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.
How to lose weight in 4 easy steps (2015)
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#12It'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.
#3 is the actual article and has almost nothing to do with weight loss... goddamn
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#13It'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.
"That night, you deadlift your body weight. You sneak a photo of yourself in the mirror and email it to yourself with the subject heading “You Are A Warrior”."
I can see why she left him...
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#14Just 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 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?)
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#15#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.
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#16The short film is probably a better version of the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mbp0DugfCA
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#18Just 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 obe…
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Re: How to lose weight in 4 easy steps (2015)
#19Just 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 obe…
I lasted less than a week on semaglutide (Rybelsus). The hit to my general energy levels were too dramatic for it to be worth it for me. Especially considering that research shows that stopping semaglutide usually results in gaining around half the weight you lost back.
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#20Beer is bad for weight loss but it's nothing close to 7 slices of bread. Maybe 2 slices. https://www.reddit.com/r/nutrition/comments/5qudfs/is_it_tru...