70 lbs Down on Weight Loss Drug!!!! Dietitian Reviews Samantha Jo’s Zepbound Diet
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Hey everyone I’m Abbey Sharp welcome to Abbey’s Kitchen. Today we’re taking a look at influencer Samantha Jo’s experience with losing 70 lbs on the weight loss drug Zepbound, and we’re gonna do a deep dive on the reality of extreme weight loss.
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Why are you still promoting this garbage? You don’t even use the service because you live in Canada? You say that all the payments go directly to the employee but they’re literally getting paid less than $7 an hour. How is that ethical?
Excited for this one! ❤
Enjoy lovely🥰
Hi Abbey! I adore your content and you have helped me so much with my relationship with food. Inspiring me to go and seek help with my digestive issues that are causing me to have difficulty eating a balanced diet. Thank you so much for all you do! I deal with emotional binge eating and being plus size young woman. Your content makes me feel seen for being able to be plus size and still have a healthy lifestyle in body and mind.
Gigi thanks so much for all your support. It really means so much to be part of your journey and I’m proud of you for advocating for your health
@@AbbeysKitchen ❤❤ I also wanted to give you a suggestion for any muddy soccer shoes. If you have a garage with a hose near by rinsing off shoes with the hose outside and storing the shoes in the garage can really help reduce the mud coming in the house.
My two youtube worlds colliding
Yayyy
This 😂 I gasped
Yassssss my thought exactly lol ❤😂
That color green looks great on you
Thanks!!!
Omg When I saw Samantha I squealed😁
She’s lovely
I’m glad that science is finally getting better research done for PCOS. I was diagnosed in 1990. All the doctors said was that I would not be able to have children without medical intervention, and even that would be extremely difficult. I was never educated on any other health concerns that could arise. I had to do that investigating on my own, as newer information became available.
It’s been a very long and heartbreaking road to travel. At least now, here in the US, insurance companies can’t refuse to cover any/all reproductive health concerns just because someone has been diagnosed with an issue.
Women’s health is so under researched
@@AbbeysKitchen You could say that a thousand times, and still not say it enough.
fat phobia and rude comments people in larger bodies receive is why everyone should be taught to NOT COMMENT on anyone’s body, regardless of their size. whether their weight has gone up or down, don’t comment on someone’s body! working in an office of mostly women, it’s so frustrating to see diet culture perpetuated and the negative comments my coworkers have about their own bodies and weight. all bodies are good bodies 💜💜
My body is an unhealthy body. It is why I started Zepbound, and my bloodwork and fatty liver has been improving. I really don’t have much to lose to begin with, but metabolically, something was off.
I’m the opposite … after major open heart surgery my weight plummeted … all I hear from people are the comments that I’m so skinny, I need to eat more or I need to go eat some cake or ice-cream … I know several larger women and nobody tells them they need to lose weight or eat less … I have now gotten to the point that I avoid people.
@@blackorchid2180just because you’ve not seen it doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened. Nearly every fat person gets told by someone to lose weight or eat less.
I’m sorry you’ve faced such intrusive comments about your body though. That’s horrible.
Our bodies, in general, are no one else’s business.
I completely support whatever people want to do with their body. I find it personally frustrating that influencers can afford these meds and everyday people cant. It kind of creates more unrealistic body/health standards. I feel like it gives fatphobic people more ammo to attack fat people for being “Unhealthy” and telling them to just “lose weight”.
Are you having troubles with your insurance covering it?
I didn’t think my insurance would cover it but I had my doctor do the preauthorization for wegovy and it was approved and I just changed to zepbound and that was also approved. $60 co-pay and with the savings cards both companies offer (you sign up on their page,) I had to pay $25 out of pocket each month.
This video is soo accurate
I recently lost weight and the way ppl are is such a difference
It’s sad how being overweight ppl are so mean to you
Did it ever occur to you that your energy has changed? When you’re heavy you try to hide and close yourself off and people can sense this. When you lose weight you have confidence and you aren’t trying to hide anymore and people gravitate toward you
Majority of people are not jerks
I’ve had people be kind to me when I was heavy and skinny. It’s all your energy and confidence
@@FriskyTendervittles This is a long comment but I promise it’s not a mean one.
Whilst this may be true for some people, I am not one of those people “whose energy has changed as a result of weight loss?”.
I act the same, feel the same and wear the same clothes. I did not become more confident or more at ease in my body. My behavior didn’t change and there were no things that I do now that I didn’t do when I was fat. The only things that changed is that I can now do the asian squat and I look a lot older (looks like I aged 5 years in a few months). I have not bought any new clothes and I didn’t dig up some “sexy clothes to wear when I’m thin” from storage.
Some overweight/obese people are genuinely bubbly and extroverted without it being a mask they put on to be accepted. That’s me, I just like interacting with people.
When I say there is a difference in the way people treat you fat vs normal weight vs thin, that does not mean people are actively and deliberately cruel to you. The large majority of people won’t be absolute jerks in how they treat you if you are overweight/obese.
It’s mostly evident from the way people act in neutral and positive ways to you and about you.
Losing excess weight usually will make people more attractive according to societal standards of beauty. Ask anyone who had a glow up if there is any difference in the way people treat them. But aside from physical attractiveness, there is also the fact that weight is moralized and fat people are seen as less competent at almost anything. The moralization of weight leads to weight based prejudice so when someone loses a lot of weight they might suddenly get treated better and no longer as a second class citizen.
I didn’t personally become prettier. I was successfully losing weight at a healthy pace using healthy methods, and then lost a lot of weight in a short amount of time due to prolonged illness. I look older, have more wrinkles, my face has gotten more gaunt. I don’t look as if I might die any second but I do not look well compared to before. My current body fat distribution is very unfavorable. Last time I was this weight I had a flat stomach, no rolls anywhere and my skin looked smooth and firm. Now I more closely resemble a party balloon after it was left in the living room for a week.
The weight hasn’t come back either. Even though my illness was treated successfully and I no longer have it, I am still losing weight, although thankfully it has slowed down a lot.
My point is I do not look prettier (I would consider myself uglier now, and I barely recognize myself) and people still treat me with more respect now. And not because they can see I’m unwell. Strangers won’t see that because they did not know me before.
I hide my saggy deflated body by wearing the same exact shirts I used to wear, they’re now oversized on me. I haven’t bought any new jeans/trousers. I just wear the smallest ones I have and use a belt now.
I have gone from overweight to normal bmi before, but in a much healthier way, and people also treated me differently after the weight loss. An acquaintance started making passive aggressive comments, guys tried to flirt with me more. I also wore the same styles then, but in sizes that actually fit me.
@@itsalwayshalloweenexceptwh5118 yes but it’s also perspective and you can always change your perspective. You can always change what you’re looking at and focusing on.
Majority of people really don’t care what you look like no offense, but you’re not that special. No one is that special. And I can be honest with you and tell you that when I was overweight, I was bubbly too but deep down I fucking hated myself. There’s many layers to the subconscious mind and the energy doesn’t lie because the truth is if you were bubbly and loved everything about yourself, you never would’ve lost weight to begin with you would have loved yourself as is
@@FriskyTendervittlespeople do care. Just read aby comment section on a video of an overweight person.
@FriskyTendervittles if you don’t see how many people do judge others based on appearance alone (and this is pretty obvious from comments that basically any person gets more than a few of if they are online and dare to be average or below average looking, fat people even moreso, and also loads of studies about the topic and how it applies to people irl) it has to be willful blindness.
“Energy”, which sounds very new age-y but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that you really mean confidence and how it (or a lack of it) influences things like body language, is not as much of a factor as you think it is.
It sounds like you would tell someone who is ugly by societal standards who has trouble getting dates to “just be confident” as if this will fix everything related to how others perceive them. Being confident is life changing if it’s genuine, but it doesn’t affect other people’s judgement all that much. Lookism, yes that’s the term so don’t be triggered, I didn’t come up with it, affects nearly all levels and types of social interaction.
You’re also unnecessarily rude in your delivery, and don’t give me any “I just tell it like it is” excuse because it doesn’t fly. There are respectful ways to voice your disagreement and your points, you just chose not to.
You have obviously no clue what I thought and felt about my body when I was overweight (I previously fluctuated between 5 and 7 kg overweight), my reasons for why I wanted to lose weight, my method and pov about it. You’re assuming I felt a certain way because you can’t imagine anything else based on your own experience. It’s projection pure and simple. I liked my shape, I didn’t mind my size, overal I was 90 % happy (not just accepting or content but genuinely happy) with my body.
That’s one of the reasons why I said I did not get more confident and that the “energy” wasn’t the reason people treat me differently now. I’m much more unhappy now with my appearance than I used to be. Yet people still treat me better. It’s lookism and weight based prejudice. People act like I’m a better person now even though that’s not the case.
I just started Wegovy, I’m 52 and have obsessively thought about food since pre school and that is not exaggeration. This peptide is earth shattering for metabolic disfunction from obesity. I cannot even describe the relief. Her describing how crashing is no longer an issue is so amazing to feel. The headaches are gone. No more swelling of hands and feet and ankles.
So happy for you 💕😊
Thank you for this one Abbey! Its such a wondrful thing to see someone achieve improved well being. Go Samantha! Cheering for you ♡
Too bad i cant take the medicine anymore 😐 we need to talk about what happens after you stop taking it
I went from being thin, to overweight, to a decent weight, to climbing up in weight again. The difference in the way you get treated and the roller coaster of feelings you get is so depressing.
The world is so unfair to folks in larger bodies. We should treat everyone with kindness and empathy regardless of size
@@AbbeysKitchenbullshit. When you’re overweight, you close yourself off to people and you try to be invisible. People can sense that energy. when you lose weight your confidence is higher. You’re more open and receptive. People can sense that and they will gravitate towards you. 99% of people in the world are not assholes. I’ve had doors held for me as a heavy woman and held me as a thin woman. It all comes back to YOU and the energy you are putting out. This mentality around other people being bad has to go. Most people are good people. Most people are not chauvinistic people.
It always comes back to self. Everything is just a reflection of YOU
If you close yourself off you are getting exactly what you want. closing yourself off because people are not gonna wanna be around you so you say they are “treating you unfairly “but what you’re doing is manifesting people not being kind to you because you yourself are closing yourself off. If you lose weight, you have confidence and you are more open. All of a sudden people are nicer to you. It’s all you. People are inherently good.
this is exactly my experience too! Underweight, overweight, underweight, average weight, overweight and back to an average weight. Somehow, it’s being in that average bracket that has made me feel the worst about myself.
I got praised when I was thin, fetishised when i was fat and then when I finally reached a ‘healthy’ but average place, that’s somehow the worst option!
@@adrianl9737 it’s all about you’re energy. Everyone is just a reflection of you. Have confidence and that will shine regardless of what you weight people will gravitate to or away depending on your energy and how open you are. Humans try to hide away and be invisible when they have low self esteem. It’s just natural to gravitate away from people like that
@@adrianl9737 yeah!!! Isnt that weird??? We dont talk about how weird that feels enough.
Love Sam and totally support anyone choosing to make themselves healthier! One aspect I’d like to see explored on this is the reported severe depression in some that’s now being associated with these weight loss drugs. Sam herself seems to be struggling with this right now (she speaks about it in her most recent video). It’s an interesting topic for sure.
oh no is that a common side affect?
These drugs are absolutely life changing for people with obesity who have been on the binge/restrict weight rollercoaster their entire lives. I’m pushing 40, and have been on and off diets since I was 11 years old. I’ve been on a GLP1 for a little over 2 years now (down 110lbs) and have finally found something sustainable that makes it effortless to find a healthy balance. The food noise is gone, and I finally feel like my body and brain work like a “normal” person’s should. It’s incredible. Eventually I plan to dial back and take a small dose for maintenance, but I have no intention of ever stopping.
I’m hoping as time passes that insurance companies will get on board with treating obesity as it would prevent so many people from developing comorbidities on the future. It would be helpful for sooo many people.
I’ve used saxenda which is similar to Ozempic and honestly the most lasting effect for me was intuitive eating. Because of the quieting of food noise and anxiety it’s allowed me to engage much more intentionally with my food in a way I never thought possible
Thank you Abbey for being so compassionate and supportive of what it feels like to be in a larger body.
This was a wonderful video. From someone who’s been heavier since middle school, thank you. I’m so incredibly excited for your PCOS and weight loss video. That could change my life. I’m really glad I found your channel.
I was on wegovy for about 7 months. While getting off it some good noise came back, but eating less and eating healthier kind of made it go away. I started eating 4 meals a day with lots of protein and fiber and no restriction and the food noise went away. Like I can sit here and be hungry and not be obsessing over what I’m gonna eat. But before I went on the drug it was all consuming. And I’ve maintained my loss for a year now!