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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Congrats to you all on your weight loss!

It think it’s important to get it off in any medically approved safe way that works for you.

But beyond cost, given the various health risks (newest reported is an increased risk in eye strokes resulting in partial blindness), I hope some of you will consider ways you can change your lifestyle to maintain the weight loss without taking these drugs forever.

Chuck Carroll is host of The Exam Room, a podcast of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine which focuses on eating for health and as much plant based as possible. It’s a great resource. Carroll lost a few hundred pounds following weight loss surgery, and maintains it by following a plant based diet and moving his body for physical as well as mental health.

Eating a high fiber diet is the only way to cultivate a truly healthy gut biome which then produces an abundance of short chain fatty acids that are critical to overall health in the body.

Eating less of a diet poor in nutrition will result in weight loss, and carrying less weight improves health - but only a truly healthy diet will result in overall excellent health.[/quote]

So you’re advocating getting off these meds and instead want us to listen to a man who lost 265 lbs in a year after weight loss surgery which shrunk his stomach- saying…listen to him, his method works! [/quote]

To clarify: his method works but we are not giving any credit to the weight loss surgery…[/quote]

He credits his weight loss surgery with being the tool that broke his really bad food addiction, because he was so sick in the aftermath and could eat so little food that the weight melted off. That’s how WLS works for most people- they are too sick to eat much and there is a lot of vomiting and absorption issues etc., like semaglutide drugs cause in many people.

The percent of people after WLS long term who regain most or all of the weight is 70%. It is not a long term success tool for most because they haven’t broken addictions to junk foods and they begin drinking their calories until the stomach stretches and they can eat more and more do them, back to the old ways. I personally considered surgery and then spent months in support groups and saw how much transfer addiction was happening and how many people were scheming 24/7 to find ways to consume old favorite junk foods within weeks of surgery. You have to break the habits of eating hyper palatable nutrient poor foods to get the sweet and savory fixes and the dopamine high.

It’s better to make the transition to plant based whole food diet and lifestyle instead of surgery because the stomach surgery has major potential complications that can be deadly (Lisa Presley) and cutting out so much of one’s stomach makes it more difficult to eat a fiber rich nutrient plant based diet because the stomach isn’t large enough to accommodate the volume of such foods that are optimal. And it creates very unnecessary absorption issues that will require lifelong supplementation when a healthy diet can meet most nutrient needs.

It’s almost like the human body was designed for eating mostly plants. As if our teeth and the way our gut works is evidence that this is the path to optimal health. Huh.[/quote]

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