Wegovy 18: One Year Anniversary — Now What?
This is the 18th in a continuing series about my experience with the weight-loss drug Wegovy, which is similar to Ozempic.
In April 2023, my doctor prescribed me Wegovy as a last-ditch attempt to control my insane binge eating. I did not believe that this newfangled drug favored by the Kardashians would work for me.
I was so wrong.
How It Started
At the time, I was 40 pounds overweight, the result of binge-eating over the pain of an awful divorce. And that was despite my best efforts of almost daily exercise, eating well when I was not binging, and trying to keep my binges to the lower calorie foods (although I would occasionally treat myself to rather delicious pints of 1,300-calorie-a-pint ice cream).
The eating also wreaked havoc with my life. My friendships suffered because I regularly cancelled social plans due to sugar hangovers, and my work suffered because I did the bare minimum, having neither the energy nor focus to deliver my A Game. Trust me, my boss noticed.
How It’s Going
Fast forward one Wegovy year later, and my life is completely different. I’ve lost those 40 pounds — and then some! — and am now wearing the size six jeans that had gotten dusty from hanging in my closet for five years.
Just after hitting goal weight, I joined the dating app Hinge and met a wonderful man who’s now my boyfriend of three months.
Now that I have hit my one-year Wegovy anniversary, I have decisions to make. What will be my path forward? My doctor says I have options:
(a.) I can keep doing what I’m doing, which is the maximum dose, once a week.
(b.) I can take a lower dose.
(c.) I can take my same maximum dose, but do it every 10 days or two weeks instead of weekly.
(d.) I can taper off Wegovy and see what happens.
I have decided on “A” — keep doing what I’m doing. But why if I’m at goal weight and doing so well?
How’s It’s Going To Be for the Foreseeable Future
I am a binge-eater. I did not start Wegovy to lose weight or look better or because I wanted a quick fix. I started it because I was eating myself to death and Wegovy was a last resort that — thank God — worked.
The eating disorder is still there whether I weigh 110 pounds or 230 pounds (which happens to be my top weight). I’m in therapy and working through the core issues behind my binge-eating and learning new, healthier ways of coping with life.
I don’t know if I’ll need to be on this drug forever but for now, I’m not rocking the boat. Or, as my grandma used to say, “If it ain’t broke … don’t fix it.”
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