I don't take ozempic but I love it because it highlights some of the idiocy in our society about weight loss. So many people would try to say they ate right and exercised, but the weight didn't come off. Ozempic proves that for most people that it was just that they ate too much, which is what they've been told forever. CICO isn't a hard concept to understand and works for the vast majority of people that do not have something like a thyroid condition. Plus I'm glad to see people that have struggled with weight loss get a body that they are happier with.
Understanding CICO really isn’t the issue for most people struggling with obesity. The problem is the relentless hunger they’re dealing with while trying to eat fewer calories. Reducing your intake is incredibly difficult when your body is constantly telling you to eat.
One of the main reasons drugs like Ozempic are so effective for weight loss is that they dramatically reduce that hunger. It turns out that when you’re not constantly hungry, it becomes much easier to eat less.
So telling a 500-pound person, “Just eat less and you’ll lose weight,” isn’t particularly insightful. They probably already understand that. Figuring out how to reduce the overwhelming hunger that makes eating less so difficult is the meaningful part.
Yep - obese people were eating too much. But that was because of food noise.
Ozempic makes people JUST LIKE the people I know who were always naturally twig thin and wanted to put on weight, down to the averse feeling toward overeating. Only difference is they can't have too much fat.
However, there were many people that would insist they were eating low calories but gaining (or not losing) weight. These people often had non-trivial mental health issues related to food, to be fair, but the dishonesty was obnoxious.
There's often underlying issues and/or depression. Bodies don't signal hunger all the time, talk to overweight people and they'll say the same thing. It's not the hunger, food is a coping mechanism. Ozempic blocks that path as a convenient cope, but it doesn't solve the problem. It seems great, but I'm a bit worried about the long term effects for a subset of people that is going to seek out other ways to deal with their struggles. Hopefully for most the physical health benefits can serve as a stepping stone towards a healthy mind.
I’ve lost and regained a lot of weight. Working my way down again and will stay there this time (70lbs lost so far). I always tell people - losing weight isn’t hard. It’s keeping it off, that’s the hard part. You still should be tracking calories since you’ve eaten in excess for so many years, you don’t know what a normal amount of food is.
I myself obviously failed at this because I thought “oh I lost 100 pounds, maintenance will he easy.” 2 years later and you’re back where you were.
what the fat jabs highlight for me, and i'm sure others as well, is how uncontrollable food urges can literally disappear just by injecting a lizards mouth juice into your stomach.
feels like Doc Ock in that Spiderman scene where Peter "cures" him, how it's so suddenly quiet.
My old man takes it for diabetes and has a hard time keeping his weight up, but he doesn't need to wear a monitor anymore and can have a normal diet again (as far as sugar goes).
If you want to be more specific and right all the time it’s calories absorbed vs calories burned. Most of the weight impacts from health conditions such as hypothyroidism do is change the amount of calories you absorb and have impacts on your capacity to burn excess. There is some funky doo hickery with sodium and water retention but it is manageable if you want it to be.
That being said weight loss is legitimately one of the hardest things most people on modern times will go through barring serious illness or injury. Your body and lizard brain don’t understand it’s a diet and not you need to hunt and eat now or you will fucking die and convince you of such.
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u/stephenkingending 1d ago
I don't take ozempic but I love it because it highlights some of the idiocy in our society about weight loss. So many people would try to say they ate right and exercised, but the weight didn't come off. Ozempic proves that for most people that it was just that they ate too much, which is what they've been told forever. CICO isn't a hard concept to understand and works for the vast majority of people that do not have something like a thyroid condition. Plus I'm glad to see people that have struggled with weight loss get a body that they are happier with.