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Wellness Wednesday for November 27, 2024

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Is anyone on semaglutide (or tirzepatide)? How's it been for you? I'm probably going on it soon.

My dad's on it. Weight loss has been solid, but he's had bouts of intense nausea for months that are only beginning to ease up now several months in.

Yes. I've found the willpower component of dieting much easier, but the other issues (fatigue, slower thinking) entirely unchanged.

yikes, one thing that was encouraging me to try it is that people report that it doesn't seem to do those things

I'll try to report back when I'm on a higher dosage--still just getting started. So their reports are probably more reliable

Yes. To be honest it hasn't done a thing for me in terms of weight loss, though that isn't why I'm on it (but I was hoping for the fringe benefit). I still have the same urge to eat sweets that I did before, and still have to fight just as hard to (largely unsuccessfully) try to resist.

The one big change has been that I get full significantly faster than before. So if one's primary food related struggle is overeating meals, I can imagine it would help them a lot. But that is not my struggle, sadly. Overall I would say my experience is that the effect of semaglutide for weight loss is overly hyped, but YMMV depending on your specific situation.

My husband's on it, and he's pretty happy with it so far. No serious side effects, he's well below 300 pounds for the first time in many years, and there's a decent chance he'll get within spitting distance of 200 in another year or so.

I had tried it from peptide science, and also retatrutide, so I probably had the real deal, but it didn't do much for me. I also am not very consistent with it, and I don't even bother to keep it refrigerated. It does seem to decrease appetite, but my body weight is normal, and I tried it more for IBS, addiction and after eating tiredness which probably has to do with huge spikes in blood glucose and crash after eating.

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