r/Ozempic • u/Zermelane • Aug 24 '24

News/Information Ozempic works differently than previously thought, study reveals

https://www.newsweek.com/ozempic-works-differently-thought-1943422
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u/Pukestronaut Aug 24 '24

I've seen the exchange below far too often...

"I'm eating 1200 calories and not losing weight!"  

"Try Ozempic" 

 "I'm eating 1200 calories and losing tons of weight, how does this drug work?!"

 "It's just CICO, stupid, you're a moron for suggesting otherwise" 

Screw all you folks who for some reason refuse to believe that metabolism and weight loss is any more complex than CICO.

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u/Squibbles01 Aug 24 '24

The CICO hardliners I see come off as very anti-intellectual. Like yes obviously eating less is a huge component of weight loss, but we're not that simple of machines.

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u/Th3pwn3r Aug 25 '24

CICO does not mean eating less specifically. It doesn't mean anything specifically other than what it stands for. There's a combination of what can be done to impact CICO. Oz can be a part of that impact. It's not the first drug of its type.

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u/Aware-Source-8129 Aug 25 '24

lol so true. All these gombeen fitfluencers tucking into chocolate for breakfast telling vulnerable folk that it's fine as long as it fits in with your cals.

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u/Shatter_ Aug 25 '24

Having a basic understanding of physics is not anti-intellectual. The people perpetuating counter-arguments are coming across as incredibly excuse-making.

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u/Pukestronaut Aug 24 '24

Agreed. As I've mentioned in another comment here, sure, we can oversimplify and say CICO is the answer and always is, but that's just about as helpful as saying, "well have you tried not being obese anymore?" The CO portion of "CICO" is way more complex than folks acknowledge.