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I think for most people just stopping juice/soda/beer would be a good starting point
1. eat once a day 2. skip one day a week 3. skip 7 days twice a year 4. eat real food
7 days is quite extreme. In fact, I've readed somewhere that TRE provides about the same benefits as clasic fasting without the downside of stressing the organism that hard
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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 popula…
I don't know much about this stuff, but could anyone explain why willpower isn't enough? Like - isn't this something that is in our control? Also - if you don't have the willpower to lose weight, wouldn't taking weight loss drugs put you at risk of relying on meds for everything? (Including stuff you might have the willpower for - now that you've tried meds, why would you ever do stuff the hard way?)
It's not easy to willpower past biology, which for many includes unbalanced hunger control mechanisms. I chose a low-carbohydrate diet to control my appetite. But if semaglutide allows people to lose weight, then it's probably better than obesity.
They probably could have been doing keto this entire time, but doctors cant prescribe it, the US Dietary Guidelines recommend against it, and the largest US medical organizations say it might kill you. Nor is it terribly difficult. But keto is not effective because of willpower, it's effective because it's chemical and metabolic and hormonal.
It's against the HN guidelines to comment on whether someone read an article, but I find it interesting that nobody has yet commented on section 3 of the article, which, um, stands out, calls attention to itself. The elephant in the room, as it were.
#2 is basically it. #1 and #4 should be rolled into #2. Portion control isn't such a strict thing either. Eat slowly and gauge your remaining appetite as you go. You'll naturally eat less when you don't care about "cleaning your plate". You don't have to eat 3 meals a day either. Self awareness is the key to controlling your consumption and this is beyond just food. Hit your macros otherwise and you're good.
Portion size in US restaurants is crazy. There, I'd have to box 2/3 of the meal.
The short film is probably a better version of the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mbp0DugfCA
It's against the HN guidelines to comment on whether someone read an article, but I find it interesting that nobody has yet commented on section 3 of the article, which, um, stands out, calls attention to itself. The elephant in the room, as it were.
It's a really lousy way to lose weight, but very effective.
Ozempic (semaglutide) indicates it's not about willpower or bodybuilding. Keto diets already indicated this.
I'm relatively fit and tried semaglutide for reasons other than weight loss. The "full" feeling you feel when on it is nothing like I've ever experienced in my life. It's a cheat. I'm not saying people shouldn't take it, but I'll forever fight the idea some people have that it's just making you feel like skinny people. Most of us need to work for it too: deliberately stop eating before we're stuffed, not have terrible snack food in the house, limit sugary drinks, etc.