Lilly's drug TOO effective?!

Haha, not a bad problem to have! But seriously, I get being nervous when a new medicine works TOO well. Especially if you're losing muscle too.
 
Well, you can always stop once you hit your goal when you're not in a study. I'm curious about side effects and why they couldn't keep them in the study somehow? Rapid weight loss gets a bad rap, but recent studies (UK and Australia) say it's better for total loss and diabetes, and the weight stays off for years. Assuming you eat right, of course.
 
I'm guessing maybe it was more like "Some People *Thought* They Lost Too Much Weight With Eli Lilly's Experimental Weight Loss Drug."
 
28% in like, a year and a half at 12mg doesn't sound like all that much. I know plenty of people who are shedding weight faster than that. I'm at 27% in 5 months, and I wasn't even that overweight to begin with. (About a 60lb loss) And I never went past 5mg.
 
It's so weird. I see it all the time on reddit, folks freaking out about dropping too much weight even when they're still pretty heavy. Maybe they're really scared, or maybe it's just for show. I just think, 'What's the big deal?' but keep it to myself because it seems like a touchy subject.
 
“The answer to the obesity epidemic is not a one-size-fits-all prescription from an online retailer,” said McCoy. “It is a patient and a clinician, working together, choosing the right tool for that specific person at that specific time.”

I almost spit out my coffee when I read that! My experience has been the COMPLETE opposite. 25% gone in 49 weeks online, vs. like, 5% in 30 weeks with my doctor.
 
It's just an average, right? So most people will be nowhere near that. Some will drop 40%, some will only lose like, 15%.
 
Exactly! Semaglutide is enough for most people when it comes to slimming down. The jump from nothing to sema is HUGE, but the jumps from sema to tirz, and then tirz to reta? The gains are getting smaller and smaller.

We're after these tiny gains when they might not be needed.

And Novo Nordisk is in trouble, their meds work, but not AS well, and their stock tanked (buy now, maybe!)
 
I can see why people in the study would feel that way... but shouldn’t they be figuring out a healthy weight range for them so they know when to stop? I know the goal is to see how well the drug works, but shouldn't treatment stop when a participant hits their ideal weight, agreed upon with their doctor? I haven’t researched the study much, but that’s how it should be done, right?
 
Heard anything about food companies trying to make stuff that gets around the effects of these meds? 'Cause their profits are dropping. I saw it on Reddit somewhere... ]/
 
D-K-W-99 said:
Heard anything about food companies trying to make stuff that gets around the effects of these meds?
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Wouldn't surprise me at all. Follow the money. If these meds keep working, the junk food industry is gonna lose billions.
 
It all points to a bigger problem. Sure, GLP-1s are great, but we also need to teach people about nutrition, make sure they can get healthy food, and that they don't have to work so many jobs they can only afford quick, processed crap.
 
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