Semaglutide is the microcosm for the failed American insurance system

Not many people know this.

 

@SmeggySmeg - your rebuttal?

 

Really, this is the true answer, @Two Sandwiches. You can't take shortcuts and slap bandaids on everything, that's what most Americans do and, eventually your body is going to give out like an old ****ing dam and you're going to have serious heart problems, cancer, a stroke, diabetes or a super-sized combo of these and/or other things.

You sincerely need a major life change, bro. I know it's hard, but you should put your life in perspective and figure out what you need to live for and always keep that in mind. Then start making changes. Ask your family to help. Pre-cook your food, take it with you, drink a ****ton of water every day to fill yourself up. Get some cardio at work, like a walk. Ramp it up from there. You can do it.

 

I think diet and exercise is the best answer.
Exercise can be a hobby like hoops or biking etc
Try eliminating a few things from your diet
I rarely order French fries or onion rings , I just eat the burger

 

While it's a failure that our medical system inflates some drug prices 50-fold, it's also a societal failure if "the ozempic talk" is a thing.

 

@OneSandwiches

 

While exercise is vital for health and is a major help when trying to lose or maintain weight, it's incredibly hard to outwork a bad diet as you age. This is a dietary problem, simply a surplus caloric intake.

What's unfortunately not simple, is the brutally constant discipline needed to correct that problem. I don't know too many guys who want to be "skinny" so I'd exchange that with terms like cut, optimal BMI range, or low body fat. You can achieve those goals through mainly diet, and exercise, don't accept defeat.

 

6'3" and 215 is phenomenal and a great goal.

 

When you get older, your metabolism slows to a crawl while your hormones change in normalcy.

That means increased muscle loss, weight gain with the same diet and energy imbalances.

Most Americans either eat more or the same when they get older and they generally work out less due to lifestyle, time constraints and workload.

It's a total ground-up rework beyond just eating less and doing more exercise. Thinking like that usually means you rebound a few weeks or months later with a few snags or boredom.

 

The funny part is that at its core, it really is simply eating less calories and or burning more.

For some (probably most in our environment) people, thats a mountainous endeavor of constant self discipline and intense mental / physical warfare. For others it’s as easy as picking up a new fun physical hobby and sticking to a simple dietary frame work without much extra thought.

 

You know what semaglutide does? It makes you not want to eat. It works. I am on it for diabetes and I don't want to eat.

 

I don’t think that’s a fair interpretation I’m purposely acknowledging both sides of the coin in my posts. The topic by nature is incredibly individualistic

 

I wish I had a job that let me be physically active while I worked. Modern life is very sedentary.

 

Eating well in this day and age isn't cheap either...