Weight loss jabs: What happens when you stop taking them
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Re: Weight loss jabs: What happens when you stop taking them
#2TLDR: "...evidence so far suggests that, between one and three years after stopping the medication, people will see a "significant proportion of weight" go back on...Somewhere in the region of 60 to 80% of the weight that you lost will return..."
Re: Weight loss jabs: What happens when you stop taking them
#3TLDR: "...evidence so far suggests that, between one and three years after stopping the medication, people will see a "significant proportion of weight" go back on...Somewhere in the region of 60 to 80% of the weight that you lost will return..."
What's striking here is that this is roughly the same outcome as essentially every other diet (with the intent of losing weight) out there. It's just more expensive. And possibly more hyped.
Re: Weight loss jabs: What happens when you stop taking them
#4TLDR: "...evidence so far suggests that, between one and three years after stopping the medication, people will see a "significant proportion of weight" go back on...Somewhere in the region of 60 to 80% of the weight that you lost will return..."
What's striking here is that this is roughly the same outcome as essentially every other diet (with the intent of losing weight) out there. It's just more expensive. And possibly more hyped.
And it works much better for most people
Re: Weight loss jabs: What happens when you stop taking them
#5TLDR: "...evidence so far suggests that, between one and three years after stopping the medication, people will see a "significant proportion of weight" go back on...Somewhere in the region of 60 to 80% of the weight that you lost will return..."
What's striking here is that this is roughly the same outcome as essentially every other diet (with the intent of losing weight) out there. It's just more expensive. And possibly more hyped.
Diet is the food you eat. If you change the food you eat, you’ve changed your diet.
Any attempt at a temporary food change is already a failure for long term health.
Re: Weight loss jabs: What happens when you stop taking them
#6Being overweight is a chronic disease.
Just like alcoholism, or any kind of other addictions.
I've struggled with alcohol abuse, and once you come to the realization that you're abusing it, the fix FOR ME was relatively simple: I stopped (under medical supervision) drinking, or to be more precise: I stopped starting to drink. I have no problems not drinking, I have a problem that when I start I cannot stop.
I have the same issue with food. Not eating is a lot easier than stopping to eat. But I cannot completely stop eating.
Yet with alcohol people are like: hey, good for you.
With my weight issues people are like: dude, just eat less, or exercise more.
(I stopped sharing the food story with people).
Re: Weight loss jabs: What happens when you stop taking them
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's striking here is that this is roughly the same outcome as essentially every other diet (with the intent of losing weight) out there. It's just more expensive. And possibly more hyped.
And it works much better for most people
Yeah I think this is the missing piece. Same impact as dieting but with higher adherence and duration is a huge win.
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#8Other medications become lifelong medications but without this level of scrutiny. I am 100% in favor of finding a more permanent treatment, but switching blood pressure meds, and cholesterol meds, and other daily meds for a single once a week med is a massive improvement, especially since the all source mortality data keeps rolling in showing the efficacy here is orders of magnitude better than all the other medications out there. A constant issue here is that we keep calling this a 'weight loss drug' and society views being fat as a moral failing ant that you 'just don't have the will power' to overcome. We need to stop. If this is a lifelong drug it is worth it compared to the relatively ineffective, and just as lifelong, alternatives out there.
Re: Weight loss jabs: What happens when you stop taking them
#9Can't be worse long-term than inhaling nicotine, the previous widely deployed strategy to combat food cravings.
Re: Weight loss jabs: What happens when you stop taking them
#10TLDR: "...evidence so far suggests that, between one and three years after stopping the medication, people will see a "significant proportion of weight" go back on...Somewhere in the region of 60 to 80% of the weight that you lost will return..."
What's striking here is that this is roughly the same outcome as essentially every other diet (with the intent of losing weight) out there. It's just more expensive. And possibly more hyped.
It's not hyped. It's the most effective way I've seen the people around me lose weight. Some of them have lost a tremendous amount of weight very quickly.
But a know a couple of them that went off it and the weight came back pretty quickly. It really is just a suppression of hunger, nothing more than that.