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Is your lowest weight your real weight?

When you hit the lowest weight on the scale you will ever hit, that is an artificially low weight. You are probably running low on muscle glycogen and you are probably a bit dehydrated. Your actual true lowest body weight when it isn't depleted is probably a few pounds heavier.

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After you stop weight loss and go into maintenance your weight will go up a little bit, and it isn’t body fat. You don’t need to freak out or worry about it. Here is a dirty little secret about fat loss… and it might upset you just a smidge, but you need to hear it. When you hit the lowest weight on the scale you will ever hit, that is an artificially low weight. You are probably running low on muscle glycogen and you are probably a bit dehydrated. Your actual true lowest body weight when it isn’t depleted is probably a few pounds heavier. This is important to understand, especially as you transition to maintenance. Here is an example. You started at 175 and dieted down to 125… which is a huge amount of weight loss, and the lowest number you saw on the scale was 125.6 when you weighed first thing in the morning after you just finished a hard cutting cycle with low calories. That day you say, “we made it fam” and then you move to maintenance and you consume EXACT maintenance level calories, and you do that for a week, your body fat mass hasn’t changed one iota… but your scale weight could go up 2-4 pounds, just because you are not dehydrated or depleted of carbohydrates. This is often where people have a little bit of panic mode. They say to themselves, “OMG all my hard work is coming undone”… which makes sense. You probably just saw a 2-4 pound scale spike in 3-4 days after you probably spent the last 4 weeks scraping and clawing to get those 2-4 pounds off. But realize this isn’t body fat, you aren’t actually backsliding in terms of your progress. You still have the same body fat amount you did 4 days ago. You just have a normal amount of water and you have filled your muscle glycogen stores back up… which means you probably look even better than on the day you hit that lowest number ever.

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Is Contrave better than Saxenda?

Contrave has an average rating of 6.6 out of 10 from a total of 1949 ratings on Drugs.com. 55% of reviewers reported a positive effect, while 25% reported a negative effect. Saxenda has an average rating of 7.5 out of 10 from a total of 1383 ratings on Drugs.com.

Prescribed for Weight Loss (Obesity/Overweight). Saxenda may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide. Prescribed for Weight Loss (Obesity/Overweight). Contrave may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide. Saxenda has an average rating of 7.5 out of 10 from a total of 1383 ratings on Drugs.com. 66% of reviewers reported a positive effect, while 15% reported a negative effect. Contrave has an average rating of 6.6 out of 10 from a total of 1949 ratings on Drugs.com. 55% of reviewers reported a positive effect, while 25% reported a negative effect.

See also: Saxenda side effects in more detail.

See also: Contrave side effects in more detail.

We could not find an exact match for this medicine. Try searching the Price Guide directly. The half-life of a drug is the time taken for the plasma concentration of a drug to reduce to half its original value.

Is not subject to the Controlled Substances Act.

Is not subject to the Controlled Substances Act.

Not for use in pregnancy

Category X Not for use in pregnancy

Risk cannot be ruled out

Category C Risk cannot be ruled out

Not for use in pregnancy

Category X Not for use in pregnancy

A total of 250 drugs are known to interact with Saxenda :

A total of 704 drugs are known to interact with Contrave :

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