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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because they took the lazy way out. [/quote]

Why do you think losing weight should be hard? Serious question.[/quote]

[i]Sure Larla's cancer is in remission -- but she just had surgery and it worked. She didn't have to have chemo or radiation. She did it the easy way. [/i][/quote]

Comparing weightloss to cancer?

Are you trying to look like a joke?
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OK, so you did not like PPs analogy, fine. You still have not responded to the clearly worded question: [b]why do you want weight loss to be hard for other people?[/b] [/quote]

Look, there is benefit in doing hard things.

As someone who has ben obese as a child and much of my adult life, most of us overeat for deep emotional reasons. It's not just because we love bread so much. Cool, a GLP1 will reduce your appetite and thus help you lose weight. But it never helps the person get to the deep reason why they coped with food in the first place. It's the reason why most regain when they go off the drug, and also the reaosn why most people re-gain in general.

Doing the deep emotional work is challenging and hard, but that's the only way one can untangle the bad habits in the first place to relaly fix them. Sorry that you feel butt hurt over that.

I want everyone to be healthy, but you can't fix the mind just by losing some pounds. Them's them hard apple facts. 
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Gained 90 pounds as a result of medication that causes massive weight gain. If I want to live, I have to take the medication.No “deep emotional work“ is going to fix that. “Them’s them hard apple facts.”[/quote]

[b]Sincere question. How much are you eating now?[/b] If you gained all 90lbs because of a medication (and not over-eating), then you must be eating barely a couple hundred calories now with a GLP1.
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Sincere answer. Between 1000 and 1400 cal a day or so; the nutritionist my doctor had me see told me I have to track and make sure I don't dip below 900.

When medication messes up your metabolism, your metabolic rate can go way down -- and you can eat what would be a weight-loss daily calorie budget for the average person and still gain weight. That's the thing -- how do you define "over eating"? I think people look at obese persons and picture them stuffing themselves with twinkies or something, and that simply isn't always the case. I can eat significantly less than other people who are literally on a diet, and still gain weight. The other wrinkle in this is that some medications will affect hormones in such a way that a 300lb person's brain is sending out hormone's that tell the body it is starving, which makes it virtually impossible to not overeat. People will just say "They have no discipline, they have no willpower, just don't eat the cake at the birthday party..." but current obesity science will tell you that that is almost like telling some people not to breathe. The people who don't have this problem can never understand it (or at least most never will, anyway -- some of the scientists studying obesity do). Obesity is a disease; things are happening in the body that are maladaptive. Like with an autoimmune disorder where the immune system is confused and attacking your body ... with obesity the body can get confused and think it is dangerously thin and try to handle that hormonally when it is in fact obese. It is a very hard thing, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone. But people who don't understand really need to stop pushing their judgment. Well, people need to stop pushing judgment at other people in general, but that's a battle never to be won with education. Hopefully this one will be. Because stigma and judgment is awful. [/quote]

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