The most important concern for survey respondents? Maintaining their weight long term on a GLP-1 (noted by 4 in 10 respondents) The second biggest concern? What happens if they stop taking the medication, a concern shared by more than 1 in 3 respondents.<\/p>\n
Resistance training and adequate quality protein will help you preserve lean muscle mass and promote fullness at meals, and this applies whether you\u2019re taking a GLP-1 or going off it, says Nneoma Oparaji, MD<\/a>, a Houston-based physician board-certified in internal medicine, obesity medicine, and lifestyle medicine.<\/p>\n What\u2019s more, if you are going off the medication, think ahead, says Dr. Oparaji. \u201cThe ideal situation before you go off a GLP-1 medication is making a transition plan,\u201d she says. \u201cYou don\u2019t want to white-knuckle it. You need a maintenance strategy.\u201d Appetite, cravings, and food noise <\/a>will return to baseline, and it can be more difficult to ignore the external cues that promote overeating.<\/p>\n [1]<\/p>\n \u00a0Along with protein intake, Oparaji recommends high-fiber foods to improve satiety and weighing yourself regularly (once per week) to identify weight gain early, so you can shift your habits accordingly. This plan can be more detailed and individualized when you see a professional like a registered dietitian.<\/p>\n Weight regain or the reappearance of food noise is not a moral failure, says Oparaji. \u201cThese are expected biological responses. It\u2019s knowing that that could happen so you can be more proactive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The most important concern for survey respondents? Maintaining their weight long term on a GLP-1 (noted by 4…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[97,243],"class_list":["post-896516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}