Just exercise and don’t snack. It’s doable.
I would have concerns that all these new weight-loss drugs are going to have some nasty long-term side effects that won’t surface right away. Remember, kids, that cigarettes were once marketed not necessarily unreasonably as a weight-loss aid— overtly (”Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet”) and later more subtly (Virginia SLIMS).
How about just eating less? Anyone can and will lose weight with calorie restriction.
“Orforglipron” — I would have loved to have been in the Naming Committee meeting that came up with that tongue twister!
“Oh For Crying Out Loud”
“Wait a sec! I think you’ve got something there. Let’s work it a bit!”
“Or forget I said anything about porn...er ‘pron’”
“Keep it going folks, we’ve got something we can work with here!”
Or could just eat less...
whats the goal?
clothes hangers with hair?
Eat less, exercise more.
If you can balance your checkbook, you can lose weight.
Burn more calories than you take in, (spend more money than you earn).
The long term benefits for getting obesity under control are counted in the tens of billions of dollars. There will be fewer knee replacements, heart attacks, kidney failures, and a whole host of other related maladies.
Those costs are coming out of your pocket.
If a pill or shot can safely reduce those things…why would anyone want to stop that.
If it was only a matter of “just eat less”, this wouldn’t be an issue.
Go to Walmart and hand this stuff out like candy.
More drugs to make the pharmies richer, but no exercise and a lousy diet is the American obese way!
Like Tony Dungy once said about football players coming to Summer Camp with a few extra pounds - “If you don’t feel hunger, you won’t lose weight”. And this was about prime of life professional athletes.
Then, a drug that should only be used for the seriously obese to get started, they use a top-seeded professional tennis player to hawk their poison.
And what exactly would those changes be?
I'm just going to say it out loud: any drug these drug pushers rush to market like this is NOT going to have positive long-term effects.
Receipt: Every damn' Covid jab & pill.
Started low dose Zepbound on 11/1 and I’m down 9 lbs in 28 days. The next 28 days will be the 5mg dose. Only side effect is constipation which has been managed with stool softener. Best benefit is I don’t think about food all the time; and when I eat, portion control is much easier. I’m more likely to choose healthier options that take longer to prepare since I’m not starving all the time. Clothes are starting to fit better. To me, the cost/benefit is positive.
I’m not worried about long term side effects since I’m going to die of something. Being overweight is a death sentence itself.
After all these “miracle drugs” (remember Fen-Phen??) it all boils down to this:
Eat less and exercise more!
There is no getting around that.
Put down the moon pie and the RC cola. 🙄
I heard a comedian say something hilarious (to me at least), and somewhat profound:
“Did you notice that when Ozempic came out you stopped hearing about body positivity?”
Once again I would like to say that it's like the beginning of a bad "Sci-Fi Channel" move.