Pros and Cons of Semaglutide Drugs for Weight Loss

Thats not true. If u change ur lifestyle and u eat responsibly and excersise regularly the weight does not come back..about 10lbs will regain but u can maintain without the drug

I had try everything I workout every day and I can not loose the pounds for nothing I am starting semaglutide Friday 1/5/2024

Very clear and easy to follow. Thanks for posting

I previously did BLE and lost about 100 lbs but it was so restrictive I developed BED in the year following. Food noise was worse than ever. I never could get back on the boat for more than a month. Based on labs my dr and I decided trying Mounjaro was appropriate. Im applying a lot of the principles I learned from BLE to my diet in combination with the Mounjaro. Hoping the two combined will help me find my sweet spot for a sustainable way of eating.

So I fast now and work out 4 times a week. If i start the drug and stop I still will gain weight back ? I currently fast everyday besides friday - sunday but i still eat pretty well

I ve seen my nurse practitioner using it n she did lose lot of weight but only from her body her face got more bigger somehow n she started looking older than before it effected her vision also …. I gave up on trying it , thanks a million doc for this valuable information 🙏🏼♥️

Two hormones associated with sensations of hunger and satiety are ghrelin and leptin. Folks who can’t feel ‘full’ are likely ‘chronic-snackers’. Their bodies have grown insensitive to leptin. Solution: eliminate snacking… ;-)

I have a plan for how I will prevent putting most of the weight back on when I stop taking Ozempic. Obviously, going back to the food choices I was making before starting would not work; I had to find some foods to avoid in the future and what I should replace those with.
I began carefully counting my calories when I started taking it looking for which foods were "costing" me a lot of calories without delivering "benefits" of satisfying hunger.
I think I've found the answers for that. I discovered that breads of all kinds were costing a lot of calories without providing much benefit of fiber to satisfy hunger. I can see now that I should have suspected that all along because breads are always advertised as good sources of fiber. They are NOT. The best of them is a poor source of fiber and the worst are truly awful.
I plan to replace most breads with more fruits. When I actually looked, the amount of calories in most fruits is actually quite low and most have a lot of fiber. There are a few exceptions: bananas, avocadoes, and mangoes have quite a lot of calories but almost any other, and almost all vegetables too, have very few calories for the amount of fiber they deliver.

Sound is so loud that we barely can hear you

I’m on 40mg of amitriptyline does anyone know if I can take this together?

you are a weight loss expert and brain expert, and I am Dr Who???

you confabulator, even you can get on TV,

Thank you for uploading this video, this is how I found your work 2 weeks ago. In the meanwhile I read your book, ditched sugar and flour and lost 2kg already. Amazing and easy to do. Many thanks for your work!

I am starting my semaglutide on Monday or Tuesday, currently 170lbs and I have been a diabetic for over 26yrs. I want to regulate my blood sugar and blood pressure. I want to lose at least 40lbs to live long for my children I am just in my very early 50s ❤

The simple answer to the question posed here is: at the new high dose levels of these GLP-1 agonists, we can’t possibly assume there won’t be serious long-term consequences for many people. Major organs and tissue throughout your body is replete with GLP-1 receptors many of which we don’t even understand their function. Don’t you think these drugs are impacting those receptors as well? Can anyone comfortably predict that the impact on these receptors will be benign? These drugs should be leaned into with the same strategy thinking people approached the jab that was recently forced on us: if one is so old, frail, and burdened with co-morbidities, or in this case morbidly obese, that life itself is a burden, what have you got to lose? The only people who should have ever taken that experimental jab are mostly the same people who can’t be harmed much by these experimental interventions. “First do no harm” was discarded with the ushering in of Germ Theory of Disease.

Are people not working out after they get off?

She had me until this video turned into an infommercial.

The truth is that human evolution cannot keep up with the food and pharmaceutical industry.
What our Ancestors ate at the beginning of time contained very few carbohydrates and no sugars at all.
That food still suits humans perfectly.
The biggest problem with plant-based foods is oxalates, they cause a lack of nutrients, which results in cravings and even constant hunger.

And i have blue cross if your morbid obese or diabetic there is no cost to me

It also makes you sleep better and most of us have changed our diet, it also cured my inflamation. I am ok with taking this long term. Have friends who have been on it 4 years

Yes have not been able to get my ozempic 2mg for my diabetes they say allbthe weight loss clinc are buying them up

Fair and balanced SPT, just as I knew you would do. Great video! Dr. William Seeds is a champion of GLP-1 agonists along with many other peptides; someone you may want to know.

You had me at ventral tegmental area. :)

I have heard that one possible side effect is depression and suicidal thoughts. Have you heard anything like this?

I have lost and maintained 24 percent weightloss with BLE. I dealt with my food addiction head on, read and read re-read the book. Added weightlifting four days a week now. Do the work people!

No one mentioned the total loss of appetite, I lost 18 lbs. in 2 mo. I’m not on it anymore and my appetite has not returned. She is wrong. I worry about nutrition because food repulses me . I need to eat .

Get it from a compounding pharmacy, way cheaper

These drugs shut off the food noise.

On it one week. Began 177.6 this morning 171.6. Just did my second injection. I’m only staying on this two months. I had gone from 210 to 150 by myself in 2020. After family deaths, three surgeries, I emotionally overeat. So, I want to lose 20 more. I know I need to get a handle on stress. I had insomnia as well, which retards loss. I count calories on My Fitness Pal and have been doing 16:8 fasting. I intend to continue fasting forever. It’s made me feel so much better and sleep much better. I stop all food at 6:30pm. Also walking every day. I’m hopeful I will not regain. I’m 76. Btw, only a tiny bit of fleeting nausea.

I am on compound Semiglutide for 5 and a half months and lost 30 pounds so far. That is 12.5% of my body mass.

My issue with this is that it is not teaching people to be affective in the foods they eat and exercising to make their body more effective in burning calories. Also, how many people that have used this and stopped gained it all back because they were not educated on how to properly eat and exercise… These things look like quick fixes but not long term informed decisions.

Any libido decreasing or increasing on sexual drive for women?

God only knows with the Covid shots are gonna do to us. I know this is a longshot, but anything you take has risks. And for people that have been overweight for many years, find this to be a miracle drug hopefully they’re exercising and changing their way of eating it could be very beneficial for someone Healthwise. Maybe lower heart rate better cholesterol I could go on and on.

Have you all heard of DES Mothers and DES daughters? They said perfectly safe and FDA said approved for 40 years. It was catastrophic!

The problem is once you stop taking the drug you just gain all the weight back…

Side effects include thyroid cancer, hair loss, bone loss, vision loss, pancreatitus kidney damage and you can never get off or you gain back double the weight. Big Pharmas Greed Knows No Bounds!

What about muscle loss?

Doctor has the heavies 😋

I really appreciate this video. I am on my 3rd month of Wegovy and am experiencing many of the benefits you mentioned. No side effects for me so far. I am dealing with frequent pen failures, however, where the needle does not penetrate and the medicine pools on my skin. I'm a biologist. I've learned to pick up the pooled medicine with a sterile tuberculin syringe and inject it myself with little loss. I'm recommending readers do this! You could get in trouble if you don't use perfect sterile technique. // I don't want to be on this medicine for life, but I'm willing to see where I get using it for about a year and a half. So far it's working well for weight loss. I think the plan is to use the drastically reduced hunger and cravings I have now (I'm only up to the 0.5 mg dose!) to implement permanent lifestyle change, including regular intermittent fasting, restricted time windows for eating, and going to bed hungry. I am hoping that the increase quality of life and mobility (I've got bone on bone knee arthritis and one unsatisfactory full knee replacement) that I experience from having lost the weight will make such habits that I establish while on Wegovy sustainable after I am off of it.

I released 70 pounds with BLE in 2018, and have gained most of it back. (Stress and emotional eating caused this, a separation & my dad on his death bed). I have the foundation, but now its harder to lose the weight again. I’ve started the meds so I can get to maintenance plans and my MD agreed once I get there, we can slowly tapper and see how I do as well. I would always stall and get frustrated and regain. Now I still continue BLE, meds and therapy so I do not do this weight loss dance again!

Is it true that side effect can be tumors? Thyroid problems?

People need to know the truth. Semaglutide is Peptide that is super cheap & that has been around for years. Most peptides are amino acids. There is a whole peptide community. One company that has been around for years & there products are excellent is Peptide Science. These companies are able to sell their peptides for research only. So people will purchase the peptides & order their own bacterial water & diabetic needles. Doing it this way Semaglutide should only cost you $40 a month. Then Big Pharma got wind of this & decided to jump on board. Now doctors & weight loss clinics are over charging & making billions off of patients. There are so many amazing amino acids & peptides available in the weight lifting community. I would do some research & do not get ripped off by these doctors & clinics. I am not a doctor & not giving medical advice. I was told that some peptides can be powerful & have side effects. They usually start you out on a very low dose .25 mg for 4 weeks & then you go up the next month to .50 mg. This is done to avoid side effects. But people have been taking this peptide 2007. It’s nothing new, it’s just big Pharma getting greedy & putting big brand names on it.

Excellent video … I can see your Journey was amazing

I lost 12 lbs. in 3 weeks. I do intermittent fasting.. I eat about 11:30am then about 7 hours later 6:30pm. After that, no meal until 11:30am the next day.. NO pancakes, NO waffles, NO bacon, NO cereal, NO butter, NO rice, NO bread, NO potatoes, NO red meat, NO pork, NO chips, NO popcorn, NO cookies, NO candy, NO cakes, NO pizza, NO juice, NO soda, not even diet soda. I cut out things high in sodium—I don’t add sugar to anything. I’m drinking ONLY water. I’ve been cooking and eating thinly sliced grilled chicken.. I don’t eat fish, but if you like salmon, eat fresh wild Alaskan, not frozen or in a can, have them cut the skin off. Use a grill or frying pan with a small amount of olive oil to stir fry your food. If you’d like, add and sauté green peppers, red peppers, garlic, onions stir fry together.. Seasoning suggestion: Mrs.Dash original, black pepper NO Adobo, NO sazón, NO SALT WHATSOEVER or anything that has any sodium in it if possible. You can add garlic POWDER and onion powder, but NO garlic SALT. NO rice, NO potatoes, NO pasta. I only eat the chicken with 1 cup of vegetables like collard greens with homemade vegetable broth in it or steamed cabbage and brocoli. If I get hungry in between, I’ll eat 4-5 strawberries for a snack or an apple with the skin on it or a handful of unsalted peanuts in the shell or cashews. Basically I don’t eat junk food anymore. Walk 30 minutes a day.

2 months an could bought a new truck up 50mg. Never lost a pound really up an down quick cold turkey

Our brains are not adapted to prolonged periods of food abundance. When we lose weight the body wants it back. It will increase appetiteDecrease metabolism, and increase fatigue if necessary. For those of us who have felt like it’s just impossible it’s because it is. Without an earring disorder that give you the ability to deny food it can be impossible for some people. These medications can help.

Thank you. 😊

So question… if you take the drug short term and while taking it you do bright lines eating. if you stay on BLE and ween yourself of the drug will you still immediately gain weight back?