“Weight Watchers files for bankruptcy as old weight loss scams are supplanted by new weight loss scams”
Fixed the headline for them.
Yeah fuck off.
I’ve been overweight my entire life, over five decades now, and these drugs are nothing short of a miracle.
In addition to changing how my body processes sugar, it kills any desire I have for any particular food as well as hunger.
They like to say that it “silences food noise in your brain” and that works as a description but it doesn’t convey just how truly profound that is.
You can tell that it works, BTW, by how much they charge for it.
I’m down a little more than 30 pounds in 90 days. Given enough time I will be slim/normal for the first time since the 1970s, and I don’t appreciate chucklefucks calling them a scam.
You know what’s a scam? HFCS. Sugar in everything.
These new drugs though - not a scam. At all.
Wegovy/Saxenda whatever others are (GLP-1) inhibitors aren’t a scam, they work.
They are absurdly expensive for the benefit they bring. Of course, fat lot of good it does if you don’t use it to the full extent so you can actually get off of it.
Or get caught up in the crossfire where Metformin makes you shit your pants and a new drug for managing your A1C comes out (ozempic) which doesn’t make you shit your pants. Only for a few years later get denied insurance coverage for it because you obviously are using it to lose weight.
In theory once you stay at a dosage of metformin for long enough the unfortunate side effects go away. In practice it’s been a year and I still can’t trust a fart.
You guys trust your farts? I always presume each oncoming fart is a world ending disaster.
My mom followed their diet plans for years and never lost any weight. But at the same time, she didn’t exercise. Diet alone isn’t enough unless you’re doing one of those extremely calorie restrictive diets and I really don’t think that it’s exactly healthy to starve yourself. You’d be losing muscle as well as fat.
It’s all but guaranteed that she didn’t actually follow the diet.
people will do anything to avoid eating a healthy diet and exercising. I lost 120lbs in just over 2 years from walking and eating low carb real food.
Once again, carbs are not the problem. Italian and French people eat tons of carbs and are way healthier than Americans
And people will do anything to avoid addressing the simple fact that human bodies aren’t designed to lose weight. Decent folks don’t give a fuck about superfluous anomalous nonsense like this.
They aren’t designed they’re evolved, but that’s not important right now.
Actually, it is important. The reason being that that’s not what that word means. People who deserve the death penalty love to deny it, but human beings simply are not designed to lose weight.
