Can't believe no one has recommended Weight Watchers. It really works - I have lost and maintained weight on it for years. And yes, lots of people lost 100lbs + on the program. It's all about sustainable healthy eating habits AND importantly, head space and managing behaviors. I know that if I eat ice cream and chips I'll gain weight, but if I eat fruit and veggies I won't -- how do I get myself in a place where I am happy eating fruit and veggies and not trying to eat my feelings with the ice cream and chips? Etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Read up on semaglutides such as Wegovy & Ozempic. They have made a real difference.

I have but my insurance won’t cover them and they are stupid expensive out of pocket.

Get a diabetes diagnosis or get them from Canada

I don’t have diabetes, so no luck there. How do you get them from Canada?

Get a paper prescription for a 4 mg pen, buy from Mark’s marine pharmacy or buycanadianinsulin.com. Will be around $300 with shipping.

You have to step with doses. Getting a 4mg pen will get you 8 weeks worth to start:
4 weeks at 0.25mg = 1mg
2 weeks at 0.5mg = 1mg
2 weeks at 1.0 mg = 2mg

After that you can stay at 1.0mg for a while and then step up to 2mg if you plateau.

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Anonymous wrote:Just get surgery. It's the ONLY thing to have been proven to work long term. Or waste months and money on a gimmick - rinse and repeat.

I disagree. It’s a shortcut that comes with its own problems. Hard work, and consistency is the only thing that truly works.
1. Find any form of fitness that you enjoy that makes you happy and be consistent
2. Stop dieting, and start nourishing your body with real food. Read the backs of food labels if you can’t pronounce it don’t eat it.
3. Be patient with yourself. It took years to put the weight on give yourself the same amount of time to take it off.

NP and nope. I gained 50 pounds in spring 2020 just like that, bam! My weight has crept up with pregnancies and age, but spring 2020 did me in. I went from normal BMI to obese and now in 2022 I gained 20 lbs in the spring that tipped me into morbid obesity territory. It's shocking how quickly the weight goes on.

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Anonymous wrote:Just get surgery. It's the ONLY thing to have been proven to work long term. Or waste months and money on a gimmick - rinse and repeat.

I disagree. It’s a shortcut that comes with its own problems. Hard work, and consistency is the only thing that truly works.
1. Find any form of fitness that you enjoy that makes you happy and be consistent
2. Stop dieting, and start nourishing your body with real food. Read the backs of food labels if you can’t pronounce it don’t eat it.
3. Be patient with yourself. It took years to put the weight on give yourself the same amount of time to take it off.

It’s just a tool that still requires hard work and consistency. It’s not a “shortcut”

When your body has a set point weight that is 100+ pounds overweight, your metabolism, your hunger hormones, your insulin response—it’s broken. It’s all broken. Simply exercising regularly and eating real food does not lead to weight loss, especially long term weight loss, for the majority of these people.

Anonymous wrote:Just get surgery. It's the ONLY thing to have been proven to work long term. Or waste months and money on a gimmick - rinse and repeat.

I disagree. It’s a shortcut that comes with its own problems. Hard work, and consistency is the only thing that truly works.
1. Find any form of fitness that you enjoy that makes you happy and be consistent
2. Stop dieting, and start nourishing your body with real food. Read the backs of food labels if you can’t pronounce it don’t eat it.
3. Be patient with yourself. It took years to put the weight on give yourself the same amount of time to take it off.

Anonymous wrote:Read up on semaglutides such as Wegovy & Ozempic. They have made a real difference.

DP here
My trouble is that I have always had to surf the line between enough calories so I don’t get a headache and too many such that I gain weight. I seemed to have figured that out, but I have to be extremely vigilant or else I gain. As a result I have slowly gained back some of my passed losses. Now, I find myself in a predicament where, it order to lose weight I have to eat less than the headache trigger amount. So, my choice seems to be to be fat or in constant pain. I walk regularly (daily average is over 10k steps, steps 60 minutes+ at target heart rate 6 days a week- it amounts to about 5 miles in total 6 out of 7 days) and eat around 1800-2000 calories. The Fitbit and MyFitness pal say I should be able to eat 500-1000 more calories based on my height, target weight, age, and gender. They are BS for me. This has always been the case, when I went to college I discovered that I moved more and ate about 1/3 less then my peers who were 2-3 sizes smaller than I was. Nothing has changed as I have aged. Based on family pictures down the maternal line, it is inherited for at least four generations.

I have tried IF and it did not do anything as I was already close to that most of my life.

So, my question is if these drugs help on the headache front if people eat less than they have.

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Anonymous wrote:Slow and steady. Stop doing idiotic diets like 'keto' that are not sustainable.

Move more, eat less. Stop eating out so much - max 1 meal a week. Don't drink your calories. Take the stairs, park further away and walk more. And possibly, therapy. As someone who's been obese, it's not just a matter of food, but underlying mental/emotional issues. Exercise can also be a very helpful form of therapy.

+1000. Fad diets and all the other marketing gimmicks for weight loss are not sustainable. The results are not immediate, but transitioning to a healthier lifestyle is the only surefire way of losing weight and keeping it off.

“Eat less, move more” simply doesn’t work for someone who has been 100-150 pounds overweight for a long time.

It would be like telling a healthy 135 pound person that they just have to eat less and move more to get to 90 pounds. Our bodies will do everything it can to stay at the high weight.

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Anonymous wrote:Read up on semaglutides such as Wegovy & Ozempic. They have made a real difference.

I have but my insurance won’t cover them and they are stupid expensive out of pocket.

Get a diabetes diagnosis or get them from Canada

I don’t have diabetes, so no luck there. How do you get them from Canada?

Get a paper prescription for a 4 mg pen, buy from Mark’s marine pharmacy or buycanadianinsulin.com. Will be around $300 with shipping.

Anonymous wrote:I posted in another thread, but my friend lost 100 lbs at the Dr Beale weight loss clinic locally. It's not covered by insurance or cheap, but her transformation was amazing. She lost 60 lbs in 2 months. No surgery.

Np, I tried Dr. Beale about 10 years ago, and it was a complete waste of time and money. Overall, I lost like 6 lbs., and gained all of it back immediately.

Op, like you, I too tried every trick in the book including HCG. HCG was the only thing that temporarily worked. I lost 24 lbs. but gained it all back and then some. Every time you lose and regain, it makes it more challenging to lose again.

Four years ago, at 40 and 214 lbs., (5'6), I took the leap and got the sleeve in Mexico. Best decision I have ever made. I am holding steady at 135, but even now, I have to be careful, because I can eat a lot more.

All that to say, if you want to lose a significant amount of weight and keep it off, get the sleeve.

Anonymous wrote:Slow and steady. Stop doing idiotic diets like 'keto' that are not sustainable.

Move more, eat less. Stop eating out so much - max 1 meal a week. Don't drink your calories. Take the stairs, park further away and walk more. And possibly, therapy. As someone who's been obese, it's not just a matter of food, but underlying mental/emotional issues. Exercise can also be a very helpful form of therapy.

+1000. Fad diets and all the other marketing gimmicks for weight loss are not sustainable. The results are not immediate, but transitioning to a healthier lifestyle is the only surefire way of losing weight and keeping it off.

Try Mounjaro. It’s the new glp-1 and gip medication. Ozempic studies showed a 15% weight loss and Mounjaro showed a 20% weight loss.

Eli Lilly currently has a coupon out. If you have commercial insurance but your insurance won’t cover Mounjaro, it will cost you $25/month for 12 months.

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Anonymous wrote:Read up on semaglutides such as Wegovy & Ozempic. They have made a real difference.

I have but my insurance won’t cover them and they are stupid expensive out of pocket.

I get ozembic and a physician and coach through calibrate, they guarantee they can get your insurance to cover so OOP is no more than $x/month (mine is only $25).

I’m down 53 lb in 6.5 months, the program runs one year and includes transitioning away from meds.

Calibrate is $1,800 upfront before the cost of any medication fyi.

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Anonymous wrote:Read up on semaglutides such as Wegovy & Ozempic. They have made a real difference.

I have but my insurance won’t cover them and they are stupid expensive out of pocket.

Get a diabetes diagnosis or get them from Canada

I don’t have diabetes, so no luck there. How do you get them from Canada?

You call a pharmacy

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Anonymous wrote:Just get surgery. It's the ONLY thing to have been proven to work long term. Or waste months and money on a gimmick - rinse and repeat.

Op here. The sister of an acquaintance of mine died from weight loss surgery so it kind of terrifies me.

It's a rare occurrence. Less rare than weight loss/regain pattern. It's like telling people you don't fly for the same reason. How many plans took off and landed successfully just yesterday? You'll have to decide you don't want to carry the weight anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:Read up on semaglutides such as Wegovy & Ozempic. They have made a real difference.

I have but my insurance won’t cover them and they are stupid expensive out of pocket.

I get ozembic and a physician and coach through calibrate, they guarantee they can get your insurance to cover so OOP is no more than $x/month (mine is only $25).

I’m down 53 lb in 6.5 months, the program runs one year and includes transitioning away from meds.

Op here, been there tried that and they couldn’t cover me with my insurance, United.