Vanity weight loss

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just started and used Noom. They will do microdosing for a BMI of 21 or more. For me, ever since my mid 40s the weight has been creeping up despite healthy diet, exercise, sleep, water, limited alcohol, you name it… It was very frustrating. But I think the hardest part for me—and the reason I decided to try it—has been the constant food noise. It’s as if my body always wanted to eat more, so I was either giving in or fighting it constantly, and this was no matter how much I ate. Addiction runs in my family so I often wonder if this is how it manifests: like a constant obsession that just doesn’t go away until you do the thing. I’m only on week two of an incredibly low dose but that noise is gone. It’s amazing. When I’m hungry, I eat, and then I’m good and just don’t want to eat anymore. I don’t care if I don’t even lose a pound. For that alone, it’s worth it for me.

Microdosing for a BMI of 21 is insane. These companies are so shady.

Yes but isn’t vanity by definition insane? Before statin people just drop dead at age 65; before physical therapy women just deal with weak pelvic floor after birth; before nutrition poor people didn’t have access to become athletes, why is wanting to look vanity thin more crazy than any of the above?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just started and used Noom. They will do microdosing for a BMI of 21 or more. For me, ever since my mid 40s the weight has been creeping up despite healthy diet, exercise, sleep, water, limited alcohol, you name it… It was very frustrating. But I think the hardest part for me—and the reason I decided to try it—has been the constant food noise. It’s as if my body always wanted to eat more, so I was either giving in or fighting it constantly, and this was no matter how much I ate. Addiction runs in my family so I often wonder if this is how it manifests: like a constant obsession that just doesn’t go away until you do the thing. I’m only on week two of an incredibly low dose but that noise is gone. It’s amazing. When I’m hungry, I eat, and then I’m good and just don’t want to eat anymore. I don’t care if I don’t even lose a pound. For that alone, it’s worth it for me.

Microdosing for a BMI of 21 is insane. These companies are so shady.

Yes but isn’t vanity by definition insane? Before statin people just drop dead at age 65; before physical therapy women just deal with weak pelvic floor after birth; before nutrition poor people didn’t have access to become athletes, why is wanting to look vanity thin more crazy than any of the above?

Did you really ask why wanting to look thin is more crazy than not wanting to drop dead, incontinence, or malnutrition?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just started and used Noom. They will do microdosing for a BMI of 21 or more. For me, ever since my mid 40s the weight has been creeping up despite healthy diet, exercise, sleep, water, limited alcohol, you name it… It was very frustrating. But I think the hardest part for me—and the reason I decided to try it—has been the constant food noise. It’s as if my body always wanted to eat more, so I was either giving in or fighting it constantly, and this was no matter how much I ate. Addiction runs in my family so I often wonder if this is how it manifests: like a constant obsession that just doesn’t go away until you do the thing. I’m only on week two of an incredibly low dose but that noise is gone. It’s amazing. When I’m hungry, I eat, and then I’m good and just don’t want to eat anymore. I don’t care if I don’t even lose a pound. For that alone, it’s worth it for me.

Microdosing for a BMI of 21 is insane. These companies are so shady.

Agreed, and I’ve also noticed that my 40ish friends who’ve gotten their BMIs below 20 do NOT look good in the face. That cadaver look suits no one.

[Anonymous]

Try Phentermine-topirer15-92mg. It's an appetite suppressant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you all like better, the pen or the pill?

I think the pen is better but I picked the pill because I travel for work and might not have a fridge or want to deal with in general. I can take a pill anywhere

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why not just eat less and exercise more? It's free and easy to do.

If it was that easy, we wouldn’t have an epidemic of obesity and everybody would be skinny.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why not just eat less and exercise more? It's free and easy to do.

LOL it does not work.

I am 4'10" eating less does not move the needle.

I have been to my primary, gyn, endocrinologist and they all said same thing GLP

Here's the thing.. will you be on the GLP for life? If not you will just gain it all back when your appetite returns. If you are not capable of eating less to lose weight you will not be capable of eating less to keep the weight off.

Now I am not at all against GLP1s I think they are amazing and I felt great on it, but the reality is, it is nearly impossible to keep the weight off when you go off. Yes, there are some who do, but they are the exception, not the norm and are probably the ones who could have lost the weight without medication.

What do you see as the problem with people being on this medication for life? Both of my parents have taken blood pressure medication and statins since their 40s and and are now close to 80. Is that problematic. to you too? Or is it only that you don't think weight loss is as worthy of a medical issue?

I have no issue with people being on the medication for life. But anyone going on the medication should ask themselves if THEY are realistically wiling to be on it for life even if that means paying out of pocket at the rate of $300/month.

I don't think most people go into it thinking of this. I think many want to believe that losing the weight is the hard part and once they get to their goal weight they will be able to maintain it without the medication and this is simply not true and backed by science.

+1 $300/month is a lot of money and once you stop the weight will come back.

Ozempic is now covered and same cost as the pill.

Ozempic is not prescribed for vanity weight. For vanity weight people use the shady compounding.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why not just eat less and exercise more? It's free and easy to do.

If it was that easy, we wouldn’t have an epidemic of obesity and everybody would be skinny.

That is the problem, diet and exercise are not easy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just started and used Noom. They will do microdosing for a BMI of 21 or more. For me, ever since my mid 40s the weight has been creeping up despite healthy diet, exercise, sleep, water, limited alcohol, you name it… It was very frustrating. But I think the hardest part for me—and the reason I decided to try it—has been the constant food noise. It’s as if my body always wanted to eat more, so I was either giving in or fighting it constantly, and this was no matter how much I ate. Addiction runs in my family so I often wonder if this is how it manifests: like a constant obsession that just doesn’t go away until you do the thing. I’m only on week two of an incredibly low dose but that noise is gone. It’s amazing. When I’m hungry, I eat, and then I’m good and just don’t want to eat anymore. I don’t care if I don’t even lose a pound. For that alone, it’s worth it for me.

Microdosing for a BMI of 21 is insane. These companies are so shady.

Yes but isn’t vanity by definition insane? Before statin people just drop dead at age 65; before physical therapy women just deal with weak pelvic floor after birth; before nutrition poor people didn’t have access to become athletes, why is wanting to look vanity thin more crazy than any of the above?

Did you really ask why wanting to look thin is more crazy than not wanting to drop dead, incontinence, or malnutrition?

If I had your level of reading comprehension, I’d made some effort to be less passive aggressive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. No side effects. Only did for eight weeks last May. Weight has stayed off. As noted above, I believe it somehow helped to regulate my a1c levels which had become resistant.

Love to exercise, be active. Never a big eater but the weight crept up. This worked like nothing else ( at least for me).

Which one did you use and what dosage?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just started and used Noom. They will do microdosing for a BMI of 21 or more. For me, ever since my mid 40s the weight has been creeping up despite healthy diet, exercise, sleep, water, limited alcohol, you name it… It was very frustrating. But I think the hardest part for me—and the reason I decided to try it—has been the constant food noise. It’s as if my body always wanted to eat more, so I was either giving in or fighting it constantly, and this was no matter how much I ate. Addiction runs in my family so I often wonder if this is how it manifests: like a constant obsession that just doesn’t go away until you do the thing. I’m only on week two of an incredibly low dose but that noise is gone. It’s amazing. When I’m hungry, I eat, and then I’m good and just don’t want to eat anymore. I don’t care if I don’t even lose a pound. For that alone, it’s worth it for me.

Microdosing for a BMI of 21 is insane. These companies are so shady.

Actually the goal for these individuals isn’t necessarily to lose weight: it’s to not gain and reduce food noise. Basically, it allows you to stop white knuckling it. What feels truly insane is thinking about food 24/7 even when you’ve been on a 2k + calorie per day diet, let alone trying to drop below that. Obesity and addiction run in my family, and I imagine this is why. If you haven’t dealt with this, consider yourself lucky. Also, when in perimenopause, good luck trying to use traditional methods to maintain and not gain weight. It ain’t happening!

The online companies cut you off if you do lose weight below a BMI of 21, but people can of course lie about their weight when logging in. I’m sure that happens, but that’s a different issue.

To each her own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why not just eat less and exercise more? It's free and easy to do.

Are you posting from 1985? We've come a long way in obesity research since you were in your 20s, granny.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just started and used Noom. They will do microdosing for a BMI of 21 or more. For me, ever since my mid 40s the weight has been creeping up despite healthy diet, exercise, sleep, water, limited alcohol, you name it… It was very frustrating. But I think the hardest part for me—and the reason I decided to try it—has been the constant food noise. It’s as if my body always wanted to eat more, so I was either giving in or fighting it constantly, and this was no matter how much I ate. Addiction runs in my family so I often wonder if this is how it manifests: like a constant obsession that just doesn’t go away until you do the thing. I’m only on week two of an incredibly low dose but that noise is gone. It’s amazing. When I’m hungry, I eat, and then I’m good and just don’t want to eat anymore. I don’t care if I don’t even lose a pound. For that alone, it’s worth it for me.

Microdosing for a BMI of 21 is insane. These companies are so shady.

Yes but isn’t vanity by definition insane? Before statin people just drop dead at age 65; before physical therapy women just deal with weak pelvic floor after birth; before nutrition poor people didn’t have access to become athletes, why is wanting to look vanity thin more crazy than any of the above?

Did you really ask why wanting to look thin is more crazy than not wanting to drop dead, incontinence, or malnutrition?

If I had your level of reading comprehension, I’d made some effort to be less passive aggressive.

“why is wanting to look vanity thin more crazy than any of the above?”

Start with improving your writing and let’s go from there.

[Anonymous]

I’m doing it right now. I’m 5’5 155 and I’d like to get to 140. I’ve been trying for years. The issue is it is making me nauseous and giving me stomach pains and I’m not sure I can stay on it.

I already eat incredibly well, am plant based, limit alcohol, and work out every single day, an hour day. There is literally nothing else I can do.

[Anonymous]

I just read a moving piece from Christina Applegate's forthcoming memoir..how she starved herself her whole life and never enjoyed life because of it. Now she has so many stomach issues and can barely eat, so she's very frail and just wants to enjoy food again. It really made me think about vanity.I'll keep the 10 lbs I would rather shed and just enjoy food and life.