There Are No More Excuses To Be Fat

[Kjm1960]

I understand that not all fat people can use Glp’s. I feel very fortunate that I was able to start with a local NP that used a compounder, moved to telehealth and once I felt comfortable to gray. But when I see severely obese folks struggle to move it truly saddens me. My thoughts go to you don’t have to be like that, I wish I could help.

 

[MsGizmo]

I wish they would have people go through the same type of education for glps like the do with bariatric surgery.

GLP1s are FAR less dangerous. The death rate of bariatric surgeries is about 1% within 1 year of the procedure. The death rate from GLP1s is so low that when someone dies and it is even remotely linked to them it makes national news. While I have no idea what role GLP1 drugs are currently playing within weight loss management clinics at this time ... but if I had the option of a shot instead of a surgery I absolutely would have tried it first. In fact if I had known that GLP1 drugs were even on the horizon I would have just waited. $20k would have purchased a whole lot of injections even at full price.

 

[MeedzMoar]

I wish they would have people go through the same type of education for glps like the do with bariatric surgery.

Absolutely.

 

[RubbaDubba1]

This might make me the veteran of the group here, I don't know about the wiser. I was getting near 600lbs, when I had a VSG about 17 years ago and when it was becoming all the rage in the Bariatric world. Took 1.5 years to get my rear in gear and some tough love, but I managed to get down to just over 500lbs preop weight. The surgery got me down to 250lbs within 9 months, there I stayed for the next many moons. Managed to get my Gallbladder out, but felt pretty good overall in that time. Weight started creeping back on and was almost at 400, needed a knee replacement and dropped 90lbs in 5 months to get that done. Gained some weight back again!

Enter our hero GLP-1! Damn this stuff is Frosty, it's like they made it just for me. I went the compounded route for over a year and a 1/2 and eventually worked my weigh-2-gray. Now down below 200lbs at a good BMI and finally feel like I have the best of 2 worlds to help keep me here. It's the after party, where getting this big, getting old, takes it's toll on the body and that cost is in excess of $100k easily out of pocket.

Most of the population won't take an injection, I'm glad to see the pillz get here and hopefully that space will just get better as well in the next few years.

 

[Grogu]

Or watching them stop at every drive thru on the way to Houston? Good strategy actually to pad the weigh-in so the 50lbs he tells everyone to lose in the 1st month is skewed.

How dated does the show and especially Dr Now's medical cred look not acknowledging the existence of GLPs? It's always him saying it's life and death (and there's been death) so why not? How about sending them home with his outdated book "The Scale Doesn't Lie, People Do!" along with his dated 1200 cal diet (no protein drinks!) with a box of shots?

Disappointed to see the hot fresh zaddy Dr Procter not offering GLPs (so far) on "Dangerously Obese" although it appears his "fresh" series was filmed during Covid and not premiered until 2025.

Anxiously awaiting fresh episodes of both!

I'm addicted to these shows and can't wait for some new episdoes too. Yes, it's a shame that these docs aren't using glp-1s as an adjunctive to surgery, both pre- and post-surgery. With Dr. Now I get it, he's like a billion years old, but Dr. Procter is from this century 🤣.

 

[MeedzMoar]

GLP1s are FAR less dangerous. The death rate of bariatric surgeries is about 1% within 1 year of the procedure. The death rate from GLP1s is so low that when someone dies and it is even remotely linked to them it makes national news. While I have no idea what role GLP1 drugs are currently playing within weight loss management clinics at this time ... but if I had the option of a shot instead of a surgery I absolutely would have tried it first. In fact if I had known that GLP1 drugs were even on the horizon I would have just waited. $20k would have purchased a whole lot of injections even at full price.

If these had been an option and also reversed a chronic condition, I'd have waited too. Surgery was no joke.

At this point, I am where I am and the product not only helps manage scale creep it also supports my damaged pancreas. Diabetic or not, over time a damaged pancreas just can't manage the same work.

I'm glad there are solutions and new ones on the horizon.