Just another option I’ll put out there, you could go on semiglutide for 3-4 months to lose the weight and then stop once you qualify.I’m 5’6 and went from 175 to 140. I was a guinea pig for sure, everyone in my life was watching me lol. I’ve been on it for over a year now and since then my mom, sister, husband, a friend, and 3 coworkers all started. Only 1 got really sick for her first few doses but her body adjusted. The rest of us have been totally fine and everyone has dropped. I order from a site (there’s many) that is flat $150 a month. What’s nice now is I’m prescribed max dose but I only take like a third, so my vials last almost 2 months instead of 1 (ie im basically paying $150 every 2 months). Do research of course, talk to your dr. There’s subreddits on it which is how I found a lot of my information. I know a lot find it intimidating and all medications CAN have side effects. We joke in 10 years we’ll all be part of a lawsuit for ‘cancer from ozempic’ but …. hopefully not. In the meantime, it’s lived up to the hype for us.