Maggie's Farm

We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

Our Recent Essays Behind the Front Page

Much Sorry with Delays
Birth, Death and All That Stuff in Between
How to Honor Labor Day, Every Day
My Yom Kippur Miracle (Repost from 2010)
Good intro to fly casting
Peach update, with pie
NYC update
Easy for you to say: To the elites on mass immigration
For NYC on 9/11, Sailors' Snug Harbor
Pickled Peaches
Water Shoes
Labor Costs in U.S.
Your "identity"
Good news about The Great Courses
Uses of Hot Pepper Jelly/Sauce, Chutneys, and Jams
A Saturday Drive to Litchfield County, CT
How to Pick a Kayak
Civilized: Fruit forks and knives
Loads of kayaking on Cape Cod
Psychology Experiments' Questionable Results

Categories


All categories

Quicksearch

Links

Blog Administration

Open login screen

RSS Readers

Add to Google

Subscribe with Bloglines

Wednesday, September 29. 2021

The future of approaches to fat loss


About semaglutide and related topics: The Future of Weight Loss:



 Semaglutide, and the drugs that will follow it, may soon replace most bariatric surgeries. “Slowly, slowly, slowly, we outcompete the surgeons,” predicts Macklin, who is already referring many fewer patients for surgery. “They know we’re coming.”


Semaglutide treatment is not just for "obesity," however defined. I've seen it work well for just ordinary overweight people who have tried, without lasting success, to get fit. It alters the fat-retention wiring.  Any internist can put you on the program.  
Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Medical at 14:11 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

Trackbacks
Trackback specific URI for this entry

No Trackbacks

Comments
Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

These are indeed very encouraging. I will be even more encouraged when we can learn what started interfering with the signals from body to brain around 1980 so that our evolutionary advantages started going haywire.

A subset of people who display discipline in a dozen other areas did not suddenly lose this ability in that generation. Something else is happening. So far calorie reduction, no matter how difficult, is the only solution, even against the tide of the body adjusting and readjusting to perceived starvation. But these new things coming on line are going to help folks.
#1 Assistant Village Idiot on 2021-09-29 16:46 (Reply)
First define obesity in a way that makes sense. We know "fat people" who carry 100, 200, 300 lbs of fat. They are clearly obese. We also know people with maybe 40 or 50 lbs of fat and they are technically "obese" by some arbitrary measure. Almost without exception the truly obese, 200-400 lbs overweight or more, are obese because of their genes. Not carbs, not simply over eating, and definitely not because of some "good carbs, bad carbs" hocus pocus.

If you are 40-50 lbs overweight a good diet and exercise and enough self control to stay with it can easily get you back to your ideal weight. If you are 200-400 lbs over weight, in theory a good diet and exercise could get you to a normal weight BUT because your body is actively working against you it would be like torture and it would extraordinary self control to do it. Maybe there will be some medicine someday that will melt off 400 lbs but I doubt it.

A better answer is to not gain that kind of weight; to never become obese. Again if you are genetically predisposed to weight 500 lbs by the time you are 30 or 50 this would take a lot of self control and effort BUT it would/should be easier than trying to lose that weight after you put it on and carried it around for years.
#2 JustMe on 2021-09-29 19:06 (Reply)
One aspect of weight management that always seems to be overlooked is the emotional component. I have been struggling with my weight for 15 years--not obesity, but I should lose about 15% to be at an ideal weight.

I have discipline in every other part of my life, and I understand nutrition, the value of exercise (which I do and enjoy), and CICO. Yet I never lose more than five pounds because all of my self-control regarding food (and everything I know intellectually about how, when, and how much to eat) goes completely out the window when I am under emotional stress, which is unfortunately pretty often.

I'm not optimistic about the effectiveness of weight-loss drugs in the face of the pretty-common problem of emotional eating.
#3 Mamaleh on 2021-09-30 02:40 (Reply)

Add Comment
(Your e-mail will not show in your comment)

By commenting on this site you agree to the site rules listed here. Email
addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for email notifications.

Quick reference guide: [i] italics [/i], [b] bold [/b], [u] underline [/u],
[url] (web address) [/url]. More tips here.

Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (*word*), underscore are made via _word_.
E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications.

To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.
CAPTCHA

BBCode format allowed
 
 
A Chris Southern Consulting website.