You will live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension
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all this because of a lack of self control. most people dont even believe being fat is a lack of self control now. We have been bombarded by so much lack of accountability rhetoric that people actually believe they were born to be fat, they believe they can defy natural laws CI/CO. And the quick and easy shortcut is to take a drug.
In 10-15 years you will see adds for a class action lawsuit: HAVE YOU OR A MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY TAKEN OZEMPIC? YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO COMPENSATION!
And all the drug does ( well, with other undesired side effects ) is make you not want to eat ( reducing the Calories In ).
Patients are supposed to be clearly instructed to follow a nutritious diet plan despite not feeling hungry, otherwise they will have severe health complications from starvation.
You can do that for free.
For the fat fucks who don't even want to stop shoveling food in their mouth, there is also a bulimia surgery.
The doctor will install a tube with a drain in the stomach and the medically-aprouved bulimic will empty their stomach that way after eating.
Those who do these surgeries get really upset when you call it the bulimia surgery.
But it's exactly what it is. Purging after overeating as weight management instead of managing food intake properly.
self control is too much for these people.
They also miss out on the ancillaries of losing weight or maintaining your weight: learning how to manage your intake, learning when you are full, understanding food nutrition, cooking for yourself, learning to deny yourself, and the self discipline character building.
But these people likely dont understand character building at all so it is nonexistent to them.
Taking a drug is an empty gesture, you skip the work required to get the outcome you want, and you skip to the end...... with side effects just now being discovered.
And they learn nothing about themselves while taking the drug, so they go back to being their fat selves if they stop.
To be fair, it's not 100% people's fault. Maybe 75%.
Remember that most modern food is almost literally poison; absolute slop filled with water, preservative chemicals, and organic byproducts. Couple that with people not being taught, either by parents or by schooling, how to cook and eat healthy AND the hidden trap in trying to teach yourself how to cook from old cookbooks that assume the ingredients being used aren't slop and poison, and you get a very nearly catch-22: eating what seems like normal amounts of simple food like bread and cheese gets you a sugar addiction, and unless you can grow your own food or live near enough to farms to buy raw ingredients, can't get decent food to cook with.
My grandma taught me how to cook, and bless her heart but she wanted to add 500 kcal of butter to each dish because of how she grew up and how her mother taught her. If I tried to cook her meals and eat them, I'd balloon out in a month since I don't work in the fields eight to twelve hours a day.
you can still lose weight or be an ideal weight eating modern processed food though. Some doctor did by eating exclusively Twinkies with vitamin supplements
Oh, yeah, absolutely, CICO is king because you can't best thermodynamics.
I meant it more in the sense of "a slice of bread shouldn't be 15g of sugar and 250 kcal". Especially when you consider the fact that loads of people can't read a menu at McDonalds (I'm old enough to remember when their menus had text and not just pictures on them) and need a calculator to divide by two or ten, and we're expecting them to understand nutrition facts and ingredient lists.
Imagine thinking you're eating healthy because you had a turkey and processed cheese sandwich with some sliced veggies, and you don't realize your small sandwich was 550 kcal by itself, so you have another later because the lack of fat in the meal meant you got hungry again, and you've just blown through half your reccomended daily kcal intake and eaten 30-50 grams of sugar, depending on the type of bread used.
Its criminal.
I remember when nutrition labels became mandatory for everything back in the 90s. Has obesity increased or decreased since then? information or lack of it is not the issue.
but to my original point: one would learn and understand that processed food is bad for you and cook for yourself while learning to maintain or lose weight.
It's also a lack of skepticism.
They're eating all this food they're advertised as if the state wouldn't allow poison to be sold.
I miss my Grandfather. Lived through the Great Depression. He trusted no one, liked nothing the government did, and absolutely hated doctors. Called them quacks and shrinks to their faces and dismissed them out of hand.
That used to be the standard.
it's also the loss of self control over using said drug. I bet you a lot of these people who take this drug are taking the highest maximum dose because they want to lose weight as fast as possible.
You're supposed to be taking this stuff slowly and as little as needed - if you go full throttle you're gonna definitely get the side effects this drug causes.
yep and i dont even know if its OTC or not, but doctors are prescribing it to whomever at whatever doses the patient desires.