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So ..............
I've always been reasonably trim. Nobody would have mistaken me for an Olympic gymnast, but "pretty good, considering."
That started to change through the pandemic and I crossed the threshold into "officially obese" about a year ago. My doc had a word with me. I had a word with me. I cut back. I ketoed. I low-carbed. I walked more.
Nothing changed.
Meanwhile, one daughter-in-law has always --- I'm going to be polite, here -- "tended toward round", had gained a bunch through the pandemic. Daughter had two kids in pretty short order with unsurprising results, weight-wise. She and son were comforting each other with baked goods. Delicious baked goods, but still, not a recipe for bariatric health. Son-in-law, a very athletic guy, got laid up with an injury and kept eating like an athlete.
It was my daughter-in-law who first went on Ozempic. OMG. She has lost 40 pounds in a year and plans to lose another 40 more.
The rest of the young-uns quickly followed suit, with good results, too.
Okay, sign me up.
Took my first shot last Sunday. I'm very cool with self-injections -- I did my own allergy injections for years. This is even easier. It's the finest needle they sell, and it is just a skin pop -- about 3/8" deep. You barely feel it, or at least I barely feel it.
It's weird. I was feeling like, "Yeah -- okay -- when does the magic start?" It was a couple of days before I realized it was dinner time and I didn't feel like I needed to eat the dining room table as an appetizer to survive until dinner. Interesting....
There are definitely side effects. I've had nausea. Not awful, but kind of like, "Oy -- I've been out on this boat too long. Good thing we're going ashore." Also occasionally spectacular heartburn. Tums and famotidine (Pepcid) turn the trick but the real word is "the drug slows down your digestion, so stop eating big meals and think in terms of lots of smaller meals/snacks."
You start with a very light dose and titrate up, so I have no idea what results to expect at this point. I've lost a couple of pounds, but that's no big whoop in the usual ebb and flow of body weight (which varies way more than most people think.)
I guess what's been more interesting thus far is the mindless judgment of a couple of my friends. "Yes, well, that's good, but wouldn't it be better to do it NATURALLY?"
These are folks who demand everything be "natural" and "organic." I have resisted with all my might the urge to inform them that cyanide, asbestos, and arsenic are also "natural" and "organic." Instead, I'm choosing to just find it interesting that wildly manipulating your food intake (or doing what one of them does which ... uh ... involves coffee) is "natural." Pfft - not a fight I need to get into, but just kind of interesting.
Anyway, there ya go. I'm on the juice -- I'll let you know if anything interesting happens.
I've always been reasonably trim. Nobody would have mistaken me for an Olympic gymnast, but "pretty good, considering."
That started to change through the pandemic and I crossed the threshold into "officially obese" about a year ago. My doc had a word with me. I had a word with me. I cut back. I ketoed. I low-carbed. I walked more.
Nothing changed.
Meanwhile, one daughter-in-law has always --- I'm going to be polite, here -- "tended toward round", had gained a bunch through the pandemic. Daughter had two kids in pretty short order with unsurprising results, weight-wise. She and son were comforting each other with baked goods. Delicious baked goods, but still, not a recipe for bariatric health. Son-in-law, a very athletic guy, got laid up with an injury and kept eating like an athlete.
It was my daughter-in-law who first went on Ozempic. OMG. She has lost 40 pounds in a year and plans to lose another 40 more.
The rest of the young-uns quickly followed suit, with good results, too.
Okay, sign me up.
Took my first shot last Sunday. I'm very cool with self-injections -- I did my own allergy injections for years. This is even easier. It's the finest needle they sell, and it is just a skin pop -- about 3/8" deep. You barely feel it, or at least I barely feel it.
It's weird. I was feeling like, "Yeah -- okay -- when does the magic start?" It was a couple of days before I realized it was dinner time and I didn't feel like I needed to eat the dining room table as an appetizer to survive until dinner. Interesting....
There are definitely side effects. I've had nausea. Not awful, but kind of like, "Oy -- I've been out on this boat too long. Good thing we're going ashore." Also occasionally spectacular heartburn. Tums and famotidine (Pepcid) turn the trick but the real word is "the drug slows down your digestion, so stop eating big meals and think in terms of lots of smaller meals/snacks."
You start with a very light dose and titrate up, so I have no idea what results to expect at this point. I've lost a couple of pounds, but that's no big whoop in the usual ebb and flow of body weight (which varies way more than most people think.)
I guess what's been more interesting thus far is the mindless judgment of a couple of my friends. "Yes, well, that's good, but wouldn't it be better to do it NATURALLY?"
These are folks who demand everything be "natural" and "organic." I have resisted with all my might the urge to inform them that cyanide, asbestos, and arsenic are also "natural" and "organic." Instead, I'm choosing to just find it interesting that wildly manipulating your food intake (or doing what one of them does which ... uh ... involves coffee) is "natural." Pfft - not a fight I need to get into, but just kind of interesting.
Anyway, there ya go. I'm on the juice -- I'll let you know if anything interesting happens.
