Anonymous wrote:Yes -- the vast majority of people who have stoped it are gaining weight back. This is the main reason I'm not jumping on the bandwagon. So it's no different than most ways of losing weight; the biggest challenge isn't losing the weight, the biggest challenge is keeping it off.

The studies show that 20% gain it back...not "the vast majority"

Anonymous wrote:Why go off it? I lost 40 pounds. To maintain I’m playing around with a low dose and spreading out the shots. My doctor is monitoring and we’re figuring this out together. I’m fine with the idea of this for a long time. It’s life changing for me in wonderful ways.

This is what I’m planning to do. I haven’t injected myself in two weeks and I’m still getting great results with no food noise. I hope to take the meds 1-2x a month when I get to maintenance. I’ve been on the medication for a year, and I’ve completely changed my eating and exercise habits. I’m not going to let myself go back to eating like “normal” and not exercising at all.

Why go off it? I lost 40 pounds. To maintain I’m playing around with a low dose and spreading out the shots. My doctor is monitoring and we’re figuring this out together. I’m fine with the idea of this for a long time. It’s life changing for me in wonderful ways.

New study:

Key Findings
Two-thirds of patients are able to maintain weight loss achieved while on semaglutide or liraglutide even a year after discontinuing the medication.

However, a portion of patients who stop taking either medication experience weight regain, with 18.7% of liraglutide users and 17.7% of semaglutide users regaining all the weight
they had lost or more.

https://epicresearch.org/articles/many-patients-maintain-weight-loss-a-year-after-stopping-semaglutide-and-liraglutide

The common line about senaglutides is that it isn’t “habits” that keep some people obese. It’s food noises and whatever hormones/chemicals the semaglutides suppresses . It stands to reason then that simply changing your habits won’t work once those people go off the semaglutides. The food noise will just return and the hormones that were suppressed will come back. We also know that fat cells store memory and are predisposed to holding fat once a person has been obese. I don’t see how keeping the weight off long term without the semaglutide would be possible for people who are truly chronically obese.

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Anonymous wrote:The weight will come back because Ozempic corrects an inflammatory reaction that drives weright gain, but does not fix the underlying problem. The same thing happens to people who lose weight without Ozempic.

Not everything is due to “inflammation” the new buzz word for all our bodies problems.

Ozempic makes you feel full longer and thus, eat less.

Once you stop, feel more hungry and go back to old habits you’ll gain the weight back.

Many think losing weight is hard. What they don’t realize is maintaining that weight loss is even harder.

Inflammation may be a buzzword but there is a lot of evidence on the association of inflammatory markers and obesity.

In any event Ozempic corrects an underlying physical defect. Without it, the disease will return, often worse than before.

The only semi permanent weight lost is the gastric sleeve. Even then you still need to watch your diet. You can never out run the fork.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm actually interested in the opposite question-- how many are keeping it off (or even keeping half of it off).

It seems plausible. Being on this for a year can potentially change your habits and your body chemistry. But so far, that doesn't seem to be happening, right?

I read an article this week that stated only 20% succeed in keeping the weight off.

And I read this article saying that a majority maintain their weight loss after a year. Im going with this research finding.

https://epicresearch.org/articles/many-patients-maintain-weight-loss-a-year-after-stopping-semaglutide-and-liraglutide

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes -- the vast majority of people who have stoped it are gaining weight back. This is the main reason I'm not jumping on the bandwagon. So it's no different than most ways of losing weight; the biggest challenge isn't losing the weight, the biggest challenge is keeping it off.

So, no. You have no experience that OP is asking for? Why do these people insist on responding to these threads.

OP, there are a lot of semaglutide subreddits dedicated to maintaining. I would look there, not dcum, because you’ll be overwhelmed with negative people like this PP. there are some people. Who struggle to maintain and some people who do just fine. It depends on you and the changed you make.

Why would I respond? Because I've been considering semaglutide for months, and have had multiple conversations with my doctor about it -- and then I researched it. I have lost about 90lbs with diet and exercise twice, and it has all piled back on both times and I feel like I can't go through that again. So I've researched the issue extensively with regard to the new weight loss meds, including Ozempic.

OP, most people who lose weight on semaglutide and then go off it do not do "just fine," they gain the weight back.

Could you share with us - were you just not able to maintain the dietary and exercise habits you’d used to lose the weight?

I lost the weight on WW. Both times. Once I met my goal I stopped obsessively counting points. And then the weight returned. Both times. I don't ever want to go back to WW, the points counting became obsession (it kind of has to take over your life if you want it to work) and that is no way to live -- being obsessed all day every day with your food intake. That is how it was for me, anyway. It took me a year and a half to lose 90lbs, and when I met my goal I saw my doctor because I couldn't figure out why I was almost fainting and my hair was falling out; it was the sustained calorie deficit. That is the main reason I stopped counting the points the last time. But, yeah -- then the weight came back. And here I am. Obese again.

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Anonymous wrote:The weight will come back because Ozempic corrects an inflammatory reaction that drives weright gain, but does not fix the underlying problem. The same thing happens to people who lose weight without Ozempic.

Not everything is due to “inflammation” the new buzz word for all our bodies problems.

Ozempic makes you feel full longer and thus, eat less.

Once you stop, feel more hungry and go back to old habits you’ll gain the weight back.

Many think losing weight is hard. What they don’t realize is maintaining that weight loss is even harder.

+1

Exactly, it makes you feel full so you don’t eat as much. It’s not about inflammation.

If you exercise, and burn more than your caloric intake, you lose weight.

If you stop ozempic and go back to your old eating habits and don’t exercise, the weight will come back. Guaranteed!

Many had the same issues with gastric bypass. You have to change your eating habits and change your lifestyle.

Anonymous wrote:The weight will come back because Ozempic corrects an inflammatory reaction that drives weright gain, but does not fix the underlying problem. The same thing happens to people who lose weight without Ozempic.

Not everything is due to “inflammation” the new buzz word for all our bodies problems.

Ozempic makes you feel full longer and thus, eat less.

Once you stop, feel more hungry and go back to old habits you’ll gain the weight back.

Many think losing weight is hard. What they don’t realize is maintaining that weight loss is even harder.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm actually interested in the opposite question-- how many are keeping it off (or even keeping half of it off).

It seems plausible. Being on this for a year can potentially change your habits and your body chemistry. But so far, that doesn't seem to be happening, right?

I read an article this week that stated only 20% succeed in keeping the weight off.

This was my internist's first reaction when I asked if I was a good candidate for it - "you've got to change your habits or it will all come back"

Most people will gain back most of the weight they have lost if they do not change their eating and exercise habits FOR LIFE. That applies to any weight loss method. Semaglutide is no different. I’ve worked very hard to lose 40 lbs while on Wegovy and have accepted that I will have to count calories/macros daily and keep up my 3-4x week strength training and 5-6x week cardio indefinitely. I’m never going back to how I ate before. Right now I’m ecstatic that I am off blood pressure meds and have seen great improvements in lipid panel values.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes -- the vast majority of people who have stoped it are gaining weight back. This is the main reason I'm not jumping on the bandwagon. So it's no different than most ways of losing weight; the biggest challenge isn't losing the weight, the biggest challenge is keeping it off.

So, no. You have no experience that OP is asking for? Why do these people insist on responding to these threads.

OP, there are a lot of semaglutide subreddits dedicated to maintaining. I would look there, not dcum, because you’ll be overwhelmed with negative people like this PP. there are some people. Who struggle to maintain and some people who do just fine. It depends on you and the changed you make.

Why would I respond? Because I've been considering semaglutide for months, and have had multiple conversations with my doctor about it -- and then I researched it. I have lost about 90lbs with diet and exercise twice, and it has all piled back on both times and I feel like I can't go through that again. So I've researched the issue extensively with regard to the new weight loss meds, including Ozempic.

OP, most people who lose weight on semaglutide and then go off it do not do "just fine," they gain the weight back.

Could you share with us - were you just not able to maintain the dietary and exercise habits you’d used to lose the weight?