people will do anything to avoid eating a healthy diet and exercising. I lost 120lbs in just over 2 years from walking and eating low carb real food.
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Once again, carbs are not the problem. Italian and French people eat tons of carbs and are way healthier than Americans
The easiest way to boil down weight loss is calories in calories out. If you are in a surplus, you will in most cases gain weight (with some deviance based on genetics and other bodily factors). Lots of carbs is fine if you have a lot of calories out. European people usually have walkable cities, and the infrastructure there promotes lots of calories out on a day to day basis. America is a lot more car centric. The average american has less calories out because walking/cycling is uncommon in most of the US. Coupled with the standard caloric dense american food, it's easy to see how we are struggling with an obesity problem.
Low carb is just one way to cut down on how many calories you intake. Nothing wrong with it, and there are obviously many other ways to go about it.
Your entire comment, which is correct btw, is agreeing with my point that carbs are not the problem
Plus, personal anecdote -- carbs don't curb my hunger as quickly as protein and fat do. On a heavy protein day, I snack little to nil.
Thats accurate. Carbohydrates are much more easily broken down to its simple states, while proteins require more to be broken down to amino acids, so it makes you feel full longer. Fibers are also another way to stay feeling full. They're not digestible, so it takes up space and makes you feel full without adding calories.
Yes, but there is a difference between grains and refined sugar and high glucose corn syrup.
I agree. I don't think my homemade bread with 4 ingredients is a problem
Congrats! It’s not easy! I dropped 60 lbs the same way. It’s the only thing that works long term since you have to retrain your body and mind, learn new habits, and build interest in maintaining it.
I lost 40 without making any new habits other than weighing in daily with an app that estimates my caloric balance over the last two weeks. Turns out that I didn't need big changes to diet and exercise to get into a persistent decline, though I've lost another 15 since starting hormone therapy
That's sort of what Ozempic does though. It reduces the desire to eat large amounts of unhealthy food.
I lost 0lbs from not being fat. (I'm sorry I don't think you're fat but I had to write this all out, it's a disease of the mind)
If those things reduced people's weight in a reasonable time frame then they would do that.
Don't expect slaves to have the time, money, and energy to spend hundreds of hours to be an attractive weight.
lol
Keep ignoring the reasons people use drugs and getting mad at the drugs i guess lol
I'm so mad!
😂
Maybe we've just embraced being fat.
I only wish.
whats with all the fat phobia
"Weight Watchers files for bankruptcy as old weight loss scams are supplanted by new weight loss scams"
Fixed the headline for them.
Yeah fuck off.
I’ve been overweight my entire life, over five decades now, and these drugs are nothing short of a miracle.
In addition to changing how my body processes sugar, it kills any desire I have for any particular food as well as hunger.
They like to say that it “silences food noise in your brain” and that works as a description but it doesn’t convey just how truly profound that is.
You can tell that it works, BTW, by how much they charge for it.
I’m down a little more than 30 pounds in 90 days. Given enough time I will be slim/normal for the first time since the 1970s, and I don’t appreciate chucklefucks calling them a scam.
You know what’s a scam? HFCS. Sugar in everything.
These new drugs though - not a scam. At all.
I used to work in public health, and even among educated people there was a lot of prejudice against the idea that addiction was beyond the individuals control.
I’m not claiming to have evidence backing me up, but I fear the idea that addiction is under your control ~~may be higher among the educated populace~~ may not be affected by being more highly educated because they’re bought into meritocracy and the idea of improving oneself. ‘Just do this’ platitudes etc. from the crowd that believes everything works like a controlled lab experiment they did in AP Bio
Specifically, I was referring to medical professionals and hospital workers I knew. Detox units and rehab was a part of the system, but people who dealt with alcoholics and addicts of all types every day would still say it was a matter of will power and not an illness.
Hey good for you! Keep it up dude.
What was your experience in getting those prescribed? Was it a matter of just being overweight? Did they go over lifestyle changes as well? There was a guy at work that was going to get them prescribed. He was very overweight, but he ate horrible food, a lot of candy, and drank three monsters a day. I'll admit I got a little judgemental when he mentioned the medication. He was a good guy and I cared about him, but hard to help him see his lifestyle was probably the cause of a lot of his issues. I ultimately didn't care how he got healthy, if its a pill so be it. But hopefully the lifestyle changes are tried as well. I also think we really need to focus on the mental health aspect of it. He was really hard on himself and I found myself regularly trying to steer him away from that.
You put in more work and he took the easy way and you got the same results. It's fair to feel like he cheated but he didn't.
We have better methods of weight loss than starving ourselves and wasting our little free time exercising.
Weight Watchers is basically eating in moderation, its most definitely not a scam.
One could argue that paying a subscription to not over-eat is a scam similar to the way gyms prey on people and get them to sign up while expecting that they'll only come once or twice.
One could say that, but they would be wrong lol
While I've not taken them, though I've thought about it, I've met people who have. It's shocking how well those drugs work. Both of them were super happy with the results and could probably be sales reps, to be honest. One was even proud to share her before photo, because she wanted to drive home just how well it worked. No one believed her until she showed the photos.
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