GLP-1 Users Support group

[DukeSoprano]

I am just wondering if anyone here would be interested in a GLP-1 Support group?

I have been on Zepbound since Sept of 2025 and as of today have lost 73 lbs

I know of a lot of people that are on it we we do like to compare notes.

Also if there are people considering it, we that have been on it are more than willing to help you.

I am also aware of the unjustified embarrassment you MAY feel when someone ask you how your lost so much weight.

If you are considering it, there is going to be a lot of changes in your lifestyle, to me they are all for the better (except for all the money I have spent on new clothes) 

 

If anyone would like to converse about this, please feel free to reply to this post OR you are welcome to contact me via private message.

 

Duke Soprano

[Ol Salty Sailor]

I don't know why anyone would need a support group.

I have tried to get my Type 2 diabetes under control for years.  Prior to taking starting on Mounjaro in Jan 2024 my A1c was 8.3,

within six months my A1c had dropped to 6.0.

Last week my A1c was 5.5 and has been 5.4-5.7 for the past year.  The fact that I also lost over 50 lbs is an added bonus not a source of embarrassment.

 

I feel better! Some people think I look better!  I do have a lot of pants in my closet that should go to Good Will now.

 

Ol' Salty Sailor

[Rye Miles #13621]

The best way to lose weight is cut down on the portions, limit your carbs & sugar, drink water and exercise a bit. Walk a few times a week. Losing it slow is the healthy way to do it. I got my A1C down to 5.9 from 6.4. I lost about 10-12 lbs. in 3 months, no drugs at all! 

Edited May 28 by Rye Miles #13621

[DukeSoprano]

Well then I guess the Mods can just delete this thread, I was only trying to help

Edited May 28 by DukeSoprano

[Crusty Knees]

1 hour ago, DukeSoprano said:

 

 

Have you experienced any unwanted side effects?  Noticed anything like that?

[DukeSoprano]

Me personally, not much at all, unless I try to eat as much as I use too. It is hard to get use to not eating a 16 oz steak and being happy with a 8 oz one. But your stomach will let you know when you eat too much.

[Windy City Kid]

13 minutes ago, Crusty Knees said:

 

Have you experienced any unwanted side effects?  Noticed anything like that?

I use Maunjaro, I feel like my shoulders, arms, and scalp have a slight sunburn on it

[DukeSoprano]

17 minutes ago, Windy City Kid said:

I use Maunjaro, I feel like my shoulders, arms, and scalp have a slight sunburn on it

Its wind burn from shooting the stages so fast! 😁

[I. M. Crossdraw, SASS# 8321]

3 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

The best way to lose weight is cut down on the portions, limit your carbs & sugar, drink water and exercise a bit. Walk a few times a week. Losing it slow is the healthy way to do it. I got my A1C down to 5.9 from 6.4. I lost about 10-12 lbs. in 3 months, no drugs at all! 

Agree on this.  A well-balanced diet, high in fiber and low calories with exercise is the best way to go.  Human body has to adapt slowly without sudden change using drugs such as GLP-1.  Some people respond well to GLP-1 but may find that it's a lifetime treatment.  My A1c went from being prediabetic 5.7 to 5 no prediabetes in a matter of few months by changing my eating habits and exercise and lost 15 lbs.  

 

I understand that some people may have a hard time losing weight by diet and exercise alone, using GLP-1 maybe the way to go but either way, if the goal is to lose weight, you can't go wrong.  Good luck.

[Tell Sackett SASS 18436]

5 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

The best way to lose weight is cut down on the portions, limit your carbs & sugar, drink water and exercise a bit. Walk a few times a week. Losing it slow is the healthy way to do it. I got my A1C down to 5.9 from 6.4. I lost about 10-12 lbs. in 3 months, no drugs at all! 

Well, of course! It’s SO easy to do!!

Overeating is an incredibly hard habit to break!

If it was that simple don’t you think we’d have done it long ago??

[Rye Miles #13621]

21 minutes ago, Tell Sackett SASS 18436 said:

Well, of course! It’s SO easy to do!!

Overeating is an incredibly hard habit to break!

If it was that simple don’t you think we’d have done it long ago??

Did I say it was simple? It’s called being serious about losing weight and getting yourself healthier. Will power my friend! 

[Needle-Nose-Tom]

Congratulations on your health journey and weight loss. It's hard to do and no matter how you do it it's almost always more healthy to get it off. My step dads doc put him on it after our liver surgery and he's going strong 4 yrs since. 

[Sedalia Dave]

1 hour ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

Did I say it was simple? It’s called being serious about losing weight and getting yourself healthier. Will power my friend! 

 

For me will power alone wasn't getting my A1C down. My GP just kept prescribing more Metformin as my A1C continued to rise. Yes I cut the carbs, cut portions and exercised. Yet I was to the point where it was a struggle just to get out of bed every day and my A1C was 11.7. I felt so bad I withdrew from all the state and regional matches I had signed up for and almost quit shooting altogether.

Finally got referred to a specialist. She spent an hour talking to me about my diet and life goals.  She changed up my meds including starting me on Ozempic. Changing nothing else, my A1C dropped to 7.2, in only 6 months.  I actually wanted to get out of bed and had lost 18 lbs. After 1 year my A1C was 6.5 and I have dropped 30 lbs. I could increase the Ozempic dosage but so far I have declined. I feel really good and am slowly losing weight. My goal is to lose 30 lbs a year until I drop down to my goal weight of below 200 lbs.

 

I'm a firm believer that Ozempic paired with Jardiance save my life.

[Tell Sackett SASS 18436]

1 hour ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

Did I say it was simple? It’s called being serious about losing weight and getting yourself healthier. Will power my friend! 

I don’t have any!! If I did I never would have put on the weight to begin with! Too many years addicted to food as my only pleasure. And once I did meet my wife-over eating was an established habit. And food tastes GOOD!! It’s one of life’s great pleasures!

It’s next to impossible to change the habits of a lifetime! I’ve tried.

[Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933]

I gained a lot of weight during the pandemic cooking at home and not wanting to throw anything away.  In my younger days I could get back to a routine and shed the extra pounds.  Not so anymore.  No matter what I did I could not lose the extra pounds.  Went to my doctor and told her I NEEDED to lose some weight as I felt just plain uncomfortable.  Told her I wanted to try a GLP-1 drug.  She told me that as you get older the drug can have deliterious side effects.   Not the least of which is loss of muscle mass which is being lost as we age anyway.  I insisted I wanted to try the new Wegovy pill.  After three days of taking it I got projectile vomiting and my insides felt like a bomb had gone off.  I was sick for over a week.  When you are bumping 80 is probably not the time to try taking these drugs.  I guess I will just die fat.  Duke this is something I think a lot of people will be intersted in.  A lot of SASS members are old and not all that thin anymore.

😆

[Rye Miles #13621]

2 hours ago, Tell Sackett SASS 18436 said:

I don’t have any!! If I did I never would have put on the weight to begin with! Too many years addicted to food as my only pleasure. And once I did meet my wife-over eating was an established habit. And food tastes GOOD!! It’s one of life’s great pleasures!

It’s next to impossible to change the habits of a lifetime! I’ve tried.

My mom had diabetes since she was 40 yrs old. She died at 80 so I’m familiar with the disease. When my doctor told me my A1C was 6.4 and I had gained a few more pounds he wanted me to go on Ozempic. I said NO! I know how to control it. I cut out almost all sugar, ate less carbs and more protein. I lowered it to 6.0 and lost 12 lbs. Living a little longer and most importantly without diabetes is important so I made the decision to be healthier for my kids and grandkids and myself. I feel so much better. 

[JD Lud]

Glp is a game changer.  They have new ones that preserve muscle mass too.  Easy as a shot, will power or not you can’t overeat.

 

Eat fiber, protein, and lift weights.  It does get me tired earlier and my workouts are less intense but 3 months of light doses have done what I could never do on my own despite lots of lifting and exercise because I was always so hungry.  
 

everyone will be on some form of this soon.  It’s so easy to completely change your life, especially if you have insurance.  

[El Chapo]

6 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

Did I say it was simple? It’s called being serious about losing weight and getting yourself healthier. Will power my friend! 

 

If willpower worked, the obesity rate wouldn't be where it is.  Plenty of people who are accomplished at doing many difficult things struggle to control their weight.

 

For years I thought that anyone who invented the cure to obesity would do the greatest thing he ever could do for mankind.  And I still believe that, to some degree.  Obesity is the issue of our time, so many people struggle with it and it has so many other adverse health effects, that even if you were right about the willpower thing, it'd still be a massive benefit to all of us to get the weight off quickly to protect all of your organs from the other effects of obesity.

 

Curing obesity should be priority #1 of our entire public health apparatus. 

 

Now if someone could just figure out how to get our opioid crisis under control.  Eighty thousand Americans died from that last year.  It's nowhere near heart disease/diabetes/all the other things caused by obesity, but plenty struggle with that, too...many of them veterans who have struggled with opioids since the Civil War.

Edited May 29 by El Chapo

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

When I retired, I started going to the Dr. on a regular basis. When I did, I was diagnosed with Type One Diabetes. I knew that I needed to lose weight, and work on my fitness. I joined a gym, worked out with a Trainer once a week, and worked out two more days a week. I cut my food intake by about a third. I change my diet a good bit. (Stopped drinking sweet tea for one). 

As a result, I gained about 25 pounds. I went from about 270 to 295, even getting up to over 300 pounds. ( And don't give me the "muscle is heavier than fat" bit. I had to get a larger pants size.) I tried Ozempic, and it worked, but I can't afford the $250 CoPay, even with my Insurance and Medicare. 

I tried Monjurno, and while it helped a bit, it had unwanted side effects. Let's just say I had to take the toilet seat into the shower to hose it off a couple times. 

Currently I take Metformin and Jardiance for my Diabetes. My A1C went from 6.8 at its highest to 6.1, and somehow I managed to get my weight down to about where it was. I did this by throwing out my old Jeans, thereby just BEGGING Mr. Murphy to step in and require me to buy more. 

I'm absolutely thrilled that you guys are having better luck than I did. I'm still working at it. I've cut my intake down even further, eating usually only two meals a day. Salad several times a week, and snacking on apples. At 72 years old, my body does NOT like change, so if I can maintain where I'm at now, I'll be happy enough with it. If I hang around long enough for Ozempic to go Generic, I'll try it again. Until then, I'm doing the best I can with what I've got. 

But for those that say eat less and exercise more, for some of us that just isn't enough.  

 

Edited May 30 by Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770

[Rye Miles #13621]

6 hours ago, El Chapo said:

If willpower worked, the obesity rate wouldn't be where it is.  Plenty of people who are accomplished at doing many difficult things struggle to control their weight.

True it doesn’t work for everyone but it does for me. Whatever works for you is great. To each his own. Good luck stay healthy!

Edited May 29 by Rye Miles #13621

[Creeker, SASS #43022]

Some people require a lot more weight loss than 12 pounds.

Some people have diabetic issues that weight loss alone does not fix.

 

To claim that simple "will power" solves both is incorrect.

And even if it were accurate; to condescend to those utilizing a tool to assist their journey is unnecessary.

 

I had untreated diabetes for 20+ years.  

I was constantly told I needed to go on metformin, insulin and a dozen other medications; but if I lost weight - I would probably be able to control it thru diet and exercise.

I finally made the decision that I wanted to see my children and grandchildren for a while longer and changed my lifestyle.

I have lost 145 lbs over the last few years; from 360 lbs to currently 215 (still have some to go - I played football at 200 lbs and wrestled at 185; as I am in nowhere near the same shape or muscularity as I was then - I should go lighter yet, but if I get into the 190's, I'll be ok with it)

 

And I made this journey without drugs, but so what?

Doesn't make me any better or more special than anyone else - probably proves I'm dumber as I didn't make use of the tools available to me.

And my diabetes numbers did not budge.

So I have ended up on all the meds anyway. 

Including a GLP-1, which oddly enough seems to have currently slowed my weight loss not accelerated it.

 

The important thing (in this instance) is the destination - not the journey.

Everyone is different and what works for one may not work for another.

Get yourselves healthy(ier) - no matter what path you have to take to get there.

[PowderRiverCowboy]

I see alot of Comments Calling GLP1 a drug sorry to say its a peptide as you get older your habits and body dont produce these like they once did, but its not a drug.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

Here's another fun fact: One of the causes of being overweight is a result of a condition called Insulin Resistance. Insulin Resistance can be caused by being overweight. 

[Big Gus, SASS# 66666]

My personal story on Zepbound. It almost killed me and saved my life in one day. After taking Zepbound for 7 weeks I developed the most excruciating pain in my chest I have ever felt. Thought we would never get to the emergency room. Every jolt in the car felt like my heart was being ripped out. Got to the emergency room 3 hour wait. No place to lay down. Pain was so awful I was a blubbering baby. Finally an open bed. Pain started to recede after a very heavy dose of morphine. Given an emergency CAT scan. Hour later back in the room doctor came in to give me results of scan. Blockage in the upper small intestine. This was due to Zepbound paralysis of a section of my intestine. Nothing was passing it. Puked up the most vile vomit I have ever seen. Oh and by the way we found you have kidney cancer. Lump on right kidney. Biopsy confirmed cancer. Would have likely not have otherwise caught it until it was too late and had metastasized. Getting scheduled for a thermal ablation of the tumor. Very good prognosis. Will likely be cancer free by summers end. God works in mysterious ways. 

[Rye Miles #13621]

26 minutes ago, Big Gus, SASS# 66666 said:

My personal story on Zepbound. It almost killed me and saved my life in one day. After taking Zepbound for 7 weeks I developed the most excruciating pain in my chest I have ever felt. Thought we would never get to the emergency room. Every jolt in the car felt like my heart was being ripped out. Got to the emergency room 3 hour wait. No place to lay down. Pain was so awful I was a blubbering baby. Finally an open bed. Pain started to recede after a very heavy dose of morphine. Given an emergency CAT scan. Hour later back in the room doctor came in to give me results of scan. Blockage in the upper small intestine. This was due to Zepbound paralysis of a section of my intestine. Nothing was passing it. Puked up the most vile vomit I have ever seen. Oh and by the way we found you have kidney cancer. Lump on right kidney. Biopsy confirmed cancer. Would have likely not have otherwise caught it until it was too late and had metastasized. Getting scheduled for a thermal ablation of the tumor. Very good prognosis. Will likely be cancer free by summers end. God works in mysterious ways. 

Good luck in your healing! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻