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[quote=Anonymous]I have also been losing weight the “old fashioned way” and have gotten lots of questions on how I’m doing it, people of course presuming I’m taking the drugs. I’m not. Not because I don’t think they’re amazing, I really do, but because I have another medical condition that makes these drugs potentially more risky for me than for the average person.

I haven’t been shy about saying that my weight loss is  motivated by a desire to live longer with my condition, and it has required a fundamental reset in how I think about food and exercise and a serious commitment to getting my thyroid in check. It requires constant scrutiny and counting for me to lose on average less than 3 lbs/month. It’s hard work and it’s getting even harder as I get closer to my goal.

I don’t say this to virtue signal about my superior willpower, but to set expectations that what appears to others be a sudden and easy weight loss has actually required a lot of time, effort, and scientific-like experimentation to achieve. Everyone is selling easy fixes- from the Wegovy people to the keto people to the simple CICO people. For most people, middle age women in particular, nothing about losing weight is “easy”. There’s a bizarre alchemy to finding just the perfect CICO balance that lets you lose weight while not hurting your ability to perform every day at your best, taking into account stress factors, amount of sleep, and even hormone cycles. After a year I find that most days I find the balance, but there are still other days I don’t.

To the extent Wegovy gives people the assist they need to make better choices and find that balance, I’m all for it. But similar effects can be had from long term behavior changes if you’re willing and able to invest the time to experiment and be patient.

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