Posted on 06/16/2024 4:31:12 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Tis the season for emergency room visits after inappropriately using Ozempic to lose weight for the summer.
“Drugs including Ozempic and Wegovy should only be used by people prescribed them for obesity or diabetes,” Stephen Powis — the national medical director of NHS England, the country’s publicly funded healthcare system — urged last week at a conference in Manchester.
“I’m worried about reports that people are misusing them — they are not intended as a quick fix for people trying to get ‘beach body ready,'” added Powis, per The Times of London.
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As far as I am concerned, it should only be used coupled with lifestyle and diet changes. Drop 5lbs with it and use the next few months to make further changes with your lifestyle and diet and then use it again for another 5 lbs.
Lifestyle changes alone can do that.
Nobody needs drugs to *help*.
I know someone who has lost over 50 pounds and counting just by eliminating junk food; soda, snacks like chips, and fast food.
That’s true, but do you want to take 6 months longer or a year or two to achieve your goal?
As far as I’m concerned, it’s ok to use it. However, if you are going to use it, it’s just an aid and not the whole thing.
Better to go slow.
It’s less of a shock to your system and allows your skin to adjust down without all the bagging and sagging.
6-12 months to lose 50 pounds is plenty reasonable. A pound a week takes a year.
There are much safer drugs to use than ozempic to use short term if you want to lose those pesky pounds. Couple it with changed habits and you’re on to a better healthier self. Ozempic isn’t a good choice. Too many risks vs other tried things available.
The ones you see with Ozempic face are the ones that drop 50lbs on it. I’m not advising that. I’m advising to use it for a bit of weight-loss and then stop using it for a few months.
Some people still need the extra help and it’s safer than bariatric surgery, imo.
Great thing about being a man is you don’t have to diet.
Agreed. Those drugs are too dangerous to use in the first place, and now everyone who wants that “beach body” are using it and harming themselves in the process.
I did Noom for a couple of years. It has a mix of psychology and science to back up its claims. People overindulge for a lot of reasons, and they need to sort it out. Noom isn’t the be all, end all, but it’s a tool in the weight loss toolbox.
I will say, it’s not the program it used to be several years ago. It’s been taken over by bots and AI, I think. That’s when I stopped. It stopped being personalized with coaches. Now you pay extra to get a real living human coach. It went off the rails.
After saying all this, the foundation of the program was good. I needed to understand why my food choices were what they used to be. I wasn’t a junk food person ever, but I learned what other choices I was making was hampering my progress, and why.
My doctor is very pleased. 7 years ago I started, and it’s staying off.
We just go on Adkins and lose 10-15 lbs.
“ just by eliminating junk food; soda”
You know diet drinks don’t work?
The only people you see drinking them are fat people.
There was a story a while back about a woman in Australia who was using Ozempic to lose weight ahead of her daughter’s wedding and it killed her.
Yup, it's that simple. Reduce the high index carbs and reduce the fat. My Wife and I have both done it.
I don’t need any extra sun
You listening Kelly Clarkson? No accident her show moved to NYC. She is a vial leftist. She had a drag queen show last week. Scunt Hillary on a month or so back,Kelly screeching women are dying because they can’t murder their babies. She is real trash.
I must say, I’ve lost so much respect for Kelly Clarkson.
Cocaine is safer than Ozempic.
I must disagree about weight loss. I need some type of help. I am anemic and cannot, really, exercise. I don’t eat sugars of any type if I can get out of it. That means no rice, breads, pasta, breaded food, fruit, and, of course, no cakes, cookies, pies, etc.
I’ve looked at ozempic. I don’t think that is a good choice.
So, I will continue with the no sugar eating. I will also continue to be overweight.
There are other things besides Ozempic and cocaine. Maybe relayed to cocaine, but not coke.
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