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Thank you.

Ozempic is not a weight loss drug for me. Weight loss was a welcome side-effect. I was pre-diabetic and am on Jardiance and Metformin. My doctor has talked about reducing the Ozempic either by extending the injection interval or by micro-dosing. He says that Ozempic seems to have a heart protective benefit that they don’t understand yet.

I’ve been eating the way that I’m eating now for more than 3 years. What was slowing me down was empty calories. I’m not going to never eat empty calories but I’m going to treat them as treats. When I reach my target weight I’m going to work with my doctor to develop a maintenance program. I sent a bunch of forms to a local gym and plan to start Olympic style weight training next week to protect and strengthen my muscles and to improve my quality of life as I age.

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The most important thing was to not fight the Ozempic. I believe that the people who fail believe that it’s a magic bullet and they can just keep eating how they have always eaten and that just doesn’t work. I talked to one woman who said that it was completely useless, she just vomited all the time and stopped taking it. I saked her if she had change the way that she ate and reduced her intake and she was incredulous.

I dramatically changed how I eat and have lost almost 45 kg (100 lbs) since the beginning.

To put the food question simply, was it what you were eating or how much or how often?

When I started taking Ozempic I had an adjustment period. I started to eat less to protect myself from reflux. I found that I couldn’t eat spicy food late in the day so I started eating mild, unchallenging food late in the day and spicy food for breakfast. I stopped eating lunch because I wasn’t hungry.

I started eating a couple of eggs or a Nature Valley granola bar for breakfast then taking my supper in a pottery bowl that holes 250 ml (1 cup) or if it was not bowl appropriate I ate my supper from a side/bread plate. Whatever the main is goes into the bowl. Tonight we had soya sauce chicken over rice. I ate it out of the bowl and had less than 250 ml total of the main. We also had broccoli and I put that on a side plate. I eat as much of the vegetables as I want.

I’ve had an extremely busy and stressful period from November. My mother needed major surgery so my father, who she had been caring for, had to go into LTC. He resisted aggressively and has been extremely resentful of me since I’m now in charge. When my mother recovered from her surgery she had planned to take my dad home but that wasn’t possible. She started driving in to care for him in LTC all day every day until after two weeks she had a stroke. She was in the hospital for 6 weeks and I had to get my dad and bring him to the hospital. Once she was out of the hospital I started driving her in to visit my father three times a week. She lives 20 minutes from me and it’s 35 minutes from there to the LTC home so I was spending 3 hours a day taking her in and either visiting or hanging out in town while she was there. I was doing all of this while trying to keep my family running and my day job happy. I was doing a lot of stress eating and boredom eating, especially since my mother is a huge snack monster. I was eating a lot of chips, Doritos, Cheesies, candy, and donuts while driving my mom around.

I had planned to cut out those empty calories during the month of March to see what happeend. I had a cancer followup on February 27 and got a clean bill of health and a next appointment 6 months in the future. I stopped by on the way through to home to tell the nurses who had administered my chemo and with whom I had become very friendly. One of the nurses who is very pretty and who I quite like walked up to me, looked me up and down, and said, “You look…leaner. Are you losing weight?” I told her that I Was doing it intentionally. I decided to start cutting the next day, one day in advance to see if I could convince her that she should feel me up the next time I saw her, March 27, when I drove a friend for her six weekly immunetherapy treatment. I cut everything except my morning granola bar and my supper. I lost 15 pounds before the next time I saw her and she stood with a shocked look on her face with her mouth hanging open. I told her that I was fine, unzipped my fleece, pulled out the nexk of my t-shirt, and asked her if she wanted to feel for lumps. She did and I counted that as a win.

You can see the change on February 27 on the graph.

I promised the nurses that I would call my doctor and ask if he wanted to see me. I called and asked if he wanted to do bloodwork and/or to see me. He ordered bloodwork which was apparently find and asked me to come in. I prepared a 5 page summary of my motivation and what I was doing and I kept an accurate record of everything I ate for 2 weeks. My low was 770 calories and my high was 1850 calories. Taht high day I went for Chinese with my family. I’m averaging 1,100 calories.

As i get older the how much and how often has been the biggest change to stop the gain. So I am interested to hear how you did it and how long some of the side effects/cravings were.

I don’t find that I’m hungry through the day very often. If I need something to eat I will get a big carrot, peel it, and slice it into thin disks which I put in a bowl and eat like chips. I get to go through the motions without getting a bunch of empty calories. My wife gave me a bunch of Cadbury mini-eggs for Easter and I ate 4 and put the rest in the fridge in my office. I eat a cookie when someone makes them and a small piece of cake if it’s a birthday. When I walk past food I think, “Am I hungry or am I bored?” If I’m hungry I ask myself, “Is that what I should eat or should I eat something else?” I try to make good choices. I used to eat pecans, dried cranberries, and a few chocolate chips for a bedtime snack. Now, if I want one, I eat a pear, an orange, or some mellon.

And how does your fridge/ pantry look?

The rest of my family still eat the way they have always eaten. My wife complains that her homemade sourdough bread isn’t being eaten as fast as it was and she gets up my trumpet from time to time about the fact that I should eat more. I am working with my doctor to come up with a plan to level off and maintain my weight when I get down to 82 kg (180 lbs).

Most importantly, really well done realising you needed a change and then doing it!

Thanks. I’m really pleased that my blood pressure is finally down and that my blood sugar has returned to normal.

Why did the woman have a shotgun and what did the dog use to shoot her?

They are also leading the world in coal mining.

I see this ridiculous comment all the time. Yes, they are mining coal because their need for energy outstrips their ability to build and bring online renewables but that doesn’t change the fact that they are building renewables faster than the rest of the world combined and at some point cleap, clean renewables will meet their energy needs.

Energy cost makes up between 10% and 80% of the cost of everythin you buy. When energy is cheaper the products are cheaper or the profits are higher. When China is run on all those cheap, clean renewables, and when the US has burned all the oil and all the gas and all the coal and the wealthy have run away to their slave islands to sit on their bags of money everyone else will be fucked.

But, by all means, keep Whatabouting those stupid little “gotcha” comments.

And I remember people singing the same song about Japan in the late 70s as they do about China now. Extrapolation works perfectly in a world with no limiting factors.

Really? People were saying that Japan was building so much cheap, clean renewable energy that they were going to have cheaper products and beat the west? I don’t remember anyone saying that.

The US government is falling all over itself to fellate the oil and gas industry to protect their profits. They have blocked EVs in every way possible.

China doesn’t give a fuck about the US Church of Profits and is building renewable energy and EVs faster than the rest of the world combined.

The west has already lost. China won. China will be in charge in the very near future.

We’ll build our own defense industry, with blackjack, and hookers!

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Fascism is a far-right, ultranationalist, and authoritarian political ideology that emerged in early 20th-century Europe, characterized by a totalitarian, one-party state, a charismatic leader, a fixation on national decline, and the suppression of individual rights and opposition groups. It combines elements of militarism, economic self-sufficiency, and mass mobilization, often through propaganda and violence, to achieve a vision of national purity and power.

And Hell gained another angel.

Gen X invented the fucking tech from discrete 7400 logic.

The court made very clear that Trump, this feckless spawn, and the Trump organizing committed fraud. It just ruled that the judgement was excessive. They’re still guilty. There will still be a penalty. It will just be lower.

The Gulf of Dementia?

Hi. No, we don’t do any PVP. It’s all coop. We play as though we are in creative. We build bases and infrastructure and work an area then move and start again when we have done everything we want to do. I do torment my sister from time to time (by planting giant mushrooms in her yard or filling her house with cats or giving her armadillos that I name “cat” but that’s about it.

Section 2

They are taking up valuable medical resources that could be being used to further wreck her ghoulish face.

It’s unlawful until the Supreme Court strikes down that section of the law because it’s obviously unconstitutional because it takes away their Section 2 right to collective bargaining.

I love the Reddit-like impotent little downvotes on Lemmy. When someone is downvoting every single comment I make on a thread I know they are Reddit refugees.