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

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Post by K0balt »

Wow. This is just a nice story but it hit me unexpectedly hard.

My loss wasn’t to a bad relationship but losing my wife of 14 years to cancer. She was amazing. We conquered the world together and achieved remarkable things that will be her legacy to future generations. Her story will live on.

But loss is so universal. It is the one thing we can all absolutely be assured of. Every one of us will die. The “lucky” among us will live long enough to watch many of our friends and loved ones fall away. Many will be taken before they should have been.

It is a harsh reminder that the only thing of value that anyone has is often that which we trade for things of lesser value.

Time. It is the finite resource, and you don’t know how much you have. Worse yet, for every person in your life that matters to you, there is an unknown quantity of seconds that you might spend together before one of you is gone.

Just gone. Not away. Not apart. Not estranged. Just gone.

Value your time. Treasure time shared with loved ones. Make every day count for something that stretches out farther than yourself.

Live without fear, the worst is coming anyway. The things that you think limit your possibilities are most likely irrelevant from a different perspective. Find that perspective and the fear falls away.

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

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Post by Auracle »

intothemild wrote: post #46
Auracle wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's silly, and a bit like saying "See, you didn't need to budget to get rid of your credit card debt. You just needed someone to give you a million dollars." 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 p…

So. Two things I don't like about this. 1. The analogy in your first paragraph isn't right, it wouldn't be like someone giving you money, it would be like someone intercepting your pay, doing all your payments, and then giving you only a small fraction to spend with for the month. 2. I dislike this "it's a cheat" thing. It makes it sound like it's easy on semaglutide. Which as someone who's been on it for a year or s…

I mean, that last point is - again - normal for everyone. There's a reason "hangry" is a term. I had that same experience on semaglutide where I had to actually remember to eat...and drink water too, though I don't know if that's normal. That was novel to me.

None of us can live in eachother's bodies so we'll never know how everyone else experiences things. I have tried that medication though, and what it does to you isn't just putting you in line with my normal lived experience, nor my (skinny) wife's from what she tells me about how she feels about food.

Again, by all means, take it. If I were in your shoes I probably would too, and I wouldn't feel all that bad about it. Just don't think it's that easy for most of us normal-weight people to not eat. It's not, and it takes work every day.

I will say though, once I got a standing desk + treadmill it became a lot easier. They say you can't outexercise what you eat, but it's a lot easier when you're burning 1,000 calories a day walking. If you have that opportunity I'd recommend it.

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

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Post by sublinear »

JimtheCoder wrote: post #13
lapcat wrote: post #11

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.

"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...

> I can see why she left him...

I agree. It doesn't matter that it's his regretful private thoughts. I'm not a therapist, but that email is an artifact of a bigger mental health issue that is expressed in other ways. Narcissism? At least that!

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

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Post by 31carmichael »

Auracle wrote: post #30
esbranson wrote: post #26

Ozempic (semaglutide) indicates it's not about willpower or bodybuilding. Keto diets already indicated this.

That's silly, and a bit like saying "See, you didn't need to budget to get rid of your credit card debt. You just needed someone to give you a million dollars." 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 p…

Did you stop taking it just because it felt like 'cheating'? I don't understand this logic. If you had been taking it for weight loss, was it effective? Do you think that people should try it for weight loss?

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

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Post by Auracle »

31carmichael wrote: post #54
Auracle wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's silly, and a bit like saying "See, you didn't need to budget to get rid of your credit card debt. You just needed someone to give you a million dollars." 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 p…

Did you stop taking it just because it felt like 'cheating'? I don't understand this logic. If you had been taking it for weight loss, was it effective? Do you think that people should try it for weight loss?

No, I was trying it for another medical condition. It worked most of the week other than the 2-3 days after injection where a side effect made that condition effectively worse, so it wasn't worth it.

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

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Post by rmwaite »

sublinear wrote: post #53
JimtheCoder wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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...

> I can see why she left him... I agree. It doesn't matter that it's his regretful private thoughts. I'm not a therapist, but that email is an artifact of a bigger mental health issue that is expressed in other ways. Narcissism? At least that!

This is uncharitable and I urge anyone thinking this way to consider if sometimes it’s okay to champion oneself /especially/ when done to escape feelings of self doubt.

If someone were like this all of the time? Sure. But that isn’t what this is about so I find it unfair to treat it as if this is some innate character flaw.

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