Sure, absolutely. I can understand the desperation from the sense of needing to work hard to stay healthy and how it can be tough. It's never "easy", especially in our current society. We all have our own challenges. I like junk food too, love it in fact. DW has a ton of challenges too (including thyroid), but at the end of the day it's all about hard work and dedication. It's definitely a personal choice to die fat and happy instead of eating healthy, and everyone gets to make their own decision on that. However, I just cringe at the "I'm looking for a miracle instant solution to weight loss" solution. If you want to maintain a healthy body mass, it takes some effort. No way around it. My life is insanely busy, like many people. But I pack all my food in advance and spend time preparing, so I don't grab a bag of peanut M&Ms...though I do love them....mmmmmmmm.....
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Sure, absolutely. I can understand the desperation from the sense of needing to work hard to stay healthy and how it can be tough. It's never "easy", especially in our current society. We all have our own challenges. I like junk food too, love it in fact. DW has a ton of challenges too (including thyroid), but at the end of the day it's all about hard work and dedication. It's definitely a personal choice to die fat and happy instead of eating healthy, and everyone gets to make their own decision on that. However, I just cringe at the "I'm looking for a miracle instant solution to weight loss" solution. If you want to maintain a healthy body mass, it takes some effort. No way around it. My life is insanely busy, like many people. But I pack all my food in advance and spend time preparing, so I don't grab a bag of peanut M&Ms...though I do love them....mmmmmmmm.....
I'm not sure what article you and the OP read, but that one certainly did not tout Belviq as a "miracle pill."
What is did say, was that it was safe for long term use as it caused no cardiac problems after being used long term, as opposed to other diet pills
Why is it that overweight people are automatically assumed to be stupid and lazy? A new tool in aiding people to lose weight comes out and people want to assume that overweight people are stupid and believe that they just swallow the pill and, poof! they will lose weight. No one says "Ehrmagad! There is a new diabetes medication out. All these diabetics will think that they just take this miracle drug and it will cure their diabetes." The assumption was made that diabetics know to use these medicines in conjunction with diet to lower their blood augar and A1C, and to help keep it there.
No doctor prescribes a weight loss pill and sends their patient out into the world to go be skinny. They counsel them on diet and exercise.
Why is it automatically assumed that if you are overweight it's because you can't be bothered to do anything about it?
Obesity, weight gain, and eating habits are a very complex emotional, physical, functional, cultural and socioeconomic thing. The is no one good answer or treatment for anyone.
What this article states is that this medicine is safe for long term use, because it won't damage your heart and is safe for use by people who have existing cardiac problems. It also very clearly stated that the action of the medication is to stimulate the area ofthe brain that signals the feeling of fullness and that it is to be used in conjunction with a diet plan. It is a tool to help people stay on plan with a diet.
I have seen many of your posts about diet, nutrition, and your lifestyle. From reading them I am of the opinion that you don't have a very healthy relationship with food, although you are very quick to tell everyone how trim, healthy, and athletic you are. Preparing a week's meals and eating the same thing over and over reheated and thawed and making sure you haul those same foods everywhere, even in theme parks, so as not to deviate from rhe plan. Calling any meals that deviate from the pre-prepared meals "cheat meals," as if going off any preconceived plan is bad. The word "cheat" implies anegative. Descriptions of dry sandwiches and condescending people who put condiments on sandwiches as "slathering" them.
I also think there are very few people who would enjoy your lifestyle, or have the luxury to do it. Being up and out before dawn and running hither and yon for the next 18 hours with only 20 minutes to spend in your house. Some people enjoy meals with their families or just spending time talking, or being at home. as opposed to running from one activity to the next. Some people have to work 2 jobs, or are single parents who have small children, or have jobs with odd or varying hours. Life is not so simple for everyone that every day, every meal can be planned out a week ahead of time.
As another person mentioned, too, money plays a factor. You can get a generic brand of Kraft dinner for 59 cents a box. 2 boxes and you have a $1.20 meal for your family. Fresh food costs much more than processed food, and depending on your living situation you may not have access to a large variety, even canned or frozen.
Eating disorders come in varying forms. Some people overeat. Some under. Some binge. Some purge. Some are very rigid with their diet. Some emotionally eat. Some emotionally fast.
Some people have a slow metabolism that requires a drastic cut in calories. Some people burn calories faster. Some bodies have different intake needs and tolerances. Exercise only counts about 20% when it comes to weight loss. 80% is diet.
This is why different diets work for different people. Example, some people drop a lot of weight on keto. Other people just gain because their bodies process fats and carbs differently. There is so much we don't know about DNA.
Physiologically, in theory it may be as easy as, "just eat less," but there are so many other factors. Humans are complex in a lot of ways and the notion that weight loss is a one size fits all formula is ridiculous.
Portraying overweight people in the negative is wrong. People struggle. If there is a tool that can help some people, and it's used properly, it is a good thing. People want to denigrate overweight people for being overweight, but then ridicule them when they try to use tools, such as particular diets, medications, and surgery.