Need to lose weight for good

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Anonymous wrote:Read up on semaglutides such as Wegovy & Ozempic. They have made a real difference.

I have but my insurance won’t cover them and they are stupid expensive out of pocket.

Get a diabetes diagnosis or get them from Canada

I don’t have diabetes, so no luck there. How do you get them from Canada?

Get a paper prescription for a 4 mg pen, buy from Mark’s marine pharmacy or buycanadianinsulin.com. Will be around $300 with shipping.

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.

You don’t have to follow the above schedule. I’ve been on it for 11 weeks now and still on 0.5 mg and still losing weight. No need to increase the dose if you’re still experiencing hunger suppression and weight loss. On the flip side some people might not experience significant weight loss until 2.0mg (the studied dose for weight loss for Wegovy was 2.4 mg after titrating up). It just all depends on the person.

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Anonymous wrote:Slow and steady. Stop doing idiotic diets like 'keto' that are not sustainable.

Move more, eat less. Stop eating out so much - max 1 meal a week. Don't drink your calories. Take the stairs, park further away and walk more. And possibly, therapy. As someone who's been obese, it's not just a matter of food, but underlying mental/emotional issues. Exercise can also be a very helpful form of therapy.

+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.

“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.

But that is what the weight loss surgery does- forces you to eat (a lot) less. You don’t need to surgically
make your stomach smaller in order to eat less. OP isnt diabetic or insulin resistant.

OP try weight watchers. It is a very balanced approach and will take time. But stick with it. You can do this without surgery and you will be much healthier on the other side of weight loss without having surgery

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Anonymous wrote: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.

You can get Mounjaro from a telemed provider -- Alpha is one of them. Then use the coupon. If your BMI is over 30, you qualify.

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Anonymous wrote:Read up on semaglutides such as Wegovy & Ozempic. They have made a real difference.

I have but my insurance won’t cover them and they are stupid expensive out of pocket.

Get a diabetes diagnosis or get them from Canada

I don’t have diabetes, so no luck there. How do you get them from Canada?

If you are obese you most likely are prediabetic or diabetic. Most people don't know they are. I used to weigh 190 and I am now 144 and I am still considered prediabetic ( BMI 26.4..normal is 25) I joined DPP at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring. It is free and they are doing it online. Changed my life for the better for good...

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Go to therapy and come to terms with using food as a reward and medication. Grieve your use of it in that way. This is the only thing that helps. You need to reframe your relationship with food. Use it for sustenance only.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m 40 and would like to lose 100-130 lbs. Not trying to be super skinny, just not fat. I’ve lost weight before through keto and hcg but couldn’t keep it off either time. Surprisingly I don’t eat huge quantities or very unhealthy, but it just takes SO MUCH effort to lose even 5 lbs. I want to lose weight and will put in the work for something I know WILL work. Any advice?

How much do you weigh now and how tall are you?

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At 100 to 150 lbs, your only options for permanent weight loss are surgical or medical (Wegovy, etc.). There are vanishingly few people who maintain a 100+ loss on diet and exercise alone (this is extremely well-documented in many, many reputable studies). Please ignore the posters who are selling diet and exercise only snake oil. They have no scientific support for their position.

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Anonymous wrote:Read up on semaglutides such as Wegovy & Ozempic. They have made a real difference.

I have but my insurance won’t cover them and they are stupid expensive out of pocket.

I get ozembic and a physician and coach through calibrate, they guarantee they can get your insurance to cover so OOP is no more than $x/month (mine is only $25).

I’m down 53 lb in 6.5 months, the program runs one year and includes transitioning away from meds.

Op here, been there tried that and they couldn’t cover me with my insurance, United.

I have United and just got approved for both Wagovy and Ozempic. You might need to call them or have your doctor write a note.

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Anonymous wrote:Just get surgery. It's the ONLY thing to have been proven to work long term. Or waste months and money on a gimmick - rinse and repeat.

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.

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.

+1 Most of the people who are very obese aren't eating so much more than a lightly overweight person. It's just their metabolism is crappy compared to others...

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Anonymous wrote:Slow and steady. Stop doing idiotic diets like 'keto' that are not sustainable.

Move more, eat less. Stop eating out so much - max 1 meal a week. Don't drink your calories. Take the stairs, park further away and walk more. And possibly, therapy. As someone who's been obese, it's not just a matter of food, but underlying mental/emotional issues. Exercise can also be a very helpful form of therapy.

+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.

“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.

But that is what the weight loss surgery does- forces you to eat (a lot) less. You don’t need to surgically
make your stomach smaller in order to eat less. OP isnt diabetic or insulin resistant.

OP try weight watchers. It is a very balanced approach and will take time. But stick with it. You can do this without surgery and you will be much healthier on the other side of weight loss without having surgery

NP. You are very ignorant of what happens physiologically with bariatric surgery, and you are peddling a commercial solution (weight watchers) that has abysmal long-term regain stats.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

THIS. Weight Watchers has been studied and found to be the best program for sustainable weight loss because you have to actually change your diet. It's a slow and steady plan and takes dedication, but it does work. Don't fall into the trao of quick weight loss fads like pills or even surgery. And Keto works, but everyone I know on Keto gains it back because who wants to live a life without fruit or bread or rice, etc? It's just not realistic to eat that way for the rest of your life.

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Weight Loss for Busy Physicians podcast - that is her tagline

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Anonymous wrote:Read up on semaglutides such as Wegovy & Ozempic. They have made a real difference.

Tired Wegovy for 8 weeks and nothing happened. Was a huge waste of money.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

THIS. Weight Watchers has been studied and found to be the best program for sustainable weight loss because you have to actually change your diet. It's a slow and steady plan and takes dedication, but it does work. Don't fall into the trao of quick weight loss fads like pills or even surgery. And Keto works, but everyone I know on Keto gains it back because who wants to live a life without fruit or bread or rice, etc? It's just not realistic to eat that way for the rest of your life.

Weight Watchers has the best results of commercial diets, but their long-term results for permanent weight loss (no regain) are terrible. They are just marginally less terrible than some of the others.

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Anonymous wrote:Read up on semaglutides such as Wegovy & Ozempic. They have made a real difference.

Tired Wegovy for 8 weeks and nothing happened. Was a huge waste of money.

That sucks, but you’re an outlier. I’m down 40 pounds in 4 months on Ozempic and it’s been almost effortless. Not even on the highest dose yet.