Demand for weight-loss drugs Ozempic/Wegovy is so large that the government of Denmark (where drugmaker Novo Nordisk is from) now has to publish GDP data excluding it
— Joey Politano 🏳️🌈 (@JosephPolitano) September 6, 2023
Since the first half of 2022 (left), headline GDP growth has been 1.7% (blue), but ex-Pharma it's -0.3% (green) pic.twitter.com/TtlkheSfXj
In Pittsburgh, Jordan Jones said she felt optimistic about her weight struggles when she heard about Ozempic. Then she found out her insurer wouldn't cover the medication for off-label use.
Her boyfriend is now working 12-hour shifts four days a week to pay for her $800 monthly supply. The couple is also cutting back on eating out, gas, groceries and alcohol, she said.
Remember most who go on ozempic tend to regain most of their weight back:
The danish have unironically hit the cash cow with this drug. I need to find a way to make money of the fats
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Just stop eating lmao
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She cut back on going out to eat and drinking to purchase the Ozempic, but not to lose the weight
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Yeah glad I'm not the only one who saw that lol, cutting out booze is unironically probably enough
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Maybe she's just making the boyfriend cut back on that stuff lol
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Maybe the bf is also fat too haha
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The weight lost after stopping alcohol is the true measure of alcoholism.
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The true measure is gaining weight when stopping. Real alcoholics only need alcohol to live. Its why wineos are always skinny, eat mayb once every few days. Food is far from thought.
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Can confirm. I don't even need to drink water, I get everything I need from booze. Beer, especially, is a superfood.
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Only if you cant control your mouth
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Youve never drank enough if you dont lose inhibitions. Haveing two and poppers with your b/f isnt partying.
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I genuinely don't understand how fats can eat so much. I've been struggling to hit atleast 3000 calories every day. !fitness help me
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eat more.
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But it makes my stomach hurt
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Take an edible
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Think of it just like your gym exercises. Fork lifts 5x10. It helped me, I've gone from 5'8 105lb my whole life to 5'8 140 in the last 6 months
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midget.
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Just buy some trail mix and put it next to your desk to snack on, it's a calorie bomb.
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But it's got nuts in it! Won't that make you LOSE weight?
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Your stomach is like rubber, if you eat a lot, it will stretch out and won't hurt anymore
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poop more
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THAT MEANS ITS WORKING
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You don't need 3000 calories in one meal dumbo. Just pace yourself.
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make a 1000 calorie shake b4 bed then you can lie in fetal position and cry about it without worrying about having to move
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protein powder, milk, banana, peanut butter. Make a shake
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Eat fast food, fries a burger and a drink is like 1400 calories
(Don't actually do this)
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and whole chocolate milk, potatoes, olive oil, steak
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Eat shittier food
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they don't get full easily from a terrible diet and genetics. big portions. they eat their feelings, consume party food and alcohol. for some people eating and trying new food is satisfying like music or a movie.
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Do not mention the distinguished beauty of alcohol, which has been the highlight of many civilizations dating back to the stone age, in the same sentence as Twinkies, donut burgers, and Cheesy Gorditas.
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Get a maltodrexin based mass gainer and drink some calories, boo.
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Break it down to 5 600cal meals. Stop trying to eat 1200cal meals.
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Fry literally everything in bacon fat
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Drink lots of piss beer
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Does your appetite go down the shitter after you lift? I just try to make up for my lack of appetite on lifting days by eating more on non-lifting days. I'm sure it's not ideal but it's better than nothing cooking good meals helps too but nothing I've found can really fix it if the appetite is just gone imo
I imagine fats just feel like the latter constantly because they don't engage their cores or w/e tf causes eating to feel so after a workout
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You see eating as a chore. They see eating as recreation.
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Drink olive oil if you are desperate to pack calories.
The super fat people I know through osmosis would make shit they'd call "slop" which was typically pasta, mayo and siracha, they'd eat multiple bowls a day of it.
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Don't do this. It'll give you gallstones from heck from all the extra fat. You'll end up needing it out by your early 30s
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Liquids are your friend depending on what you want, if you need carbs for energy get some alcohol free beer, protein shakes for protein and milk-based drinks for a liquid snack
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Drink your calories
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It's so easy. I control myself but I'm baffled by people who claim they can't put on weight if they want. Delicious slop makes you hungrier. And that's before we even get to drinking your calories.
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Chug a carton of milk thirty minutes after dinner.
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Ask our lord and savior about GOMAD
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This the “drink a gallon of milk per day” thing? Can't imagine what weird hormone concoctions you end up drinking from cow milk.
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If you can't get it through normal bulking. Then buy weight gainer like https://www.amazon.com/Mutant-Mass-Extreme-Gainer-Strength/dp/B09F5HZ7T5 one serving has 1200 calories
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Asians habitually eat healthy and balanced diets (pictured below) due to cultural reasons. You can't expect a strong independent career mayo womxn who doesn't have time to put in the emotional labor into cooking when they live in a food desert
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Isn't this bug-eating shit mostly a poorstrag/hillbilly thing?
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Cantonese cuisine is arguably the best Chinese cuisine lol
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Dim Sum is cantonese right? Love that shit
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That's not arguably, that's factual.
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It's the shortcut drug for lazy fats. Their mentality is still fat, which is why it will change nothing for them. They may lose the weight, but they will be mentally fat, and still behave like a fat.
Plus this drug could have metabolic consequences, such as premature ageing. "The Science" is still fairly new for Ozempic's weight loss use.
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I know a girl who purposefully gained more weight so that her surgery to make her stomach smaller would be covered as an acutely necessary medical intervention.
The shit people do to themselves to avoid facing who they are and what they need to change.
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Ozympic + Vyvanse = G O D M O D E alcoholism
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Could you not be fatphobic for FIVE MINUTES? How can you seriously demand the impossible from these people with their thyroid condition?
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Just eat basically nothing but cheap apples by the time you're done with the third you don't want to eat for like 8 hours lmao.
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The fats around here can use all the help they can get. At least it'll improve my view.
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Only if they ever stop taking the drug, a truly perfect business model.
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What i find amazing is how they can go back to eating as much as they did before. A few months after i started watching my eating, I couldn't eat anywhere near what I had before without feeling bloated or just plain bad. And I wasn't all that bad to begin with.
How they can force themselves back to their 3500 calorie a day diet is almost impressive in a twisted way.
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I have no problem eating 3500 calories or zero calories because my body is acclimated to it. This is why having diverse eating habits (binging and fasting) is the healthiest diet
!vegana !thin
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When I'm doing a lot of work, I eat more food. When I'm rotting in bed, I eat nothing. Simple as.
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I usually forget to eat when I'm doing a lot of work.
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you sound like a fricking b-word, I got jimmy dreams frozen biscuits and sausage gravy that I'm going to just thaw out and eat in the fricking middle of the fricking night because I'm American, motherlover!
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Fatass spotted
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Pics or it didn't happen.
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Pics of me not eating anything? Or pics of me eating 3500 calories?
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3500 calories (low amount)
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Isn't that just like, one takeout meal? Pretty sure if you order special fried rice and sweet and sour chicken from a chinese place that's 3500 calories in one meal alone
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Ok I'll let you know next time
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and the fat distribution gets all fricked up!
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Fascinating.
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Look, the drug is already working!
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One of the guys at work had his mind legitimately blown when he learned a keto diet is not as effective when you drink alcohol, because the liver switches from "burn fat for energy" mode to "burn alcohol instead of literallyfrickingdie" mode. You don't get out of ketosis but that keto-friendly booze is NOT helping you lose weight.
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I had my mind blown when I did some calculations and realized that vodka is basically equal to half the amount of sugar by weight. So if you drink half a liter of vodka, it's about the same as if you ate half a pound of sugar.
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it's 40% alcohol bruv
alcohol comes from carbs and sugar.
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Yeah but it doesn't taste sweet or fatty, so it's surprising just how much energy is in there.
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If you can run a car on it, it probably has a lot of calories
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that's fair, I worked at a liquor store so I learned a lot about booze.
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yeah no shit that's why beer belly is a thing. It is still just alcohol calories but you can drink a lot more of it without passing out as the volume forces you to pace yourself
Beer has the same calories as coke btw. People are disgusted at the thought of drinking 10 cokes but will think nothing of 10 beers on a friday lol
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They 100% break up when she loses the weight
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oh frick he's working 48 hours a week? the goddarn horror
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And then gets fat again without him to buy her drugs
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Let this be known to Eurocucks, changing your economy to serve Amerimutts will reward you greatly
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The hogs must be fed and have an infinite appetite
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It really is hilariously sad that you can run economies of scale just profiting off the insatiable greed of amerifats
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At this point it might be cheaper to use amphetamines
...nevermind
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everyone I know who was on ritalin/adderall as a kid feels extreme resentment and regret from it, and at the same time I know a bunch of 20 somethings like
"[surrounded by empty taco bell wrappers] bro YOU WON'T BELEIVE THIS I just found out I have ADHD bro this is awesome-- I'm not an abject failure after all! I'm just built different, yeah, it turns out that I should be able to focus for 8 hours a day on the react.js bloatware I'm writing and still be able to answer emails without spacing out. Now I have energy for my side projects I never finish! Turns out that was the ADHD causing me to never finish projects! [TAKES A LARGE SWIG OF MONSTER ZERO ENERGY DRINK] Oh, you know how funny I walk and bump into things? there's an ADHD tiktok about that LET ME SHOW YOU--- man im so nervous about getting meds but I'm also kind of exited??? They said it's amazing I'm doing this well despite how I scored on the ADHD test, wow, but I'm so burnt out and stuff. So yeah, the doctor said I should probably take meds. Man, I can't wait to feel how normal people feel, I'm psyched-- this life is exhausting, but at the same time and that's how I plan to trade in my second car once I move to Raleigh and convince my uncle to run my etherium miners. Oh man... I'm so tired and it's only 4pm hey this reminds me... [plays tiktok about neurodivergency causing exhaustion] Yeah I pretty much relate to this because all I can do this time of day when I have work is crash which makes it hard to grocery shop and take care of myself :( man... if only my parents and teachers had figured it out :("
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At the same time I know a handful of totally worthless burnouts that denied having ADHD for years but once medicated began acting totally 'normal' and are relatively successful now.
ADHD has, in my opinion, much less of a 'nature' component as much as it does 'nurture' - you can definitely become ADHD or drastically exacerbate ADHD through your actions, but you can also treat it non-pharmaceutically. I think most people with genuine ADHD could absolutely benefit from specific therapy + temporary pharma + major lifestyle changes, but modern medicine says "you have to stay on this forever so we get paid lol"
Also regarding people faking ADHD - I'm far more inclined to believe that these tiktok addicted r-slurs actually do have ADHD over something like ASD which is more genetic IMO.
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Yeah but if I cultivate adhd symptoms they give me meth so
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Impressive. Normally people with such severe developmental disabilities struggle to write much more than a sentence or two. He really has exceded our expectations for the writing portion. Sadly the coherency of his writing, along with his abilities in the social skills and reading portions, are far behind his peers with similar disabilities.
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Your pulitzer's in the mail
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Jesus man that pic
10/10 meme
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Literally me.
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This is me. I wouldn't touch the shit. Non stimulants are so much better for ADHD and I legitimately do not comprehend why the frick this isn't the standard opinion.
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