Because your metabolism changes. If you ate 700 calories per day it would be harder for you to lose weight than if you ate 1400 and worked out.
You’d still be eating less, but retaining more weight. Why? Because your metabolism slows down significantly if you don’t fuel it, and that makes it harder to lose weight, not easier.
Most things in life are not binary, and are affected by more than just a single choice.
Because working out, alone, is not the solution. You could work out all day and still not lose a pound. Plenty of studies have shown this.
Moreover, have you ever tried to work out at 450 lbs? No? It is an immense effort, often literally impossible for most people at that weight, and the best they can manage is a walk around the block before their cardio can’t keep up.
What then?
See above, where I reminded people (which includes you) that things are rarely binary.
Otherwise, perhaps let people get healthy instead of admonishing them to get healthy the way you think they should, which turns out to be… the same way they have always tried and has not worked.
Bringing up mortally obese 450lb people (a tiny fraction of the population) is not a good faith argument against my position that it's a travesty Ozempic and other "weight loss drugs" are being prescribed to people en masse when most of them actually are very capable of just eating more healthy diets and exercising more. What we actually need to do is un-fuck our food supply and encourage healthier lifestyles... not give big pharma yet another chokehold over the population.
The rest of my argument still holds if you change that.
Your contention of “most of them actually are very capable of just eating more healthy diets and exercising more” is a nonsensical assumption, based on no data, and a prejudiced assumption that they are lazy and haven’t tried, ever.
> What we actually need to do is un-fuck our food supply and encourage healthier lifestyles...
Great. We should do that. I completely agree. It will definitely help our kids.
That won’t help anyone get healthy in this lifetime. It takes too long. Obesity would kill you first.
But you’re right, that’s probably better than taking a medication that is clearly helping people change their habits and get healthy, because you feel it would be better if they didn’t have the problem in the first place.
Nicotine gum and patches help curb smoking and change people’s habits. Why? Why not just force everyone to quit cold turkey, like my dad did? Should we just change the way we talk about smoking and produce fewer cigarettes? Sure.
But nicotine patches and gums saved lives and helped people quit that had never been able to before them, and not for a lack of trying.
GLP-1 meds are an aid. The alternative isn’t fixing the food supply, but dying from obesity.
Cool, I hope you are on your way to a healthier weight. I can see why medication could help in the short-term for someone who has dug a deep hole. My reaction of disgust is towards the premise of "how long until we're all on Ozempic?" and the current state of affairs, where far too many people in the US are being medicated for that and various other things.
> ... where far too many people in the US are being medicated for that and various other things.
What, precisely, does this mean? If medication is appropriately prescribed, by well-educated and well-trained doctors who have, upon actually meeting the patient which neither of us has done, decided that this patient could benefit from said medication... why is that bad?
39.6 percent of U.S. adults are obese. If all of them were prescribed GLP-1 meds (which would definitely never be true, for lots of reasons), and if all of them got healthy because of it... that's bad? Simply because they used medication to help?
Clarify for me, please, why medication is somehow not allowed to be used as a tool to fight illness or injury. Because people should somehow be "stronger" and able to fight it more on our own, despite not having been able to in the past?
GLP-1 is not a get out of jail free card. It will have long-term side effects.
Mass medication is an undesirable state of the world because it doesn’t address the root of any problem. It simply negates or masks some of the effects. The Ozempic situation is just like how kids are now being prescribed Adderall in the millions, when really the problem is they are just given iPads too much and fed unhealthy food that causes ADHD. Adderall doesn’t address the cause. Then you end up with a slave population that needs this medication to function. which is only good for the pharma companies making money on those meds.
> GLP-1 is not a get out of jail free card. It will have long-term side effects.
Source? Because so far it seems like you and others really want it to have long-term negative effects, but that the evidence for that is made up and entirely in your head, to date.
> The Ozempic situation is just like how kids are now being prescribed Adderall in the millions, when really the problem is they are just given iPads too much and fed unhealthy food that causes ADHD. Adderall doesn’t address the cause.
Ah, finally, the mask comes off. Your issue is with people getting help for disorders and illnesses they have, period.
The trope that ADHD is caused by iPads is nonsense. ADHD is caused by an underdeveloped pre-frontal cortex. Plenty of kids actually have it. I did, for sure. I wish I had found out what ADHD was, instead of holding my preconception about what it was, much earlier in life. I didn’t need that struggle against a thing I could never beat, because your brain controls everything you do.
> Then you end up with a slave population that needs this medication to function. which is only good for the pharma companies making money on those meds.
Do you? Show me a “slave population” that “needs adderall to function.”
I think we can just agree to disagree lol. Yeah all of these problems are just naturally occurring and humans were screwed until Ozempic and Adderall were invented. Thank God for the pharma companies!
That isn’t what I said. You are conflating multiple things.
I agree we created many of these problems (food being unhealthy, for example).
I also agree fixing many of them would be good.
I don’t agree that that is the only way to help people, and I don’t agree with the implication that “all pharma is bad,” because I don’t make outlandish binary statements like that.
There's nothing moronic about the argument that calorie deficits can cause weight loss. Most people using Ozempic have never tried multi-day fasting as an alternative. There are plenty of ways to lose weight that don't require taking medicine that might be fucking up your digestive system long-term.
> There's nothing moronic about the argument that calorie deficits can cause weight loss.
That’s not the argument you are making, and that is one I’d agree with.
> Most people using Ozempic have never tried multi-day fasting as an alternative.
Source? This is an assumption that requires data, because it is intuitively not true; and anecdotally, it is also not true.
This is purely a prejudiced assumption.
> There are plenty of ways to lose weight that don't require taking medicine that might be fucking up your digestive system long-term.
Or it might not, and hasn’t, at any meaningful scale, since 2005. Seems like you really want it to, though, and that seems like more a problem with you than it or them.
How do people not realize that the digestive system is dynamic and that as you change the calories in (and the type of calories) that the body changes the out.
You can't outrun thermodynamics. But your body will change its efficiency.
