Lose Weight and THEN Take Saxenda?? 

SAXENDA actually worked for me. Females in the HR department at my job were taking it. When I saw the results I jumped on it. Of course after getting a physical and making sure that my body was prepared for it…. Basically 230 lbs to 197 lbs and that with clothes on…. You must be on a proper diet and you have to get it from outside the USA 🤷🏻‍♂️

So I am someone who has lost 100lbs naturally with behavior/habit changes over 3 years and have been maintaining within a 15 lb window for 3 years but I never made it the additional 30-40 lbs down to reach my original weight goal but was mostly ok with that since my life drastically improved without hitting a low weight. I got a new puppy this year and started to struggle because the amount of effort and energy and time required to properly raise an energetic shepherd puppy has taken away from the amount of effort/energy and time it was taking me to maintain my weight loss and keep binge eating at bay. I struggled with gaining back about 8 lbs quickly and some pain in my knees and feet returned from that along with the addition of necessary movement from my puppy raising. I decided I needed some extra help and have gone on Ozempic to get back down again and possibly get to my original goal weight of 160lbs. So far after 2 weeks I’ve responded wonderfully to the loading dose of .25. No fatigue or nausea, cravings mostly gone, able to well hydrate, able to work on some habitual grazing that returned because cravings are gone, hunger drastically reduced but I manage at least 1500 calories and 140 grams or more protein daily to compliment my continued weight/strength training to keep my muscle mass as much as possible. I spent so long learning to adjust my lifestyle to maintain my weight loss that I feel this medication will be just the right tool to help me further. I do NOT plan to stay on it forever and fully accept that long term I will not likely stay at the lowest weight I achieve with it but it’s helping me during this time of transition and difficulty of puppy raising and I will continue to focus on paying attention to my TDEE and strength training over time and when pup is a little older he’ll HELP me maintain my weight because he’ll be trained and need lots of daily exercise from me. I have not found anyone else talk about weight loss before taking these meds and how it affects maintaining or further weight loss. Thanks!

Hi Dr Dan. I really like the way you dig into the research. Is the weight loss sustainable? I guess it depends how you eat and whether that’s sustainable, and also why you gained weight. I gained weight due to medication and then stress related emotional eating. I’m doing alternate day caloric restriction aka ADF alongside Saxenda and working on ways to not go back to being an emotional eater. I’ve had to take breaks from Saxenda due to Covid and haven’t regained the weight. I don’t think I could at this stage maintain the ADF without Saxenda putting the break on wanting to overeat. I hope I sort it out along the way as I chose medication to avoid surgery but do not want to be on meds for the rest of my life… I’m interested in whether you rate or know of studies that rate natural appetite suppressants?

Were the ones who were just given Saxenda also given the same amount of diet & nutrition direction like this study was where everyone started with the same diet? Just wondering if nutritional education played a bigger hand than just losing weight before starting the drug.

Danke!

bro i am from india where can i buy it

Can I try 3mg AM AND 3MG PM? 3MG ISN'T strong enough anymore and I get saxenda free from dr