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c/semaglutide·submitted 10 months ago by u/micro_bump_mick

am I the only one who found semaglutide harder than the injections

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am I the only one who found semaglutide harder than the injections. If this has been answered properly somewhere, link me and I will delete. First month I lost almost nothing and nearly quit. Month two and three were where it all happened. Sat at 0.5mg for four months because it was doing the job. Everyone told me to…

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u/quiet_moderatormod124 points·10 months ago

Weight change and appetite change are different endpoints on different timescales. Conflating them is where most of the confusion on this board starts.

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u/micro_bump_mickOP88 points·10 months ago

The appetite thing was the surprise. I expected to feel full. What I got was simply not thinking about food between meals.

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u/joaquin_stanescu28 points·10 months ago·edited

if 1.0mg is working there is no prize for going up

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u/noor_hovland36 points·10 months ago

The weekly interval comes out of the half-life — roughly a week — so you are on a smooth curve rather than a series of spikes. That is also why moving your day slightly does very little.

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u/freya_baptista61 points·10 months ago

2.4 is a ceiling, not a target

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u/joaquin_stanescu48 points·10 months ago

the scale is the least sensitive instrument you own

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u/careful_gradient_again32 points·10 months ago

the appetite signal and the scale move on different clocks

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u/stubborn_batchlist_only46 points·10 months ago

2.4 is a ceiling, not a target

Adding one thing to this: the appetite effect and the scale run on separate clocks, so both halves can be true at once.

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