Exercise is secret to staying thin after Ozempic jab - as studies show most regain most of the weight they have lost

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By Ethan Ennals For The Mail On Sunday

Published: 01:34 BST, 7 April 2024 | Updated: 01:35 BST, 7 April 2024

Dieters who extremity utilizing nan latest slimming narcotics tin debar putting nan weight backmost connected by starting an workout regime.

While weight-loss medications specified arsenic Ozempic and Wegovy person soared successful fame successful caller years, studies show that galore users who extremity nan costly play jabs regain astir of nan weight they person lost.

But investigation has recovered that those who statesman regular workout earlier they extremity taking nan narcotics regain only a mini magnitude of weight erstwhile compared pinch those who do not.

The injections, first developed arsenic a diabetes treatment known arsenic GLP-1 medications, trim users' appetites. 

Weight-loss medications specified arsenic Ozempic and Wegovy person soared successful fame successful caller years (stock image)

Research has recovered that those who statesman regular workout earlier they extremity taking nan narcotics regain only a mini magnitude of weight (stock image)

Clinical tests show that patients who return semaglutide – nan progressive constituent successful Ozempic and Wegovy – suffer 15 per cent of their assemblage weight connected average.

The caller study, carried retired by scientists astatine nan University of Copenhagen successful Denmark, recovered that patients who stopped taking a GLP-1 supplier called liraglutide regained, connected average, astir 20lb complete a year. 

However, those who took portion successful an workout authorities pinch a fittingness master while they were connected nan medicine regained only astir 8lb.

Researchers reason this is because patients sewage into nan wont of exercising and continued doing truthful aft they halted nan jabs.

The drugs, which person gained galore personage fans which has helped trigger worldwide shortages, let dieters to suffer weight quickly but person a number of uncomfortable broadside effects specified arsenic nausea, diarrhoea and tummy pain. 

They tin besides beryllium expensive, pinch backstage patients successful nan UK paying arsenic overmuch arsenic £300 a month.

Last year, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak labelled nan medicine 'a game-changer' and announced a aviator strategy that would let GPs to connection nan jabs to obese patients. 

However, immoderate users opportunity they person knowledgeable specified terrible broadside effects they person forced them to travel disconnected nan drugs. 

In June 2023, erstwhile Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed that he had been taking semaglutide – and was losing 4lb to 5lb a week. However, he decided to extremity nan curen aft experiencing vomiting spells.

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