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I would like to stop being fat.
I have tried before, even got some ozempic, did not take it consistently. The inconsistency is from same reason of the obesity - intolerance of discomfort, in the case of ozempic, wanting to shit, not being able to shit etc
My plan is to consistently take the ozempic, but I have questions in support of my goal:
What have you done as far as your diet? I have tended to think that diet is by far the most important thing in body fat level. It's hard to say much, though, without some idea of what your diet is like now and what, if anything, you've tried. But I don't think any level of physical activity can overcome a really bad diet.
I'm skeptical of weight loss drugs too. I never liked the idea of taking multiple drugs to counter-act each other. Similarly, this might be more of a personal ideology, but I never liked the idea of eating a terrible diet and trying to counter-act the body-fat effects of that with drugs. Why not fix the diet first? It may be another thing, though, if you've tried absolutely everything on the diet front and can't make any progress.
Doctors have an old joke that goes something like "if your patient manages to loose weight, check for cancer".
People who don't gain weight have a feedback mechanism where if they eat a big meal in the evening they will not be hungry the next day and eat lightly. In fat people, for whatever reason, that's not working. They'll eat a big dinner and be hungry at breakfast. While dieting their body will respond by becoming lethargic to save energy and store whatever they eat.
Yes you can loose weight by aggressively counting every calorie for the rest of your life, but the effort is huge and the quality of life is bad.
The new weight loss drugs just dramatically improve people's lives. They get to experience the sensation of being not hungry for the first time in their lives.
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