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I’ve never had a good relationship with food. I grew up in absolute poverty with 4 siblings where breakfast was something only rich families had and meals were never guaranteed. I’ll never forget coming home from school one day, about age 8, and being so hungry that I sat and ate toothpaste just to stop the pain in my stomach. I tried to pretend it was mint chocolate.

I struggled with anorexia in my teens, and then, once I recovered, obesity throughout my 20’s. Just a totally fucked up relationship with food, no concept of proper nutrition or portion control, never been taught to cook.

I had a night recently where I’d just absolutely had it with the weight struggle, and bit the bullet with a Wegovy prescription. I’ve only been on it a month and in 4 weeks it has genuinely transformed my life. I’ve lost 20lbs with zero effort on my part and the food noise that I was previously struggling with, the thinking about what your next meal will be whilst you’re still eating your current one, it’s totally vanished. It’s just gone. And I’m wondering if this is how normal people are all the time. It’s something I’ve certainly never experienced—sometimes it feels like all I’ve ever known is to be hungry.

I know a lot of people like to poo-poo semaglutide and say *”you’ll only gain it all back once you come off it”*, but the point of the drug is that it helps break a long established carb/sugar addiction that you’re are constantly wrestling with every hour of every day. Once you’ve lost the weight and the food noise is quietened, it becomes significantly easier to establish good eating habits and maintain a healthy weight. It’s also really hard to lose weight when you’re already fat because the goal weight feels like it’s an impossibility. 

For people who’ve struggled with obesity and poor eating habits who are considering it, my best advice would be to just stop dithering and do it. Best decision I’ve made in recent years, and the cost hasn’t been anywhere near as bad as I thought it would be. You can get your first pen from Asda for £65 with the introductory discount, and second was only £59 with the Numan discount (thought it automatically signs you up to a subscription with your purchase so be sure to cancel it once your pen arrives). 

Didn’t the Pharma companies get fined in the UK for paying Pharmacies to push their GLP jabs?

I think this is something with both good and bad.
I’m glad it’s being normalised and hope it loses the stigma. But I am concerned that people see this as a quick shortcut rather than the complicated drug it is.

Most people that start don’t realise it’s something that you take long term as it’s effectively replacing a hormone your body would naturally produce. Stopping it suddenly would cause severe side effects and like most long term treatments, it would need a plan to ween off slowly.

For people looking into, I’ll share from my subject experience as someone that’s prescribed it from the nhs.

Obviously consult nutritionist doctor etc etc. don’t take gospel from a reddit comment.

1) get this if you’re obese and have genuine massive food issues not just a bit fat.

2) calorie count along side with it (some people lose too much because they don’t eat enough and others can still overpower much of the drug and then need more)

3) drink a lot of fluids. I know barely anyone does but just drink a lot of fluids

4) more protein (try flavoured bovine collagen and high protein yoghurt if you can’t stand shakes) and doing walks and weights. -If you don’t want to lose a lot of lean muscle mass this is very important.

5) it goes 2.5 to 5 to 7.5 and so on and so on. Step up and step down. Don’t go for biggest thing swinging it will mess you up

6) prepare for digestive distress and an adjustment period

7) heavy fats and red meats probably won’t be your friend for the foreseeable and you’ll need to ease in bits of either.

8) actually read the guidelines. There’s a pancreatitis risk and a eyesight vision risk and they are real risks.

9) if you go off mounjaro you’ll gain probably like 20-30% of what you lost and you have to consciously accept that. It isn’t just a impact on hunger it also does things to inflammation too. Some people have to have it for life.

10) it may affect your libido and joy of life a bit and that will come back later but it does effect it.

11) use it to train yourself onto good habits and work on the causes of emotional eating

12) get a handle on your stress

13) yes loose skin is a thing, some people can tone and tighten some others would need surgery. Don’t let that stop you from getting fit. It is better to be sloshy skin but look great in clothes (90% of our lives) then fat as a turkey but look the same naked. This is such a major sticking point for people because they see the excess skin stuff people have and it makes them feel upset.

14) use the money freed up from snacking to invest into making more money to cover your jab costs and then also pick up hobbies and norms that reinforce your new way of doing things

15) it’s not follow it for life. It’s follow it today. And then when tomorrow rolls around and that becomes today, it’s follow it today again.

16) have one dedicated no calorie counting day.

That’s most of my advice