Fun fact: this side effect can become permanent, even if you stop taking the drug!
Can induce. We don't know "the precise prevalence of gastroparesis caused by semaglutide," though we know it's "unusual" [1].
Now the advice is to limit eating to an 8 hour range of the day, and possibly fast for a whole day occasionally to decrease your insulin resistance.
When I was a 8yo child the government sent in health advisors to teach children about low salt and low fat diets that are high in carbs. The two health advisors were the most unhealthy looking people I had seen in my entire life up to that point. One was the fattest person I had ever seen and the other was the skinniest - both looked like they were knocking on deaths door. I wondered if they ate lunch together and how that would look. I figured, as a start, I should do the opposite of whatever these two suggest - I dismissed the food pyramid guidelines and resolved to eat a more traditional diet on the basis that people who ate such a diet looked like they lived longer and healthier lives. One of the many instances that instilled my general mistrust of the government. I would find out later that it was corporate corruption of food science that inspired these teachings and my simple heuristic held me in good stead.
Eating crap is bad, but eating less crap is actually far better than obesity from “good” foods.
Is the bar this low nowadays? It doesn't even require that much willpower - we're not talking firewalking here - it's only that the fight is constant. https://0x0.st/XYet.webp
It might be easy for you, but it clearly is very, very hard for a lot of people.
You're missing one variable in your equation, mate.
Why only some rich western countries with large disposable incomes and cushy lifestyles have a problem with people eating way too much?
Why do some people in the west (especially the US) always need to outsource the responsibility of their own bad actions and lifestyle choices to "societal factors and culture"?
Am I fat because I'm a lazy pig? No, it's obviously society's and the food's fault lol.
They are.
"Obesity in India has reached epidemic proportions in the 21st century, with morbid obesity affecting 5% of the country's population" [1]. (It's about 7% in America [2].) Meanwhile in China, "the incidence of overweight and obesity among school-age children...was 15.5% in 2010, rising to 24.2% in 2019 and soaring to 29.4% in 2022" [2]. Same story in Vietnam: "The prevalence of overweight among children aged under 5 years increased from 5.6% in 2010 to 7.4% in 2019. For overweight and obesity among children aged 5 to 19 years, prevalence rose from 8.5% and 2.5% in 2010 to 19% and 8.1% in 2020, respectively" [3].
The only country you're right about is Japan, though overweightness is growing there, too [4]. Same across Africa [5].
There is absolutely a systemic effect causing obesity to rise worldwide. That doesn't remove individual agency from the equation. But it's sort of like the opiate crisis: you can have both flawed individual decisionmaking and a systemic bias that fixes the dice while offering more rolls.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_India
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10357130/
[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9947684/
[4] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/08/28/japan/science-h...
5% of the population is hardly enough to call them fat but fair enough, seems like the entire world is getting fatter as they become more wealthy and industrialized.
But 7% is? India and America have statistically similar rates of morbid/severe obesity.
That said, about 74% of Americans are overweight or obese [1]. The fattest Indian states barely break 40%. But if you only looked at middle class and above, I wouldn't be surprised to see numbers similar to America's.
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/obesity-adult-17-18/obe...
The key is to use them as a catalyst, rather than a crutch.
So I would only allow them to be prescribed in the cases of very serious obesity as part of a plan than moves them on to diet and exercise.
Firstly, you can't eat junk when you're on this stuff, it makes you feel really sick. So you're spectacularly wrong about that.
Having taken it myself, what it actually did was fix my fuel gauge. It stopped me craving high-carb food when I was already full. I felt what other people had described as feeling full for the first time in over a decade.
On the other hand, the side effects can be horrid. Be careful taking this stuff. It is easy to get dehydrated, drink plenty of fluids.
So stop your high-horsing and I say this emphatically, go away. Never, ever, say that again.
And I'm being deliberately harsh here because people like you are part of the problem.
You are not helping. We've tried guilt shaming people for decades now and IT DOES NOT WORK.
It is actually some sort of problem with the body. Commonly known as a disease.
I now KNOW that I'm not weak or without willpower. I KNOW you are wrong.
Whatever crap a scientist came up with and put in high carb food, that now infests all our food, destroys the body's ability to feel full on a portion of the population.
Before this I have tried, and stuck to for long periods, low carb, calorie counting, lots of exercise. Didn't work.
Wegovy was a true eye opener that something's wrong with my "sated" and "full" body fuel indicators.
I couldn't stay on it as it was making me feel too ill, but even being on it for 6 months seems to have help change my 'baseline'.
It doesn't work for everyone, it can make some people really ill, and I did it a bit too casually and it is in reality strong stuff so I would definitely recommend talking to a doctor first.
it's not like that. it's like trying to cure obesity by having fat people eat less, because that's what it is.