Personal trainer Karl Henry: ‘Se hai bisogno di perdere un chilo, non hai bisogno di prendere farmaci dimagranti’ | Indipendente irlandese
https://m.independent.ie/life/health-wellbeing/personal-trainer-karl-henry-if-you-need-to-lose-a-stone-you-dont-need-to-go-on-weight-loss-medication/a1184644192.html
di WickerMan111
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lol
No you don’t, but you can, so fuck off and let people make their own decisions.
Yeah, you can lose 1.7 stone by cutting of a leg
I love how triggered Reddit will get by this simple statement of fact.
Fact! Once you go on those jabs you are on them for life.
And if you do NEED ozempic or another form of appetite suppressant to lose a stone you have much bigger problems then your weight.
He’s not wrong – you don’t *need* to, and you probably shouldn’t.
But, assuming you’re fully informed and aware of the risks, and there are risks, you can.
I would think that if it’s the option between doing that or *not* losing a stone (that is 6.4kg, which isn’t an inconsiderable amount), then the option to use weight loss medication isn’t the worst one.
However, weight loss isn’t the only issue, and there are benefits to making the changes to your lifestyle to actively lose that weight. Eating healthier (not just less), and the physical and mental benefits of exercise are things you don’t get from weight loss meds, and there are no side effects, which is something that is often overlooked.
Expend more calories than you intake. Ideally to a deficit of 3,500 a week. Thats it, thats always how its been. Its how I dropped from 90kg to 70.
He is so wise 🙃
Are people really doing this to lose a stone? I thought the doctors would be a bit stricter about prescribing weight loss medication, considering the high possibility of bad side effects.
Women take GLP1s because their weight gain is caused by female reproductive health.
Regardless, men can talk about male health, under no circumstances should they be commenting about female health unless they are a trained gynaecologist 🙂
He’s not wrong. The problem with these drugs is they dont build any good habits or structure your lfie in a way to lose weight and keep it off. My partner has struggled with her weight a lot since covid. I go to the gym religiously and always tried to get her to come with me or to try my diet plan but she never liked it. Finally she tried wegovy for a few months. She lost like 10kg and was chuffed with herself but never really learned how to cook and enjoy low calorie food or do any real excercise she just wasnt hungry so ate very [little.as](http://little.as) soon as she stopped taking it and her hunger and “food noise” came back she gained every single kg back. She says her BF% was actually worse then before she took it too because she was eating so little and not working out during her time on Wegovy so she also lost any muscle she had while on it.
A year after that she took it again but this time locked in on her diet and came to the gym with me. Re lost all the weight again but her composition was way better than the first time and shes been off GLP1 drugs for almsot a year now and has kept all the weight off.
So they do work but these people who think its a magic pill that’ll finally shed their weight off are right but you’ll still need to learn the same habits you would have if you’d lost the weight normally if you want to keep it off.
Exercise won’t make much of a dent either. It’s all about what you eat.
My own GP struggled with his weight for years.
He Went on the jabs earlier this year and lost a load of weight.
He is very open about it.
We have decades of research that show a large % of people who are over weight arent just “lazy” or “weak willed”.
Weird how someone massively invested in selling his own ways of losing weight would be against other ways…
Didn’t read the full article as it’s behind a pay wall but I mean this headline isn’t wrong. And these meds do have side effects. Not to mention rapid weight loss is not good for you.
To me it doesn’t seem worth it unless you’re overweight enough that it’s got out of control and really affects your health. I don’t think we should normalise taking Ozempic to slim down for the beach, not until it’s been further studied anyway
But sure look it’s a free country at the end of the day
My favourite weightloss tip I heard recently “It’s your elbow. Every time your elbow bends, your fucking mouth opens.”
True, one can lose a stone but evidence shows that the vast majority will put it back on in the long term.
The medications help with keeping it off long term.
A can of tuna, a shot of whiskey and a Clint Eastwood movie. Everyday for a year.
Id love to see the Venn diagram of “yer not putting that covid vaccine into me untested im no guinea pig 5g chips corporate profit blah” with “I cant possibly count calories, skip dessert or get off my fat arse – give me that 400quid a month weekly injection for life”
I absolutely hate these fat loss medicines but at this stage it’s like cigarettes, alcohol and liposuction. Bash away but don’t expect sympathy from anyone when you’re old, weak, fat and incontinent.
This is a bit of a non issue in Ireland though. You need to meet the BMI and health condition criteria, it’s a prescription drug