Zone 2 cardio + GLP-1: synergistic metabolic benefits — evidence

MikeFit_NJ said:

Training does two things here and only one of them is on the scale.

Exercise transformation with training: went from barely able to walk a block to completing a 5K last month.

My fitness journey alongside GLP-1 therapy:

• Month 1-2: Walking 15 min/day
• Month 3-4: Walking 30-45 min, started bodyweight exercises
• Month 5-6: Joined a gym, started resistance training
• Month 7+: Running, lifting heavy, yoga for fun

The weight loss made movement possible. The movement made more weight loss possible. Virtuous cycle in action.

Following on from Dr.BariatricHTX — and this may be the naive question:

Did your prescriber agree with that reading, and if not what was their objection?

PharmacoVig_BOS said:

Exercise transformation with training: went from barely able to walk a block to completing a 5K last month.

Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. Take it one variable at a time. Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent argument can untangle them after the fact.

OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.

For the archive: it took about six weeks rather than the two I expected, and the difference between those two numbers was the whole of my problem.

LibrarianMeg said:

Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent…

Correct, and worth adding that it is reversible. Nothing being described here is a one-way door, which changes how cautious it is reasonable to be.