Serious question. Before you took the ozempi
How much was your starting weight?
205ish, got down to around 195 and just felt beaten down, so wanted a kick and help to get around 180.
Have a lot of 12 hour shifts, and my sleep has been shit. Nearing my 40s now. Gym performance has gone down hill for the past few years, just havenāt been myself. Early 30s and lower I wouldāve probably done it on my own.
lol and then people wonder about my responses. What a condescending useless reply. I didnt parade around my āmediocre resultsā I was asked about them and I responded directly to that person. Only thing I shared was my experience and kept it simple for any future lurker.
And no the āask your doctorā comment was also snarky and useless. Should I ask my doctor about a 500mg test and tren cycle too? Shit at least ozempic at 0.5mg or 1mg dosing is within clinical guidelines.(in my case I did weekly titration rather than monthly).
And I am very happy about my initial 10 pound loss without help, and then another 15 pounds with ozempic in a relative short time frame. You donāt know everyoneās situation and it has been hell to accomplish for me in the last 5 years due to my circumstances.
WTH do you care if I use it to get my āmediocre resultsā instead of a juice head does it to get to 6% body fat??? Did I ask for your or anyone elseās opinion on diet or weight loss strategies (which ones again proves all the points I made so far)? I am very very happy about my āmediocre resultsā and using ozempic to finally help get me there.
I donāt care. I just donāt see the juice heads using their juice for mediocrity and then bashing everyone who suggested they try a different way for mediocrity after asking forā¦. wait for itā¦.. advice and opinions.
But, ironically, they usually do tell people to achieve maximum natural potential via dialed in training, diet and recovery before considering enhanced help so thereās that.
Are you sure you meant to join a bodybuilding forum?
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Did you read my OP??? It was about starting with a stronger dose than than 0.25mg, and that was the main debate on this whole thread on till you now are trying to turn it into something else.
Even if I gained god damn weight even while on Ozempicā¦. What does that have to do with the OP, and then my follow up post months later to say I did it and it was fine???
And just a reminder I didnāt ask for your, or anyone elseās, advice or opinion on diet or weight loss and if ozempic should be turned to or not. Nor was that even discussed much until you came along.
Yes itās not far fetched I joined this forum to ask people who have been know to turn to these kinds of meds, like ozempic.
Maybe reading and understanding English is not your strength? Maybe itās just a literacy issue in general???
Not everyone can be a bodybuilding god such as yourself or the other brahs on here, sorry to disappoint you but you donāt have to join a conversation or try to derail the conversation entirely. You know you can skip posts made by us peons and go worship each other in another brah thread with all your wisdom and knowledge. Leave us mediocre guys to ourselves to do our thing, thatās ok. I am not preaching or giving advice to anyone to do anything, I did what I did and it helped me greatly and I am happy with what I saw compared to the last of my 5 years.
I couldnāt find to which dose you skipped and which dosed you stayed at. You may want to include that.
I suspect you got your peptide from an UGL. How come you decided to go with Semaglutide and not Tirzepatide or retatrutide?
How did you reconstitute the peptide and what were your storage conditions?
Are you going to taper off the sema? Are you worried about gaining the weight back?
You came back in here months later to talk shit and youāre reframing to be a victim, which is probably the same mentality leading to a need for drugs to get very average results 
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Not to hijack this thread. Since i havent actually taken a deep dive researching Ozempic.
So let me get this straight. The only thing im finding stated in non type 2 diabetic is.
- Decrease appetite
- Slows digestion.
A Few question for my own clarification.
So it doesnt increase fat utilization?
Increase metabolic rate?
Does it increase insulin sensitivity?
Hereās what chatgpt tells me. I know AI answering is somewhat frowned upon but it has itās uses.
While it doesnāt directly increase fat oxidation like some stimulants or fat burners, the caloric deficit it induces forces the body to utilize more stored fat for energy over time.
No significant increase; may even decrease slightly.
Weight loss generally leads to a reduction in resting metabolic rate (RMR), and this is true with Ozempic as well.
Yes, it improves insulin sensitivity.
Ozempic is a GLP-1 receptor agonist, and it:
Enhances insulin secretion in a glucose-dependent manner.
Suppresses glucagon secretion.
Improves glycemic control, which reduces insulin resistance over time.
Promotes weight loss, which itself improves insulin sensitivity.
So, it directly and indirectly improves insulin sensitivity, making it beneficial for people with insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes.
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Thanks @rusty_hammer
Well ā¦ reading between the lines. SO Instead of spending allot of $$ on it. a idvidual could get the same results by engaging in more intense exercise and having the self discipline in putting their fork down. Without possible side effects. Or thats how i view it.
You are correct. There are possible benefits like improved insulin sensitivity, liver repair and others but itās def not needed to drop fat.
It does work very well though. Newer drugs like retatrutide work even better at helping the body mobilize fat. Low doses longer term work very well.
Not sure what it says about indvidual people who are extremely overweight who are flocking to get on it. Trying not to be judgemental or came across as a asshole
Yeah I hear ya. I think most people are just very lazy and need a shortcut. I know a few of them myself. They donāt have the discipline to diet because losing weight doesnāt happen overnight. To each their own I guess.
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How have you accessed this, if I may ask? Do you just lie to the online ādoctorsā?
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I feel like it says whatās already apparent; they got to where they are because of issues with impulse control. This drug helps with that.
I like the idea of Ozempic being used as a bridge to lose enough weight to get bariatic surgery as a bridge to lose even more weight and get healthy. Ideally, along the way, we learn good habits to maintain it, but when someone is bleeding out, we use the tourniquet first and worry about proper circulation later.
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Yes I have personal experience. No need to lie to doctors. There are sites that are trusted that it can be purchased from.
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No
No
Yes
GLP-1 peptides get released after a meal to tell your brain to stop seeking food. Itās a reward-based signal mostly. Yes thereās some fullness from gastric slowing, but the real magic is in your brain.
Itās like when you want sex your brain says āgo get itā and then when youāve had it it says āok, need fulfilled, go back to regular lifeā. Same idea.
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Thanks for clearing that all up for me.
So basically to a certain extent its a appetite suppressor.
As I understand it, and as my experience with it goes, yes. It just makes you not think about food. Not just hunger, killing the desire to eat.
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Iām super tempted. Man.
But does it KEEP? If Iām eating right and working out, will I rebound? Because the people Iām seeing whoāve used it non-obese, but also probably sedentary, have rebounded after stopping.