my daughter is on ozempic . She is 23yo and has lost from 245 to 167 since 1/1/23. She is running on a treadmill at least 3 days a week. She is in her college band as well so she gets a decent amount of activity in. She tells me the two things she has noticed the most are
1. her "food noise" is gone. She no longer thinks about foot nor is it and obsession to her any longer.
2. She has early satiety or gets full quicker with eating.
I has taught her a few things, one being appreciating how much she used to eat compared to now. Has learned to listen to her stomach and eating till full rather than eating all that she placed on her plate and then some.
Her goal is about 140#, she is about 5'3". She says she just loves now being able to do what she wants without getting short of breath or just plain hurting or feeling sluggish. She states when she does feel like eating something she shouldn't she then remembers how bad she feels afterwards as well as how good she feels with less weight.
So yes studies show you gain the weight back when stopping, but for a few they appreciate how good it feels to be normal and that can be > the desire to overeat and return to their previous lifestyle.
I see this as a huge benefit over the gastric bypass way of weight loss with altering your anatomy surgically with a whole host of potential complications resulting from this.
Just my two cents as a dad of someone using a glp-1 agonist and a physician as well
1. her "food noise" is gone. She no longer thinks about foot nor is it and obsession to her any longer.
2. She has early satiety or gets full quicker with eating.
I has taught her a few things, one being appreciating how much she used to eat compared to now. Has learned to listen to her stomach and eating till full rather than eating all that she placed on her plate and then some.
Her goal is about 140#, she is about 5'3". She says she just loves now being able to do what she wants without getting short of breath or just plain hurting or feeling sluggish. She states when she does feel like eating something she shouldn't she then remembers how bad she feels afterwards as well as how good she feels with less weight.
So yes studies show you gain the weight back when stopping, but for a few they appreciate how good it feels to be normal and that can be > the desire to overeat and return to their previous lifestyle.
I see this as a huge benefit over the gastric bypass way of weight loss with altering your anatomy surgically with a whole host of potential complications resulting from this.
Just my two cents as a dad of someone using a glp-1 agonist and a physician as well
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