Need to lose weight for good
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Anonymous
Op here, been there tried that and they couldn’t cover me with my insurance, United. |
Anonymous
It's a rare occurrence. Less rare than weight loss/regain pattern. It's like telling people you don't fly for the same reason. How many plans took off and landed successfully just yesterday? You'll have to decide you don't want to carry the weight anymore. |
Anonymous
You call a pharmacy |
Anonymous
Calibrate is $1,800 upfront before the cost of any medication fyi. |
Anonymous
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Try Mounjaro. It’s the new glp-1 and gip medication. Ozempic studies showed a 15% weight loss and Mounjaro showed a 20% weight loss.
Eli Lilly currently has a coupon out. If you have commercial insurance but your insurance won’t cover Mounjaro, it will cost you $25/month for 12 months. |
Anonymous
+1000. Fad diets and all the other marketing gimmicks for weight loss are not sustainable. The results are not immediate, but transitioning to a healthier lifestyle is the only surefire way of losing weight and keeping it off. |
Anonymous
Np, I tried Dr. Beale about 10 years ago, and it was a complete waste of time and money. Overall, I lost like 6 lbs., and gained all of it back immediately. Op, like you, I too tried every trick in the book including HCG. HCG was the only thing that temporarily worked. I lost 24 lbs. but gained it all back and then some. Every time you lose and regain, it makes it more challenging to lose again. Four years ago, at 40 and 214 lbs., (5'6), I took the leap and got the sleeve in Mexico. Best decision I have ever made. I am holding steady at 135, but even now, I have to be careful, because I can eat a lot more. All that to say, if you want to lose a significant amount of weight and keep it off, get the sleeve. |
Anonymous
Get a paper prescription for a 4 mg pen, buy from Mark’s marine pharmacy or buycanadianinsulin.com. Will be around $300 with shipping. |
Anonymous
“Eat less, move more” simply doesn’t work for someone who has been 100-150 pounds overweight for a long time. It would be like telling a healthy 135 pound person that they just have to eat less and move more to get to 90 pounds. Our bodies will do everything it can to stay at the high weight. |
Anonymous
DP here My trouble is that I have always had to surf the line between enough calories so I don’t get a headache and too many such that I gain weight. I seemed to have figured that out, but I have to be extremely vigilant or else I gain. As a result I have slowly gained back some of my passed losses. Now, I find myself in a predicament where, it order to lose weight I have to eat less than the headache trigger amount. So, my choice seems to be to be fat or in constant pain. I walk regularly (daily average is over 10k steps, steps 60 minutes+ at target heart rate 6 days a week- it amounts to about 5 miles in total 6 out of 7 days) and eat around 1800-2000 calories. The Fitbit and MyFitness pal say I should be able to eat 500-1000 more calories based on my height, target weight, age, and gender. They are BS for me. This has always been the case, when I went to college I discovered that I moved more and ate about 1/3 less then my peers who were 2-3 sizes smaller than I was. Nothing has changed as I have aged. Based on family pictures down the maternal line, it is inherited for at least four generations. I have tried IF and it did not do anything as I was already close to that most of my life. So, my question is if these drugs help on the headache front if people eat less than they have. |
Anonymous
I disagree. It’s a shortcut that comes with its own problems. Hard work, and consistency is the only thing that truly works. 1. Find any form of fitness that you enjoy that makes you happy and be consistent 2. Stop dieting, and start nourishing your body with real food. Read the backs of food labels if you can’t pronounce it don’t eat it. 3. Be patient with yourself. It took years to put the weight on give yourself the same amount of time to take it off. |
Anonymous
It’s just a tool that still requires hard work and consistency. It’s not a “shortcut” When your body has a set point weight that is 100+ pounds overweight, your metabolism, your hunger hormones, your insulin response—it’s broken. It’s all broken. Simply exercising regularly and eating real food does not lead to weight loss, especially long term weight loss, for the majority of these people. |
Anonymous
NP and nope. I gained 50 pounds in spring 2020 just like that, bam! My weight has crept up with pregnancies and age, but spring 2020 did me in. I went from normal BMI to obese and now in 2022 I gained 20 lbs in the spring that tipped me into morbid obesity territory. It's shocking how quickly the weight goes on. |
Anonymous
You have to step with doses. Getting a 4mg pen will get you 8 weeks worth to start: 4 weeks at 0.25mg = 1mg 2 weeks at 0.5mg = 1mg 2 weeks at 1.0 mg = 2mg After that you can stay at 1.0mg for a while and then step up to 2mg if you plateau. |
Anonymous
| Can't believe no one has recommended Weight Watchers. It really works - I have lost and maintained weight on it for years. And yes, lots of people lost 100lbs + on the program. It's all about sustainable healthy eating habits AND importantly, head space and managing behaviors. I know that if I eat ice cream and chips I'll gain weight, but if I eat fruit and veggies I won't -- how do I get myself in a place where I am happy eating fruit and veggies and not trying to eat my feelings with the ice cream and chips? Etc. |