Weight loss jabs: What happens when you stop taking them? – BBC News
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Weight loss jabs: What happens when you stop taking them? – BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn98pdpyjz5o.amp
Posted by Rumthiefno1
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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.
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.
If you eat the same as you did before, you’ll get fat. Simple as that.
Got a couple of friends that used them and stopped after losing a lot of weight. They basically said they got noticeably more hungry but were prepared for it and had discipline to resist the urges and then it became easy.
The exact same thing that happens when overweight people rather than tackle the problem sensibly go on a fad diet, lose the weight and then go back to ‘eating normally’ they pile it all back on and normally end up heavier for it. If you don’t understand and control the reason for your obesity to begin with and think this drug is a miracle cure then when you stop taking it you’ll go right back to square one.
When you are overweight, your joints are subjected to significantly more stress when you exercise.
It’s difficult to exercise effectively when you pick up injuries constantly when you do it.
Sure, with proper guidance and training, you can avoid the injuries, but that can often be more expensive than the jabs, and assumes you can get an appointment with a PT on your schedule and that you gel with them.
Cutting the weight with the jabs sets you up for a healthier lifestyle if you commit to it which will help you keep the weight off in the long run.
It takes – according to research – 7-8 years AFTER weight loss to basically no longer be prone to gain weight back. And sometimes, a person who was overweight for a long time has to fight the gain for the rest of their life.
That’s why losing weight and keeping it off is hard – in some cases, you will forever be fighting the gain because being overweight reconfigures how your cells work, at least according to real scientific research that looks into cell behaviour and being overweight for a long time.
a lot of people gain weight back, regardless of what method of weight loss they use. So gaining weight back after GLPs is not that extreme, it literally happens almost with any method.
However, if it takes 7-8 years to keep off the gain long term… it should also enable people to establish and keep new habits.
I think at least one of the issues is that people think that GLP is supposed to bridge the gap and it absolutely does… but you also need to change the habits for real.
In my case, GLP makes me less hungry. I have to remind myself to eat and when I eat, I now try to make the the good food choices because I am not actually really hungry for food that feeds some kind of missing thing in me. Previously I’d have food cravings and whilst I fully and 100% admit this is MY issue to handle, I finally now realise what it feels to those people who absolutely do NOT get food cravings to a degree I got them. Like… I know what it feels for people to eat.. get full and just.. not want more. The amounts I eat are now less, but more fulfilling, because I eat less and therefore the food has to count more.
I absolutely know this is something I had to learn on my own but I always failed when I tried. Yeah, it’s also about having self-control, but I feel this helps me tremendously. It’s a combination of learning new food habits, learning self-control, learning new portion sizes… whilst also not feeling hungry and not getting horrible terrible cravings.
I’m not advocating for GLPs, I’m not saying it’s easy, but it does help and my doc said directly that whilst GLPs have side effects, I am risking with a lot more if I remain overweight health wise right now and it’s important to actually lose the weight and then keep it off. Ultimately, it was my decision and it was a choice between surgery or GLP or trying to lose it myself. I had already tried, several times. Surgery is of course an option, but something I’d prefer not to do.
My doc knows people who have managed to lose 50% of their bodyweight and keep it off for about 2 years so far. Yeah, they’re probably never going to be like someone who has never been overweight but with current knowledge and long term, this person will cost healthcare a lot less with GLP assistance than remaining overweight.
Never taken GLP-1s, but I was misprescribed a very powerful now-blackboxed drug for cystic acne as a teen, and it took a few years for the chronic and withering effects to become apparent. I’ve been missing most of my drives including appetite since I took it (for less than a year) and stopped. There have been class action suits over this medication, and deaths resulting from it.
Stay safe, everyone.
Whatever method you use to lose weight, if you don’t change your habits you will put the weight back on.
These help you lose the weight, not keep it off in the long term. Same as diet and exercise. You can lose a ton of weight, but if you back to your old diet and stop the exercise, you’ll get fat again.