Crazy what people do to themselves. All because someone convinced them they cant say no to food cravings.
ashyjay on
Nothing, I stopped Wegovy after 3 months due to side effects and kept the weight off by slightly adjust food intake. Wegovy cut it by 3/4s, I had to up it to half of my original intake to stave off feeling hungry.
If you use the jabs as a quick fix you’ll rebound but use them as a tool to change behaviours and habits there’s a chance you’ll be fine once you stop.
shak_0508 on
>What happens when you stop taking them?
Use them as a quick fix and you’re back to square one, use them as a tool to better yourself and change your mindset and you’ll hopefully remain healthy.
WholeProperty1519 on
Insulin resistant health condition so not planning to stop and find out. Weight loss is nice, hormonal balance and less pain and inflammation is the nicer side effect.
Sunshinetrooper87 on
The one person I know using the jab has put weight back on after significant weight loss. She’s back on the dominoes which she couldn’t eat whilst in the jabs.
Hakizimanaa on
3 months off after losing 30kg over 12 months. 3 lbs lighter since stopping the jab, in the gym 3 times a week, regularly play football and recently started padel. Approaching 30 and currently healthier and fitter than I have ever been in my life.
Weight loss jabs enabled me to focus on implementing positive habits and got me to a weight where i was able to exercise regularly and actually enjoy doing it.
All the comments about “Everyone just puts the weight back on when they stop” is complete bollocks
PeachyPops on
I have known so many people use these jabs now (myself included)
Those of us who used it to improve our relationship with food have had great success
Those of us that used it to eat the same shite in a smaller portions have not had the same benefit
Its not a miracle cure its a tool to make making lifestyle improvements easier
I lost the biggest portion of my weight after I stopped taking it because I spent so long working on better habits while I was on it
Wise-Reflection-7400 on
Up to 90% of people who lose weight via any sort of diet gain it back within a couple of years
People will be boom and busting on this stuff for years to come before they realise the key to lasting weight loss is lifestyle change.
SloightlyOnTheHuh on
My wife and daughter are both on various jabs. They have both lost weight, look fantastic and are much happier. I see these articles citing evidence with a sample of 2 people and I think there is some gleefully fuckery going on in the authors heads.
They want people to fail because then they’ll be fat again and we can all go back to feeling superior to them.
Actually, those people who switch to a healthy diet and start the exercise they could never do in the past will keep the weight off.
Being overweight stresses the organs, makes exercise very difficult, makes choosing clothes difficult and makes people miserable. A little positive body image goes a very long way.
I think anyone who makes the effort to be healthier deserves support, not miserable stories explaining how they are going to fail.
Loreki on
People expect a miracle cure, they’re wrong. You still have to do the work to address your food habits and lifestyle.
Predictably if you don’t emotionally prepare for the return of your appetite, the return of your most power instinctual drive does a number on you.
I_love_running_89 on
Japan has one of the lowest obesity rates in the world, due to their food culture based around fresh and non or minimally processed foods, smaller portion sizes, education in schools, and much higher rates of activity.
Humans can overcome the genetic coding to overeat, but it takes **massive** willpower without a society around them to support it.
I’ve recently lost 3/4St, it was **hard**. Even though I consider myself to be fairly aware of a good diet, and in a position to eat well, & exercise regularly, still managed to let my weight creep up over the last year or so.
Losing weight yourself is very hard work.
carrie-ser on
What happens when people stop going to Weight Watchers or stops their keto diet?
Much the same. Nobody talks about that. But the media has created a negative narrative around GLP-1 drugs and is determined to ignore how positive these drugs are.
You can see it in their choice of language. “Skinny jab” being used for prescription medicine. They trivialise it to make it seem cosmetic and a vanity drug. The BBC has probably been the worse for this.
SnooSprouts9951 on
It’s been a year for me and I’ve not put an ounce of weight back on as I actually changed my lifestyle. I did however develop a debilitating gallstone problem which I think was caused by the weight loss, just so people are aware!
squiggyfm on
I took ozempic for a year, was off for 6 months and the weight started coming back because I was eating more.
That’s the story.
ItsGentry on
I take retatrutide, sourced form grey market in China lost went from 17 stone to 13 stone in 4 months, now I take a maintenance dose and keeps lean and feeling amazing.
Lost of rubbish posted by media
UnchartedPro on
If you stop and go back to old habits you get fat again
Otherwise enjoy your new life
bacon_cake on
It would be interesting if the people replying here saying there were no problems after quitting would share how long they’ve been off the jab.
The studies quoted are looking at 1-3 year timelines.
dontlookwonderwall on
As someone who is on the other end of the spectrum (gained a lot of weight because i was criminally underweight), you probably won’t gain it all back, maybe some of it if you dont improve your habits, but it likely won’t set you back to square one. How it was explained to me by my doctor was that the amount you eat stretches your stomach. So, if you don’t eat a lot (e.g. when you’re on ozempic), your stomach slowly shrinks such that even when if you come off Ozempic, you will be sated by relatively small amounts of food compared to before.
It’s why losing/gaining weight intentionally is so hard in the first place, and there is such inertia, how much you currently eat determines your appetite such that it’s very difficult to eat less/more than your stomach needs.
Ruminate_Repeat on
Two of my wife’s friends have taken weight loss injections and the results have been astonishing. They have totally changed their lives. There were a few side effects, but overall they felt it was absolutely worth it. I find it strange the stigma and negative press around this.
MarmiteX1 on
I think the long term effects are unknown but it’s alarming how there is growing number of people getting addicted to fast weight loss based on posts I’ve seen on social media.
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Crazy what people do to themselves. All because someone convinced them they cant say no to food cravings.
Nothing, I stopped Wegovy after 3 months due to side effects and kept the weight off by slightly adjust food intake. Wegovy cut it by 3/4s, I had to up it to half of my original intake to stave off feeling hungry.
If you use the jabs as a quick fix you’ll rebound but use them as a tool to change behaviours and habits there’s a chance you’ll be fine once you stop.
>What happens when you stop taking them?
Use them as a quick fix and you’re back to square one, use them as a tool to better yourself and change your mindset and you’ll hopefully remain healthy.
Insulin resistant health condition so not planning to stop and find out. Weight loss is nice, hormonal balance and less pain and inflammation is the nicer side effect.
The one person I know using the jab has put weight back on after significant weight loss. She’s back on the dominoes which she couldn’t eat whilst in the jabs.
3 months off after losing 30kg over 12 months. 3 lbs lighter since stopping the jab, in the gym 3 times a week, regularly play football and recently started padel. Approaching 30 and currently healthier and fitter than I have ever been in my life.
Weight loss jabs enabled me to focus on implementing positive habits and got me to a weight where i was able to exercise regularly and actually enjoy doing it.
All the comments about “Everyone just puts the weight back on when they stop” is complete bollocks
I have known so many people use these jabs now (myself included)
Those of us who used it to improve our relationship with food have had great success
Those of us that used it to eat the same shite in a smaller portions have not had the same benefit
Its not a miracle cure its a tool to make making lifestyle improvements easier
I lost the biggest portion of my weight after I stopped taking it because I spent so long working on better habits while I was on it
Up to 90% of people who lose weight via any sort of diet gain it back within a couple of years
People will be boom and busting on this stuff for years to come before they realise the key to lasting weight loss is lifestyle change.
My wife and daughter are both on various jabs. They have both lost weight, look fantastic and are much happier. I see these articles citing evidence with a sample of 2 people and I think there is some gleefully fuckery going on in the authors heads.
They want people to fail because then they’ll be fat again and we can all go back to feeling superior to them.
Actually, those people who switch to a healthy diet and start the exercise they could never do in the past will keep the weight off.
Being overweight stresses the organs, makes exercise very difficult, makes choosing clothes difficult and makes people miserable. A little positive body image goes a very long way.
I think anyone who makes the effort to be healthier deserves support, not miserable stories explaining how they are going to fail.
People expect a miracle cure, they’re wrong. You still have to do the work to address your food habits and lifestyle.
Predictably if you don’t emotionally prepare for the return of your appetite, the return of your most power instinctual drive does a number on you.
Japan has one of the lowest obesity rates in the world, due to their food culture based around fresh and non or minimally processed foods, smaller portion sizes, education in schools, and much higher rates of activity.
Humans can overcome the genetic coding to overeat, but it takes **massive** willpower without a society around them to support it.
I’ve recently lost 3/4St, it was **hard**. Even though I consider myself to be fairly aware of a good diet, and in a position to eat well, & exercise regularly, still managed to let my weight creep up over the last year or so.
Losing weight yourself is very hard work.
What happens when people stop going to Weight Watchers or stops their keto diet?
Much the same. Nobody talks about that. But the media has created a negative narrative around GLP-1 drugs and is determined to ignore how positive these drugs are.
You can see it in their choice of language. “Skinny jab” being used for prescription medicine. They trivialise it to make it seem cosmetic and a vanity drug. The BBC has probably been the worse for this.
It’s been a year for me and I’ve not put an ounce of weight back on as I actually changed my lifestyle. I did however develop a debilitating gallstone problem which I think was caused by the weight loss, just so people are aware!
I took ozempic for a year, was off for 6 months and the weight started coming back because I was eating more.
That’s the story.
I take retatrutide, sourced form grey market in China lost went from 17 stone to 13 stone in 4 months, now I take a maintenance dose and keeps lean and feeling amazing.
Lost of rubbish posted by media
If you stop and go back to old habits you get fat again
Otherwise enjoy your new life
It would be interesting if the people replying here saying there were no problems after quitting would share how long they’ve been off the jab.
The studies quoted are looking at 1-3 year timelines.
As someone who is on the other end of the spectrum (gained a lot of weight because i was criminally underweight), you probably won’t gain it all back, maybe some of it if you dont improve your habits, but it likely won’t set you back to square one. How it was explained to me by my doctor was that the amount you eat stretches your stomach. So, if you don’t eat a lot (e.g. when you’re on ozempic), your stomach slowly shrinks such that even when if you come off Ozempic, you will be sated by relatively small amounts of food compared to before.
It’s why losing/gaining weight intentionally is so hard in the first place, and there is such inertia, how much you currently eat determines your appetite such that it’s very difficult to eat less/more than your stomach needs.
Two of my wife’s friends have taken weight loss injections and the results have been astonishing. They have totally changed their lives. There were a few side effects, but overall they felt it was absolutely worth it. I find it strange the stigma and negative press around this.
I think the long term effects are unknown but it’s alarming how there is growing number of people getting addicted to fast weight loss based on posts I’ve seen on social media.