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Culture War Roundup for the week of February 24, 2025

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It unfortunately doesn't do that. Source: am on Ozempic, but I still have to fight tooth and nail to keep my sugar addiction under control. It does make you get full faster, but the cravings are just as strong as ever.

Wild. The effect it had on me is making me find sugar kind of gross. I consistently add only one teaspoon to coffee from now on whereas I used to always add two. Additionally I used to take my kids to a coffee shop in the mornings for some goodies a few times a week and now everything in there seems gross. I haven't had a thing from there since starting Semaglutide for weight loss.

It hasn't affected my interest in alcohol though. I can still have a beer or two with dinner, though alcohol never had a grip on me.

When it comes to snacking I find my behavior changed. I can lay in bed now at night and think "hmm I'm feeling a bit hungry. there's some delicious vanilla yogurt in the fridge. I should go have some. go on, go have some" and ... the actual urge to get up and do this is just gone. The abstract thought of pleasure around snacking is still there but the dopamine boost to get me to jump out of bed is missing.

This seems like it could have profound positive effects on addiction, but it's kind of weird how selective it is.

Huh. More proof of my personal theory that different people react differently to the same drug.

(I just got on Semaglutide for a number of reasons, and the difference is astounding.)

Man, I envy you. I really was hoping it would have good effects for me in terms of making it take less willpower to not binge on sweets, but no such luck I'm afraid. Obviously it still does me good in terms of blood sugar control, but I didn't get the fringe benefits I was hoping for.

Amazing.

I've only been on it for a short time so far, but I've already gotten to the point where I can literally forget to eat. The effects have been so beneficial overall I'm kinda waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Don’t copious amounts of diet soda help?

Diet soda doesn't taste like sugar. It tastes like a nasty off-sweet thing, maybe some sort of byproduct of sugar production.

Everybody has a different response to medicine, and food. Some people metabolize certain medications well or poorly. Some people get a good response from Ozempic for all kinds of shit, some don't

Some people think Cilantro tastes like soap and we know exactly why.

Personally I am not offended at all by diet soda but I do know plenty of people who are. It does work for some people!

Not really? I've been able to replace regular Coke with Coke zero, even before Ozempic. But it tastes kinda nasty by itself, so I only drink it with food (as food masks the bad taste). I wouldn't really have much luck using it to fulfill cravings for sweets.

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