#Metformin weight loss

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2 Month Metformin Weight Loss Results

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Can Metformin Cause Weight Loss? An In-Depth Look

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[hersjourney]

Well, day one on the metformin and I didn't really notice anything drastic like I did with the others.

[daxhalfawake]

I just wanna share a little win today 🥺

It's going to be under the break, though, because there is talk of weight and fat loss. I'm going to try to add correct tags for blocking but if I miss any please feel free to let me know.

So, back in May, I went to the doctor thinking that I would leave with a scheduled gallbladder removal surgery. Instead, I walked away with news of a more complicated-to-resolve condition, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD).

I had been on metformin for about a month due to recently discovered insulin resistance that I have likely been struggling with since I was very young, based on symptoms. I've been overweight since I was probably around 5ish.

I had been having symptoms that I believed were a bad gallbladder, my body reacting to the pregnancy hormones that had just dropped, since late February. By May, I was struggling to eat, struggling to stay hydrated, and I was scared. But that was the earliest I could be seen by any doctor.

Since that visit, I've adopted a diet similar to the Mediterranean diet. I don't eat more than 12g of added sugar most days. I don't have more than an oz of dairy. I can't eat almost any of my autism-safe foods because 99% of them were ultra-processed and finding adequate substitutes has been complicated. But I am still eating, and I am doing my best to exercise more than I had been (which was mainly zero, because I was severely depressed).

Well, I did some low-level research so that I could give myself a goal to reach; bc 'lose weight' on its own is discouraging. My wife and I joined a health program that gives you 24/7 access to a health coach and a specialist and they are great at motivating. And, today, I've surpassed my goal of losing 3% of my body fat (by a lot, actually, I don't weigh every day because it stresses me out). This should mean, hopefully, that my liver is now healing itself again because I was in early stages of the disease.

I was nervous about how quickly I'm losing weight at first, but my doctors are not concerned and the combination of meds I'm on facilitate weight loss at least x3, plus I've cut out almost all added sugar, so I'm trying to not be too worried unless the doctors tell me to be. Therefore, if folks comment here, I would very much appreciate not being told I'm losing weight too quickly. I know it's fast. And I am always worried about it in the back of my mind because I know it can also cause problems, but I'm here today to celebrate achieving something I have been fighting for, for the last couple months, and I was told I needed to lose 30lbs this year.

[heenbeneen]

18/3

I feel like nothing is working…I just want to wear the same clothes as my friends and try things on at the shops.

It’s been really hard and I’ve been ordering take away sooooo much like a scary amount I just don’t have the energy to cook I don’t have the energy to plan meals ahead we wasted so many groceries this month all because I couldn’t be bothered to cook. I hate it I feel like I’m lazy but if it was laziness would I be battling in my head for hours about it? Usually being lazy comes with a sense of relief but this isn’t that I know I need to my brain screams I need to but my body doesn’t listen.

Ifeel like I have the right intentions I just have the biggest internal battle about it. I bought Pilates class passes for 4 beginners classes and I haven’t booked what days yet but I’ve been meaning too everything just feels so hectic at the moment.

I skipped Ozempic for most of February but I’ve gone back on it I’ve also upped all my dosages as per my endocrinologist recommendation. I keep forgetting stay consistent alarms and reminders never work for me what works for you?

Currently I’m on

0.7ml of Ozempic or 53clicks

And 1500g of metformin

I’m Currently 147kg

Hopefully I can kick my Brain into gear and stay consistent I’m trying really hard to stay positive.

Please take care 🦋

[womenshealthjourney]

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[godtears]

It just hit me that like. I'm always complaining about migraines and feeling nauseous at certain points and being cold all the time and being tired all the time and etc. And all my doctors have been like "well there's nothing wrong with you so like. Idk man" and whenever I tell those same doctors that I don't really eat all that much they're like "you're lying we're giving you a hunger suppressant". And I just kinda connected some dots here like. Maybe the reason why I'm experiencing those symptoms is BECAUSE I don't eat a lot.

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[iatrophilosophos]

Hey I'm hearing uh. More, and more, and more buzz about GLP-1 agonists like ozempic from random ppl and healthcare providers alike and there's like a terrifying lack of lucidity abt it so I just wanna say, if you've heard some stuff and are curious:

Ozempic is a chemically-aided crash diet. That's it.

Like metformin, an older diabetes medication used off-label for weight loss, it's functioning as an appetite suppressant in this use-case. It's not magic; it's not changing how your body makes or uses fat; it just makes it less miserable to eat less. It is contraindicated by histories of disordered eating and should absolutely not be prescribed without a full screening for above-adequate food intake and nutrition *and* ongoing screening for adequate nourishment/malnutrition: this is broadly not happening.

I've also seen no indication that ozempic/GLP-1 agonists are any less likely to lead to weight cycling (w/o constant use) than a straight crash diet, or do anything meaningful to limit the known, significant health risks of weight cycling.

Nothing has changed:

The main things we know from a western scientific perspective about weight and weight loss are that 1) almost all people who lose significant weight gain it back and 2) weight cycling causes cardiovascular and metabolic health complications. Yall we aint even have strong evidence to suggest that weight loss is beneficial to health conditions associated with higher weights. This *should* point to Dr's never ever reccomending weight loss (we do know it can hurt, don't know it can help) but yknow we live in uhhhh fucking world.

We are possibly ripe for an aggressive intensification of anti-fat medical rhetoric, especially in pediatrics

Among the projections for an RFK FDA that ive gotten from folks i know in these fields is a renewed focus on childhood obseity and general military-style fitness. As the ozempic fad has already been ramping up, I'm kinda! concerned! about this being a major point of focus for the oncoming administration--i figure we're ripe for another mass diet craze associated with a wide variety of deaths anyway and that existing cultural+market inertia added to it being literally on the agenda spells some not great things. I really seriously reccomend paying extra attention to this area.

Clinics love ozempic because it's extremely popular and extremely profitable--i even know someone who's job was threatened for refusing to prescribe it. We already know that we cant trust doctors to be informed around weight or for the system to sound public alarms.

Obviously, people have the right to do whatever they want--but the disclosure just isn't there and people are being sold this stuff based on the idea it'll make them *healthier* and prevent disease. It can't and it won't.

If the claims here about weight in general are new to you, start here: (Don't love the title of the article, second the exasperation)

If you want to understand more about glp-1 agonists specifically, like, start with the Wikipedia article and do some googling it lays out the pharmacology in relatively plain language. Sry i ain't doing a buncha work to find citations ppl won't click; there's not a lot of good critical stuff out there that's actually published but it doesn't actually take a lot of reading up on critical weight science to form a critical take on the sources singing ozempics praises.

Peace, good luck, do whatever you want forever, maybe tell ur mom that this isn't any different from the disastrous weight loss fads of the 90s.

[ediet-the-right-way]

Currently on a weight loss medication regimen mix of Wellbutrin xl / naltrexone / b12 / + metformin. Going well so far .. it’s only been a few days. Started after I had food poisoning so no appetite here

I hope this keeps up

Current weight is 150

Let’s see how we do .. fingers crossed

[cripple-woe]

Funny thing about being fat is that everything gets expensive (Small cry for help is at the end if you wanna skip the sob story).

My friend and I are both saving up for a wheelchair, because I personally don’t want to go through the wheelchair assessment service because it will take months and they’ll just ignore me because I’m fat, and because he doubts they’ll approve him anyways.

A wheelchair for his weight class, not overweight, is around ��100.

A wheelchair for my weight class (250lbs) is around £200-400.

I cannot lose weight, I have hormone conditions that mess with my insulin and make it practically impossible, even with metformin and other insulin medications, to drop a single pound. I’ve starved myself, I’ve had under 500kal a day before now consistently because of atypical eating disordered habits and it has done nothing! They also won’t give me weight loss meds that work. So.

I’m not getting commissions, I don’t want to ask for kindness from y’all because my parents have given me more than enough complexes about accepting help and they’d probably freak out if they ever knew. So I’m just. Struggling. It hurts. I’m in so much fucking pain, man.

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[smallswingshoes]

I highly recommend everyone ask their pharmacist about new meds for side effects whenever they get new meds! Doctors aren't the best at explaining this stuff imo because they aren't experts in it; pharmacists are. It's considered a pharmacist's most important job to be to explain medications to patients! I'm not surprised doctors aren't mentioning it honestly, as frustrating as that is. (Ofc pharmacists aren't perfect but they at least should understand how medication works.)

I'm on a new diabetes med which my doctor said "oh yeah, and weight loss is a side effect," before I reminded him that I've got disordered eating from prior medical abuse and I've made good progress on it, so let's not undo that...

... but then I couldn't figure out why I had constant headaches until my wife pointed out I was barely eating and kept sugar crashing, too. Apparently the reason that people lose weight on this is because it turns off your hunger signals! So I wasn't ever feeling hungry and my food intake had dropped ridiculously.

I dunno, man, that seems like something you should have mentioned, dude, since it's a known thing about this class of drugs.

Anyway, uh, yeah, make sure you ask about known issues with hunger signals or loss of appetite with some of these new diabetes drugs. You don't want to end up accidentally starving yourself.

(I'm fine; we've added some precautions and new routines.)

[cryinginthefkncorner]

So I’m in ED recovery and also fat, and have been reading “The Diet Myth” by Paul Campos.

In the beginning of the book he talks about how Americans have an “Anorexic World Lenses” that they are seeing the concepts of health and wellness through, mainly thanks in part to the diet industry and pharmaceutical lobbying groups that are filled with what he refers to as “anti-fat warriors.”

And reading about his anorexic world lenses theory makes a lot of things make sense. especially when it comes to fat people recovering from restrictive eating disorders.

These anti-fat warriors will scream about how people who are fat during or after recovery just “swapped one ED for another” (implying that a person is now binge eating to the point of having BED instead of restricting to the point of AAN).

While this can be the case for some, If the person who is recovering is working with a care team they most likely are not binging. It’s just a 8” to 10” plate, filled with carbs, protein, and fruit or veg with little white space on a plate (common way to portion food to make sure a meal is actually a meal in ED recovery) is so foreign to them, that they think a normal meal constitutes “over eating”.

They personally don’t eat that much (because they bought into the bogus, manipulated science and stats from the weight loss industry hook, line, and sinker) because they don’t want to be “fat and die young” (<- a myth with little scientific backing btw) so a fat person eating a normal amount of obviously bingeing, and needs to stop.

And they’ll scream this perception at fat people in recovery, because how dare they start learning to accept size differences, how dare they accept their body no matter how it turns out! Why aren’t they buying into the big pharma propaganda!?! Why aren’t they destroying their livers and GI tracts with Ozempic and metformin for a few pounds of weight loss?! Why aren’t they following the script?!

It’s a typical freak out akin to what I felt when I saw the number on the scale increase by half a pound when I was deep in my eating disorder.

The anorexic world lenses is very real, it’s what causes us to label an average hight woman at a typical weight “ob*se”, it’s the system that labels people like George Clooney and Dwayne “the rock” Johnson as “ob*se”.

It’s the system used by our government to justify torturing fat people with drugs they don’t need for minimal weight loss so they can determine who is the compliant fat and who is the “bad” fat who has seen through the BS.

Anyway, I highly recommend the book as of right now, and if wanted I will post more as I read more.