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Obesity is one of those areas where if you don't suffer from it, solving it seems easy... "just" eat better. "just" exercise. Problem is, once the body's mec
by renewedrebecca 4y ago
Obesity is one of those areas where if you don't suffer from it, solving it seems easy... "just" eat better. "just" exercise.
Problem is, once the body's mechanisms get out of whack, it just doesn't work that way. When you try to lose weight via calorie restriction, especially if insulin resistance has set in, hunger is going to catch up to you. Study after study has shown this.
Drugs like ozempic, metformin, even wellbutrin... They act on those mechanisms, and that's why they result in weight loss. If you think people are taking those medications and then binging, that's honestly not what's going on. Once those feedback mechanisms are under control, you're simply not controlled by hunger anymore. That naturally leads to weight loss.
- pedalpete 4y agoI should have been clearer in my comment. I wasn't saying exercise and diet can cure obesity. We need people to eat healthy and exercise prior to obesity taking hold. Prevention (and generally being healthy) must be the default to our health problems, not constantly looking for the cure for problems that we caused ourselves. The 2nd option ends up being whack-a-mole.
- exfatloss 4y ago100% agreed. Diet advice from naturally thin people is like dunking advice from Shaq. "Just walk up and put it in" won't cut it for those of us who have a screwed up metabolism.