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Topics: News, US News, Health, Weight loss
Gerrard Kaonga
Topics: News, US News, Health, Weight loss
A woman complained she was disappointed with the results of a weight loss drug used and explained what she wished she did differently.
Weight loss drugs have shot up to massive popularity in recent years and more people than ever are speaking to their health professionals about getting on to them.
However, some people have taken to social media to complain about the potential bad side effects, costs and end results in recent months.
Hospice nurse Julie McFadden remarked that she had actually lost 20 pounds in weight after going on the weight loss drug, but ultimately was ‘disappointed’ with the results.
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She noted that she does not regret going on the drug but wish she did things differently when she was on it.
Speaking in a video posted in November last year, she said: “I lost weight, about 20 pounds, I used a GLP-1, it took about 8 months and what I found after I done that is I didn’t like my results.
“I looked too skinny, in my opinion and I felt very, very weak, like noticeably weak.”
The 43-year-old McFadden admitted that she ignored the advice from multiple doctors about what she still needed to do while on the drugs.
She noted that she was told that she needed to do weight training exercises and needed to eat more protein, because of her age.
McFadden continued: “Because of my age and because I'm on this medication, I need to eat a lot of protein.
“Of course, they gave me a number of how much protein i should eat in a day but i can’t remember but i didn’t do that.
“They also said, you must weight train while you are on this medication but I didn’t do that.
“By the end other 8 months yes i lost 20 pounds but i was like ‘huh’, what is going on here.”
She remarked that she no longer liked her figure and was annoyed about the loss of her normal ‘curvy’ figure as well as her ‘bubble butt’.
She went on to share a recent picture of herself saying she looked ‘scrawny’.
McFadden remarked that her doctors have now said they think it is a good idea to wean her off the weight loss drug and have insisted she start eating 90 grams of protein a day as well as weight training.
She concluded that she still believes GLP-1 drugs are ‘amazing’ and she doesn’t have regrets other than not doing it ‘the right way’ with proper exercise and dieting.