{"id":446,"date":"2023-08-21T20:32:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T20:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tops.org\/tops-of-mind\/?p=446"},"modified":"2023-08-23T03:32:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T03:32:00","slug":"weight-loss-meds-are-everywhere-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tops.org\/tops-of-mind\/weight-loss-meds-are-everywhere-these-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight loss meds are EVERYWHERE these days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" data-src=\"https:\/\/blogs.tops.org\/tops-of-mind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/pexels-shvets-production-6975466-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"Woman's feet standing on scale\" class=\"wp-image-450 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.tops.org\/tops-of-mind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/pexels-shvets-production-6975466-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.tops.org\/tops-of-mind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/pexels-shvets-production-6975466-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.tops.org\/tops-of-mind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/pexels-shvets-production-6975466-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.tops.org\/tops-of-mind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/pexels-shvets-production-6975466-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.tops.org\/tops-of-mind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/pexels-shvets-production-6975466-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.tops.org\/tops-of-mind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/pexels-shvets-production-6975466-150x100.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/684;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Pexels stock image<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Monday, friends!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been coming to you on a more regular blog schedule as of late, and we&#8217;ve been chatting about some &#8220;lighter&#8221; topics these past few weeks and months: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tops.org\/tops-of-mind\/are-you-using-the-krames-health-library\/\">Why you should take full advantage of the Krames Health Library<\/a>; how and why to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tops.org\/tops-of-mind\/carrying-on-a-tops-tradition\/\">send a birthday card to TOPS HQ<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tops.org\/tops-of-mind\/lace-up-your-shoes-tops-nation\/\">walking day<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tops.org\/tops-of-mind\/tops-members-in-the-media\/\">members in the media<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tops.org\/tops-of-mind\/members-of-the-month-meet-michelle-and-michael-noble\/\">members of the month<\/a>; you name it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All great stuff!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m going to shift gears today &#8212; and don&#8217;t you worry, I have plenty of more LIGHT topics to cover in future blogs! But do you want to know what we get asked about, and it&#8217;s <strong>a lot <\/strong>lately &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m talking about a class of medications known as GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) and GIP-1 (gastric inhibitory polypeptide) agonists. In more common terms, I&#8217;m referring to semaglutide, sold under brand names like Ozempic and Wegovy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surely this is now ringing a bell. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems like these brand names &#8212; Ozempic especially &#8212; have been EVERYWHERE lately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/weightwatchers-moves-into-the-ozempic-market-with-telehealth-deal-6ae088b6\">Weight Watchers made headlines earlier this year<\/a> when the company announced it would be purchasing a digital health company called Sequence, marking the business&#8217;s move into the growing market for diabetes and obesity drugs. Sequence, by the way, is a subscription service that offers people telehealth visits with doctors who can prescribe these types of drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/health\/stars-whove-spoken-about-ozempic-use-and-what-they-said\/\">Celebrities have also spoken out in recent months<\/a> about these medications, and we&#8217;re learning more and more everyday about side effects, long-term uses; the list goes on. Some high-profile celebs say they&#8217;re frustrated that they&#8217;ve been linked to the meds &#8212; while others, like Chelsea Handler, said she didn&#8217;t even realize that&#8217;s what she&#8217;d been prescribed. Rosie O&#8217;Donnell said tirzepatide helped her lose 10 pounds and stop thinking about food. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insider.com\/ozempic-celebrities-denied-semaglutide-wegovy-weight-loss-drugs-khloe-kardashian-2023-3\"><em>Read more<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting time, for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, as I typed earlier, a lot of you have asked &#8212; ever since I came on board, really, in June 2022 &#8212; where TOPS stands on all of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The short answer is, we don&#8217;t have an official position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of our members are likely prescribed these types of medications for their Type 2 diabetes, but we don&#8217;t ask for that kind of personal health information on a membership application, so we don&#8217;t have official numbers on the subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TOPS has always said that weight loss is an individualized thing &#8212; what works for me, might not work for my neighbor across the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our organization exists for weight loss support. We encourage people to work with their doctor, figure out the best way to eat, exercise, live mindfully and operate, based on a person&#8217;s lifestyle, personal circumstances, you name it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If your doctor is recommending one of these meds, that&#8217;s something for you two to discuss. We can&#8217;t put out a blanket statement. The same way TOPS doesn&#8217;t endorse keto or intermittent fasting, we can&#8217;t really say, one way or other other, when it comes to these medications. It&#8217;s not our business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We <strong>have<\/strong> said, however, that we don&#8217;t plan to change our model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, we believe in weight loss SUPPORT, above all else, the accountability that comes from weekly meetings, and we plan to continue offering those meetings both in-person and online. So we hope you&#8217;ll keep attending! (Or bring a friend).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think it might have sounded some alarm bells for a small number of you, when I posted on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TOPSClub\">Official TOPS Facebook page<\/a> probably a month or two ago, asking if anyone had been on Ozempic long-term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t feel like I owed a deep explanation at the time, but the reason for my FB question was this: NBC News had reached out to us, asking if we had any TOPS members in that boat, for a piece a reporter was working on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you might have seen, again, I did indeed put out the question to our membership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, I found a few members who said they were indeed in that camp, they were comfortable speaking on the record about it, and I passed along those names &#8212; hoping to get a TOPS reference in a national digital news story. (<em>So much of what I want to do at TOPS is raise awareness, and even a small mention in this kind of story could make a big difference for us!<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, I found out recently that the news story did in fact get published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Want to read it? Here it is: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/ozempic-what-its-like-to-take-for-years-rcna93921\">What it&#8217;s like to stay on Ozempic for years &#8212; NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pretty cool. As a former journalist myself, I&#8217;ve asked this question &#8230; aloud, in my head, or I&#8217;ve posed it to others, theoretically. Something like, &#8220;Can you stay on the meds forever?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sure if you&#8217;re someone who NEEDS Ozempic, remaining on it for years might save your life, or help kind of &#8220;re-calibrate&#8221; you. If you&#8217;re taking it recreationally, that might be a different story, but who am I to speculate? I&#8217;m no doctor, and again, TOPS does not have an official stance or recommendation on these meds. This is something best determined on a case-by-case basis, under the advisement of your own doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of DOCTORS, if you have your latest issue of TOPS News in hand, our magazine publisher and I decided we should address all this buzz &#8230; but we didn&#8217;t feel comfortable doing so ourselves, as non-medical people, so we asked our TOPS Medical Editor, Dr. Srividya Kidambi, if she&#8217;d write something for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Kidambi is a Professor and Chief in the Division of Endocrinology and Molecular Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin\/Froedtert Hospital, which is local to TOPS HQ; so as you can see, if ANYONE should be writing about the topic, it&#8217;s her! \ud83d\ude42 Dr. Kidambi has also worked with TOPS for years now, so she knows her audience, when she tackles a topic like this in our member magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You should have your copy of the September\/October issue any day now, if you want to read word-for-word what Dr. Kidambi had to say, or you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qgdigitalpublishing.com\/publication\/?m=67361&amp;i=797810&amp;p=10&amp;ver=html5\">click or tap here to view it online, in our digital edition of TOPS News<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously, Dr. Kidambi presents the information in a scientific way, which makes sense, considering she&#8217;s a scientist. I think she does a nice job breaking down the material in a way that&#8217;s digestible and <em>relatively<\/em> easy to understand, considering the tough subject material. I encourage you to give it a read, when you get a few minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for that NBC News piece, the TOPS member interviewed is mentioned all the way at the bottom: her name is Wendy Tell. I so appreciated her willingness to be open with a reporter who she&#8217;d never met. This can be vulnerable stuff, I realize that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And again, as a former digital reporter myself, I recognize that news organizations can&#8217;t include EVERY detail an interviewee provides, so you&#8217;ll just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/ozempic-what-its-like-to-take-for-years-rcna93921\">see a few lines from Wendy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s what else she told me just today, which I *wish* would have been included, but you can&#8217;t win them all. \ud83d\ude09 (<em>We didn&#8217;t even get the TOPS Club reference in the published piece, which bummed me out, but I&#8217;ll push for that especially next time<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, Wendy and I direct-messaged about all this, but she gave me permission to share with you the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I credit TOPS for supporting me in my weight loss journey. No shot, pill, etc. will keep the weight off. It\u2019s through education and the support of like-minded people, that allows one to live mindfully and keep the weight off. I\u2019m still a work in progress and looking to lose more weight to eventually reach my goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well said, Wendy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She added, she did just recently have to go off the medication, as she&#8217;s no longer able to afford it (which is a big piece of the equation too, for a lot of people &#8212; and that could even be a separate blog entry for another day). The price point is astronomical, or well, it can be, depending on your individual insurance situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, there you have it. If you&#8217;ve wondered about these meds, go read Dr. Kidambi&#8217;s article in your latest TOPS News, check out Wendy&#8217;s mention in that NBC News story linked above, and I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll continue to learn more every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;ve taken semaglutide and you want to talk about it, maybe for a future TOPS Of Mind blog &#8212; my inbox is always open! 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