Wed, Jul-20-22, 17:27
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Plan: Atkins-ish (hypoglycemia)
Stats: 000/000/000
BF:
Progress: 50%
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"she resents people who think it is a quick fix. She says she has to continue watching what she eats and exercising. “It’s not like you take the drug, and then you can eat pie and cookies all day.”
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Sorry, I had completely missed that line (I'm not feeling particularly well at the moment.... a bit of brain fog)
But the combination of these 2 factors is really disturbing:
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When a patient stops taking Wegovy, their appetite returns within weeks and they pack on weight. ... There may be even worse side effects of coming off the drug. Less than a week after Robillard stopped taking it at the end of the trial in November 2019, she started having panic attacks. “Every circuit started thinking about the cravings,” she says. She regained 20 pounds.
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In February, the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence issued preliminary guidance advising that Wegovy can be given to the most overweight patients, with at least one obesity-related condition, alongside a diet and exercise plan, but only for two years.
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That means that if you happen to have a spare $32,400 sitting around ($1,350/month for 24 months), you can take it for 2 years, lose a whole pile of weight, then gain it all back (with interest? Most likely...) after you've reached the 2 year limit on using it.
Medically approved yo-yo dieting.
Which brings us back to this again:
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Varady worries that it will be easier to medicate a world that she describes as “obesogenic” — tending to cause obesity. Wegovy could become a societal sticking plaster, allowing food companies to continue selling junk and pharma companies to profit from slimming people down.
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...Which in the end isn't really going to help at all.
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