I can only really go by feels data because I'm not doing any math yet, but essentially I don't get any food cravings between meals now and I get fuller quicker when I'm eating a meal.
As an aside the other day I took my kids to McDonald's and got less than I usually get. Halfway through my fries I started getting pretty full and ended up throwing away some of my meal. That NEVER happened before the GLP-1. So whatever it's doing seems to be two pronged - I eat less outside of meals and I eat less at meals.
Every few days or so I am not hungry at all (maybe I ate more the day before?) and have to actively force myself to eat so my sugar doesn't drop.
Hopefully some of the low sugar stuff can get minimized if I am able to get off some pills.
Either way, I really went on this for blood sugar control with weight control being a secondary function. Just interesting seeing the weight fall off so easily. My brain is definitely wired to overeat, so it's kind of miraculous how fast that changed.
I've read the last few posts of yours and I would caution you - you're on a very slippery path right now unless you start to incorporate lifestyle changes like daily exercise and better, cleaner eating habits. If you don't and just continue with the status quo, you are primed to not only put all of that weight back on, but actually end up even heavier than when you started.
One thing we know is that the body is incredibly good at adapting. Your current lifestyle is teaching it that it needs less and less food to operate. The problem is at some point, you're going to hit the wall for what the Ozempic dosage can do for you and plateau. Which means, upping the dosage (typically double but not always). Which will give you another month or three before your body then adapts to that dosage and plateaus again, which leads to another doubling of the dosage, and so on and so forth.
The point here is that at some point, you won't be able to continue relying on the Ozempic meds as a tenable solution to manage your appetite. Your hunger will start to increase causing you to eat more. Worse yet, your body's metabolism is complete shit at this point because you've basically been training it to be in starvation mode all this time, so when all the extra food comes, it starts storing it all as fat.
This is why the Ozempic plan fails for so many people. They lose weight quickly thinking they've accomplished something great when in reality, most have simply set themselves up for disaster.
Your only way to make it work is A) you have to stop eating garbage like fast food and start taking in a cleaner diet and B) you MUST start exercising. If it's just walking at first, it's better than nothing but ideally, you're going to also incorporate resistance training in there to start building muscle. Muscle is critical, even moreso as we get older, and the only way to build it is through resistance training.
If you follow that advice and put some better habits into practice, you will almost undoubtedly reach and maintain a healthy weight. It should also have a huge effect on your A1C and blood sugar too.
Good luck with it.
Cad commentary on this is one of a legitimately good intentioned advice, but that came across a little odd. If I was going to go full tilt boogie and dive into all things medical enough to be able to self diagnose or fully guide my care regardless of my Dr or her PAs opinion I believe it would introduce a higher chance of medical misstep.
