Seriously, some people have a food and eating addiction. Some people use food as comfort. If it were as easy as eating less and moving more, sure nobody would be obese. Would you tell a heroin addict to just stop taking heroin? It's not that black and white for some.
Giggling Squid
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Please tell me you’re not serious?
You lose weight by eating less/differently, and/or moving more to put yourself in a calorie deficit.
Stuff like this may or may not help - but even so, it can’t be good for you and it certainly isn’t sustainable.
You lose weight by eating less/differently, and/or moving more to put yourself in a calorie deficit.
Stuff like this may or may not help - but even so, it can’t be good for you and it certainly isn’t sustainable.
Laur91
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Hold on, so people can come on this thread and say how wonderful it is that they’re losing all this weight etc and some people who hadn’t even heard of it are now considering using it because of this thread...
Yet someone with an alternative view or opinion isn’t entitled to share that opinion here as it’s misplaced?
I’m sorry but there *are* reasons to be wary of this, if you Google ‘long term side effects’ of the drug you’ll see everything the poster is talking about. Why is that misplaced to share here?
Surely we are all welcome to share our thoughts and opinions on this public forum? :/
Laur91
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Is this short term or do you have to do it forever?
If it’s short term then how do you manage potential weight gain once the jabs are finished as I’m assuming these won’t change the relationship with food that led to the initial weight gain in
the first place?
OP I obviously don’t know your health background or history but as a nutritionist I do find these kind of solutions similar to ‘fad’ diets. They don’t seem sustainable long term but I am intrigued to see people’s reasons for trying these methods
did you feel as though this was a last resort and traditional weight loss methods weren’t working for you anymore?
If it’s short term then how do you manage potential weight gain once the jabs are finished as I’m assuming these won’t change the relationship with food that led to the initial weight gain in
the first place?
OP I obviously don’t know your health background or history but as a nutritionist I do find these kind of solutions similar to ‘fad’ diets. They don’t seem sustainable long term but I am intrigued to see people’s reasons for trying these methods
did you feel as though this was a last resort and traditional weight loss methods weren’t working for you anymore?
reCAPTCHA
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So I am 10 stone, a perfectly happy weight for me- dress size 10-12. Lost 2 stone on Ozempic and am desperate not to put it back on. Can’t really afford Ozempic long term but hate that the food noise has returned. I’ve never been obese so I guess I’m one of those unpopular recreational users. I hear that MySimba is loads cheaper so thought I’d give it a go. £115 for 5 weeks (MySimba) compared to £200 a month(Ozempic). Barg.
So, they ask for a photo of your ID (drivers license etc.) and your feet on a scale showing your weight. That’s ok, I think, I’m a woman of creative means. I need to be 5 stone heavier to qualify
10 mins later I’ve grabbed some bricks from our garage (leftover DIY project) and have popped them in a rucksack. I’m impressed with my ingenuity tbh. I pop the bag on my back, but unfortunately bricks do not weigh as much as I had envisaged. So there I am with a rucksack of bricks on my back, still only weighing 12 stone, which is NOT ENOUGH. I can’t fit more bricks in the back. And I’m exhausted.
Husband comes home, pops upstairs, and stands in doorway of our bedroom as I’m on my scales, rucksack full of bricks on my back (sweating from carrying them upstairs…should have thought that through, but bonus have probs lost 3llb from the exertion). He says “Anything I should know?”
I explain, and although he tells me (as he always does) that I’m just perfect how I am he also suggests that there is a much smarter way to approach the problem.
So there we find ourselves, a combined age of more than 90, me standing on the scales, him clinging to me from behind with his foot on the back of the scale with half his weight, us both giggling. And voila….I manage to get the magic photo of my two feet, my drivers license, and the scales showing 15 stone.
Don’t do this at home kids. I’ve hurt my back with the fucking bricks and I’m self-medicating with chocolate, the irony of which is not lost on me
I’ve told the husband we can never split up. He knows too much. I’d have to kill him. Probably with one of those bricks.
So, they ask for a photo of your ID (drivers license etc.) and your feet on a scale showing your weight. That’s ok, I think, I’m a woman of creative means. I need to be 5 stone heavier to qualify
10 mins later I’ve grabbed some bricks from our garage (leftover DIY project) and have popped them in a rucksack. I’m impressed with my ingenuity tbh. I pop the bag on my back, but unfortunately bricks do not weigh as much as I had envisaged. So there I am with a rucksack of bricks on my back, still only weighing 12 stone, which is NOT ENOUGH. I can’t fit more bricks in the back. And I’m exhausted.
Husband comes home, pops upstairs, and stands in doorway of our bedroom as I’m on my scales, rucksack full of bricks on my back (sweating from carrying them upstairs…should have thought that through, but bonus have probs lost 3llb from the exertion). He says “Anything I should know?”
I explain, and although he tells me (as he always does) that I’m just perfect how I am he also suggests that there is a much smarter way to approach the problem.
So there we find ourselves, a combined age of more than 90, me standing on the scales, him clinging to me from behind with his foot on the back of the scale with half his weight, us both giggling. And voila….I manage to get the magic photo of my two feet, my drivers license, and the scales showing 15 stone.
Don’t do this at home kids. I’ve hurt my back with the fucking bricks and I’m self-medicating with chocolate, the irony of which is not lost on me
I’ve told the husband we can never split up. He knows too much. I’d have to kill him. Probably with one of those bricks.
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Pat MyCock
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Just wanted to share my journey.
I am a chronic binge eater. I will eat and eat until I feel sick. I did sometimes make myself throw up, but I just felt more disgusting if I did that. I have no off switch when it comes to food. I obsess over it 24/7. I have been on every diet going, but after a few days i would just binge harder. I hated the way I looked. I am 45 years old. I was a skinny teenager and skinny in my 20's as i was so active. I got married when I was 35 and slowly my weight crept up. My husband and I slowly put on so much weight we looked awful We stopped having sex years ago.
In January we both started on Sax. I was 16 stone, size 20/22, he was 19 stone. For me, it worked instantly. I stopped obsessing about food. When I did eat it was very healthy, because I wanted to eat healthy food. I was on Max 1,300 calories per day. I started walking, I enjoyed it! I lost a stone in 4 weeks. I was still a size 20 but my clothes were MUCH looser. It took a bit longer for it to kick in for my husband. I switched to Ozempic in March because it was cheaper. My husband still had a few Sax pens left. I have now stopped weighing myself as I was getting obsessed with the scales so now I am just going by clothes size. I am a very happy 14/16. I know I can walk into any shop & either of those sizes will fit and I am SO happy with that. I now fit into primark - that seems a weird goal, but none of my clothes fit so i need cheaper clothes. I am loving H&M, Boohoo and ASOS as I no longer need the curve version. We haven't had a single takeaway this year, but this money is relpaced by the injections.
Ozempic is really difficult to get, so I take a shot every other week (used to be once a week). My husband takes Sax every other day. We now even have sex, a lot! We are so much more confident, we feel like newlyweds. I know this journey will never stop, as food addiction is real, but we never, ever want to get that fat again. My husband has lost 4 stone and is now an XL in most clothes.
We had no side effects. I don't know how long we can stay on these for, I know not forever, but at some point we will stop. And if I feel the problems creeping in again maybe we can start it up again.
The Sax we got from Boots (loads of points) and Ozempic I bought online from Mayfair weightloss. They had v low stock so you might need to keep checking.
Feel free to ask any questions.
I am a chronic binge eater. I will eat and eat until I feel sick. I did sometimes make myself throw up, but I just felt more disgusting if I did that. I have no off switch when it comes to food. I obsess over it 24/7. I have been on every diet going, but after a few days i would just binge harder. I hated the way I looked. I am 45 years old. I was a skinny teenager and skinny in my 20's as i was so active. I got married when I was 35 and slowly my weight crept up. My husband and I slowly put on so much weight we looked awful We stopped having sex years ago.
In January we both started on Sax. I was 16 stone, size 20/22, he was 19 stone. For me, it worked instantly. I stopped obsessing about food. When I did eat it was very healthy, because I wanted to eat healthy food. I was on Max 1,300 calories per day. I started walking, I enjoyed it! I lost a stone in 4 weeks. I was still a size 20 but my clothes were MUCH looser. It took a bit longer for it to kick in for my husband. I switched to Ozempic in March because it was cheaper. My husband still had a few Sax pens left. I have now stopped weighing myself as I was getting obsessed with the scales so now I am just going by clothes size. I am a very happy 14/16. I know I can walk into any shop & either of those sizes will fit and I am SO happy with that. I now fit into primark - that seems a weird goal, but none of my clothes fit so i need cheaper clothes. I am loving H&M, Boohoo and ASOS as I no longer need the curve version. We haven't had a single takeaway this year, but this money is relpaced by the injections.
Ozempic is really difficult to get, so I take a shot every other week (used to be once a week). My husband takes Sax every other day. We now even have sex, a lot! We are so much more confident, we feel like newlyweds. I know this journey will never stop, as food addiction is real, but we never, ever want to get that fat again. My husband has lost 4 stone and is now an XL in most clothes.
We had no side effects. I don't know how long we can stay on these for, I know not forever, but at some point we will stop. And if I feel the problems creeping in again maybe we can start it up again.
The Sax we got from Boots (loads of points) and Ozempic I bought online from Mayfair weightloss. They had v low stock so you might need to keep checking.
Feel free to ask any questions.
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raspberryjuice
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4lbs off this week, that’s now 18lbs since starting ozempic at the end of March. Just over 80 since I started Saxenda 
crazy!
4lbs to go to be in the ‘normal’ bmi range.
crazy! 4lbs to go to be in the ‘normal’ bmi range.