Anonymous wrote:I’m 5’9” and went from 203 to 145 on OZ. My insurance did not cover the meds. I went off it once I hit my goal. Im 8 months off and weigh between 143-150. I weight daily and never let myself go over 150. I don’t carb cut, but I do exercise (6 days a week) and keep an eye on my calories. Im on vyvanse for ADD which has the very pleasant side effect of eliminating all my binge eating. Clearly I have a dopamine imbalance which is the root of my problem.

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I will say once I hit 175 l, I got so much energy and really cranked up the exercise.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a friend on it and she's way below a healthy weight now. I'm not sure how she doesn't see it, or maybe she's struggling with the right dose/plan. IDK. Just something to add to this conversation. We work out together and I know she went from 200 to 120, but she's too thin now (She's about 5'6")

Sudden weight loss makes everyone look haggard.

Is it the weight loss or the abnormally high level of muscle atrophy associated with semaglutide?

Lolol! Once I dropped some weight I had the energy to exercise. I went from not even being able to to a push up to now I can. It only do one handed push ups, I can do pull ups. I look wayyy younger without my fat bloated middle aged face and double chin. Puffiness around my eyes also went away. I no longer have puffy upper and lower eyes, it’s great!

There’s a Facebook group with thousands of users and predominantly ozempic face means a much nicer looking face than before.

I’m 5’9” and went from 203 to 145 on OZ. My insurance did not cover the meds. I went off it once I hit my goal. Im 8 months off and weigh between 143-150. I weight daily and never g
Let myself go over 150. I don’t carb but but I do exercise and keep an eye on my calories. Im on vyvanse for ADD which has the very pleasant side effect of eliminating all my binge eating. Clearly I have a dopamine imbalance which is the root of my problem.

Anonymous wrote:I hit my goal last Nov. According to Wegovy the full strength dose is 2.4. My insurance will pay for 1 month at each strength until you get to 2.4. So I’m on 2.4.

I use it every 2-3 weeks instead of monthly. I would prefer to go back down but then I would have to pay out of pocket.

Isn't it a weekly shot? So you've been maintaining since November by continuing the 2.4? Any discussion of weaning you off?

Is there loss of strength? I guess I have a vague notion that people who have been using muscles to haul around a bunch of extra weight would, if anything, be stronger on average when they lose that weight.

I hit my goal last Nov. According to Wegovy the full strength dose is 2.4. My insurance will pay for 1 month at each strength until you get to 2.4. So I’m on 2.4.

I use it every 2-3 weeks instead of monthly. I would prefer to go back down but then I would have to pay out of pocket.

They look sickly the people I’ve seen

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Anonymous wrote:I have a friend on it and she's way below a healthy weight now. I'm not sure how she doesn't see it, or maybe she's struggling with the right dose/plan. IDK. Just something to add to this conversation. We work out together and I know she went from 200 to 120, but she's too thin now (She's about 5'6")

Sudden weight loss makes everyone look haggard.

Is it the weight loss or the abnormally high level of muscle atrophy associated with semaglutide?

The early reports of unusual levels of muscle atrophy on Dexscans are keeping me from trying it. The haggard faces post-Ozempic are startling, worse than people who’be lost weight without it.

It’s so tempting but I don’t want to end up worse off.

Anonymous wrote:I’m on week 5. Just bumped up to .5 mg. I’ve had zero side effects, zero appetite suppression and zero weight loss. I’m feeling pretty bummed right now.

Hang in there!! I was the same as you until I went up to 2.0 and added metformin. Now I’m down 23.5 lbs!

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Anonymous wrote:I have a friend on it and she's way below a healthy weight now. I'm not sure how she doesn't see it, or maybe she's struggling with the right dose/plan. IDK. Just something to add to this conversation. We work out together and I know she went from 200 to 120, but she's too thin now (She's about 5'6")

Sudden weight loss makes everyone look haggard.

Is it the weight loss or the abnormally high level of muscle atrophy associated with semaglutide?

Is this a thing? I’ve noticed a bit of that but trying to pick my protein and exercise levels.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a friend on it and she's way below a healthy weight now. I'm not sure how she doesn't see it, or maybe she's struggling with the right dose/plan. IDK. Just something to add to this conversation. We work out together and I know she went from 200 to 120, but she's too thin now (She's about 5'6")

Sudden weight loss makes everyone look haggard.

It’s just weight loss and also maintaining a low weight. Sudden/fast or slow doesn’t matter. It’s the loss of volume.

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Anonymous wrote:Once you start, you don't go off.

I'm not sure what maintenance mode means. I guess I got a little less vigilant about eat low-carb and my weight plateaued.

I'm down about 50 from my start. Ironically, I lost all of it before even beginning Ozempic (for type 2). Ozempic actually has not caused me to lose anything further, although I'm also not gaining, even after becoming less restrictive. To some degree the medicine takes care of that naturally -- where I might have eaten an entire Subway sandwich before, now I only want half of one. Etc.

No one ever knows what maintenance mode means.... medicine will not change your mind or your thoughts.

You are most decidedly wrong about that. This class of medications has been shown to affect dramatic changes in addictive thought patterns. It makes people with obesity have thought patterns like non-obese people who do not struggle with overeating. Thoughts like, “hm. I’ve eaten a sandwich so I don’t need another one” versus “OMG I’M SO HUUNGRY but I can’t eat another sandwich because I’m a fat pig and I’m gonna die young and omg whyyyyyyyy can’t I have it I’m so hungry I’m just gonna have half and maybe just a handful of berries, berries are okay but wait are they low carb? Probably not for effs sake why can’t one sandwich be enough I’m so disgusting no one is ever going to love me and I have nothing to wear to Aunt Nora’s this weekend auuugh I dread seeing her and all of them so judgy eff it this tastes sooooo good OMG I can’t believe I just ate a whole other sandwich I am so disgusting…”

To infinity

So, yeah. This class of drugs. One sandwich is enough. There’s no more thinking about it. You can go think about other stuff.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a friend on it and she's way below a healthy weight now. I'm not sure how she doesn't see it, or maybe she's struggling with the right dose/plan. IDK. Just something to add to this conversation. We work out together and I know she went from 200 to 120, but she's too thin now (She's about 5'6")

Sudden weight loss makes everyone look haggard.

Is it the weight loss or the abnormally high level of muscle atrophy associated with semaglutide?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m on week 5. Just bumped up to .5 mg. I’ve had zero side effects, zero appetite suppression and zero weight loss. I’m feeling pretty bummed right now.

You still have a lot of room to move up, no reason to be bummed.

I have a family member who didn't start feeling any impact until 1.7. Everyone is different.

Anonymous wrote:I’m on week 5. Just bumped up to .5 mg. I’ve had zero side effects, zero appetite suppression and zero weight loss. I’m feeling pretty bummed right now.

You still have a lot of room to move up, no reason to be bummed.