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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What, pray tell, is “marginally pre-diabetic?”

If you want to lose 50, eat less and move more and cut down on carbs. That will do a lot to help your glucose too. You don’t need  Ozempic.[/quote]

my A1c is outside the normal range, but only a little.

yes, I do need Ozempic. I have been on a diet for the past 40 years.[/quote]

Stop doing diets. Eat a little less (of everything), and move more. Move every single day.
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it's amazing that you are confident you know what my habits are.

i make more than 10k steps every day[b]. i can't eat little bit of everything, not long term[/b]. i my on intermittent fasting right now, which has worked best for my, historically, and i am waking multiple times every night with hunger pangs. [/quote]

[b]Why can't you eat a little bit of everything long term[/b]?

Respectfully, walking and 10k steps don't do much - it's quality, not quantity. 5k steps on stairs or hills, or adding in weights (that are challenging) will do more than simple walking.
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because i tried to, many times, and i failed.

and i never said walking 10k was much. somebody said "get up and start moving" and wrote this to let them know that i am moving. but i am not going to run or to go to the gym. i tried all this, i hade 4 different trainers. they were great, and i learned a lot. many people grow to like exercise but not me.[b] i hate and i don't want to do it. [/b]

so if this is going to make some of you feel better, which, weirdly, seems like it will, i have put a lot of sweat equity into this already. i spent years feeling deprived from dieting. now, it seems like there is an easier way. i am old, i am still dealing with kids, and i am tired from being hungry and deprived with nothing to show for it. why are you so set against me losing some weight more easily? [/quote]

Wow, I can't believe your admitting you just don't *want* to exercise.[/quote]

All these threads end up the same if the posters are truthful. They don’t want to do the work and it’s “too hard.” This is so because at a population level people are conditioned now to expect life to be way too easy. Easy times, weak people and all that.

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DP but the thing that surprises me is these drugs have side effects that sound pretty cumbersome to deal with. The hassle of getting them first of all, or finding them in stock now that there’s a Wegovy shortage. Dealing with injections and the loss of muscle mass and other various things people have reported. And I know working out isn’t fun if you’re overweight and it’s tough and you’re viewing it as punishment for being fat vs. taking advantage of your body’s ability to move and play, and it isn’t the main factor of weight loss, but don’t you still need to do it even if on semaglutides? I don’t think most doctors would say yeah, take this and you never need to work out again! [/quote]

NP I didn’t lose weight training for an Ironman.  I  trained and ate like a bodybuilder for two years and never got below 25% body fat.  When I took a DEXA scan, the doctor thought he needed to recalibrate his machine Because I looked fit but the results were that I was fat.

If I need to give myself a tiny shot once a week to finally reduce all the horrible consequences of obesity, I am delighted to do that.   [/quote]

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