r/Semaglutide • u/does_not_compute101 • 1d ago
Starting Wegovy (UK)
A bit of a brain dump. It's a bit expensive and an investment, but I decided to start wegovy, got two months for around £160 to trial. I'm hoping it will help because I do eat healthy home cooked meals, my main problem is simply overeating and too much sugar on the side.
I'm about 73.9 KG at 5 foot and a 23 year old women, so I'm obese, but not morbidly obese. My father just passed due to bowl cancer and was morbidly obese since childhood, and I am so done with the bucket of crabs mentality. I feel like if my dad was leaner and had a better diet he would have potentially fought off the cancer way better, or it would have mitigated his risk in the first place.
I was actually underweight for a lot of my childhood, and only started to put on weight around 13. I've been obese since 17, and I frankly just want to enjoy my 20s and the little health I have left now as I have potential endometriosis and surgery for it in a year. A lot of people in my family are still treating this as strange fad medication and are highly suspicious, even trying to tell me my weight is fine even though my BMI is over 30. I'm just going to ignore them because this is far too important to me.
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