re: New weight-loss compound melts fat without curbing appetite — and preserves muscle

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I use tirzepatide. It works.

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That’s the monjuro/zepbound stuff right? I’ve got three family members on the semaglutide, it works for them and their busy lifestyles.

I’ve made it to 60% of my goal since June 12th.. hoping I won’t need either of those compounds, but I won’t feel bad if I do.

I have type 2 diabtes but I manage well. It's the little pill with a big story to tell! Over time it was easy to see...I was lowering my A1C.

With semaglutides and/or tirzepatides, when people get to their ideal weight do they just stop taking them or is there a maintenance dosage to keep you at your desired poundage?

Axing for a friend

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There’s no free lunches in nature.

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But every once in a while there is $.50 corndog day at Sonic.

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Everyone has an hour per day to exercise. That hour might be at 5:00 am or 9:00 pm, but it’s there.

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Not necessarily. I know a chick that leaves for work at 630am, returns home a little after 6pm, has two kids to feed, bathe and put to bed... then dishes, laundry, prepping for the next day... by 9pm she's worn out.

If she gets up earlier, the kids wake up too.. when they get older she'll have time but her life is quite busy and I don't blame her for going with the weight loss meds.

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Not necessarily. I know a chick that leaves for work at 630am, returns home a little after 6pm, has two kids to feed, bathe and put to bed... then dishes, laundry, prepping for the next day... by 9pm she's worn out. If she gets up earlier, the kids wake up too.. when they get older she'll have time but her life is quite busy and I don't blame her for going with the weight loss meds.

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Excuses. I have literally every responsibility you listed for her, and I work out from 5:00 to 6:00 every morning, because I’m busy.

Typical people will need to continue on a maintenance dose, otherwise, they will regain the weight lost after 2 years. So either continue or radically change lifestyle.

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Excuses. I have literally every responsibility you listed for her, and I work out from 5:00 to 6:00 every morning, because I’m busy.

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You leave your children unattended at home alone while you go to the gym?

Face it, not everyone has your schedule or the same responsibilities.

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I’m hopeful that these will eventually help a lot of chronic diseases of western cultures.

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At least it will for the rich ones who can afford it.

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Excuses. I have literally every responsibility you listed for her, and I work out from 5:00 to 6:00 every morning, because I’m busy.

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I think you’re looking at things through a tremendous bias of a reasonably intelligent, middle class (or better) person who is motivated enough to do things in a healthy way.

There are literally tens of millions of people out there who are insanely ignorant past this boards ability to comprehend. Not every one is strictly lazy and a lot of them think they aren’t even doing things poorly. They think they’re living relatively healthy or don’t even really think about health. Ot can be cultural, class based, or even just ignorance.

It spans cultures, urban vs rural, races, etc. Many aren’t even obese as much as just metabolically all fricked up.

They think they’re basically “healthy” and are then getting amputations from diabetes, kidney failure, heart attacks, etc in their late 40s and 50s.

I see it every day where I work(which is a fairly affluent area for the most part). It’s WAY worse when you go more rural down here.

If these future meds can limit some of these complications with minimal side effects I fail to see how that’s a bad thing as the pie in the sky thinking that these tens of millions of people are all going to start just figuring it out simply isn’t working.