Personally, I’ve found that the best use case for GLP-1 drugs is reducing alcohol consumption.
Just wanted to share that observation.
Just wanted to share that observation.
That said, I didn't have as much problem with spirits and cocktails since they don't have as much volume and generally aren't as filling. There might be a danger of turning a beer drinker into a hard liquor drinker.
But I think that's okay -- because the main purpose is weight loss and reduction of caloric cravings. Alcohol is a caloric craving. So it should be fine.
I don't think it would get me off alcohol though. I only drink to relax and be more social. Not because I enjoy it or the taste. But it means I drink rarely anyway.
So even if you didn't enjoy it, what typically happens to me anyway, is the off flavors get magnified.
Like the easiest one is Costco Chili. It tasted vastly different when I was off of it than on it. I taste more of the bitter notes. The complexity is more off putting to me.
I inject on say Sunday nights, and on Monday an IPA tastes terrible. But on Friday it tastes tolerable again. And this is a pretty consistent pattern I've noticed.
Off-label for Ozempic - the whole point of Wegovy is the “weight management” indication.
The same was true for food. I thought about food all the time. But once Semaglutide started I just didn't think of food. I had to remember to eat.
Semaglutide in my experience really helps to eliminate addictive behavior in general, I believe. At least oral addictions (I'm not sure if it would help with e.g. gambling addiction).
I never understood why skinny people believed that fat people have no impulse control until I took the medication. Once I had that impulse control it was so much easier to make long-term decisions.
(More practical note: alcohol contains a surprising amount of calories, especially in beers and sweet wines and ciders. Cutting alcohol consumption also helps weight loss.)
Basically suddenly being able to drop every problematic impulsive behavior on the list.
I would be very interested in what happens with all their other impulsive behaviors, the ones that they might want to keep, that make them human.
1. food
2. alcohol
3. gambling
4. smoking
last three are extreme cases but general principle should still apply.
Your body has other mechanisms to make you remember you need 1, like for water intake or breathing. Those mechanisms starts as soon as anyone birth and doesn’t need your intervention to become a need. 2, 3 and 4 however become needs as you decide (consciously or not) it is. Same with heroin, social media or basically any other think we call "addiction".
Food obviously is a bit confusing as our omnivorous and resilient condition let us satisfy it in many ways : you don’t really need green vegetables, meat, sugar, beans, fish, nuts, muschroom, roots etc… to survive but stopping them all together will kill you. Some subset (of quality/quantity) keeps you in a better condition than others.
Appart that condition effects, the way you that specific subset as a need has more to do with habits.
1. Finding love
2. Raising children
3. Helping others
4. Strengthening your body
5. Learning about the world
6. Participating in sports
7. Music (playing and listening)
8. Art (creating and appreciating)
Does it make people less inclined to seek those things or mute their enjoyment? Things like recreational drugs (alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco included), gambling, and (excess or poor) food sound to me like "self-destructive behaviors" for many people, which generally are things that make life less enjoyable, and the people participating in them know that (but nonetheless struggle to stop).