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by kcplate 425 days ago
> Better off just exercising and eating as clean as you can!

Let me guess…you have never had a weight problem. As someone who has lost over 170lbs via diet and exercise and battles like hell every fucking day even eight years later to try and keep it all off, it’s laughable to see some people think it’s so simple.
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joe_91 425 days ago
Actually as someone who is over 225lbs and only going up in weight monthly I don't think its fair to presume things about others like that....

As another commenter said - its simple, not easy...

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kcplate 425 days ago
If my presumption was off base, I take it back. But achieving weight loss isn’t simple and it isn’t easy. It’s not simple because even though CICO seems to be a simple equation on its face, getting the “CI” portion of that equation doesn’t work the same way for everyone. So sloganeering and minimizing it misses the greater complexity.

That is what I felt like the person I replied to had done.

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philipallstar 425 days ago
It's not easy, but it definitely is simple.
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krageon 425 days ago
You're saying you did what op said and that it worked, and framing it like a criticism.
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kcplate 425 days ago
My comment is not a criticism in their prescribed process but in the notion that if a person has difficulty sticking to that process that they shouldn’t look for alternatives. The goal is to lose weight because an unhealthy weight is definitely detrimental to your health in a myriad of ways. If a medication can facilitate weight loss, even at the cost of some side effects, the net gain is still likely better.

I lost my weight with a low carb, high fat diet. That worked for me but it’s controversial. I heard plenty of criticism about how it was going to damage my kidneys. My attitude was and is that if I live to see kidney damage in my late 70s…that’s better than a massive heart attack or stroke taking me out at 55.

Because of how tough it was and continues to be if there was an injection, pill, or otherwise that could make it easier—I would take it. Also despite my success without it, I’d suggest any obese person who needs to lose weight but have not had much success, take the medicine, lose the weight you can.

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krageon 419 days ago
Oh okay, that makes a lot of sense.
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