Health Problems

moonarchia said:

Shove it up your ass.

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Vinjin said:

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.

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Noodleface said:

Thanks. I would say I am primarily taking it for diabetes and weight loss is just a secondary benefit. I am eating better by far, I just don't have the drive for shitty food like I used to. That and I'm eating less when I do eat.

Not dismissing your concerns because they are valid. I would just echo that I'm finding what its doing for weight loss kind of remarkable.

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Noodleface said:

Hey any advice like that is valid. Appreciated looking out (MOM!).

For transparency within the last year or so I've started working out more and eating better. When I was first diagnosed I ate fast food every single night. Not a joke. Now it's a once a month thing. I also cut nearly all sugar out minus when I go low. So changes are in effect.

My main reason for wanting ozempic was to start getting off oral meds (some, not all). Doctor thought this was a good idea to help me achieve that.

Of course I can't ignore the fact that it completely changed my view on food. It's kind of a weird thing to just not really care about food as much anymore, which is what I assume normal people are like. Also I'm not morbidly obese, so this is really just a benefit for me.

I've been diabetic 20 years, so it's exciting to try something new.

That said, I definitely agree with the lifestyle changes. I assure you those are made or in process. It's difficult to completely change your ways after so many years, but this medicine seems to be helping me make better food choices.

Also .. my eye shit scared the ABSOLUTE SHIT out of me. I'm on my 3rd eyeball injection of 5 and I never want to go through that again.

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Izo said:

I seem to remember you being a supertaster. Has that changed with ozempic?

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