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Nausea taking 2.4 mg of Wegovy (semaglutide). No issues before
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@projfan
Congratulations on meeting your weight goal. I and many others who did not have success on the new injections weight control drugs really envy those that had success.
What I have read about weight loss and weight control echos your comments and my own personal experience with weight reduction and weight maintenance. That is not eating after early evening, no snacking, driking sugar beverages. This explained to me was if you eat or drink when not active the calories will go immediately to fat storing.
With fasting for about 12 hours the body will burn off calories it has not taken in. I found this simple tactic does promote weight loss for me. I am a terrible snacker.
It is not that I eat much at meals but my love of snacks is my downfall. I love nuts, and dark chocolate covered nuts. Dips and chips come in second. Nuts are very high calorie and for 180 calories for 1/4 cub which is not even a handful just does not hack it. Then if you add dark choclaete (even with high cocoa factor) you are adding a lot of calories. If eating later in day is even worse as going no where but to fat.
Again you should be proud of yourself for reaching your weight goal and also finding a medication that helps you maintain it.
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Thank you! I'm 72 and have been gaining and losing and gaining and losing weight since before I could walk, so my metabolism is probably permanently damaged. But the older I get, the more responsive I get to drugs, which is good, but also (side effect city) bad.
I am so impressed that you can resist snacks in the evening. I have zero willpower at night.
Honestly, it's one reason I'm a little hesitant to get rid entirely of my GI issues from the GLP-1 RAs -- I have a horrible feeling that if I felt entirely fine, I would start eating too much again. Although it's helpful to have an aura stage (a migraine term) -- when I start sneezing at a meal, I know the next step is going to be serious nausea, so the sneezing tells me to stop eating. (Probably the vagus nerve, I suspect, but who knows?)
I will say that starting these drugs kicked all my bariatric surgery training back in, which has been very helpful. It's kind of sad that they just throw us on the drugs with zero nutritional or psychological or exercise or lifestyle guidance or support. As far as I am concerned, this is irresponsible.