I hope these people will come to the realisation that being skinny doesn't necessary mean being healthy, and that they basically traded a life long addiction to food for a life long dependance to a drug.
ps: feel free to explain your downvotes
ps: feel free to explain your downvotes
I am not diabetic and not insulin resistant so that totally helped.
My sleep apnea and IBS has been virtually eliminated altogether.
I do know other people who are on the medicine but haven't taken the proactive approaches like I did to properly track their food and incorporate exercise. So they'll never fully realize the weight loss benefits until that changes or they'll continue to take the GLP-1.
Former weight = 255 lb
Current weight = 212 lb
Goal weight = 185 lb
I have a secret that I use to keep myself healthy because I watched as most everyone else in my family struggled with obesity and its related health issues.
But your comment reminds me of the times I overhear the ladies in the office trash-talking another coworker who decided to lose weight and become healthier. I've honest to god heard morbidly obese coworkers try to justify their size and claim that they are in fact healthier than our skinny coworkers.
Whats your secret?
My secret is “self respect.”
That’s all I used.
Are you saying that overweight people lack self-respect?
It gets somewhat preachy to promote that one should practice delayed gratification instead of YOLO.
Your knees are significantly more likely to work well into old age if you’re active, but not constantly supporting excess weight. Talk to any orthopedic doctor and they will tell you weight loss makes your lower body joints much healthier in old age. Not to mention the natural increase in activity people experience when they are lighter and walking is less of a chore.
Having healthy lower body joints makes you much less of a fall risk.
Being less of a fall risk extends your lifespan quite a bit once you’re around 60-70.
Being overweight is one of the most objectively bad for you things out there, but it’s a shame we all share (75% of Americans are overweight and way even higher you look at people old enough to be doctors).
The entire point of this article is now that it is something treatable through medical science, people who understand the major health downsides of being overweight are treating themselves.
Yeah I don't buy it. The dude in the pic went from slightly chubby to thin as fuck, nothing prevented him from updating his diet, especially as a doctor
Of course the result overall is better, all I'm saying is that it's far from a magic pill if you keep everything else the same
https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/weight-manageme...
Note that the list of diseases in that article includes every single one of the leading non-injury causes of death:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db355.htm
(partially excluding cancer, and excluding flu, which does have a higher mortality among obese patients)
Yeah, the same one that made them obese... if their normal appetite was fine they wouldn't have a problem to begin with
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35441470/
> One year after withdrawal of once-weekly subcutaneous semaglutide 2.4 mg and lifestyle intervention, participants regained two-thirds of their prior weight loss
> Findings confirm the chronicity of obesity and suggest ongoing treatment is required to maintain improvements in weight and health.
You need a complete change of mindset, of routine, of relationship with food, of relationship with your body. If you keep everything the same as soon as you stop the treatment it's game over. And if you manage to change all of these things you don't need the treatment to begin with. We treated my father in law, by explaining him about calories, exercise, &c. He lost 40kg in a few years and will never gain them back, because he isn't relying on any magic pills.
Check reddit, it's full of people stopping ozempic and telling how they gained it all back and couldn't stop
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ozempic/comments/15lgnnc/i_now_unde...
> My Endo halved my dose recently and I gained 10lbs in about 3 weeks on a half dose despite no changes in my food intake.
> About 10 days after my last dose, I suddenly became voracious. It was like my hunger came back with an insane vengeance and I physically couldn’t stop myself from overeating.
> I've been off Ozempic 2 weeks and yes the appetite came back
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ozempic/comments/1h49urx/weight_gai...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ozempic/comments/1g1xa8l/rebound_we...
What the treatment does is enable me to change all of these things. I don't let food control me because I no longer get extremely cranky when I haven't eaten in 8 hours. I eat a balanced healthy diet because feeding my hunger no longer requires 1000 calories of carbs. I listen to my body because the voices saying "drink some water" and "get up and stretch" are no longer drowned out by a troll demanding that I go eat 3 cookies right this second.
Even if it were, many people would happily trade addiction for a dependency.
"Hey buddy, looks like you can use some help. I have a medicine here that can help you live longer with a better quality of life, and a boost to self-esteem but its gonna require a subscription."
Is it silly to think many people would not enter this non-binding agreement that can be stopped at any time?
> One year after withdrawal of once-weekly subcutaneous semaglutide 2.4 mg and lifestyle intervention, participants regained two-thirds of their prior weight loss
> Findings confirm the chronicity of obesity and suggest ongoing treatment is required to maintain improvements in weight and health
I think diabetes doesn’t have a max treatment recommendation because most of the other interventions choices are also long term.
Yes, people will probably have to bounce on and off them, but that's not the same as a lifelong addiction.
Not sure what your beef is, they work, they're helping millions get healthier and live longer.