The short answer is: OF COURSE IT IS!
But there is also a long answer.
Quick Recap
I lost 40 pounds between April 22, 2022 and August 2022 by cutting out Uber Eats and salt after being told by a heart surgeon I would either change my life or live in a nursing home. What would you choose?
Then I started Trulicity (Dulaglutide) July 29, 2022 and lost 86 pounds over the next 13 months. Now, I didn’t know Trulicity could also be considered a weight loss drug and was helping me lose weight. Apparently, I was living under a rock and didn’t know anything about these medications until late August 2023. I asked my endocrinologist about the Mounjaro (Tirzepatide) and she said I had to go off the Trulicity. I was confused why, thinking the Trulicity was merely a replacement for insulin, but that didn’t have me gaining weight like when on insulin. When I learned what I hadn’t known, I felt (and still feel) like an idiot.
Yes, I did research Trulicity when I was prescribed it, but glossed over the weight loss part because that side effect would never happen for me.
I have been on Mounjaro for 2 weeks and am down another 15 pounds. That is 141 pounds down combined… down from 405 pounds.
How Did I Miss Ozempic, Rybelsus,
Wegovy, & Mounjaro?
I do not watch television. I do not watch commercials. I don’t watch the news. I don’t watch talk shows. I don’t pay one bit of attention to Hollywood stars. And I am not on Social Media. I was even interviewed by a national ezine (of which the article is not out yet, but will tell you about it when it’s published) when I was oblivious to the medication I was on. When he said he wanted to know what I thought about the new weight loss medications coming out and talk about my own weight loss history, I did not look up what he was talking about. Egotistically, I just spent the 2.5 hour interview talking about my own medical/obesity weight loss history, which is rather long. I recently told the Editor if I was interviewed today, it would be 50% different.
Back to the Easy Way
It is the easy way to lose weight whether someone has 10 pounds or 200 pounds to lose. I keep my mouth shut about judging others and their reasons for taking semaglutide and tirzepatide. Who am I to say who should or should not take the medications? I am not a doctor and I do not have access to people’s medical records.
Yes, the belief that obesity is a chronic medical condition, even sometimes a medical emergency, is a given when discussing this. If the person reading or talking about the medications being the easy way out does not have that belief, educating them becomes the only way to have an open discussion.
The Domino Effect
Why should losing weight be required to be done the “hard” way? Is treating a heart condition with medication the easy way? Should we wait until they need heart surgery? Is treating high blood pressure with meds better than waiting for a person to have a stroke? Why isn’t treating obesity with a shot better than treating more severe illnesses down the line with other medications which, if not used, lead to even more serious issues?
I already have… or had… many conditions from having chronic obesity. Type 2 Diabetes (now under control), high blood pressure (gone), had my gallbladder removed, Stage 3 chronic kidney disease, fatty liver disease, and the inability to move to do anything about any of those.
Trulicity and Mounjaro are saving my life. I was (am) finally able to change my diet because of the medications and the way they move the illnesses I have, backwards.
And I can walk again! Anyone who has been immobilized by fat and then freed, understands my sense of amazement that I can walk without a walker and not ride the scooter in the store. I dream of one day walking at Disney World once again.
2 years ago, all I could do was wait to die. I never thought I would be released from my prison of fat.
Yeah, you bet your ass I will take the easy way out… out of dying? I’d be crazy not to!
