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How to lose weight in 4 easy steps (2015)

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Re: How to lose weight in 4 easy steps (2015)

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Just starting to record food in an app made a huge difference for me, I was working out pretty aggressively and making progress on lifting/biking but my weight wasn't moving until I started recording calories. I still have days where I go over by a lot, but grazing was the number one behavior that improved out of just laziness. Recording 8 Oreos, one at a time across a day, is annoying. I've lost 27 pounds across the past two years, pretty consistently/slowly (with a few backslides).

My average calorie deficit on a daily basis is probably 100-150 calories max which is barely noticeable (I'm never hungry) but the app does prevent erasing that by eating 2 cookies at 1 am when I'm not actually hungry.

Re: How to lose weight in 4 easy steps (2015)

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Just get on Ozempic.

I wouldn’t be so fast to downvote this. There is strong evidence that willpower is sometimes not enough, and if we have to provide a drug like we would for a brain chemistry or other chemical imbalance, we shouldn’t turn away from an appetite suppressant to solve for this. We simply need to drive the price down to make it less costly than all of the healthcare currently going into second order effects of broad population obesity.

That’ll help you look good with your clothes on. Gotta lift those heavy weights if you want to look good with your clothes off though.

Re: How to lose weight in 4 easy steps (2015)

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Just get on Ozempic.

It may turn out that Ozempic has all these negative side effects that we just don’t know about yet.

But irrespective of that, what Ozempic/Wegovy/etc have clearly shown is that this isn’t a moral problem. It’s not a will power problem. It’s a freaking chemical problem.

If a simple drug that isn’t even designed to help people lose weight can help them lose weight so easily, it strongly indicates that the idea that obesity is a biochemical problem should be the front runner in explaining weight gain.

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