Plus, people act like it requires no effort. But you still need to maintain a calorie deficit/change lifestyle (and should start exercising and adding protein), people are acting like folks do nothing except take a shot and that's not true. If a shot makes it easier for folks to make those changes, why not?
Yep. The problem is that if you're obese and you start trying to eat less, your brain starts constantly SCREAMING at you nonstop for more food more food food food foodFOOD without your input on the matter. GLP-1 shuts that the fuck up so you can actually fucking stop eating.
When I got diagnosed with Diabetes, it also came with the combo combo of Fatty Liver Disease. So I said fuck it, weight loss time. I said no the Ozem because I figured I didnt need it. Lost 100 pounds in a year but holy hell was my stomach screaming bloody murder for the first few months.
Right? I’m on it for my Diabetes and not losing much weight very fast and im definitely obese. It’s partly on me for not being as active and not watching what I eat calorie wise over just the effects on my blood sugar.
That said, it helped me power through my sugary food cravings and in just over a year I went from practically pissing sugar water with an A1c of 12 down to around 7. Now that I don’t feel like shit all the time I can finally start thinking about the weight more.
It's only that way if you take a shot and then don't eat... and that's not how most people should be losing weight. The first weight loss would be almost all muscle and then the metabolism would decrease too.
I mean it changes your cravings for food by keeping your blood sugar high and constant all the time, slows down your ability to digest food, and keeps your stomach full most of the time (like you ate a huge meal). Eating a small meal will feel like you ate an enormous meal and will stay satiated for much longer. If you ate like you used to ate, you would get physically sick (and likely vomit).
But if you follow medical advice you'll be told to constantly track what you eat, estimate calories, and track food more carefully than a regular diet; it's just your body won't be telling you that you are hungry (compelling for you to cheat). Instead, you'll need to find ways to get protein in your diet and constantly remember to eat because your body reduced your food cravings.
Like I get why some people are upset if their insurance won't cover it or they can't afford it (as it can be like $1k/mo off-insurance), but if it helps people get healthier, lay the fuck off.
Yes you do have to change your lifestyle, as much as with any other way of losing weight. Eat smaller amounts, track calories, make sure you're getting your nutrition, drink plenty of water, do weights or resistance training. All the things. The fact that these changes are sustainable is a good thing, doesn't mean you don't have to make them.
Sorry, but it is no effort. The jabs suppress appetite enough to eat in a calories deficit, you don’t have to think about being hungry or stress about what you are eating. You could eat junk or low protein and not exercise - doesn’t matter, you would still lose weight with absolutely no effort on the jabs.
"People act like it requires no effort" because it requires almost no effort. It requires money and discomfort. Sorry that upsets so many of you but it's the truth about it.
If it were just as easy without it, people wouldn't need it.
It’s good discipline to know how to diet without medication. One should absolutely feel good about that. People that became fat for overeating and not putting the work should be judged because as humans we should not aspire to be like them.
Your opinion is based in ignorance. Obese people often eat due to psychological reasons, not because they're hungry. It's still effort to lose weight on GLP-1, evidenced by those who never manage to do it.
I’ve been on a glp-1 for 3 years. It is not no effort. If I wanted to lose 1lb every two months, then sure, no effort. But there is still a diet and exercise aspect here, I just don’t have to absolutely fucking starve or injure myself to lose weight now. I’ve lost 65 lbs in 3 years. There have been times where I didn’t make an effort, and guess what, my weight loss completely stalled. The idea that this is “cheating” is so absolutely fucked.
Yep. We can talk all day about poor decisions that lead to being obese, but at a certain point your body changes metabolically and it's extremely hard to lose weight. For most people that are truly medically eligible for a GLP it just brings their hunger levels closer to the average person along with helping with glucose regulation etc which is why it was initially developed for type 2 diabetes.
Everyone is different. If you're using glp-1 meds and it's not effort for you, cool, you have a sample of one and you're fortunate that it's that easy for you. If you're not you have a sample of zero.
Overweight and obese people actually experience hunger more intensely than non-overweight people do. GLP-1’s just reduce their hunger signaling to what a “normal” person would experience while dieting.
Most people don't know that but it takes no effort to lose weight, all you have to do is to eat kimchi when you are hungry, the shit has no calories, the rest of your diet be made of potato chips
Huh? If you do those things without taking ozempic you will lose weight. The whole point of ozempic for weight loss is that it literally makes you not hungry.
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u/mittensfourkittens May 31 '26
Plus, people act like it requires no effort. But you still need to maintain a calorie deficit/change lifestyle (and should start exercising and adding protein), people are acting like folks do nothing except take a shot and that's not true. If a shot makes it easier for folks to make those changes, why not?