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Re:Ozempic is changing people's skin, say plastic surgeons by cm2187 on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @01:44AM (#41242949)
Ozempic doesn't make you lose weight unless you do a diet. All it does is to make it easy to do a diet by suppressing the craving for food. So it's not like people are losing weight with ozempic while stuffing themselves with burgers.

As for exercise, it has many benefits but is a fairly minor contributor to weight loss. I am doing a bit of a hardcore diet at the moment (helped a ozempic competitor), lost 20kg/44lbs in 3 months, and I noticed no difference in change in weight whether I do 1h of exercise bike daily (max resistance) or whether I do a week without.

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Re:Ozempic is changing people's skin, say plastic surgeons by silverquiet on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @06:51AM (#41244657)
Believe me, I'm aware of calories in/calories out, but I've never really found it so simple. Exercise has benefits beyond purely burning calories. And moreover, if you want to change body composition rather than just lose weight, it's important (fitness types have the term "skinny fat" for people who don't weigh much but still have high body fat).
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