So. I’ve been taking this since July.
It really upends your life, I gotta say. I can’t say “good” or “bad”; it just is.
First, I’m on Medicare. This stuff is EXPENSIVE. It’s only about $65/mo at first, but I’ll hit the donut hole sometime in March and then it’s $950/mo. So I get it from Canada, but then insurance doesn’t pay it and it’s still almost $300/mo. We can talk about why that is, but it doesn’t matter. There isn’t any room in the budget now for Wagyu, though.
I started taking it because I’m T2 diabetic, since 2005, and my A1C was up over 9. Now it’s under 7 and falling. I take other stuff along with O, combined it’s working. As far as watching what I eat, I don’t eat hard sweets (cake, candy, etc), and I eat less white food (potatoes, rice).
Hungry? No. I’m just not hungry most of the time. I used to make 5oz or 6oz burgers, now I make 3oz and can barely finish one if it is cheese/l/t/o/p. The chili we just made? I’m used to two ladles full being a serving. But one ladle was more than enough. I haven’t had a steak in a month; I can’t remember the last time I cooked one at home. If I eat like I used to, a meal feels like Thanksgiving dinner.
Ozempic is semaglutide. It is also sold as Wegovy, as a weight loss drug. And yeah, definitely. I peaked out a while back at close to 320, but for most of the last few years it’s been around 290, and since I retired a year ago, 280ish. Yesterday morning I was at 242. No, I’m not exercising. I putter around the house, I keep the kitchen clean, I try to stay moving, but I don’t go for a walk or anything stupid like that. Semaglutide works by slowing down your digestion. That’s why you feel full so fast. That’s why if you eat too much, too late, you get acid reflux. That’s why you don’t idly think about snacking.
For reference, the last time I weighed 242 was back in the mid ‘90s. After I had a heart attack in ‘92, I got down to 225. That 242 was passed a year or two later on my way back up.
The downside, so far: Stomach cramps. They come and go, they were worse at the beginning. Nausea. Same thing, I get a wave a couple times a week, then it goes away. Orthostatic hypotension. When I stand up, I see stars. My GP changed one of my blood pressure meds, and we’ll see about that one. Last BP was 105/60. He was happy, I thought that was low myself. (His answer? “Anything lower is better, as long as it isn’t zero.” What a wit.)
Thanks for listening (reading). I have never cared about my weight, and by extension, my health. I’ve just done whatever I wanted to, and taken the pills to counteract that. I still don’t, actually. I wouldn’t weigh myself at all, but Mrs Mosca makes me check every now and then. But I do have to say that it’s nice to have let go of that 50lb backpack. But I really wish I wanted a steak. But I don’t.
It really upends your life, I gotta say. I can’t say “good” or “bad”; it just is.
First, I’m on Medicare. This stuff is EXPENSIVE. It’s only about $65/mo at first, but I’ll hit the donut hole sometime in March and then it’s $950/mo. So I get it from Canada, but then insurance doesn’t pay it and it’s still almost $300/mo. We can talk about why that is, but it doesn’t matter. There isn’t any room in the budget now for Wagyu, though.
I started taking it because I’m T2 diabetic, since 2005, and my A1C was up over 9. Now it’s under 7 and falling. I take other stuff along with O, combined it’s working. As far as watching what I eat, I don’t eat hard sweets (cake, candy, etc), and I eat less white food (potatoes, rice).
Hungry? No. I’m just not hungry most of the time. I used to make 5oz or 6oz burgers, now I make 3oz and can barely finish one if it is cheese/l/t/o/p. The chili we just made? I’m used to two ladles full being a serving. But one ladle was more than enough. I haven’t had a steak in a month; I can’t remember the last time I cooked one at home. If I eat like I used to, a meal feels like Thanksgiving dinner.
Ozempic is semaglutide. It is also sold as Wegovy, as a weight loss drug. And yeah, definitely. I peaked out a while back at close to 320, but for most of the last few years it’s been around 290, and since I retired a year ago, 280ish. Yesterday morning I was at 242. No, I’m not exercising. I putter around the house, I keep the kitchen clean, I try to stay moving, but I don’t go for a walk or anything stupid like that. Semaglutide works by slowing down your digestion. That’s why you feel full so fast. That’s why if you eat too much, too late, you get acid reflux. That’s why you don’t idly think about snacking.
For reference, the last time I weighed 242 was back in the mid ‘90s. After I had a heart attack in ‘92, I got down to 225. That 242 was passed a year or two later on my way back up.
The downside, so far: Stomach cramps. They come and go, they were worse at the beginning. Nausea. Same thing, I get a wave a couple times a week, then it goes away. Orthostatic hypotension. When I stand up, I see stars. My GP changed one of my blood pressure meds, and we’ll see about that one. Last BP was 105/60. He was happy, I thought that was low myself. (His answer? “Anything lower is better, as long as it isn’t zero.” What a wit.)
Thanks for listening (reading). I have never cared about my weight, and by extension, my health. I’ve just done whatever I wanted to, and taken the pills to counteract that. I still don’t, actually. I wouldn’t weigh myself at all, but Mrs Mosca makes me check every now and then. But I do have to say that it’s nice to have let go of that 50lb backpack. But I really wish I wanted a steak. But I don’t.
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