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I can sort of understand people's fears. It's not always about looking for an excuse not to lose weight.
As someone who gets pretty marked side effects from just about every drug out there, I would probably be on the support group freaking out. Well, actually, no I wouldn't. I would *never* consider taking a weight loss prescription drug because, yeah, I am that much afraid of side effects. This doesn't come from living in fear, but comes with a long history of bad reactions to back it up.
I think it's easy to be cavalier when you've always had really great luck with medications. Lots of my friends have taken various things with nary a side effect. I also have another group that gets sick with lots of meds. Now, that's not to say that there aren't some people who use it as an excuse. But weight loss medications have a history of being troublesome and have made the news more than once for nasty side effects. I wouldn't be too hard on these people.
Instead of taking drugs with potentially dire side effects a better dietary course of action would be to just eat less.
Why, yes it would. Why didn't I think of that?
Oh wait...I did. As have thousands, millions of others.
My choices are:
1. Eat less, tough it out. I call that either 'Grain and Drain' or 'White Knuckling the Protein Shakes!'
2. Eat more than I should, because I don't seem to have the same natural "stop now" switch like many or most people. Count calories, yes, and still be hungry, so....see previous. Then the guilt starts. Vicious cycle.
3. Exercise like a man possessed, continue craptastic eating. Steady-state.
4. Previous option, No. 3, PLUS forced healthy or high-protein eating. Become an athlete (again). White-knuckle the whole gall-damned-tricking-time, obsessing about food constantly, then falling off the wagon eventually (and spectacularly) like a rummy faced with a bottle Jack Daniels outside the saloon.
OR....
5. Try some of the new meds...four are FDA approved...which for many , or most, actually reduce appetite and make one want to a) be more cautious about our food choices and 2) after a little success, make us want to exercise more frequently and vigorously, as we should, for optimal health. It's a boost, and damned if it doesn't work.
5a. ...Leading to slow and steady weight loss, which is fine and dandy, because in about a year if all goes well I'll at least be where I should, ,weight wise, and then we'll work at "steady state". Getting back to figurative T=zero is a helluva lot better than the dial going the wrong way.
It's pretty much a matter of life and death at this point, okay? But hey: thanks for gross oversimplification of a heinous problem for many millions, and...nah, I'll self censor from here. Over and out.
5a. ...Leading to slow and steady weight loss, which is fine and dandy, because in about a year if all goes well I'll at least be where I should, ,weight wise, and then we'll work at "steady state". Getting back to figurative T=zero is a helluva lot better than the dial going the wrong way.
I like slow and steady.
If I lose just half a pound a week, I'll get to my goal by Labor Day.
This isn't a race but I think I can do better than that. Most weeks I do.
Oh wait...I did. As have thousands, millions of others.
My choices are:
1. Eat less, tough it out. I call that either 'Grain and Drain' or 'White Knuckling the Protein Shakes!'
2. Eat more than I should, because I don't seem to have the same natural "stop now" switch like many or most people. Count calories, yes, and still be hungry, so....see previous. Then the guilt starts. Vicious cycle.
3. Exercise like a man possessed, continue craptastic eating. Steady-state.
4. Previous option, No. 3, PLUS forced healthy or high-protein eating. Become an athlete (again). White-knuckle the whole gall-damned-tricking-time, obsessing about food constantly, then falling off the wagon eventually (and spectacularly) like a rummy faced with a bottle Jack Daniels outside the saloon.
OR....
5. Try some of the new meds...four are FDA approved...which for many , or most, actually reduce appetite and make one want to a) be more cautious about our food choices and 2) after a little success, make us want to exercise more frequently and vigorously, as we should, for optimal health. It's a boost, and damned if it doesn't work.
5a. ...Leading to slow and steady weight loss, which is fine and dandy, because in about a year if all goes well I'll at least be where I should, ,weight wise, and then we'll work at "steady state". Getting back to figurative T=zero is a helluva lot better than the dial going the wrong way.
It's pretty much a matter of life and death at this point, okay? But hey: thanks for gross oversimplification of a heinous problem for many millions, and...nah, I'll self censor from here. Over and out.
If you think a pill is going to be the answer to your weight problems then by all means best of luck, keep us posted on your success.
The time to worry about side effects is when you actually have them, not before.
I have no idea about the side effects of the particular medication in question, but in general, I don’t think this is true. Conventional wisdom says that side effects stop when you stop taking the medication that caused them, but that is not always true. You can experience a serious side effect that you will have for the rest of your life even if you discontinue the medication that caused it. (Ask me how I know.) So, the time to worry about potential side effects and, in general, do your homework is before you start taking a medication.
I have no idea about the side effects of the particular medication in question, but in general, I don’t think this is true. Conventional wisdom says that side effects stop when you stop taking the medication that caused them, but that is not always true. You can experience a serious side effect that you will have for the rest of your life even if you discontinue the medication that caused it. (Ask me how I know.) So, the time to worry about potential side effects and, in general, do your homework is before you start taking a medication.
How do you know that you're going to have a side effect if you haven't had it?
I read up on the side effects for a month or so before even getting the script for Contrave. I made the choice to start my first week with PM pills instead of AM pills so that I would be more apt to be at home if I got one of the side effects. I also started on a weekend. I wasn't fearful of the side-effects in a dangerous way, but more as in an embarrassing to get sick at work type thing.
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