[awakeasleep]

When the research comes in, I will be surprised if they are a performance enhancer outside the health benefits.

Meaning, it is performance-degrading to be overweight. When you remove that? you sleep better you breathe better you move better and therefore think better.

If they are directly performance enhancing, it is in an extremely subtle way- far less than a soda’s worth of caffeine.

[schnacki]

For me they absolutely have been performance enhancing. Previously, especially in the afternoon it was hard to concentrate due to the constant cravings / constantly thinking about needing to eat something. These thoughts are completely gone, I can concentrate for hours and hours without needing to eat something. I have always only been mildly overweight, but these thoughts have been constant before I started Wegovy.

[geremiiah]

Hmm, OK. I got the impression that they might improve your conscientiousness, which for some people, that would equate to a performance enhancer.

[wincy]

Anecdotal, but since I’ve started Zepbound, I’ve lost 110 pounds. In that same time period, I’ve paid off and cancelled all my credit cards (except for one, which I pay off every month), filed taxes for the last five years, got a CPA on retainer, and have fixed several pressing issues around the house that I’d been studiously ignoring as they got worse.

A major part of this story I think is especially important, the last time this sort of thing happened was about a decade ago, when I lost 90 pounds without any medical intervention. At that time I learned to code, fixed up my credit, and went from being front line technical support to junior software engineer. Quite a transformative time in my life.

I think curing my sleep apnea due to substantial weight loss means I sleep better, so I just feel more ready to tackle the things the world throws at me. Weight loss is a skill I had, but it required absolute commitment to avoiding sugary foods, eating right every single day, and as soon as I strayed the weight would creep back up over the course of a year or two.

It makes me think of the huge immeasurable economic costs that are happening in the shadows because of obesity, how many people like me are there other aren’t achieving our full potential because we’re just too tired and have too much brain fog to seize the day?