Jennifer Lynn-Pullman had been taking Wegovy for a few months when she began shivering during a walk on a hot August day.
"It was about 85 degrees – I should have been sweating," said Lynn-Pullman, a 48-year-old dietitian from Pennsylvania.
A weeklong food log revealed she was eating less than 900 calories a day – well below the 2,000 daily calories recommended by the US Department of Agriculture for a moderately active woman in her 40s and below the 1,200-1,500 calories commonly advised for women on weight loss drugs.
Since starting the weekly injections, she'd been losing a pound or two a week – which she considered reasonable. Yet she'd fallen into a dangerous trap experts warn could become more common as GLP-1 weight loss drugs become more widely used: She wasn't eating enough calories.
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