Working out and on Wegovy, no weight loss.

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Could muscle gain account for slower weight loss despite being on a GLP-1?

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Possibly, but probably not

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but I feel like I've greatly reduced food intake

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You need to track it religiously until you know what your intake is. It is more likely you are still over eating if you aren’t seeing results on a GLP1.

Also, if you are serious about weight loss, don’t drink calories unless in a protein shake with a good protein to calorie ratio.

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Still will occasional coke, maybe a 20 oz bottle every 2-3 days.

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50% of the time isn’t occasional. Also, 750 calories a week and nearly 200g of sugar

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Snacking greatly reduced

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So still snacking


You’re drinking and snacking like a pound a week of fatloss… thems just the facts

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Also, 750 calories a week and nearly 200g of sugar

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Brutal. I am always amazed at how people don’t correlate coke, or orange juice for that matter, to weight gain.

You can’t mainline sugar if you want to have decent body composition. (Well you can but boy are you making it difficult)

If you track your protein intake, and try to meet the goals they set for you, it's nearly impossible to snack. After force feeding yourself that much protein, you start to feel like a goose being raised for foie gras.

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Put in the 100% effort and you’ll see changes quickly.

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FIFY

1. Figure out your at rest BMR (this is the number of calories your body burns a day). Just google BMR calculator to do this. Add in the additional number of calories burned exercising.

2. Track the calories you eat/drink a day

3. Lose weight. Assuming calories eaten are less than calories burned, you will lose weight. It’s really as simple as that…. Approx. 3500 calories is 1 lb.



Example: my body burns about 2000 calories a day even if I did nothing all day. I exercise and usually burn about 400 additional calories. Adding these two numbers together is ~2400 calories my body burns a day … if I eat less than 2400 calories a day, I will lose weight. If I eat more than 2400 calories in a day, I will gain weight. When the difference (added up over a couple days) is about 3500 calories, I will have lost approx. 1 lb. In my case, when I’m being good/consistent on my diet, I eat roughly 1500 calories. If I do that over 7 days and keep my calories burned at 2400 I will lose about 2lbs in the week. (2400-1500) x 7 days = 6300 … 6300/3500 = 1.8 lbs

There are certainly other fluctuating/temporary considerations in weight (building muscle, bloating, pooping, time of weighing), but in the long run calories is really all that matters when trying to lose weight. Eat less calories than your body burns, and you will lose weight. Eat more calories than your body burns, and you will gain weight.

Many people don’t track calories and have no idea of the their own math here, but it’s all simple math

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An doc told me they had seen research that says you have to be a constant weight for about 3 years for your body's metabolism to reset.

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maintenance meds are long-term

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At least they didn’t lie about this part

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Do you have any reason or evidence to doubt this?

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Look up reverse dieting

And it fundamentally makes no sense anyway. If you are 300lbs and have a bmr of 3k and lose 120lbs your bmr isn’t still going to be 3k calories. That defies thermodynamics

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I looked up reverse dieting, and I don't see how it contradicts my point. It looks like it's something you'd add after reaching a goal weight to help reset the metabolism, right?

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So you can reset your metabolism via reverse dieting but it also takes 3 years for your metabolism to “reset,” whatever that means?