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Anonymous wrote:I'm on the .5 dose of wegovy. I would describe it as enough appetite suppression that its easier to make good choices. Kind of like it takes the edge of my hunger and mental obsession over food but its still there. But if I wasn't motivated to loose weight and make good choices I could easily see no change. I've lost about 6-7 pounds in 7 weeks which I'm happy about.

Exactly. You can't continue to eat crap and wonder why you can't lose weight even while on a drug.

Look at the people who get surgery and still gain the weight back. When will people take responsibility for their choices?

You sound pleasant

There are people who are enraged that drugs exist to help people lose weight. It’s weird. Actually it’s psychotic.

Nope. I am cool with drugs existing to help people, but still believe people need to also put in some effort and accept that they do in fact have some control vs believing it is all out of their control and only a medication will save them. Medication should be used in combination with lifestyle changes and therapy. look at all the people who have gastric bypass and still gain weigh back because they go back to overeating/never solve the real problem.

You don’t get to have opinions about what other people should do. You worry about you.

DP. People can have opinions about whatever they want, including the temporary, unsustainable fixes people do.

Yes the truth is hard, but weightloss meds aren't going to fix a weight problem in the long term. Because things that are sustainable are hard, and you have to do the hard work - including the mental hard work.

I don’t. know why I’m bothering, but. Let me try:

If you know an overweight person who has lost weight before without Ozempic, you can be assured they know about doing the work. I am able to control my diet. I’ve done it to lose weight, I’ve done it to control GD, I’ve done it. It takes nearly all of my capacity. There’s a buzzing in my head that drives me bonkers. I have to think of almost nothing else and live like a monk. Ozempic has silenced that buzzing. I still get hungry, of course. But I also get full in a way I’ve never experienced before. My relationship to food is peaceful. I can plan a healthy diet and execute it while going about my normal life and being a good parent, partner, and worker.

This experience has really changed the way I see the whole issue. I wouldn’t tell a person with depression that they just need to think positive. That doesn’t mean depression should only be treated with meds and not therapy, cbd, whatever. I don’t tell alcoholics that they should be able to have one drink and then stop even though I can easily do that myself. This is not an either medication or hard work situation. I can’t know how other people feel, so I don’t know if I had some deficiency or whatever and Ozempic is correcting for that. But it feels like suddenly all of the advice about eating healthy and moderation is attainable for me in a way it never was before.

I’m on .25 and I have enough appetite suppression that I can control my eating, so I’m losing weight, although my body is adjusting I think and it’s not as noticeable in my fourth week. I’m only prediabetic with a family history. OP I think given that you have full blown diabetes, maybe the dosage isn’t the same. If you’re not having bad side effects, stick with it and your doctor’s dosing instructions and do the best you can with diet and exercise. You’ll get there.

I didn't lose weight and it made my heart beat really fast. I am off of it now.

I lost 15lbs in two weeks, but had terrible abdominal pain so had to quit. Best of luck to you in getting back into the proper A1C zone, OP. That's definitely the most important thing for you right now!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm on the .5 dose of wegovy. I would describe it as enough appetite suppression that its easier to make good choices. Kind of like it takes the edge of my hunger and mental obsession over food but its still there. But if I wasn't motivated to loose weight and make good choices I could easily see no change. I've lost about 6-7 pounds in 7 weeks which I'm happy about.

Exactly. You can't continue to eat crap and wonder why you can't lose weight even while on a drug.

Look at the people who get surgery and still gain the weight back. When will people take responsibility for their choices?

You sound pleasant

There are people who are enraged that drugs exist to help people lose weight. It’s weird. Actually it’s psychotic.

Nope. I am cool with drugs existing to help people, but still believe people need to also put in some effort and accept that they do in fact have some control vs believing it is all out of their control and only a medication will save them. Medication should be used in combination with lifestyle changes and therapy. look at all the people who have gastric bypass and still gain weigh back because they go back to overeating/never solve the real problem.

You don’t get to have opinions about what other people should do. You worry about you.

DP. People can have opinions about whatever they want, including the temporary, unsustainable fixes people do.

Yes the truth is hard, but weightloss meds aren't going to fix a weight problem in the long term. Because things that are sustainable are hard, and you have to do the hard work - including the mental hard work.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm on the .5 dose of wegovy. I would describe it as enough appetite suppression that its easier to make good choices. Kind of like it takes the edge of my hunger and mental obsession over food but its still there. But if I wasn't motivated to loose weight and make good choices I could easily see no change. I've lost about 6-7 pounds in 7 weeks which I'm happy about.

Exactly. You can't continue to eat crap and wonder why you can't lose weight even while on a drug.

Look at the people who get surgery and still gain the weight back. When will people take responsibility for their choices?

You sound pleasant

There are people who are enraged that drugs exist to help people lose weight. It’s weird. Actually it’s psychotic.

Nope. I am cool with drugs existing to help people, but still believe people need to also put in some effort and accept that they do in fact have some control vs believing it is all out of their control and only a medication will save them. Medication should be used in combination with lifestyle changes and therapy. look at all the people who have gastric bypass and still gain weigh back because they go back to overeating/never solve the real problem.

You don’t get to have opinions about what other people should do. You worry about you.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm on the .5 dose of wegovy. I would describe it as enough appetite suppression that its easier to make good choices. Kind of like it takes the edge of my hunger and mental obsession over food but its still there. But if I wasn't motivated to loose weight and make good choices I could easily see no change. I've lost about 6-7 pounds in 7 weeks which I'm happy about.

Exactly. You can't continue to eat crap and wonder why you can't lose weight even while on a drug.

Look at the people who get surgery and still gain the weight back. When will people take responsibility for their choices?

You sound pleasant

You can be grouchy all you want, but pp is right. The drugs are nothing but a temporary bandaid. Move more, untangle the mental health issues causing you to overeat, and make better food choices. That's the only way weightloss will be sustainable, with or without drugs/surgery/etc.

Anonymous wrote:A suggestion, and you might want to post this in the Health Forum, a specialized forum, and ask your doctor.

Since you have been diagnosed with diabetes, and have been taking a medication for the diabetes, you might get useful responses if you ask people who have been diagnosed with diabetes and who take Wegovy for diabetes, what there experiences with weight loss have been — since they are likely to be different from the experiences of people without diabetes who are taking the same medication. There are differences in dosages, but also differences in pancreatic functioning, I would imagine, that might impact weight loss. Have you discussed this with your doctor?

+1000

These posts have nothing to do with diet/exercise/fitness.

If you say there’s a pill you can take to make yourself rich, beautiful, smart, successful, athletic, or something similarly desirable, people are going to blanch. Because those are things that give people elevated status. If everyone is beautiful—nobody is beautiful. If everyone is thin—nobody is thin. If everyone is rich—nobody is rich. If everyone is Serena Williams—nobody is Serena Williams.

Nobody wants people to suffer with diabetes or heart disease. There’s no societal competitive advantage to having a healthy heart. But, right or wrong, I think people struggle with the thought of everyone being thin because thin is a commodity.

Anonymous wrote:I am on week 2 and am already seeing decreased appetite. There are great FB groups where you can probably get better information than on DCUM. Also, I am not diabetic and got my semaglutide at a compounding pharmacy and it's funny how triggered people get.

Highly recommend the Semaglutide support group on fb.

Fun fact: I got booted out of the biggest Ozempic support group on fb with no explanation. The only reason I can think of is that I mentioned I get my semaglutide from a weight loss center in a comment. So eff them.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm on the .5 dose of wegovy. I would describe it as enough appetite suppression that its easier to make good choices. Kind of like it takes the edge of my hunger and mental obsession over food but its still there. But if I wasn't motivated to loose weight and make good choices I could easily see no change. I've lost about 6-7 pounds in 7 weeks which I'm happy about.

Exactly. You can't continue to eat crap and wonder why you can't lose weight even while on a drug.

Look at the people who get surgery and still gain the weight back. When will people take responsibility for their choices?

You sound pleasant

There are people who are enraged that drugs exist to help people lose weight. It’s weird. Actually it’s psychotic.

Nope. I am cool with drugs existing to help people, but still believe people need to also put in some effort and accept that they do in fact have some control vs believing it is all out of their control and only a medication will save them. Medication should be used in combination with lifestyle changes and therapy. look at all the people who have gastric bypass and still gain weigh back because they go back to overeating/never solve the real problem.

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Anonymous wrote:Op here again - Thank you for your response! I’m in LA, so literally everyone here is on ozempic. A lot of people who are having extreme weight losses are getting it from medspas, using the compounded formula. I wonder if that’s better for weight loss or if it’s just better in general for people without diabetes?

Thank you for the FB group recommendation. I’ll check it out!

I posted this in another DCUM thread, but I was on Ozempic for three months in the fall and did not lose weight. My dosage ramp-up was similar to yours. I am pre-diabetic and have 50-60 lbs to lose.

PP again. No side effects, except a little bit of reflux, but also no appetite suppression.

Anonymous wrote:Op here again - Thank you for your response! I’m in LA, so literally everyone here is on ozempic. A lot of people who are having extreme weight losses are getting it from medspas, using the compounded formula. I wonder if that’s better for weight loss or if it’s just better in general for people without diabetes?

Thank you for the FB group recommendation. I’ll check it out!

I posted this in another DCUM thread, but I was on Ozempic for three months in the fall and did not lose weight. My dosage ramp-up was similar to yours. I am pre-diabetic and have 50-60 lbs to lose.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm on the .5 dose of wegovy. I would describe it as enough appetite suppression that its easier to make good choices. Kind of like it takes the edge of my hunger and mental obsession over food but its still there. But if I wasn't motivated to loose weight and make good choices I could easily see no change. I've lost about 6-7 pounds in 7 weeks which I'm happy about.

Exactly. You can't continue to eat crap and wonder why you can't lose weight even while on a drug.

Look at the people who get surgery and still gain the weight back. When will people take responsibility for their choices?

You sound pleasant

There are people who are enraged that drugs exist to help people lose weight. It’s weird. Actually it’s psychotic.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm on the .5 dose of wegovy. I would describe it as enough appetite suppression that its easier to make good choices. Kind of like it takes the edge of my hunger and mental obsession over food but its still there. But if I wasn't motivated to loose weight and make good choices I could easily see no change. I've lost about 6-7 pounds in 7 weeks which I'm happy about.

Exactly. You can't continue to eat crap and wonder why you can't lose weight even while on a drug.

Look at the people who get surgery and still gain the weight back. When will people take responsibility for their choices?

You sound pleasant