Posted on 10/11/2023 9:33:02 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
I’m one of those people who seems to gain weight by looking at food.
I’ve cut out processed foods, sugar and the like to almost none. It helped a lot and Wellbutrin has helped me a great deal. Craving stuff is way down.
Lost about 32 pounds in the past two months.
i love that
always a doggie bag
self control is so yesterday
Being skinny isn’t necessarily healthy, it’s how you get skinner that matters.
My Fitness Pal, the pay version, is a worthwhile tool.
Of course keeping track (MFP helps bigly) is the key. Exercise helps a lot but is NOT GOING TO HELP if you don’t watch your intake.
I have been using MFP for a little over a year and working out at least 3x a week... sometimes cardio, sometimes resistance training. I have not lost a lot of weight, I have lost some. BUT my body shape has changed. I have more muscle, and I feel much much healthier.
I used a personal trainer for a while, they showed me two or three different workout routines to do. Now I just go through the routines on my own.
Hope this helps.
My hypothesis is that the price we paid for agriculture dramatically increasing crop yields over the past 100 years is that the food produced is now much less nutrietous. Therefore people are unknowingly consuming more high caloric heavily processed food hoping to obtain the necessary nutrients are bodies need.
That’s true varies by frame
But that doesn’t explain morbid obesity rates that are epidemic
It’s demographic and socio economic and reflects a culture of luxury and sloth
Where saying someone is fat is shaming and queers are cool and so on
I’m 65 and I might have seen a half dozen folks a year super fat and this was 60s 70s Mississippi mind you
Now I can go to my fav Wally and they are half the customers
Exceptions are areas with more educated folks which we don’t like here I know
And higher income where women have pressure to be thinner
And the easiest demographic is high altitude where you get natures assist
When I was in bogota for months I got really skinny and ate a lot
I’m six five and have dealt with moderate overweight up and down I think three times in 35 years slowly up slowly down around 25-30%
217 now headed down a bit more
And had Graves and take synthroid
And I like to eat
That might be part of it.
Also, as an “older” person with knee arthritis, and back issues, standing to make a decent meal can be painful. Going out, through a drive through, or eating processed foods is less so, sorry to say. Eating junk is easier and often less expensive.
It can be a sorry cycle.
That might be part of it.
Also, as an “older” person with knee arthritis, and back issues, standing to make a decent meal can be painful. Going out, through a drive through, or eating processed foods is less so, sorry to say. Eating junk is easier and often less expensive.
It can be a sorry cycle.
Its worse than that — two paragraphs in, you can see them trying to get this generation’s version of “Diet Pills” covered under medicare as “viable treatment”. Sucking up for a payday — right now, the new diet pills (Ozympic being prescribed for diabetes being the exception) are in the same group as Rogaine — a non medical condition drug.
(As an aside regarding the original “Diet Pills”, these were remarketed Benzedrine pills — 100% amphetamine. One of the first of the betrayals of trust between big pharma & doctor medical establishment versus us sick people. After the Big One lot of the pilots, tankers, and navy crewmen became medical doctors on the GI Bill. They remembered the “pep pills” given before operations or missions and the loss of appetite side effect. Bennies were widely prescribed for weight loss. Listening to my mom and aunts talk, it sounds like the ‘50’s had as bad a speed issue with women 25-50 as the opiates are these days with men 40+.)
“Ozempic is a drug used for type 2 diabetes treatments, because of its newfound usage as a diet drug for people too lazy to eat better and exercise, there is a shortage of it.”
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The nurse I saw recently said the treatment is $1,000 a month, and the weight will return when you stop, if you don’t change your eating habits.
I was recently put on a new drug that’s for blood sugar control. It does a great job and has dropped my blood sugar. But , in another ‘off label’ use, similar to Ozempic, it has been found to also control blood pressure. I had been taking a beta blocker for a few months, which is like having an anchor tied to your ankle, and this stuff is so much better. Normal BP without the side effects. All systems have come back on line, if you catch my drift.
Plus, in the month or so I’ve been on it, I’ve lost 5 pounds. Not sure if that’s because of the higher metabolism, or if the drug’s effects on my blood sugar are responsible, but I’ve noticed I’m not eating as many snack foods. And, I feel like riding a bike again.
The downside: It’s about $150 a month.
Drop me a private message if you’d like to know the band name, I’d rather not give them a public endorsement.
“I just tell people that I used to weigh 400 pounds. Then they say, ‘Wow, you look good’.” - Nate Bargatze
Remember what the dormouse said
FEED YOUR HEAD!!!
(as opposed to your gullet, I guess)
One Meal A Day, it’s cheaper, and it works wonders.
I’ve come to believe it’s mostly genetic. Some people gain weight very easily, and they struggle to lose it. They don’t even eat very much, and they’re always dieting.
Then, there are people like myself. I can lose weight and get into shape quickly. So, when I gain weight or fall out of shape, it’s 100% my fault.
Growing up in the ‘50s and ‘60s fast food was a rarity. Now it’s a primary meal source for a lot of the young. And the not so young.
Fast food is heavy in fats and carbs and salt because that enhances its taste. Drinking sodas all day is pretty common. Toss in munchies from legalized pot and a lot of screen time instead of finding something to do outdoors and you have a recipe for getting fat.
There also seems to be a lack of pride in appearance for a lot people. Not vanity, just an absence of normal self respect. I don’t get it.
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