Anyone not lost weight on wegovy pill after 2 months?

[BountyChoc]

I've been following the wegovy pill threads here and am seeing lots of people post about their weight loss.

I started 2 months ago, did the 1st month at 1.5mg, went up to 4mg in the second month.

I've lost zero pounds over the 2 months, so am going to try 9mg but I'm assuming this just might not work for me.

Take it first thing in the morning with a sip of bottled plain water, don't eat or drink anything after for at least 30 mins.

Maybe it just doesn't work for me? I'm thinking if I continue to have 0 weight loss next month on 9mg to give up.

I could easily eat a massive meal I've not noticed any effects of feeling too full up to eat.

I've also had two bouts of 24hs of vomitting and diarrhoea 30 days apart. I thought I got norovirus the first time but since it happened again a month later it is making me wonder whether the wegovy pill might be reacting with something I've eaten?

Just a bit lost atm and don't know whether to give up on it.

I'm 5'3" and 14 stone. I was 14 stone when I started at the beginning of aug and I'm still 14 stone. I guess that's a good thing that I haven't gained?

Nobody has tried to make anyone look like a failure, and only one of us is having their comments deleted from this thread.

As I’ve said repeatedly, there was some incorrect advice further upthread, I was simply correcting it.

I’m trying to advocate for people sticking with the tablets longer, because not only does the hunger need to be suppressed, but the habits need to be changed too. When someone isn’t losing weight on medication, it is often due to still overeating, all I am saying is that you need to eat fewer calories or exercise more, whilst using the medication. And that it is hard in the beginning, but that it does get easier, because of the meds.

I don’t understand what you are finding so offensive. But from my perspective, what I find offensive is when people imply that the only reason I have lost weight is due to medication, when that is only a small part of the equation.

Have a nice day

i think you’re still spectacularly missing the point @Boreded. No one is saying you don’t need to eat less to lose weight, obviously you do, but you are so focussed on how you changed your habits and put in all this work when in reality you were only able to do that BECAUSE the jabs were suppressing your appetite. If you don’t get the suppression effects in the first place, then obviously no changes will be made or you would have already made them years ago without the jabs? I agree that you’ve derailed the whole thread. It is totally reasonable to say the tablets aren’t working if they are not suppressing your appetite. And for many people who are mildly overweight it’s not about changing diet, it’s simply about eating smaller portions of an already good diet. Which is 100% relies on the jabs or tablets having the suppression effect first. Willpower isn’t really needed when you’re not hungry in the first place, isn’t that the whole point of paying for these meds, that none of us have the willpower to do it without them?

I don’t think that people have to have the exact experience of the OP in order to post, if they have something useful and relevant to say or to ask.

Anyway, I was wondering how you are getting on @BountyChoc, if you’re continuing with the tablets or have decided to stop or to switch to another medication?

I haven’t missed the point. All throughout I’m saying you need both to change your diet, and have the suppression to help you do that. HAND IN HAND!

I literally started off commenting because someone said upthread that you don’t need to change what you are eating, and that is really poor advice. You do need to change what you eat, and the medication supports you with that, but it doesn’t do it for you.

I am a massive advocate of the medications, they’re a game changer and I would not have lost this amount of weight without them. However, the people who have lost the weight have done so through work and perseverance, not because the jab did all of the work. To say that diminishes everything that people are doing currently to lose and maintain.

Will power is needed…when people go to a restaurant and choose a salad not a pizza, that’s not the medication.

At the pub when everyone is drinking but they choose a slimline tonic, that’s not the medication.

You can eat enough calories to gain weight whilst not being hungry, you can eat less and still gain weight. Please don’t be naive to think that just eating less is enough, because people can drink enough calories in a day before even eating anything.

The tablets might not be working, or it might be a case of sticking with it and upping the dose until it does, and until the habits are broken so that the effects of the suppression can be felt. Who benefits from only seeing one viewpoint that the suppression isn’t there so the tablets aren’t working?

How many posts do you need to have deleted before you stop trying to force people of the thread?

People are free to post what they want as long as it is respectful, and legal, and within talk guidelines.

Thanks

Hi all

A reminder that you can quietly disengage with any poster you don't wish to have a conversation with. Please keep posts on topic and in the spirit of the site (and civil discussion). Thanks.

For the OP - I did okay on 1.5 (lost 3kgs), 4 did not suppress appetite and weight stayed the same. A few days on 9 and all feels different. Not that hungry, making the choices that I know are better for me with ease - if that is what you are hoping for (I was), maybe hang on in there.

I know that when I was obese I had a terrible diet. I was eating the wrong things and too much of them. I also know that if I’d simply reduced portion size then I would be doomed to regain any weight loss at some point because that food is addictive.
GLP-1 helped me to change to a low carb Mediterranean diet and stick to it. I know I couldn’t have done it on my own (I’ve tried in the past). I know GLP-1s helped but I still have to make choices on a daily basis.
I have never counted calories, I haven’t needed to because of the changes I’ve made to what I actually eat. I also know that having changed the type of food I eat and stuck with it for over a year, I’ve got half a chance of continuing with it forever, even if/when I stop taking GLP-1.
I guess my point is that I consciously had to make choices to change the type of food I was eating. Just eating smaller portions of crap food isn’t the way to do it. GLP-1 helps you make those choices but it can’t do it on its own.

I think the tablets are a more gradual introduction to a glp and that when you get to 9mg and above you get the major suppression. I’ve done 2 months on 1.5 and am about to start my second month on 4. At the start I was obsessed with calorie tracking but it got a bit much so I stopped that. I have upped my exercise though and I’ve settled in to a routine of 2 small meals a day. I think we start this journey expecting quick results so it’s frustrating when nothing appears to be happening.

Yeah you just have to stick with it until you find a level that works for you, sounds like you’re going good on it though. Did you find the calorie counting at the beginning helped so that you got a really good understanding of what everything was ‘worth’?

Great to hear it’s working for you 💐