Am I the only one seeing this huge wave of Ozempic use? In my city, it seems like so many women I know are suddenly dropping massive amounts of weight, like 60+ pounds in a few months. I can’t help but wonder if we’re heading back into that extreme thinness trend from the 90s and early 2000s. Are you noticing this trend too?

I wonder if some of the negative reactions to it have a root in societal fat shaming - that idea that people are overweight due to some character flaw or weakness of will. So the idea medical science can help them lose weight irks some people who subconsciously think those people don’t “deserve” to be thin.

I know. 10-12 people who are using it. Pretty much 50/50 men and women. Some I know have struggled their whole lives with obesity.

I have PCOS and have struggled with weight my whole life given insulin resistance no matter how good I was eating and exercising. After my blood sugar kept creeping up to the high end of pre diabetes, I tried semaglutide. It has been a game changer for me, and I have been able to lose 30 plus pounds but more importantly get my blood sugar under much better control.

Doctors seem to think it’s great. I think they’ve been struggling for years to get patients to do the right thing but it’s pushing a boulder uphill.

I fear that the other shoe is gonna drop on this, like long term side effects will start taking its toll, or emerge, and people will get off it en masse and gain the weight back.

It also doesn’t fix the underlying issue of crappy food quality in US including way too much added sugar and gmo wheat (or the roundup on it) that’s causing a lot of issues.

I've seen a handful of women I know do the same thing. I don't know 100% that it's Ozempic instead of a militant diet/exercise regimen, but I'm assuming for most of them it's the former. I'm all for encouraging people to be healthy, but I worry that things are being taken way too far.

Yes! It’s wild how quickly this is catching on. I’ve heard so many people talk about it like it’s the new miracle drug, but I also worry about how it might be influencing our perception of health versus just weight loss.

Strangely enough I see it being hyper-prevalent among men. So many men I know have dropped, like you say, 60lb and love talking about their ozempic journey. I find it fascinating how open people are about it. Well-played, ozempic!

I've seen people losing weight but haven't talked to them about how they've done it. But I've assumed a lot of them are using drugs to accomplish it. Given the obesity problem in America, I suppose it's good to reduce however you do it. But I do wonder if it's a healthy long term solution and if these weight loss drugs will cause serious problems down the road.

As someone who jumped on the trend, I can tell you that it’s “different” than the 90’s trend in that it’s got benefits beyond weight loss (like anti inflammation and improved energy) and it is being treated as a medication and not a fad. I haven’t lost weight like you see in Hollywood or whatever, it’s happening gradually with other changes in my habits. However, the other benefits are what keep me interested. And my insurance company isn’t covering it, so for me it’s a true commitment.

yes, definitely - not a good trend IMO!

Think there will be repercussions, for example gastroparesis. Also the financial costs. I hope it does not get subsidized.

I have heard about it more than I’ve seen it - I remarked to my husband that a friend of ours who we haven’t seen in a while looked great and he suspected she was on ozempic. He had heard that a lot of people in our community were using the drugs now.

It makes me really uneasy. My sister has a friend who is on it and she said the loss of muscle tone is problematic - she said it hurts to sit on hard chairs because she no longer has any padding. I’ve heard of people who got off it and gained everything back (and then some) because they hadn’t changed their eating habits.

I worry about the long term effects and question whether people are truly weighing the risks before using the drugs.

Extremes are never good! I lived through the 90s as a teen weighing 115-120 lbs and feeling fat and ugly. I wish I was 120 lbs now!

Medicine is also much needed but often misused. As a diabetic my doctors prescribed Ozempic way back when it had just come to market and my insurance denied it. My doctors are now wary of prescribing it again because of all the side effects they are seeing. I have an appointment in 2 weeks and they are actually discussing putting me on a reduced dose of GLP-1s as opposed to the full dose to see if my body would respond well. If you are considering taking any of these drugs, please do your research or find a doctor who has.