Active helps especially walking

I’m not gonna say that Ozempic is the right way…the only way…or the Best way but it has changed my life in 100’s of ways and has increased the Quality of my life 1,000 fold! I highly encourage you to check in with your PCP to get more information so that you can weigh the pros and cons for yourself! Good Luck!

The years 1976-1980 hit a big chord with me as those were my college years! I didn’t eat the right foods…Lord knows I didn’t get any exercise…I fell in with the crowd that drank beer and smoked pot and of course that caused frequent late night binges! I got that 20 pounds off just in time to gain 40 lbs during pregnancy…then the raising of a child as a Single Parent…I did discover Aerobics that got my weight down for a couple of years…but then the Stress of joining households with my parents I went back to binge eating and then I quit my two pack a day cigarette smoking! That cost me 50 pounds! And by then I was busy building my business and didn’t think I had time to deal with it…I ballooned to 250 pounds and while I was able to lose 20 lbs at a time and keep it off for months at a time I still hadn’t managed to cure the Beast! I had been on probably 15 different diets by that time so I used all the parts of all the programs that I had learned and molded it to get down to 165! TBC! Then I married for the first time at the age of 61 and not only had to learn how to be married but I realized 30 lbs in that His Love Language was to Feed Me! He is almost a foot taller than I with a slim build and long legs and never gained 2 pounds and starts eating in the early afternoon and eats until he goes to bed at night! I got back up to 240 pounds before I realized what was happening and as he is the generous type…every time my clothes got too small he bought me bigger ones! I couldn’t win…but then…Praise be to God my daughter went on to Mounjaro and lost 60 lbs…I asked my PCP about it and then got the news that my Insurance would not cover it as my A1C was 4.3! BUT he also told me that one of the other Doctors in his Practice was running a weight loss clinic with Ozempic!!! It was $85 per week and I got weighed and BP checked and once a month I see a RNP who has lost 160 pounds on the program for a check up and progress report and a B12 shot! But I still could not afford to PAY for it!

Continued…At this point my Darling Daughter decided that she would pay for it for 52 weeks! By this point in my story I had undergone two hip replacements and two knee replacements and a Shoulder replacement partially due to Osteoarthritis and mostly because of all the weight I was carrying! Oh and let’s not forget the Diagnosis of Congestive Heart Failure!
But since I have dropped 75 pounds I have been able to stop 6 of my heart meds…I am also off of my Asthma medications Spiriva and Symbicort and my B/P is usually less than 120/70! I’m off 2/3 of my chronic pain medication and have cut my Depression and Anxiety meds by 1/3!