Re: Weight Loss

Catch71 · ‎03-09-2010

@FranandZoe wrote:
Taking a GLP1 med doesn't automatically just melt the weight off - you still have to change your eating and even exercise. Have to change your lifestyle.

I know someone on it and she said it takes your appetite away and you don't feel hungry. She also told me that if she stops taking it the pounds will come back on so she will probably be on it forever. She is around 50 years old. She was not obese, she just wanted to lose 25 lbs to look better. People take it for many different reasons. It doesn't affect me so to each their own. Hope down the road they don't find it causes other ailments. I am glad it is available for those who truly need it for their health.

shoekitty · ‎03-10-2010

Diet and exercise does not work for everyone. Many people who suffer from obesity have tried, tried and tried again. Many have given up after years of an endless circle. Diet and exercise, (especially diet) works for me. But I am one person with a totally different DNA than another. I have know of a woman and a couple men who suffered horribly , being over 100lbs over weight. Believe me weight was not only on their minds, but effected everything they did. They tried and tried and tried again. After a while your body with develops almost resistance to dieting. Health issues are usuallyprevalent , medications, etc are stumbling blocks. Although I would be scared to death to take these meds, I am not in their position. I think if they are able to take the meds, and have a successful weight loss, good for them. The weight loss would open doors for them, encourage them... and hopefully they would go on with a diet and exercise program to keep it off. With Self esteem lifted, going from there might be easier. I am happy for those who loose weight of that magnitude, it ain't easy...any way one does it. All diets are not for everyone, no matter what each person who promotes a diet says.

“sometimes you have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on”….Bob Dylan

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

Over the years, I have lost and gained weight.

I absolutely hate when someone asks me how I lost it. It is really none of their business. Some people have even hinted that I might have medical issues that led to weight loss.

The only comment I want to hear is " You look great."

Comments regarding anyone's weight gain, loss or about their body in general are rude. People are so lacking in manners.

I am still oxox · ‎03-09-2010

@FranandZoe wrote:
Taking a GLP1 med doesn't automatically just melt the weight off - you still have to change your eating and even exercise. Have to change your lifestyle.

@FranandZoe I know someone who used it last year ans stopped and she gained back the 30 lbs plus

Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being positive what could go right.

wagirl · ‎03-09-2010

@snipsnapsnur --good answer!!!

AZfem · ‎04-13-2016

I have been told by 2 different women doctors that some people just can't loose weight. Some women who are post menopausal have to exercise 5 times harder than a younger woman to loose weight. When your older, its pretty hard to exercise 5 times harder your lucky you can move.

People with Hashimotos disease & thyroid disease have even harder struggles as those diseases want you to gain weight & keep gaining & make it hard to loose it.

Everyone's metabolism is different & those with

lSuggish metabolisms are not not the same as people who easily loose.

Franklinbell · ‎01-04-2015

I have a former colleague who has lost approximately 150 pounds using a GLP1, and she feels amazing. I don't judge because I am not living her life. She looks fab! I told her that if I saw her walking down the street, I would walk right past her. I know people who have done many different approaches to losing weight. I say you do you! One of my friends brought up the various diets we tried when we were younger... Someone mentioned the grapefruit diet! Yikes!!

ID2 · ‎06-25-2012

Anyone CAN lose weight without drugs! Stop making excuses. I'm a type 1 diabetic and losing weight is supposed to be very difficult for someone like me. I lost 70 lbs. six years ago, by diet and walking, and have still kept it off. I stopped eating carbs and it works for my blood sugar and my weight. i wonder when these drugs will be deemed dangerous down the road. SMH

"Pure Michigan"

conlt · ‎03-16-2010

@retiredatlast Good for you. Obesity is no recognized as a disease, not as a failure. I was started on a GLP-1 on September 1, 2022. I lost 97 pounds and still keep it off. The food noise is gone, I am able to manage my health so much better than before.

I am 68 years old, still work as a RN full time. I can run circles around others my age. GLP-1 saved my life. I lost and gained back the same 100 pounds over many many years.

GLP-1's are wonderful medications, now shown to help people with not only Diabetes and Obesity, but with heart disease, inflammation, some cancers. They are well studied medications.

I see my Endocrinologist every 6 months. My last lab work was perfect in every way. I was taken off blood pressure medications. I do exercise.

I feel angry when others criticize those of us on GLP-1's. These drugs have helped many improve their lives.

Like my mother always said "no one wants to be fat." If i could have, I would have kept the weight off. The problem in in the genetics and metabolism.

Some of the GLP-1 criticizers may find themselves on the drug one day for a reason other than Obesity or Diabetes. I see many patients on these drugs for other disease processes.

conlt · ‎03-16-2010

@SilleeMee Good for her. I am terrified of bariatric surgery. As a RN, I have seen many complications about 12 to 15 years after surgery. That is me, but I have done well on the GLP-1's so that is my choice.