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From experience, appetite mostly goes away, and when I do get hungry it doesn’t take much to fill me up. My wife basically eats almost nothing, but I find I st

From experience, appetite mostly goes away, and when I do get hungry it doesn’t take much to fill me up. My wife basically eats almost nothing, but I find I still need to eat a small amount several times a day. I do tend to eat more candy tho than I did on other diets - several times a week I will get the feelings of low blood sugar, and a few bites usually fixes that without affecting weight loss.

dham 3y ago
> From experience, appetite mostly goes away, and when I do get hungry it doesn’t take much to fill me up. My wife basically eats almost nothing, but I find I still need to eat a small amount several times a day. So basically exactly like being in Ketosis? Which is free. To use the keto drug. For 1 day don't consume more than 10 - 20g of carbs. Repeat that for 2 weeks. Keep repeating for 4 - 6 months. This drug is an appetite suppressant and you burn fat.
- ethanbond 3y ago
  Free and substantially more difficult than taking a shot. I think semaglutide et al are going to be troublesome at a societal level [0] but the “duh, simply diet!” attitude is just obviously detached from reality. It turns out it’s not simple at all for most people. I lost decent weight via keto so I’m an advocate, but I don’t think you’re approaching this productively. It’s at least challenging for nearly everyone, especially at first. [0] food producers are already figuring out how to respond to 10-30% intake reduction… my guess: pack more flavor onto less satiating and higher calorie foods.
  - dham 3y ago
    I hear you what you are saying but I'm not advocating traditional dieting, which is just cutting calories and almost impossible in our society. Keto, on the other hand, allows you to eat a ton of foods without cutting calories and feeling hungry at all times. Eventually you lose some appetite and lose even more weight.
    - ethanbond 3y ago
      What about my comment, in which I said that I have successfully used and advocate for keto, makes you think I was talking about "traditional dieting?" Keto is challenging for most people, too. I agree it's much easier than how most people attempt to do caloric restriction, but it still is nowhere close to taking a shot. Eating out at restaurants can be challenging, mixing keto with e.g. vegetarianism can be challenging, certain social gatherings (like holidays) can be challenging, the brain fog (temporary as it is) can be challenging, etc. etc. Again, none of this to suggest semaglutide et al. are without side effects or difficulties, but things that require willpower are definitionally hard, and keto is definitely one of those things.
- fgonzag 3y ago
  Have you tried both to compare? I have and I would say my experience is contrary to everything you state. Keto weight loss was slow and temporal, ozempic makes me feel like a normal human.
  - dham 3y ago
    Keto weight loss has been incredibly fast for me and my wife. We were both at almost 10lbs a month which was probably too much. I've been off for around 2 months and haven't gained anything back, but still staying lower carb, but higher quality. Making better choices. Still not drinking calories which is a big one.
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    - fgonzag 3y ago
      and you are assuming that something that worked for you works for everyone, telling the world how everyone else is wrong even though you are prescribing the faddest diet of the 2000s that every overweight person has already tried
- wonnor 3y ago
  GLP-1 agonists are in an entirely different universe of appetite suppression compared to ketogenic diets.

dham 3y ago

> From experience, appetite mostly goes away, and when I do get hungry it doesn’t take much to fill me up. My wife basically eats almost nothing, but I find I still need to eat a small amount several times a day. So basically exactly like being in Ketosis? Which is free. To use the keto drug. For 1 day don't consume more than 10 - 20g of carbs. Repeat that for 2 weeks. Keep repeating for 4 - 6 months. This drug is an appetite suppressant and you burn fat.

ethanbond 3y ago
Free and substantially more difficult than taking a shot. I think semaglutide et al are going to be troublesome at a societal level [0] but the “duh, simply diet!” attitude is just obviously detached from reality. It turns out it’s not simple at all for most people. I lost decent weight via keto so I’m an advocate, but I don’t think you’re approaching this productively. It’s at least challenging for nearly everyone, especially at first. [0] food producers are already figuring out how to respond to 10-30% intake reduction… my guess: pack more flavor onto less satiating and higher calorie foods.
- dham 3y ago
  I hear you what you are saying but I'm not advocating traditional dieting, which is just cutting calories and almost impossible in our society. Keto, on the other hand, allows you to eat a ton of foods without cutting calories and feeling hungry at all times. Eventually you lose some appetite and lose even more weight.
  - ethanbond 3y ago
    What about my comment, in which I said that I have successfully used and advocate for keto, makes you think I was talking about "traditional dieting?" Keto is challenging for most people, too. I agree it's much easier than how most people attempt to do caloric restriction, but it still is nowhere close to taking a shot. Eating out at restaurants can be challenging, mixing keto with e.g. vegetarianism can be challenging, certain social gatherings (like holidays) can be challenging, the brain fog (temporary as it is) can be challenging, etc. etc. Again, none of this to suggest semaglutide et al. are without side effects or difficulties, but things that require willpower are definitionally hard, and keto is definitely one of those things.
fgonzag 3y ago
Have you tried both to compare? I have and I would say my experience is contrary to everything you state. Keto weight loss was slow and temporal, ozempic makes me feel like a normal human.
- dham 3y ago
  Keto weight loss has been incredibly fast for me and my wife. We were both at almost 10lbs a month which was probably too much. I've been off for around 2 months and haven't gained anything back, but still staying lower carb, but higher quality. Making better choices. Still not drinking calories which is a big one.
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  - fgonzag 3y ago
    and you are assuming that something that worked for you works for everyone, telling the world how everyone else is wrong even though you are prescribing the faddest diet of the 2000s that every overweight person has already tried
wonnor 3y ago
GLP-1 agonists are in an entirely different universe of appetite suppression compared to ketogenic diets.