OH NO! My weight loss drug study ....

[dimmzy]

... is ending.

Apparently the drug company found that, at high doses, participants experienced anger, depression and aggression.

I'm not sure yet whether I was on the drug, but my weight hasn't fluctuated more than 2-5 pounds in the 20 months I've been in the study, regardless of what I ate.

I told them to only give the drug to happy people.

Then I told them I was so furious they were ending the study, I wanted to cry and asked them who was responsible for this decision, because I was going to call them and give them a piece of my mind.

-- dimmzy, who apparently will soon be fatter, but gentler

[sunflower]

You can work it off on the Amazing Race!!

[silvercamaro]

... is ending.

Apparently the drug company found that, at high doses, participants experienced anger, depression and aggression.

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Then I told them I was so furious they were ending the study, I wanted to cry and asked them who was responsible for this decision, because I was going to call them and give them a piece of my mind.

LOL!

[dimmzy]

You can work it off on the Amazing Race!!

Actually, the fact that I get paid to lose weight was going to be my schtick for that recent game show where contestants had to guess people's occupations ...

I think it's off the air now. (But I'm sure someone on the bored remembers it!)

[littlebeast13]

You can work it off on the Amazing Race!!

Actually, the fact that I get paid to lose weight was going to be my schtick for that recent game show where contestants had to guess people's occupations ...

I think it's off the air now. (But I'm sure someone on the bored remembers it!)

I think it was called Identity.....

lb13

[Rexer25]

You can work it off on the Amazing Race!!

Actually, the fact that I get paid to lose weight was going to be my schtick for that recent game show where contestants had to guess people's occupations ...

I think it's off the air now. (But I'm sure someone on the bored remembers it!)

I tried out for it, so I'm sure that's why it was canceled. That, and Penn Gillette wanted to be on Dancing with the Stars

[kayrharris]

Well, of course it's your fault, Rexer.

[ghostjmf]

Aren't all people on severely restricted diets angry & depressed? I dunno about the aggression, though.

[peacock2121]

Clear something up for me.

If your weight hasn't fluctuated more than 2-5 pounds in 20 months, how is that weight loss?

[dimmzy]

Clear something up for me.

If your weight hasn't fluctuated more than 2-5 pounds in 20 months, how is that weight loss?

Oh, I guess I should have clarified: it was a drug for people who've undergone gastric bypass to help them KEEP the weight off.

Study participants (who weren't candidates for surgery because they weren't THAT overweight) were put on a liquid diet for six weeks (I lost almost 25 pounds) and THEN put on the drug to see if they could keep it off. We went back to a "normal" diet, but we had support (monthly meetings, dietician calls, exercise incentives like free classes, yoga mats, wrist weights etc.).

The drug supposedly worked on making you "think" you were full -- it didn't have unpleasant side effects (hey, I'd rather be angry than flatulent any day )

[peacock2121]

Clear something up for me.

If your weight hasn't fluctuated more than 2-5 pounds in 20 months, how is that weight loss?

Oh, I guess I should have clarified: it was a drug for people who've undergone gastric bypass to help them KEEP the weight off.

Study participants (who weren't candidates for surgery because they weren't THAT overweight) were put on a liquid diet for six weeks (I lost almost 25 pounds) and THEN put on the drug to see if they could keep it off. We went back to a "normal" diet, but we had support (monthly meetings, dietician calls, exercise incentives like free classes, yoga mats, wrist weights etc.).

The drug supposedly worked on making you "think" you were full -- it didn't have unpleasant side effects (hey, I'd rather be angry than flatulent any day )

so.... you kept your 20something pounds off and didn't lose more.

That is an awesome result.

I hope you find out you were not on the drug and that you had it in you all the time.

[dodgersteve182]

I went to one of those study groups last year because they offered me a free screening for something I was due to have anyway through my MD. Saved me about $200! But then they said the study was paying about $20 per day, for a 6 hour day, 3 days per week. Hardly worth my time. I hope your test center is more generous?

[mrkelley23]

You didn't start this trial at about, oh, say, the time of the Olympics, didja?

[dimmzy]

so.... you kept your 20something pounds off and didn't lose more.

That is an awesome result.

I hope you find out you were not on the drug and that you had it in you all the time.

I know. That's the hope.

Or at least a small dosage so I won't go postal.