Agreed, but as someone whose weight has fluctuated a lot in life, I know exactly what is causing it when I’ve gotten overweight. Typically, I’m not moving my body enough, and probably eating too much / not eating well. If I address it, the problem gets solved. It’s really that simple. I get that not everyone is in my situation where they can do that, but it’s the solution for probably 90% of obesity cases. Really all you have to do is eat less carbs/ fried food and eat more fiber and protein. Exercise in any way you can. Start slow with walking and light cardio and work your way into resistance training and more intense cardio. The issue with that solution is it’s hard, and a lot of people just aren’t motivated enough to put in the work to achieve that goal. I’m happy that these drugs exist, but I just wish that nutrition was something we focused more on in school, and people were more knowledgeable about their bodies.
The thing is just about every single diet drug to date has had much worse complications. Like destroying hearts, blood vessels, anal leakage. Losing weight the old school way is the best way of it’s possible.
The side effects they’re finding are that it unexpectedly prevents Alzheimer’s symptoms and other neurodegenerative issues, influences the brain to want to drink less alcohol and smoke/vape/chew less nicotine, and helps with chronic pain.
The point, though, is that it makes metabolic changes by having people eat less. Pointing out problems with drugs that increase resting metabolic rate (so that they burn more calories without exercising) or decrease absorption of macronutrients in digestion (so that they take in fewer calories from the same food) doesn’t really inform how we look at these behavior-altering and desire-altering drugs. They’re losing weight by eating less, not by interrupting the relationship between eating and net caloric intake.
Obesity has long term complications, too. And we know them to be bad.
Agreed, but as someone whose weight has fluctuated a lot in life, I know exactly what is causing it when I’ve gotten overweight. Typically, I’m not moving my body enough, and probably eating too much / not eating well. If I address it, the problem gets solved. It’s really that simple. I get that not everyone is in my situation where they can do that, but it’s the solution for probably 90% of obesity cases. Really all you have to do is eat less carbs/ fried food and eat more fiber and protein. Exercise in any way you can. Start slow with walking and light cardio and work your way into resistance training and more intense cardio. The issue with that solution is it’s hard, and a lot of people just aren’t motivated enough to put in the work to achieve that goal. I’m happy that these drugs exist, but I just wish that nutrition was something we focused more on in school, and people were more knowledgeable about their bodies.
The thing is just about every single diet drug to date has had much worse complications. Like destroying hearts, blood vessels, anal leakage. Losing weight the old school way is the best way of it’s possible.
The side effects they’re finding are that it unexpectedly prevents Alzheimer’s symptoms and other neurodegenerative issues, influences the brain to want to drink less alcohol and smoke/vape/chew less nicotine, and helps with chronic pain.
The point, though, is that it makes metabolic changes by having people eat less. Pointing out problems with drugs that increase resting metabolic rate (so that they burn more calories without exercising) or decrease absorption of macronutrients in digestion (so that they take in fewer calories from the same food) doesn’t really inform how we look at these behavior-altering and desire-altering drugs. They’re losing weight by eating less, not by interrupting the relationship between eating and net caloric intake.