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keto works, but it's not sustainable. Then when you stop cause your body requires lots of different types of food, including carbs, to be healthy, the weight comes roaring back. I went down that road. Best things to do is eat normally, just less than you are burning. Make sure you are not always eating calorie dense food, eat more vegetables, eat more soup, eat stuff with high water content. A 500 calorie per day deficit regardless what type of food you are eating is going to result in weight loss, it's just science and math. You can even just eat sugar and still lose weight if you eat less calories in sugar than what you burn, but you will have all kinds of other problems if you did that

That's what your doctor is likely to say. Just like he wanted you to get the clot shot, and wants to give a newborn multiple vacinations in the same shot.

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Posted by Lightning

Texas

Member since May 2014

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Posted on 4/9/25 at 5:30 pm to LSUGrrrl

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It would have to be implemented in coalition with stricter food benefits that encouraged more healthy purchases but it’s one of the easiest and cost effective ways of breaking the fat, unhealthy lifestyles of many Americans.

This. We're going to pay for the healthcare costs related to overweight/obesity anyway through Medicare and Medicaid, so getting people to lose weight would be an overall cost benefit. If they allowed the generic compounded versions of these meds to be covered, the cost would be significantly lower.

Also cut the junk food from EBT, make the restrictions the same as WIC. These GLP1 meds make it almost impossible to overeat, most people would just end up vomiting if they were still stuffing their face while on it. But if they want to give it a try, go ahead and binge on the fruits, veggies and milk that you purchased with WIC.

Someone else mentioned the risk of people reselling their drugs, which I hadn't thought of but there would definitely be a market for them. Set a time limit (3 months max?) where if they haven't achieved a certain % of weight loss, no more for them since they either aren't using it or it isn't working for them.

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Posted by LSUGrrrl

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Member since Jul 2007

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Posted on 4/9/25 at 5:34 pm to Lightning

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Someone else mentioned the risk of people reselling their drugs, which I hadn't thought of but there would definitely be a market for them. Set a time limit (3 months max?) where if they haven't achieved a certain % of weight loss, no more for them since they either aren't using it or it isn't working for them.

They are supposed to have blood tests done every 3 months anyway. No signs of weight loss or changes in stats through blood tests or just no show for blood test and no refill.

That said, the black market likely goes away once it’s readily available and lower cost.

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