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Wellness Wednesday for November 27, 2024

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

  • Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.

  • Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.

  • Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).

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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.