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Weight-loss drug found to shrink muscle in mice, human cells

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234 points Eumenes | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 23:53 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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diath ◴[21 Nov 24 05:15 UTC] No.42201353[source]▶
The problem with appetite suppression drugs is that they simply make you not feel hungry, but do nothing to fix your lack of discipline and self-control, I'm sure most people who lose weight on these drugs, and then come off, will just go back to their bad habits.
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echoangle ◴[21 Nov 24 05:26 UTC] No.42201405[source]▶
So why not just stay on the drugs?
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diath ◴[21 Nov 24 05:29 UTC] No.42201423[source]▶
You technically could but the idea here is to cut the excess bodyfat percent and get into the healthy range, rather than to keep losing weight, which itself is also unhealthy, but once you become dependent on the drugs to maintain your weight, without fixing your habits, you will just go between getting off the drug, binge eating, gaining the weight back, and hoping back on the drug and losing weight while barely eating, I can't imagine bouncing between such two extremities being good for your health.
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1. cthalupa ◴[21 Nov 24 05:32 UTC] No.42201434[source]▶
Well, lots of people back off those dosages once they reach their goal weight and have minimal difficulty maintaining. As we know more about the long term effects of staying on the drug, it's totally possible it might make sense just to keep on it.

But as someone who spent a good chunk of their early adulthood having no problem with healthy habits and then slowly slipping into tons of bad ones, getting on tirzepatide has made it as easy for me to make those healthy choices that I made when I was in my 20s. Ones that I struggled with mightily after I got fat.

Hopefully more and more people will use them as a tool to help them get things back and order and then stay there, whether or not they keep taking it.