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Re:Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in... by mmooss on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @05:17PM (#46624540)
> Then how does ozempic, whose primary mechanism of action is to decrease appetite, work for obese people?

That is a very interesting question.

> your body is not magic.

But it is a complex, highly adaptable system. The simplistic formula of calorie input = output is highly misleading.

> If you feed it a sufficiently low amount of calories

Sure, if you starve yourself, you'll start transitioning to dust pretty soon.

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Re:Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in... by indecisive_user on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @05:23PM (#46624615)
Somewhere between obese and dust you'll eventually hit a healthy weight.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2495396/

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Re:Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in... by mmooss on Friday January 16, 2026 @01:33AM (#46643636)
That's a report on one person under direct medical supervision. The general consensus, afaik, is that starving yourself doesn't work, at least not more than short term - the weight comes right back.
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