Marcelle Pick discusses challenges of maintaining weight loss after stopping medications like Ozempic. She notes these drugs may need long-term use, that long-term data exist for diabetics but not for non-diabetic users, and that changes in appetite and continued consumption of highly palatable processed foods can undermine weight maintenance.
If they've lost the weight, how do they keep that weight off? And here's the problem. Some of them are not eating healthy foods which are contributing to this. So the drugs really have to be used long term. They've been used for diabetics long term, but we have no studies to date looking to see if you're not diabetic, what's that going to mean for you long term. So people are looking at other options and there's no Pepe option available to them because they did it with these medications.
So they're also so excited that they've lost the weight and that they didn't have the noise of food because the noise of food went away. And they were so excited because they weren't hungry all the time and they were able to eat. And this is where the bad news is. Many of those unhealthy foods that have lots of additives to them that encourage you to not just have a small amount.
