I wish everyone who got mad at me for calling Ozempic an experimental drug a very stop assuming that there is literally anything at all stopping drug companies from lying to you.
It's not experimental for diabetes care, it is experimental when it comes to weight loss, and basically everything you've heard about it has been on the word of the company, from people paid by the company to say what the company wants them to say, and cannot be trusted! Being skinny isn't worth paralyzing your digestive tract, as someone who genuinely is dealing with a mild form of that, trust me, YOU DO NOT WANT THIS. IT IS NOT WORTH IT. I cannot decribe the sheer, suffocating agony of knowing that I am starving to death despite shoveling food into my mouth 24/7. And also, it doesn't even keep you skinny!!! IT DOESN'T EVEN KEEP YOU SKINNY!!!!!!!!
Interestingly nutrition science, like eugenics, is another field where people think their feelings on it reflect the facts when that could not be further from the truth. Literally the general feeling consensus around nutrition is the POLAR OPPOSITE of the truth 9 times out of 10.
You do not need to eat less, you need to eat more.
Fat and sugar and salt and carbs are good for you, outside of medical diets for stuff like diabetes, POTs, and hypertension you do not need to cut any of these, if anything you probably need more given how normalized restriction is in our society especially of these CRUCIAL nutrients.
Part of the reason that cannibalism doesn't actually save people in situations that come to it is because your body literally cannot absorb a LOT of nutrients if you don't eat them with fat, and starvation victims are notoriously low in fat. If you don't eat any fat with your food you're getting basically nothing outta it at all. Wasting your time chewing, my dude.
Restricting will never fix your cravings, the only way to get rid of them is to let yourself eat whatever you want as much as you want, and anything else is making it worse. If you cannot have a single bag of candy in your house without eating all of it in a few hours is a sign you have an eating disorder and restriction is not the solution. Eating disorders are a lot like OCD, more rules are not gonna fix anything, you actually do have to let go.
Eating way too much protein is just gonna give you colon cancer, you need fiber too.
Keto isn't sustainable long term and is an emergency treatment for severe epilepsy in children, it will not help you lose weight in a healthy way because that's not what it's for and you need medical supervision to even do it right. At home it's just cutting carbs which is starving yourself.
Carbs are also not bad for you, and you do actually need to eat them.
Bar allergies and other legitimate health issues, everything you enjoy has a place in your diet.
Food that tastes good is better for you than food that tastes bad, eating healthy bland salad of kale and nothing is less healthy than eating a salad filled with nuts and apples and cheese and boiled eggs covered in balsamic vinegar and bacon bits.
1500 calories a day is a starvation diet well below what even just your brain needs to turn on, and eating that little will kill you faster than eating McDonalds three meals a day every day.
Weight cycling is awful for you, and people who have an "overweight" BMI tend to actually be healthier than people with a healthy or underweight rating.
Also the BMI scale is notoriously bullshit, nothing that's standards can be changed by an insurance company being annoying for money has any buisnesses being taken seriously.
Juice cleanses aren't a thing, you're just starving yourself. Your kidneys and liver are all the cleansers you need.
Intermittent fasting is an eating disorder that will kill you.
Weight loss surgeries are mutilation, do not work, kill people, and should be illegal.
There is no real, healthy, easy way to lose weight long term, almost every person who intentionally loses weight through dieting will regain more than they lost and be less healthy for it, and you're better off just letting yourself eat what you want, eat lots of different things, and get some exercise in than artificially inflate your cortisol levels by living like a famine victim as if that won't kill you so much fucking faster than anything else, dude, if there is ONE thing we know it's that stress is AWFUL for you. And we're all already so fucking stressed out, don't make it worse!!!
Also, this one might hurt a little but was actually the thing that chased the last of the disordered eating internalized fatphobia outta me; as someone who has experienced pretty profound weight loss twice now due to health issues uh...so where your body holds fat is just where your body holds fat. You can't actually change that. Losing weight will not get rid of your arm, chin, thigh, ass, or tummy fat if those are the places your body holds fat. My body is 100% visually smaller and it just looks the same but smaller, like someone scaled me down, no fat redistribution at all occurred, ever, aside from just...off my body entirely following my natural proportions and fat stores. So legit. Trying to lose weight to make your body look physically different in this way is a waste of time. Don't do this to yourself. Just learn to love your body, I beg you, it's so much easier. I'm 132lbs and still have a double chin, and I no longer feel even remotely bad about it at all.
The other thing that scared the last of that out of me was realizing my Nonna, bless her, is in her 80s and my early 30s and I have never shared a meal with her. She will spend all day cooking and never touch a bit of it for herself and instead just eat a hummus and sprout sandwich and then cry in the kitchen at night eating a whole party bag of M&Ms and she has lived like that for EIGHTY FUCKING YEARS. I do not recall a time I ever ATE THE SAME FOOD as my maternal grandmother during a meal. That's so sad. She's an amazing cook, too, really. She can make anything and make it delicious and I just. It ruins me to think of the joy she's denied herself. I feel legit grief for her.
And I won't end up like that. I fucking refuse.
All that to say, just because you feel like being fat is bad for people, doesn't mean that feeling is backed up by literally any science at all, and the fact that you are so comfortable with the idea that your feelings reflect the facts on this you're trusting what fucking Novo Nordisk and Eli Lily tell you shows that you have some huge fucking blindspots in the way you navigate the world that you need to get to patching.
And if you needed me to tell you that I'm glad I told you that. Now go read that article and the stuff it cites pls. And stop trusting drug companies.
