How do these work ?
Costs a kilobuck a month.
Here’s another approach that’s free:
“Here We Go With PolyPharmacy”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=248664
I was diagnosed with type2 the first of the year. I stopped drinking fizzy drinks and stopped eating all the stuff the literature says not to eat. I also started using an under desk elliptical just after Thanksgiving of last year. I don’t know what they’re talking about, I’ve lost over 80lbs since Thanksgiving. I’m only on metformin and my doctor expects me to be “done” with diabetes by the end of the year.
I’m fairly certain it really is down to diet and exercise for most of us. What I’m doing can hardly be called exercise anyhow, I’m just sitting here like I have my entire life, the only difference is my feet are constantly in motion and maybe for 5 minutes every hour I peddle like I’m being chased by leftists.
I’ll go a bit further and suggest it’s all the processed stuff we’re consuming. People need to go back to making their own meals, which would have the added benefit of wrecking the parasitical chain restaurant industry as well.
I realize I sound like an ex-smoker (which hilariously I am) but I never got on a soapbox about smoking but this fatdemic is stupid beyond words.
My doctor wanted to put me on insulin, ozempic and some other insanely expensive drug and I talked him out of it. He looked like he might have been about to cry at the first follow up because I did what he told me to do, apparently hardly anyone does as they’re told which is why doctors go straight for insulin. I’m convinced the overwhelming majority of people who don’t lose the weight and get their blood sugar under control are stuffing pies in their faces in the middle of the night.
Conservatively, you can expect to lose that in 4 months on a low carb diet, assuming 1/3-lb per day after a 2-week start-up period.
The diabetes drug is very interesting, but it is still a drug from big pharma and may have weird and bad side effects they are not disclosing
Wonder if it has mRNA in it /s
Eat recklessly, take a pill, lose weight.
What could go wrong?
/s
Bottom line is, you can reverse metabolic disorder with diet and just a wee bit of exercise.
How I did it:
- OMAD - One meal a day. I eat one meal in the evening. No fast carbs. Any carbs in my meal come from vegetables low carb veggies.
- Effort to walk at least 10,000 steps. Easiest to fit these steps into your current lifestyle. Do things like park further from the store, take a couple extra laps in the store, take the stairs if you can, hunt mushrooms when not in season :).
Your body was taught to eat three times a day. It doesn’t need food that often if you feed it protein and slow carbs, like a caveman. I won’t kid you, it is hard to retrain your body to only get hungry around 4:00PM (for me), but it will adapt.
After one year, my A1C was 5.5 and my cholesterol was around 100. These numbers and my weight are steady after 5 years. My PCP was consulted and approved, but she still asks if I eat a low cholesterol diet. Guess she can’t help herself.
Meth is probably a lot cheaper
The drug companies announce a weight loss wonder drug on the same day.
Coincidence?
“...will finalize an application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for fast-track approval”
Fast-track approval. Sounds familiar. In a bad way.
Accomplish the same results with diet and exercise...and be healthier for it.
Those who say that does not work simply do not have the will to accomplish the goal...or are their enablers.
I’ve been on mounjaro for several months, and have lost 30 pounds. My a1c is now in the normal range. Medicare part D pays for most of it (cash price is ~ $1200/month), but it puts me in the dreaded donut hole rather quickly, so that as of this month, it is costing me $250, instead of $47. But it will put me into catastrophic coverage in about 3 or 4 more months, so my cost will then be very little. I reckon that over the year, it’s costing me an average of about $125/month. It completely takes away any thoughts of food, as well as appetite, whereas without it, my mind constantly runs to “I want to eat everything in sight, especially carbs”. Worst side effect? Diarrhea.
“Ozempic and Wegovy — drugs touted by celebrities”
If /when the Pharmas juice them up with some kind of mRNA. I suppose Americans will buy more of them. As it is, I am kinda amazed that weight obsessed couch potatoes will fork out $1400 a month for Ozempic. Which is the one I hear the most about