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2 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

You see that with some, especially who run slower paces like 14 minute miles and such.  Also, running makes you hungry (like other exercises) and some of them eat more while running than the calories they burn.

I can walk that fast.  A 14 minute mile is not running.

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If it's genetics then why aren't Europeans, Africans and Latin Americans fat like us?   We share a whole lot of genetics with them.

Healthier lifestyle in Europe, though obesity is still a public health issue. Food insecurity/relative lack of processed western food in Africa. Mexico is fat as fuck because they’ve imported a lot of America’s health problems, the rest of Latin America varies roughly based on level of development.
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On 3/5/2023 at 8:42 PM, Anastasis said:

Lilly about to print money with their GLP-1. Their move to reduce insulin pricing is not a coincidence. 

 

On 3/20/2023 at 9:54 PM, HamsterHookah said:

I know everyone has seen the word Ozempic as it has become a meme and it's going viral on social media the last few weeks/months culminating in The Oscar's, but there is a really great article about how the drug works and how being fat has a strong genetic component (to which the drug isolates/attacks): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/27/will-the-ozempic-era-change-how-we-think-about-being-fat-and-being-thin

The drugs mimic a hormone called glucagon-like peptide-1, which stimulates insulin production and suppresses the production of glucagon, which raises blood sugar. The body naturally releases GLP-1 after a meal, and the hormone travels to the brain, triggering the feeling of fullness. GLP-1 drugs effectively inject that sense of satiety, and also slow the rate at which food empties out of the stomach; patients generally report a freedom from cravings and an inability to overeat without becoming ill. “I’m convinced that this basically replaced a signal my body has been missing my whole life,” a commenter in a Reddit group for people using semaglutide wrote recently. “All I can say,” a member of an online group called Lose the Fat wrote, “is that it is no wonder that skinny people think heavy people have no willpower. Their brains actually do tell them to stop eating. I had no idea.”

 

On 3/20/2023 at 10:06 PM, HamsterHookah said:

And for @Wulaw Horn re: Bariatric (bolded below):

Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk together have at least twelve more obesity medications in development. Novo Nordisk reportedly spent about a hundred million dollars advertising Ozempic last year, and the two companies are spending roughly ten million dollars annually on lobbying. A primary focus of that lobbying is the proposed Treat and Reduce Obesity Act, which has been introduced in congressional sessions annually since 2012, and which would require Medicare to cover, among other treatments, chronic-weight-management drugs. Anticipating the passage of this bill within the next few years, Morgan Stanley has forecast that U.S. revenue from such drugs will increase four-hundredfold by the end of the decade. Obesity looks “set to become the next blockbuster pharma category,” it declared, in a report last year, which also predicted that social media and word of mouth will create an “exponential virtuous cycle” around the new medications: a quarter of people with obesity will seek treatment from physicians, up from the current seven per cent, and more than half of those who do will begin taking medicine. In March, WeightWatchers acquired the telehealth weight-loss company Sequence, which specializes in prescribing GLP-1 drugs.

Controversially, the American Pediatric Association recently included weight-loss medication and bariatric surgery as part of a set of treatments that physicians should consider for kids with obesity. (Bariatric surgery, previously the only medical intervention that resulted in lasting weight loss for more than a small percentage of people, works in part because it, too, increases GLP-1 levels, and does so before any weight loss has occurred.) In clinical trials, patients who go off GLP-1 drugs regain much of their lost weight within a year. I asked Dr. Aronne, from Weill Cornell, about the possible medical consequences of irregular lifetime use, which seems to be a likely outcome for many patients, especially those who are prescribed the drugs at an early age. “That’s a great question,” he said, “and we don’t have the answer.” He suggested that doctors might begin treating obesity the way they treat hypertension. “You could start people on a tiny dose per week, and they would never get to the place where they have catastrophic problems,” he said. Patients would still need regular blood work and other monitoring; it’s likely enough that, as these drugs come into use in a wider patient population than ever before, new risks and complications will arise. But to Aronne, who has treated patients with serious health complications related to weight for thirty years, a lifetime on Wegovy seems far less dangerous than a lifetime of severe obesity.

 

Novo's GLP-1 SELECT trial just read out 20% reduction in cardiovascular events. Novo and Lilly up over 15% on the news. 

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I can't believe they'd do bariatric surgery on kids but then again, yes I can.  Their bodies aren't even growing yet and they need a certain level of nutrition but let's put them on appetite suppressants and/or take out half their stomach.  Kids weren't fat back in my day and they fucking smoked.

Also, this bariatric surgery needs to be talked about with a certain level of risk.  Dude that used to work for me had this done last year.  6'5" and between 350-400.  Not fat, really, just big.  Went ahead with the surgery despite admitted he'd eat two entrees at night and then a snack before bed.  He's had three complications as a result of the surgery.  Gall bladder, stomach twisting, and now scar tissue blockage.  He also can't stop losing weight.  They projected him down at 200 but he's at 180 and falling.  Dude looks like a POW at this point.  He's going in next week for a "revision" survey.  (I don't know what that means.)

Then you have Lisa Marie Presley.....

 

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3 minutes ago, WineGuy69 said:

fat people and the CR have something in common, they should all be shot

Why is your smooth brain and your tiny gerbil dick telling you to make stupid mouth words on this board?

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5 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

Why is your smooth brain and your tiny gerbil dick telling you to make stupid mouth words on this board?

Youre not from Texas nor do you belong on this fucking board. Im sure you are both fat, dumb, and middle aged and that is not my problem. enjoy being closer to death I am. 

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5 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

I see that I have trapped you in my web of smartness. I am fat, dumb and way old.  Which makes you wrong. Sit there in your wrongness and be wrong Mr. wrong guy.

I shall not, you old foreign fucking social security claiming soon to be obsolete while I fuck your grand children past tense gator.

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8 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Robert Earl Keen posted this photo of the crowd at his concert in El Campo tonight. Holy shit. Texans are fat. There's not a single person that I can see who would be considered "average" 50 years ago.  

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And Texas gets hot in the summer.  I can not imagine how miserable Amarillo is for a 280# man.

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12 hours ago, WineGuy69 said:

I shall not, you old foreign fucking social security claiming soon to be obsolete while I fuck your grand children past tense gator.

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Yeah…, but bacon taste good. Pork chops taste good. Fucking foreign women feels good. Getting Social Security payments feels good.

I don’t have any grandchildren, so if I ever have them, by the time they reach the age of consent you will be too old to fuck them.  But it’s true that a man needs a dream.

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I’m 5.91/2 in height. ‘88 went into Army BT weighing 205 after working my ass off all Summer, prior to reporting that September. I did play FB and lifted weights the whole HS experience.

Eight weeks, post BT I shrank from the waist up! I had to get new dress jacket and dress shirts issued prior to graduation, as I went from 48-44 and 171/2 neck to 16.
My parents the day prior to graduation, didn’t even recognize me while marching right past them. After graduation, Dad cut some kind of rope to help keep my original blue jeans up to go back home to SETX - weighing 170. All mass seemed to come from the waist up.

I got down to around 165, by the age 23, while stationed S Korea, as I was more active. Outside of morning PT, I’d play racquetball or soccer in the evenings and sometimes hiking the mountains with my KATUSAS (Korean soldiers).

It didn’t take long post Army exit in ‘95 for the weight to add on. No longer running 2-3 miles daily five days a week, as well as the other exercises. Going to UT and eating Blue Bell while watching the 10:00 news and “studying” made me lazy.

Not even 5 years post graduation I sent the wife to get three pairs of slacks for work from a particular style/brand. The wife called me from Dillard’s saying you know that 40 is the largest they have on the racks? Bigger than that, you’re going to have to order from the Fat Boy catalog! Eye opening!

I’ve tried my best to stay b/t 200-210 ever since. I officiated HSFB for roughly a decade and that forced me each summer to get ready for the afternoons each year, as running around with Jr High kids at 5:00 in SA is hot as Hades! Friday nights were a breeze, as I was an Umpire, so very little running.

Now 55, still battle weight issues, but in reality it’s my fault as I like beer too much to lose more. I equate beer to watching sports or playing golf, or even finishing doing yard work and admiring my results.

My son and wife are slim/normal BMI. My daughter, bless her heart got my genes for hair and bone structure (big chest). She actually got on Wegovy about 2-3 months ago now that she’s teaching post-graduation.

I feel for anyone facing weight issues. Even though “heavy” most of my adult life, I’ve usually been in decent shape for my size, because even two years ago I could lace up a pair of shoes and go run two miles. I’ve found walking in the evening 45-60 min is enough to maintain where I’m at 205-210, which is still bad according to BMI, but my Doctor says you’re fine with activity level, but cut back on the beers!

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Got more into lifting "heavy" (for me) weights in the last year.  Still do cardio and rowing.  But now lift multiple times per week. The weight lifting is a game changer.  Still not as strong as I want to be.  But am 195 pounds and can rep my body weight on the bench press 10x.  A few years ago when I was out of shape, I could barely do 5 pushups and could not run a 1/4 mile without getting gassed.  Now I do sets of 50 pushups and did a half marathon in Austin a couple months ago at 9 minute pace. 

I would encourage people to just start lifting weights and walking.  Don't drink any calories unless it's a protein shake meal replacement.  Eat lean proteins and plenty of veggies.  200 calories of real protein or a shake fills you up a lot more than a couple oreos.

For me the impetus was wanting to be able to do the shit I love as I age (am 48).  Skiing, wade fishing, hiking, etc.  Quality of life is so much better being fit.

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I've dropped 35 pounds in the past year. Working from home has been the best thing for me. No more breakfast tacos in the morning and cheeseburgers at lunch.

That and walk/running my dog a couple miles every day 

6'2" 235. 

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12 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

I've dropped 35 pounds in the past year. Working from home has been the best thing for me. No more breakfast tacos in the morning and cheeseburgers at lunch.

That and walk/running my dog a couple miles every day 

6'2" 235. 

Nice work.  Keep up the healthy habits.  

About to go run 5 miles.  Then going to Pappas for dinner to celebrate Easter early (wife is going to Europe manana).  So will need an extra budget for calories with the Ribeye I am going to crush.

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2 minutes ago, Shaddie said:

Woohoo. Party at Drebin’s Saturday. 

Heading to ranch tomorrow after I drop wife off at the airport.  Been having painting done inside house and am sick of the fumes.  Going to be a nice long weekend since kids are out of school Monday.

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