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I’m single with no dependents I can claim. I typically do standard deduction. Is it worth it, in your experience, to get a cpa in this situation?

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so he only has 2k to invest. SGOV gives him 1.45%

he is better off gambling and having fun.

he needs to up the money and just put it in a T-bill and get over 4%.

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Not trying to get start an argument, but, the fact that you're blaming it on food entirely is absurd.

Let me ask you a question that might change how you think about this. How do you think sex drive works? Could a high sex drive person just NOT have sex? Or only have sex once a month? Or does their body crave it to point where they will be do(sometimes) completely irrational things to get it? Now apply that to the consumption of food.

And that's kind of the problem. We tend to attribute obesity to some kind of moral failing and if they'd just stop consuming so many calories it would all be better.

Think about that statement for a minute and hopefully you'll see this from a different perspective.

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Inaccurate. The disease of obesity causes imbalances in the body’s chemistry. One of the main targets of the disease of obesity is GLP1.

There are plenty of people that have the disease of obesity that are not currently overweight. These people constantly suffer from hunger and feelings of starvation or overwork their bodies to burn enough calories to counter the caloric intake cause by the disease of obesity.

Plenty of people have diabetes. They take medicine to keep the symptoms from occurring. The disease of obesity is the same. Old thinking still prevails(the bulk of this board is ground zero for that), which is why so many can’t wrap their heads around the reality of this.

Fortunately, the medical community knows it is a disease, has proven it is a disease, and now has effective ways to fight the disease.

Old mentality is still a challenge that will be overcome in time.

It’s a disease. That is factual. Not an opinion.

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You think it's stupid for a youth competitive golfer to try to maximize club head speed and rotational power? Interesting.

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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a commercial that made me say “I want to buy this product”

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The part that a lot of people are overlooking and have stigmatized bigly is that hormones play a massive role on some peoples ability to control how much they eat. Think of it like a broken gas gauge in a vehicle. If your gas gauge is always showing that your almost out of gas, you'll feel compelled to stop and fill up the tank more often. Peoples brains are telling them they are hungry even when they have plenty of available fuel.

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The good news for both the medical community and for people that struggle with their weight is that we are starting to see drugs come to market address the underlying issue. GLP1 meds are going to be the most significant drug to come about in the last 50 years.

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because they dont. Last study i saw estimated only 12% of the population does any form of resistance training atleast once per week and less than 10% lift weights once a week

if less than 10% of your population is doing any form of lifting what do you expect. Less than 5% are actually lifting weights in a progessive manner consistenly enough to accumulate any real muscle, atleast enough to throw off the BMI to any significant degree


so bmi is accurate for 90-95% of the population

why would we not use it to track the population as a whole?

all the guys in here talk about looking like a skeleton at certain weights, yet would love to look like they did in HS.....newsflash....that skeleton look you talk about....thats the look you had in HS and you didnt look like a skeleton, you looked in shape.

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Just a calculation of height, age and weight doesn't account for muscle mass or fitness or if your bone structure

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I do work out

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15 lbs of blubber to lose.

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