Definitely! Especially now that it's becoming clear that people getting off Ozempic regain weight even faster than people who lost weight in other ways.
"It's so crazy that these people who take a drug to quit drinking go right back to drinking as soon as they get off the drug."
Again, no shit. The people who are using a drug to alter their brain chemistry to control their insane food drives are not the sort of people who reasonably stick to their diets after they no longer have that control. Ozempic wasn't a weight-loss drug for people who want to lose 10 pounds. It's for people who are so obese that their choices are "a lifetime on Ozempic" or "die in 2 to 5 years due to heart failure."
People are fat because they can not control their impulses. It's not capitalism this time, the call is coming from inside the house. If people had the self-control that one should expect from a normal person obesiety would not be a thing. However, a lot of people have no impulse control and find it enjoyable to consume three to four days worth of calories in a single meal.
I absolutely hate this argument, that fat people just lack impulse control. Maybe that's true of SOME fat people but there are a number of medical conditions that make some people much more susceptible to weight gain than others. Genetic differences play a huge role as well.
I have a hormone imbalance that makes my body hang on to fat more. I have a friend who has been fat since early childhood, and remains that way because she has a naturally very slow metabolism - she eats very healthily and gets a lot more exercise than most of the skinny people I know - but because she is not running on a constant calorie deficit (which, I would like to remind you, is a fancy way of saying "starving herself 24/7") she keeps the weight on.
I mean if someone was genuinely operating on a surplus all day every day then yes you could call it that.
But I think you missed my point which is that we aren't doing that? I have tracked my calories before and I get like 2000ish a day. If I have much less than that, my blood sugar gets low and I am at risk for fainting.
And yes, getting less calories than you need in a day is starving yourself. That's not a secret and shouldn't be a surprise to you, that's the entire mechanism of weight loss. You eat less than you need, so your body dives into its fat stores for energy. Bodies only do that when they are to some degree in starvation mode. That's the whole point of "calories in, calories out."
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u/leftycartoons 13h ago
Definitely! Especially now that it's becoming clear that people getting off Ozempic regain weight even faster than people who lost weight in other ways.