Could have predicted the “eat less, exercise more” crowd would pop up.
A pretty fair percent of the population has metabolic issues. Personally, I eat about 1000 calories a day, have a physical job, walk, climb stairs, and do not lose weight. My resting heart rate is about 40. My BP is 117 over 72. I am sixty years old, 6’ tall, 268 pounds.
I had gotten up to 296, but I have a new doctor who saw my numbers (pulse, BP and weight) and was concerned. He basically put me on an amphetamine. It is meant for weight loss. You can only use it for 90 days. In that time I lost 30 pounds. Since I stopped, my weight has started creeping up again.
Some people have actual metabolic issues. To shame all overweight folks with “eat less and exercise” is detestable.
Whether the reason for obesity is medical or not, once you’re there, you’re there. And at risk for all the (very expensive) maladies that come with it.
It is foolhardy for insurance companies not to cover the great bulk of the cost for those who comply with the diet and exercise regimen. The saved costs from preventing great amounts of obesity related illness would repay the cost of the drug many times over.
Have you tried any fasting? I’ve lost 220lbs over the last 5 years by following a low carb diet and fasting 48-120 per week (2-5 days). Yes, I was wearing circus tents, now I’m a curvy XL. I do extended fasts due to my extreme weight and apparently useless metabolism. The results have been pretty astounding, I don’t even have loose skin because the autophagy of long fasts tightens it all up.
My husband lost 50lbs just with the low carb, he hasn’t ever really fasted more than 24 hours. He could stand to lose another 10-15. He’d probably shake them off like dust just doing a single 36 hour fast per week.
I appreciate that losing weight is difficult, but if you are that heavy…not losing weight on 1,000 calories a day…I have to call you on that.
Unless your new doc is an endocrinologist, and they are waiting a paper on you…your numbers don’t work. From a pure physics point of view, moving that much weight throughout a day takes at least 2,400 calories to just maintain. No one’s body is as efficient as you write.
“metabolic issues”
That would be funny if it wasn’t so serious. Fact: Most ‘metabolic issues’ are an effect of lifestyle disease.
One such ‘disease’ was acid reflux.
Those proton pump inhibitors which used to be RX ONLY are now OTC and reeking havoc upon those self-diagnosing themselves.
If this drug remains RX only, I’d be satisfied.
But I seriously doubt that will be the case.