The sitting Illinois Governor has dropped 80 lbs using a GLP-1 drug in a “tune up” for the 2028 race.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/jb-pritzker-weight-loss-drugs-f15668f1
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A few of us in the family have gone with GLP-1’s. my Dr’s led me to Mounjaro last year, it’s taken off 70 pounds I surely didn’t need, unloaded my hips, knees for the rest of this ride into the future, no side affects other than as others noted, the loss of food noise, just less interest, and maybe helped in that there has been a lot less whiskey being checked out lately, the bottles are getting dusty!.. I’ll still have a Bud Light, and other snacks, or a beer if out for dinner, but it isn’t harming the progress… As we made more money, we ate ‘better’ too often, too much, no doubt, job changed, too, less physical, more screen time, paperwork, it all added up, while the internal body image was still that tall skinny kid that could eat anything and get away with it!
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I am scheduled to probably begin taking Mounjaro October 9. I have 35 days on the protein shakes to lose weight or add the med. But the protein shakes until tomorrow morning have been too much caffeine. I have not lost weight and I have been in the gym adding weight. Late nights making the game.
That reverses out starting tomorrow. Get some results by the second week of October, I will put it off another month.
At all costs maintain your muscle mass.
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Why put it off?
If you know you have excess fat, have tried multiple times to lose it and keep it off without success, are experiencing the metabolic consequences of this (from your own accounts this is the case), it doesn’t seem a logical step to try another tactic that’s a questionable tool when there’s something that has a good track record to its use. Regardless of all the negative articles and click bait you’ve searched out in the past.
As I’ve posted many …many … times over the past year or so, my daughter’s had tremendous success losing what would commonly be termed “vanity” pounds by unimaginative observers. That early 20-25 lbs of fat gain that is oftentimes the precursor to 40-50lbs (or more
) and that’s in and of itself a pathologic state and starting the metabolic damage… even before the departure from healthy homeostasis shows as prediabetes.
Never needed more than the start up dose of Ozempic. It kicked in and shut down the food noise within a week, returning her to her former disciplined eating habits…which have remained after about 28lbs of weight loss and tapering off a few months ago. Mostly fat, it seems as, per the body analysis scale at gym and the eyeball test, she’s even gained a bit more muscle.
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I have a niece-in-law who used GLPs so that she would be eligible for knee surgery.
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I have an uncle that was ineligible for hernia surgery for many years (decades even) due to his weight. Something about the anesthesia possibly killing him due to excess body weight absorbing it. He dieted about 20-30 years ago and got his weight down enough that they would be willing to do the surgery.
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Did you say hernia surgery??? One side effect of my daughter’s weight loss was that it uncovered an umbilical hernia that started to bother her, plus a diastasis rectii (probably from her pregnancy days) that had been hidden by the belly fat.
Surgery a month ago…and it didn’t go as smoothly as expected. There was a lot of residual fat that had infiltrated the hernia site that proved tricky to remove. All healed now…but it does emphasize yet another of the unexpected dangers of fat gain that you don’t hear so much about. Even when it’s only so called vanity weight.
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I’ve been on it for months. When I gain it all shows up in my belly, which exacerbates my back problems. I have dropped 24 pounds (Im within 5 of my goal) which has helped with the back issues. (The PT I did along the way helped, as well.)
I used Weight Watchers the past two times this got away from me and it was fine, but this is easier.
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The problem I am putting behind me right now is the protein shakes were coco with some caffeine. I should have known better. I gain weight with bedtimes in the wee hours.
I am going to a vanilla shake.
I am successful at losing weight. In particular, I lost 50 pounds during the pandemic. I have kept off 30 pounds of that after five years.
When I decided to go on the med, I watched a video on how to take the med and lose weight. There is a protein count that is key to losing weight with the med. I am doing that now before going on the med. If that alone works, I do not need the med.
I needed the dieting structure. We’ll see, I am not closed minded to using the med, but if I do not need it.
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Seriously doubt that. I put numerous morbidly obese patients to sleep for various surgeries, and while they have an elevated risk for complications from the surgery to the anesthesia to the recovery period, with modern anesthesia, there is no “too sick” for anesthesia. In your uncles case, more likely, the hernia surgery was more likely to fail because of his obesity.
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This case with my uncle was 50 years ago, maybe 55 already (!). He dieted about 30 years ago and dropped to a weight at which the docs were willing to do the surgery.
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Found my holy grail even though my friends say I am not overweight:
Fasted cardio. I ride the first half of our ebike club’s ride, which is usually between 25-50 miles, on an empty stomach. Then a PBJ sandwich or bowl of oatmeal at turnaround point. The 2-4 hours of activity in itself should do the job fasted or not. And no, I don’t lose any muscle, which I measure at gym when lifting weights. Actually adding a little muscle to shoulders, chest, and back will pull up the skin on your inner tube.
You can’t do enough cardio at the gym. One needs an engaging activity like bike riding or pickleball to do the 2-3 hours of low-med intensity cardio to have any results.
Funny correlation, but I seem to notice that chronic overeaters also talk too much. . . ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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My SIL is morbidly obese, waiting for a new knee and they won’t do it until she loses 60 lbs. she’s at 25 after almost a year. Not motivated enough apparently
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It is best to only lose 25 pounds per year. You lose less muscle than a larger loss, and you are less likely to gain it back.
I have a friend who has lost 160 lbs with Mounjaro. He has 80 to go. He bikes a lot with a club. But he has lost 40 pounds of muscle. He is in trouble. His shoulders and arms are tiny. He needed most of those 40 pounds. Coming off Mounjaro will be even harder to do now.
This is a pretty evidence free …and probably evidence proof … statement. Given adequate protein and appropriate stimulus for muscle growth from strength training, a higher loss won’t rob you of much by way of lean body mass…depending on how much excess lard there is to start with, of course.
I do not know how it is evidence-free when historically most people gain the weight back. Some experts see slower weight loss as a better approach. You differ from them, but how much expertise do you have?
Aagh…ya got me there. When it comes to dropping huge gobs of lard from my torso, I have a big, skinny ZERO expertise on the topic…being one of those mavericks who’ve worked at not gaining those huge gobs of lard in the first place.
However, you appear to have misread my response in that my “evidence free/proof” comment pertained to the confident statement about it being best to only lose 25lbs a year. Perhaps you meant “% bodyweight” rather than pounds? That strategy accounts for variations in adiposity between individuals in a much more tailored, nuanced way.
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That long ago, anesthesia was almost barbaric compared to today. So he might have been “too sick”.
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I’ll try again in simpler language. Half a pound per week. That’s 25 pounds per year.
Is there any harm in saying that, which is completely unforgivable? Thanks for your encouragement. LOL
“Fasted cardio”. Fasted cardio is my Holy Grail as well. Around the time I retired 8 years ago, I stumbled upon an article in the New England Journal of Medicine by Mark Mattson. I followed his work to a number of studies and a book written by him. I eventually settled into a process of eating mostly Mediterranean style foods, a brief after dinner walk, no snacks thereafter, and a program of hill walking and/or weightlifting before breakfast.
My cholesterol and blood readings dropped dramatically and have remained there ever since. I stopped evangelizing about it a few years ago when I realized that nothing I said about it would affect the behavior of anybody else.
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