Ozempic, GLP-1 and other modern diabetes / weight loss medications
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It has to be a "yes and." You are fighting some of the biggest companies on the planet, as well as cultural norms. Yes we need to change the food industry, but if we wait on that then we'll be waiting till long after we are all dead and buried in our XXL caskets.
Well I guess I didn't realize I was implying that was the only thing we should do. Of course people need to take accountability for their own habits but until we address the crap we're putting into our bodies I don't think we're going to see large scale improvement.
There has been a fitness movement for 20+ years. Still fat. I'd be curious to see the stats but I imagine the lions share of diabetes is type 2 which can typically be solved through diet. I'd also argue that the processed food (including chemical treatments to crops) are largely responsible for the drop in testosterone including the indirect results of higher body fat percentage increasing estrogen.
When I lost weight years ago I ate nothing but grilled chicken breasts, steak, canned chicken, canned green beans or carrots and various types of berries. Drank water, tea, beer, and milk. Stopped going to McDonalds and Casey's. It worked. If only I stuck with it. I'm 6'3. Got down to 220. Back up to 240. Thinking of going back on that diet. Maybe even cut way back on the beer.
Football Saturdays will probably kill this plan.
This is America, you are never going to win a fight against a corporation, they don't care about you.
It can be done but we know that a percentage of the population isn't capable of doing that, either because of money, competence, food dessert, time, etc. I'd prefer we didn't add artificial estrogens and various other chemicals to our food supply. It's not an issue in the rest of the world. They have whole food markets and cultures built around quality food. We prioritize profit.When I lost weight years ago I ate nothing but grilled chicken breasts, steak, canned chicken, canned green beans or carrots and various types of berries. Drank water, tea, beer, and milk. Stopped going to McDonalds and Casey's. It worked. If only I stuck with it. I'm 6'3. Got down to 220. Back up to 240. Thinking of going back on that diet. Maybe even cut way back on the beer.
Also, the water treatment process isn't taking care of the pharmaceuticals being urinated into the water supply. Lots of things being ignored because of the almighty dollar.
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Beer is my downfall also with weight loss. I do not drink much soda, only water or tea, but I have to have my beer. At least I have stopped have a shot or two of rum with it.When I lost weight years ago I ate nothing but grilled chicken breasts, steak, canned chicken, canned green beans or carrots and various types of berries. Drank water, tea, beer, and milk. Stopped going to McDonalds and Casey's. It worked. If only I stuck with it. I'm 6'3. Got down to 220. Back up to 240. Thinking of going back on that diet. Maybe even cut way back on the beer.
There’s no one-size-fits-all, and the GLP-1 can be great for some people provided it’s administered correctly.
For run-of-the-mill advice, this has helped me maintain a stable weight as I’ve gotten older.
Tracking calories while paired with nutritious/balanced meals and a combo of cardio & strength training.
www.healthline.com
For run-of-the-mill advice, this has helped me maintain a stable weight as I’ve gotten older.
Tracking calories while paired with nutritious/balanced meals and a combo of cardio & strength training.
Can Calorie Cycling Help to Manage Your Weight?
This is a beginner's guide to calorie cycling, also called calorie shifting. It is a dietary approach that has many benefits for long-term weight loss.
www.healthline.com
There’s no one-size-fits-all, and the GLP-1 can be great for some people provided it’s administered correctly.
For run-of-the-mill advice, this has helped me maintain a stable weight as I’ve gotten older.
Tracking calories while paired with nutritious/balanced meals and a combo of cardio & strength training.
Can Calorie Cycling Help to Manage Your Weight?
This is a beginner's guide to calorie cycling, also called calorie shifting. It is a dietary approach that has many benefits for long-term weight loss.
America needs to have a big conversation about calorie tracking and deficits. It’s too hard to change the food system, so the thinking and technology should be the focus. I would pay big money for an extremely accurate wearable that incorporates calorie tracking and fitness. Like a company that works with ME for a year and builds a device just for ME.
I’d pay a sizable amount for something like that as well.
There are some good calculators online, but if we get the tech to calculate your personalized maintenance calorie level, that’d be a huge step forward.
It takes a lot of effort but that can be done by tracking cals and watching the scale. Im a big believer that everyone should track cals/weight at least once just for the knowledge gained. Consistency always wins, both with deficits and surplus. A 100 cal per day surplus is hardly anything but its still over 10 pounds per year.
100% correct, BUT - if you drink 6 beers, eat 2 brats, and a couple of cookies and some chips on 12 football saturdays, it all goes to zero.
That's the killer I think for most people, is it only takes a few hours of "bad" choices to undo a weeks worth of consistency. It's like golf, you can par most every hole, but a couple of 8s will ruin your round. So its real easy to fail once and give up entirely.
WW has worked for me, because the 'bonus' points I can spend on booze, or a DQ blizzard, or whatever on the weekend. So it allows me to still make "bad" choices and stay in bounds. And even with that, I am still my own worst enemy and have to be disciplined all week.
Corporations follow the money. If tomorrow 90% of America only wanted healthy foods and stopped buying junk food, even WalMart would open up a Whole Foods clone. Doritos would figure out a way to add protein and enriched flour and remove sugar and fat from chips.
I would argue the ag-grocery-food conglomerates aren't the cause of our bad eating habits - but they sure as hell are enablers. World class enablers.
The rum was the better option for weight loss. Should have kept the rum and dropped the beer.
Damn good idea. There should be a few guys who can help you design and build it on here. There should be enough money on here to help you finance it. So get busy. Just do not sell your great idea to a big company.
Like it’s just insane to me that in 2025 that the best a “regular” person can do as far as body composition metrics come from a DEXA scan.
Yeah if we were actually serious about improving the health of this country it would require lots of investment in eliminating food deserts, educating people, and just reworking our general societal setup that forces people to work a lot.
For some people long term calorie counting isn't a great option but I do think everyone should do it for a bit just to understand what serving size is of various things.There’s no one-size-fits-all, and the GLP-1 can be great for some people provided it’s administered correctly.
For run-of-the-mill advice, this has helped me maintain a stable weight as I’ve gotten older.
Tracking calories while paired with nutritious/balanced meals and a combo of cardio & strength training.
Can Calorie Cycling Help to Manage Your Weight?
This is a beginner's guide to calorie cycling, also called calorie shifting. It is a dietary approach that has many benefits for long-term weight loss.
Actually the best would be from a bodpod as you don’t get the unnecessary radiation.
The thing is both types of scans are really unnecessary as the knowledge you gain is mostly meaningless unless you just love knowing numbers. I imagine if you just had extremely little body awareness it could help but really it doesn’t matter.
Corporations also follow the science and its easier to make more addictive food then it is to go another direction. As GLP-1’s become more and more common you might see some of the industry shift but sales would still plummet even with those changes.
This is honestly totally unnecessary if you’re eating a diet focused on minimally processed foods. But a very small portion of the population does that.
Edit* I should have added low calorie density as well to avoid the dressing/nuts problem
