth about going on semaglutides. I will probably be on it for the rest of my life but that’s ok because so many other obesity related risk factors won’t be a constant source of worry. Staying fat is bad. Happy to have this tool![/quote]

Here's the thing, the drug suppresses appetite (from what I understand). So you eat less and lose.  If you are already not eating much, how does it work? It may optimize blood sugar like metformin but otherwise I dont see that it somehow increases your metabolic rate. [/quote]

It makes you eat less than you were eating before. Not that hard to understand. [/quote]

It also slows down the emptying of your stomach.  If you're stomach is still full, you don't eat.  If the drug also curbs the impulse to eat, then you won't eat.  For me, when I started I felt like had eaten Thanksgiving dinner if I ate a few bites.  You really have to watch what you're eating when you start.  You need to make sure that every bite has nutricional value because you won't be eating a lot. [/quote]

I’m on Saxenda but it’s very similar. Never in my life have I been able to maintain 1 pound per week weight loss. I always have to do 1/2 lb per week. I’m on my first week of 0.6. It’s like the drive to eat is reduced by 75%. Even when I’m hungry I am not ravenous. A high drive to seek food was probably great for my Irish peasant ancestors but isn’t needed now. [/quote]

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