Addressing Your Concerns

We understand that starting a weight loss journey can bring about questions and hesitations. This page addresses common worries and provides clear guidance to ensure you feel confident and supported on your path.

Patient Tips For Semaglutide Use

How to Use Semaglutide

  • Inject once a week
  • Use in the thigh, stomach, or upper arm
  • Rotate injection spots
  • Take it on the same day each week

Tips to Improve Weight Loss

  • Eat smaller meals
  • Focus on protein
  • Drink more water
  • Avoid overeating
  • Move more each day
  • Eat slowly to notice fullness

    (Novo Nordisk Inc., 2025)

When to Call Your Provider

  • Severe stomach pain
  • Trouble keeping food or fluids down
  • Symptoms not getting better
  • If you become pregnant
    (See Side Effects for More Information)

Obesity

People with obesity may need extra support because it can affect their heart, blood pressure, blood sugar, and joints. It’s important to focus on small, realistic changes like improving nutrition, staying active, managing stress, and following any treatment plan your provider recommends.

Tips:

  • Start with small, realistic changes
  • Chose balanced meals
  • Stay consistent with medications/treatments but do not rely only on medications because if/when you stop taking your medication, weight gain can happen again
  • Focus on sleep and reducing stress
  • Set realistic goals

Advice

Lifestyle habits that improve results:
“Semaglutide works best with healthier eating, more movement, and good sleep habits” (AACE, 2022).

Tips to reduce nausea with semaglutide:
“Eat smaller meals, avoid greasy foods, and stop eating when comfortably full” (Davies et al., 2021)
Do not start or stop using semaglutide without your doctors guidance. 

 

Proper Use

When you start using this medicine, it is very important that you check your blood sugar often, especially before and after meals and at bedtime. This will help lower the chance of having very low blood sugar.

Carefully follow the special meal plan your doctor gave you. This is the most important part of controlling your diabetes, and is necessary if the medicine is to work properly. Also, exercise regularly and test for sugar in your blood or urine as directed.


               (Mayo Clinic, n.d.)

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