It’s no secret that new weight loss drugs are highly sought after in the United States. The reason for that is because they are highly effective, so long as you continue using them. Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound, Mounjaro, and other similar medications work by recreating the effects of GLP-1, a hormone that the gut produces once you finish eating. This hormone reduces both hunger and cravings, helping you to eat less, which promotes weight loss. 

What happens when you stop taking these medications, though? Recent research suggests that you can regain weight once you stop taking them. Health experts have started to refer to this weight gain as “Mounjaro plateau” or “Ozempic rebound.”

Why Do People Stop Using These Medications?

People stop taking these medications for numerous reasons, with a common one being the high cost, which is especially true for people without health insurance. Even if you have health insurance, many providers don’t offer coverage for these drugs. There is a huge demand, supply issues, and many unwanted side effects that come from using these medications. In fact, clinical trials found that up to 10% of users stop using these medications because of side effects, including nausea and disruptive bowel movements. 

It’s possible that the number of people who stop using these medications is higher than that 10% figure. Patients may have less aftercare, support, and accountability than they do in clinical trials. That means there is most likely a higher percentage of people who experience unwanted side effects, which could be easily managed. Doctors also state that people stop using these medications once they meet their goal weight. 

Why Do You Gain Weight Post-Medication?

Ozempic, and other related drugs, were originally intended to help people with type 2 diabetes manage blood sugar levels. During clinical trials, researchers observed weight loss to be a surprising side effect. That got them thinking, so they started to prescribe these medications for weight loss (an off-label purpose). 

In present day, many people with high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, or fatty liver disease, have been struggling to lose weight for 20 to 30 years. Drugs like Ozempic or Wegovy help people lose weight by temporarily altering hunger mechanisms. Basically, they provide a synthetic form of GLP-1, which is the hormone that helps you feel satiated and less hungry. At the same time, these drugs also promote an increase in insulin response to food, which works to regulate blood sugar. They also reduce the release of glucagon, a hormone that opposes insulin and tends to increase blood glucose levels. 

When you stop taking these medications, the body naturally produces more ghrelin, the hunger hormone. Once off the medications, the body’s metabolic rate slows down. The combination of a slower metabolic rate and a rapid onset of hunger causes weight gain, especially if there is no modification in lifestyle or diet. 

How Common Is Weight Gain After Stopping Ozempic?

If you use Ozempic to lose weight, the last thing you want is to see the weight return once you stop taking the drug. As it turns out, it is very common for a person to gain weight after quitting Ozempic or similar medication. One study found that people who stopped taking semaglutide (the active ingredient in Ozempic) and quit lifestyle interventions gained two-thirds of their weight back within a year. Another study monitored people who stopped taking tirzepatide, the active ingredient in Zepbound and Mounjaro. Within one year of quitting the drug, they gained more than half the weight they’d lost while on the drug. 

The Takeaway

Before you take any GLP-1 agonist (such as Ozempic), consult your healthcare professional and make sure you understand the risks. Are you using the drug for short-term or long-term results? If you decide to take Ozempic, make sure you understand what will happen once you stop. Your healthcare professional may be able to provide guidance, nutritional advice, and an exercise regimen to help stave off the weight you lost while on the drug.

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Focusing on fitness, improving your diet, and achieving better mental health are sound New Year’s resolutions. Don’t overlook the changes you need to make in order to reach your financial goals, though. If you keep your finances in mind, you can set a plan in motion that will encourage a more prosperous future. 

Right now is the perfect time to plan out the changes you want to make next year, given that 2023 is coming to a close. If you want to secure a more financially stable future, there are impactful, money-focused resolutions that you may want to consider. That doesn’t mean you have to abandon fitness goals, but you may want to consider starting the year with your finances in mind. Explore the following options and see if they make your resolution list. 

Quit Your Regular Savings Account And Open A High-Yield Option

It’s always a great idea to save because that provides a sense of security. The unfortunate reality is that savings accounts tend to fall short in regards to earning substantial interest. Take your financial future to the next level by closing your regular savings account and opting for a high-yield savings account instead. A high-yield savings account allows you to grow your money at a faster pace, considering that they have higher interest rates than regular savings accounts. Do a quick search or consult your financial advisor to find which high-yield savings account is right for you. 

Invest In Your Financial Knowledge

The world of finance constantly changes, so staying informed is vital to your financial success. One potential resolution you can adopt in 2024 is to invest more time in expanding your financial literacy. That may look like reading books or articles, meeting with a financial advisor, or taking online courses about finances. When you understand the intricacies of taxes, personal finance, and investing, you can make better decisions that aid your long-term financial goals. 

Create A Budget And Stick To It

If you want financial success, you have to learn to budget. Begin the year by creating a realistic budget that takes your income, expenses, and savings goals into account. Track your spending in a diligent way and make adjustments where necessary. If you manage your budget successfully, you can understand where your money is going and you’ll help yourself save more. A great first step to budgeting is to start making coffee or tea at home if you buy a coffee out every day. If you eat lunch out, consider meal prepping to help save more money.

Move Some Savings To A Certificate Of Deposit

If you want to maximize your savings, explore different investment options. Traditional savings accounts offer safety, but they don’t have the best interest rates that keep up with inflation. A regular savings account, for example, has an average 0.46% interest rate, which is lower than the current inflation rate. Rather than settling for a low interest rate, diversify your savings and set aside  some to a certificate of deposit (CD). A CD offers fixed interest rates, so you can leave your money deposited in the account until the CD matures. Explore the options available to you because there are so many out there. If you leave your money in a different type of account, you are potentially passing up an easy way to earn more money. 

Review And Update Your Insurance Policies

You cannot predict your future, which is why having the right insurance coverage can help your financial security. Take the time to review your insurance policies, including health, life, home, and car insurance policies. Does your coverage align with your current needs? If it doesn’t, contact your insurance providers to adjust your policies and provide a safety net.

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Many spiritual leaders today espouse that there are no accidents. Yet if that is true, why do people loosely use the word “accident” all the time?

Dherbs agrees that there are absolutely no accidents in life. Absolutely none.

What we call “accidents” is the Law of Synchronicity manifesting itself. Unconscious people call it a “crash.” The 2005 Best Picture movie “Crash” displayed how our lives are connected regardless of societal stature, race, creed, belief system, economic status, etc. and because we are all connected, from time to time we are sure to “bump” or “crash” into one another, especially in the proper time-space sequence. That’s the Law of Synchronicity working.

Now, if there are no accidents, then what are people experiencing with car accidents, accidents on the job, or bodily accidents (i.e. urinating or defecating on one’s self)?

A car accident is a collision: two cars crash or collide into one another on the street or highway. This is synchronicity in a way least expected, at least by the participants. Accidents happen for a reason. There is a lesson to be learned in every occurrence of life, including accidents. As metaphysician Lise Bourbeau states:

“Accidents are tools the Universe (God) uses to get our attention.”

Many times, accidents help to slow us down or to give us a much needed rest or break period. Believe it or not we play a role in every accident we experience. The Law of Attraction is always in effect.

When you have fear, especially about a particular thing, person, or event, the subconscious mind processes what is in the conscious mind and makes it manifest. This is a natural law.

Accidents can teach you to:

1. Always listen to and more importantly, TRUST yourself (emotions, gut feeling, intuition)

2. Your thoughts create your reality.

3. You attract what you resist or fear in life.

Some people believe that preparing for an accident (such as purchasing insurance) creates an accident. It is the preparation for an accident that creates the accident. When you prepare for a thing, you are saying you EXPECT the thing. Constant expectation becomes unconscious desire. That’s why despite all the car or automobile insurance in the world, accidents (collisions) keep occurring and increasing and will continue to do so. The more insurance there is, the more accidents there will be. There’s an unconscious desire (expectation) for accidents in the collective consciousness of the people and so they happen.

Insurance is not for prevention purposes. It’s for preparation purposes and creates a false sense of security.

Some people can have insurance for a whole lifetime and never have to use the insurance. Why? They live life with a peaceful and trusting disposition and a positive outlook. Their energy is good and very trusting of good to come their way. If you travel with peace and security, you will be more likely to arrive safely at your destination. People who expect doom always get it. You attract and usually get what you fear or don’t want.

If you are preparing for some future catastrophe, you are sure to get it in your lifetime. Preparation of a thing or event eventually makes it transpire.

Fear is energy (a cause) and breeds a polarity energy (an effect).

We truly can change the condition of the world simply by just changing our thoughts and feelings.

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State and federal government insurance programs are 100% fraudulent in nature. They are Ponzi schemes that steal money from innocent, hardworking, and unsuspecting workers.

What most people don’t know is that government insurance programs such as federal “Social Security Insurance” and “State Disability” and “State Unemployment” insurance are taxes imposed by government compelling people (citizens) to finance government.

Please reference the following:

“Unemployment insurance.” Form of taxation collected from business to fund unemployment payments and benefits. BLACK’S LAW DICTIONARY, 5th ed., pg. 724, “Insurance.”

There you have it in black and white! Unemployment insurance is a form of taxation! It is not insurance in the true sense of insurance.

These government insurance programs are schemes that operate by government strong-arming of the citizens (employees). The employee, or more appropriately the servant, has no choice but to participate in the scheme for the scheme is tied directly to the privilege of employment. Eligibility for the pseudo benefits does not guarantee any contributions because of payment of premiums. Consider the following:

“…eligibility for benefits…(does) not in any true sense depend on contribution through the payment of taxes.” Fleming v. Nestor, 363 U.S. 603, 609 (1960) And

And yes – employment in the U.S. is a privilege and that’s how government legally taxes you for being employed. All privileges are subject to taxation. This is why government got rid of rights, i.e. constitutional rights, because lawfully government couldn’t make any money on rights because rights (or secured liberties) cannot be taxed. So the U.S. government wisely but diabolically converted the status of Americans from American citizens and sentient flesh-and-blood human beings to corporate juristic persons (artificial entities) called U.S. citizens. This is why your name is in all-capital letters on all government and business correspondence as well as licenses, certificates, and permits. The all-caps name denotes a corporation and corporations exist for one thing: BUSINESS purposes! The government is doing business with you and through you.

The above is how government took away the average American citizen’s rights in order to give them statutory privileges that could be taxed with impunity by government so as to bring in additional revenue for Government – the Pimp (of the people).

If you want to work a job, you’ll have to be a part of the insurance Ponzi schemes. That’s just the way the ball bounces, folks!

The above government insurances are government taxes collected under the fraud of insurance. They do not operate like legitimate insurance programs whereby your premiums are actually earmarked into a personal account and whereby you can claim all of your contributions (every single penny) in the future if needed. A legitimate insurance program and company cannot by law be permitted to repudiate its matured contracts with policyholders. Chief Justice Black even dissented the foregoing in a U.S. Supreme Court case back in 1960. Please reference the following:

“I cannot believe that any private insurance in America would be permitted to repudiate its matured contracts with policy-holders who have regularly paid all the premiums in reliance upon the good faith of the company. Justice Black dissenting [in re Social Security payments] Flemming v. Nestor, 363 U.S. 603, 610 (1960)

In a legitimate insurance program, if you invested, say $14,000.00 over a period of 5 years, when you claim your contribution, you’d get every penny you paid into it save perhaps any applicable penalty fees (perhaps for cashing out prematurely). If you needed the benefit of the insurance, you’d have it.

Now with government it doesn’t work like this. No matter how long you worked your state-level job, say 16, 20, or 25 years, if you claimed disability or unemployment, you’d only qualify for benefits up to 6-12 months depending on your personal circumstances.

Your benefits would not be calculated based upon how much money you paid into the insurance program over the years via premiums. Your benefits would be calculated based off the past year and how much you earned in that particular year.

I had a friend who worked on his job for 12 straight years and he paid into the disability and unemployment insurance programs (frauds) all 12 of those years – he had to for it was the law that he did. Remember, if you want to work for someone else, i.e. a corporation, you have to participate in the scheme.

Well, he got laid off and had to file for unemployment. He received unemployment for 6 months and after the 6 months of receiving benefits he was notified by the Employment Development Department of California that his benefits were terminated because he had exhausted his benefits.

For six months he received two checks per month in the amount of $750.00 each – a total of $1,500.00 per month.

In a six-month period, the State of California paid him $9,000.00. However, he had dumped in way more than $9,000.00 over the course of 12 years of employment at his last job.

He wondered why he could not stay on unemployment and receive the total amount of money he paid into the program for all the years he worked his job for 12 years. He felt robbed and rightly so. After 12 years employment and paying every premium (automatically deducted from his paycheck) in good faith, he was only paid for 6 months. He did not receive the equivalent of benefits matching what he paid via premiums over the scope of his 12-year employment.

He inquired with the State about all the money he paid over the past 12 years and the State told him that they do not calculate all the money one has paid in premiums over the years or course of employment regardless of how long one has been employed. They take your figures (gross wages) from the past 12 months and determine your monthly benefit amount from this 12-month figure.

All the money you paid over the course of your employment goes down the drain which just happens to lead to the coffers of the State. You only get a portion of the money you paid into the program and by law the State does not have to pay you back the total amount you dumped into the insurance program (scheme) over the scope of your employment.

The same applies with disability. You can work a job for 7 years straight and if you become disabled, you cannot stay on disability for more than a year regardless of how much money you paid into the program during the scope of your employment. It doesn’t work like that!

The various states established employment development departments to help unemployed human resources to find work. It is important for you to find another job, not because the State really wants to help you out, but because the government wants and needs its slice of the pie from the money you make. Remember, when you work, government (the Pimp) gets paid!

And don’t get mad at me for calling you a human resource, because in the eyes of government and business – you are! Why do you think you apply for jobs at the human resource department of a corporation? You’re just a resource – a human resource!

Unemployment and disability are PRIVILEGES, not rights! They are privileges meaning that you have to apply for them. Anytime you have to apply for something it’s a privilege and accordingly your application can be denied. That’s how privileges work. Just like applying for a Visa or Master Card. These are privileges and not rights. No one has a right to receive a credit card. A credit card is a privilege because credit is a privilege.

This is why your employment is also a privilege, because you have to apply for the job or position. That’s why you ask for a “job application.”

The above should let you know that the insurance programs you are paying for via your job are not bona fide insurance programs, but mere forms of taxation. The state does not give you an amount (or accounting) of how much money you’ve paid into the program for purposes of informing you of how much money you have in your personal state insurance account. You have no state insurance account!

Though the amount of taxes deducted from each pay period and to date is on each paycheck stub, that money is not earmarked. If it was earmarked you’d have a valid case that the state was robbing you for only paying you a small fraction of what you had in your account over a period of time.

The State and federal government makes a lot of money via these fraudulent insurance schemes that are really nothing but payroll taxes. The State and federal government are taxing you on the privilege of employment.

Unemployment, disability, Medicare, and Social Security (F.I.C.A.) are all government payroll taxes – taxes on the labor and thus the property of the American people in violation of U.S.Const.Amend.5 and 14.

It is unconstitutional to tax a constitutionally secured right such as property, but hell, if you dumb people down to the point where they are ignorant about law (and the wool being pulled over their eyes in regards to their status) and don’t know that their labor is their private property, then you can juts tax the hell out of them until they drop dead. Like good little slaves they’ll remain dumb and just work like good little slaves and just pay the tribute (tax) under the guise that they are being good citizens and/or just don’t want to rock the boat or make waves.

NOTE: Even though U.S. citizens have lost their constitutional rights and civil liberties, government still pretends these rights and liberties exist on the surface. A smart person would pretend like they still have the rights and enforce them against government.

Black’s Law Dictionary, 5th edition, clearly reveals that “Unemployment Insurance” is nothing but a payroll tax that the government compels the employer and employee to participate in. Please reference the following:

“Payroll tax.” Tax based on and deducted from payroll. A “payroll tax” is a government or state tax on employers as a percentage of wages and salaries paid to employees. City of Richmond v. Fary, 210 Va. 338, 171 S.E.2d 257, 260

In the language and eyes of the law, every employee is nothing but a servant. In law, this is what the term “employee” means. You don’t think so? Well, read it for yourself:

“Servant” is synonymous with “employee.” Gibson v. Gillette Motor Transport, Tex.Civ.App., 138 S.W.2d 293, 294; Tennessee Valley Appliances v. Rowden, 24 Tenn.App. 487, 146 S.W.2d 845

In addition, consider the following:

“Master and servant.” Such term has generally been replaced by “employer and employee.” Matoni v. Research-Cottrell, Inc., D.C.Pa., 202 F.Supp. 527, 532.

The government knows that if they outright called you a servant after all that college debt you got yourself into and for that worthless piece of paper called a diploma or degree (a fancy name for “work permit’), they’d have hell to pay with the American people (U.S. citizens). After all, who wants to be an educated servant? You went to Harvard only to end up as a servant? You went to Spellman College only to end up as a servant? You went to USC or UCLA only to end up as a servant? You went to Grambling or Howard only to end up as a servant? This fact will not sit right with most people. So instead of calling you a servant, you are called by a euphemism – employee! That sounds way better than servant, doesn’t it?

No folks! – They must keep the scheme going. Regardless of your occupation, if you are an “employee,” you’re a servant in the eyes of the law (government).

So if you’re a clerk, salesman or saleswoman, usher, bank teller, manager, chef, cashier, commercial driver, schoolteacher, waitress or waiter, customer service representative, auto mechanic, RN (registered nurse), doctor, accountant, beautician, barber, or computer technician to name a few, you’re a servant in the eyes of government.

The only exceptions to the rule are the positions of vice-principal, officer, agent, and independent contractor. But despite the above, these people (positions) still get pimped via the federal and state income taxes and insurance program schemes. They too pay F.I.C.A. (Social Security and Medicare), unemployment insurance, and disability insurance.

Did you know that the members of U.S. Congress and the Senate do not pay into the Social Security and Medicare schemes? I though what was good for the goose was good for the gander! But no, politicians are too smart to allow themselves to get screwed like the citizens who elect them to office. But hey, like they say on the streets: a hoe is as a hoe does! Hoes desire to be pimped.

Is there anything you can do about all this within the System itself? Unfortunately no! It’s beyond your control. It’s even beyond the control of your employer (master, boss). You are nothing but a human resource that is pimped for nearly 40% of your hard-earned money.

F.I.C.A. / Social Security

Social Security has to be the greatest Ponzi scheme going at present. The people paying Social Security payments today are paying for all the people receiving Social Security benefits at present.

Like with State disability and unemployment, there is no actual account with your name on it in some special vault somewhere in Washington, D.C. containing all the money you’ve paid to date for Social Security insurance. Well, what happened to all the money? Good question! But are you ready for the answer?

Government spent the money! Yes, every penny. Social Security contributions were spent on very important things [sarcasm here] such as presidential inauguration festivities (it was reported in the Los Angeles Times that President Clinton’s presidential inauguration galas cost 40 million dollars).

When Social Security began back in the 1930’s, there were 16 people working for every one person receiving Social Security. Today, in 2008, there are only 3 people working for every one person receiving Social Security. And with jobs closing and unemployment rates skyrocketing, soon it will be two people working for every person receiving Social Security.

The people receiving Social Security today are being taken care of, but what about you in the future? Do you have a guarantee that Social Security will even still be in existence to pay you when your time comes to retire?

You should know this (this is very important): People participating in Social Security payroll deductions do NOT acquire property rights or contractual rights through their payments, as they would if they were paying on an insurance policy or contributing to an annuity plan. Simply put, there are no guarantees! The Congress does have the power to deny benefits to citizens even though they had paid Social Security taxes.

Also, the amount of benefits granted are at the option of Congress. Also, Congress included in the original act, and has since retained a claim expressly reserving to it the right to alter, amend, or repeal any provision of the act.

Social Security is such a Ponzi scheme when you think about the people who only paid into Social Security for two years, i.e. 1937-1939, but who received Social Security benefits for the rest of their lives.

A guy who only paid Social Security taxes for two years before retiring at age 62 in 1939 may have lived another 20 years and received Social Security benefits for those remaining 20 years of life lived. Not a bad deal to pay two years into Social Security and receive 20 years worth of benefits!

“Well can’t we just opt out of Social Security and sign up with a private insurance company like Met-Life or Prudential for retirement benefits?” Unfortunately no! You either pay Social Security or go to jail. Period! It’s the law!

Government can’t let you out of this adhesion contract and scheme because it is dependent on your tax dollars to finance itself – its objectives. Rich politicians must enjoy themselves while you toil like a slave. Hey, you know the deal! Pimps up, hoes down!

You work and they (politicians) get a nice cut and slice of the pie (your salary) and go do what they want to do with the money and the American people allow it. This is the price people pay for wanting other people to take care of them and to be responsible for them. This is how you lose being a sovereign. And like they say: he who does it for you, can do it to you!

Again, Social Security is a tax – another payroll tax! F.I.C.A. stands for Federal Insurance Contributions Act and is a tax – the F.I.C.A. tax!

A payroll tax is an employment tax as stated supra. Your F.I.C.A. tax goes towards Social Security and Medicare. Social Security benefits include old age, survivor, and disability insurance. Medicare provides for hospital insurance benefits.

Most U.S. taxpayers pay more money for F.I.C.A. (payroll taxes) than they do for federal income taxes.

For the year 2008, the average servant’s, I mean “employee’s” share of the Social Security portion of the tax was 6.2% of gross compensation, resulting in a maximum of $6,324 of total tax amount.

The limit is known as the Social Security Wage Base [SSWB] and goes up every year based on average national wages.

The average U.S. worker also pays 1.45% of total gross compensation for Medicare.

And don’t forget that jobs must match the Social Security tax that the employees pay. Each job must pay 6.42% for Social Security and 1.45% for Medicare. So the government is also punking corporations in this respect.

U.S. employers and employees pay a total of 12.4 % and 2.9% for Social Security taxes and Medicare taxes respectively.

In addition to the poor worker dishing out nearly 8% of his or her total wages for the F.I.C.A. payroll tax, he or she must also pay federal income taxes, state incomes taxes, state unemployment insurance, and state disability insurance.

All of these taxes account for nearly 40% of the average workers pay. And God help you if you’re working for minimum wage – an insult to human decency.

Like comedian Chris Rock once said, because of taxes, when you work five days out the week and for minimum wage, it’s like working every Tuesday and Wednesday for free. You’re getting paid for 3 days out the week: Monday, Thursday and Friday -and working on Tuesday and Wednesday is like getting kicked in the ass!

I used to be just like Chris Rock and never wanted to look at the stub of my paycheck. To do so infuriated the hell out of me. Even way back then I knew I was being robbed! Looking at one of my Pacific Theatres checks or General Cinema Theatres checks or even my Stein Investigation Agency check was very frustrating. It was like the government was saying: “Here’s what you made but here’s what you gon’ get!”

I was just like Chris Rock and my sentiment was also: “Don’t show me that shit!” “Just don’t show me how much money was taken for taxes.”

And don’t be self-employed today (at least within the System)! God help you if you are, because the self-employed individual must pay the whole 15.3% F.I.C.A. payroll tax.

However, due to allowables, the amount comes down to 7.65%! I guess Uncle Sam knows that you can’t stick it in too deep without doing serious damage.

Thank you for reading!

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NOTE: The information in this article was for information and education purposes only, in accordance pursuant to U.S.Const.Amend.1 and California Constitution 1 § 1. Lawful information is not legal advice!

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