Weight-loss: Are injections the answer to tackling obesity?

Jan, from Kent, was one of the first people in the world to participate in the semaglutide events. It is sold as Wegovy for weight loss and as ozempic for diabetes, although some people have bought this version to lose weight.

We all know someone like Jan, who tried all the diets, and she fought against her size all her life.

The semaglutide imitates a hormone that is released when we eat. This encourages the brain to think that we are full and compose the appetite, so we eat less.

Once Jan started to have the injections, her relationship with food was so transformational that she told me that it was either to the medication, or “I was removed by extraterrestrials”.

For the first time, she was able to enter a coffee, see the shortbread of a millionaire and not having her body screaming, “I need it”.

Instead, it was: “I am not hungry … My body said you didn’t want it, it was not me using Willpower,” she said.

The results of the semaglutide are undeniable – at least for a while.

On average, obese people have lost about 15% of their body weight,, external When you take semaglutide alongside healthy lifestyle advice in a test. Note It is not a “lean blow” – 15% bring you from 20 stones to 17.

This study showed that the weight took place during the first year, then stabilized during the remaining three months of the test. We don’t know what’s going on when people take the medication for years.

Jan lost 28 kg (more than four stones). This meant that she could finally take advantage of her 60th anniversary gift – a flight on a Tiger Moth plane, having already exceeded the maximum weight limit. “I was flying in more ways than one, and my boy appreciated it.”