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i finally told my doctor that I wasn't able to do it on my own. My whole adult life I've been trying to lose weight, and always felt like a failure. Even when I really buckled down, I'd lose a few kilos, but then put them back on, every time. I have always loved to exercise, but my intake always exceeded my outflow.
A big part of the problem is that I couldn't remember NOT being hungry. Anytime somebody said "do you want to eat?" my answer was always yes. And when in calorie deficit, I would be constantly thinking about when my next meal would be, what I could eat, it was all consuming, if you'll pardon the pun.
Getting medical help has been life changing. I've lost 15 kilos over the course of 7 months and I hope to continue that steady decline. The drugs silence the constant food noise. I feel like this must be what normal people feel like.
15 kg's over 7 months sounds incredibly healthy, well done. I've been a bit skeptic of semaglutide, that it'd result in losing weight too quickly and in an unhealthy manner, but half a kilo a week sounds like it's been going really well for you. Happy to hear!
If you’re interested, here are some stats from the approval studies for semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro/Zepbound), so you can see how fast participants lost weight over the course of the studies.
In the semaglutide study, participants weighed ~105kg/230lbs at the start and lost about 500g/1lb per week for the first 20 weeks, then it started to level out slowly. (You can skip to figure 1.)
In the tirzepatide study, participants started around 94kg/207lbs and lost about 400g/0.9lbs per week for 24 weeks until the weight loss slowed down. (Reference figure 2).
(These studies aren’t directly comparable to each other since they had different study populations, but this should give you a ballpark idea of how fast people on these meds lose weight on average.)