Well, fuckit. Got semaglutide. .25mg this week. Guess we stay on .25mg/week for a while. Weird office visit, they didn't check vitals, didn't do blood tests, just "you want this? You know what it is? Let me give you the basic sales pitch. Ok, here you go." Had signs up all over the place about the shot, too, so I'm guessing it's a big moneymaker for them.
Apparently pharmabros think it's a lifetime injection. If you go off it you gain the weight right back. Gymbro I knows swears it permanently fucks up your glpt-1 system and you'll never feel full again if you get off it. I'm not paying $200 a month for shots for the rest of my life, no matter what phizer thinks. Once I get this shit under a bit more control I'm getting off this shot.
Of course pharmabros think its a lifetime injection, why wouldn't they? They want to keep selling you this shit, they would get literally everyone on it 24/7 if they could, and in certain demographics they pretty much already have.
I'm still of the opinion that whatever it makes you is still many magnitudes better than being obese. At the risk of being a bully, I'm going to tell you straight up- you are obese. You already face many potential health risk factors many times greater than people with a healthier weight, and since you're actively seeking to fix this issue it likely poses some immediate problems for you aswell.
On topic of gymbro advice: if he's a gymbro and he's taking or has taken semaglutide as a PED and has personal experience with it it's extremely likely it isn't the only one he takes or has taken in the past even if he claims to because semaglutide might be more societally acceptable than say anavar or whatever and he wants to stay 'natty'. I don't know if it fucks your glpt-1 system up, I don't think any of the publicly available papers or gym enjoyers do either. It's just not possible to know at this stage, couple years down the line though who knows, maybe.
My opinion as another gymbro: If you take ozempic for a few months and you lose weight then essentially quit cold turkey of course you'll be hungry as fuck and 'never feel full again'- for a while. Your body is under immense stress from weight loss and the magical barrier keeping your baseline hunger in check suddenly disappears (well, not that suddenly, semaglutide has a relatively long half life), it's jarring and it's possible for you to feel like it was worse than what it was before, until you adjust.
If you go off it you gain the weight right back.
Yeah, but that's not ozempic things, that's just 'fat people things'. A lot of people who diet/exercise/etc and lose significant amounts of bodyfat gain it back, and it's likely way more often if it's with the help of a PED not because of a particular mechanism but either because they are genetically predisposed to a higher appetite or because they haven't changed enough things about their life to sustain that level of weight loss without an active, constant 'uphill battle' they are on the winning side of. If you use 'outside assistance' like surgery, compounds, whatever, the chances of you actually going through with the necessary changes is less. If you maintain the same degree of caloric deficit you will not gain the weight back. Ozempic doesn't really fuck with your BMR, it just decreases your appetite. If you keep eating off-ozempic the way you do on it, you will keep losing weight the exact same way.
You can definitely beat the odds though, but as it has been said like a million times in the thread you have to actually change things in your life to accomodate it, as opposed to just mindfuck yourself to eat 1000 less calories for a few months. Doing that just for the sake of itself is not sustainable, as I said earlier, it's a war against yourself that you WILL lose, sooner or later. Change shit.
