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.
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.
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.