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Why do you want to lose weight? To make weight loss work you have to have a powerful why (it should make you cry). Good luck

You weighed 119 lbs and gained 30 pounds in a month? You better see a medical provider ASAP. Not normal. Good luck.

Unless one changes habits the weight will come back with a vengeance if one quits GLP-1 drugs (Big Pharma's annuity).

And being obese makes those issues worse. My point.

I wasn't responding to the OP, I was responding to your comment. My comment is correct.

As mentioned above, it's about calories in/out. I would look to eliminate ADDED sugar as a good tool to reduce calories.

Sorry for your issues, but my statement still stands. Obesity (as well as extreme underweight) exacerbates most health issues. Never said there aren't some things that are worse than being obese.

True, but from a health standpoint, being obese exacerbates most of these things

Good luck. For actual motivation you need a strong personal "why" to lose weight and get healthy. Something that will elicit a strong emotional response (perhaps even make you cry). As an example for someone with young children, picture yourself unable to play with them due to health issues from excess weight Something…

True, but will add it's pretty hard to eat too much natural occurring sugar (diabetics and those with other medical conditions check with your provider). Strive to eliminate all added sugars will take one a long way.

Given your weight, you need to be following the advice and monitored by a professional, not well meaning people on the internet. Good luck.

If you want to make progress, acknowledge your food choices are dangerous, not working in the office. Good luck.

Any legal "fat burner" is not effective.

IMO, virtually anyone who calls themselves an influencer isn't worth the powder to blow them to hell.

What have you been doing to control weight/blood markers without medication? It is a prescription medicine so you get it from a doctor. I bet Tic Tok didn't tell you about this. Warnings - Mounjaro may cause tumors in the thyroid, including thyroid cancer. Watch for possible symptoms, such as a lump or swelling in the…

This is so correct. I'm pretty sure the trainer in the original post was talking about hunger, not starvation, but used the incorrect word. For many people who start on a weight loss journey, they feel they are "starving" while in reality they just feel hungry due to consuming fewer calories than they were (which of course…

The working each major muscle group 2-3 times a week is advice from the CDC, and what is taught in major personal trainer certification programs. Now could there be special cases where once a week for a body part works, sure, but not ideal for the general population.

If the poster has excess BF, there is a surplus of stored energy that can be used to build muscle, the OP does not have to gain weight.

Or don't eat like you think you'll never eat again on vacation,

This is correct. Calorie counts are inaccurate. On the intake side, the FDA nutrition labels in the US allow for a 20% margin of error. On the exercise (output) side the most accurate way to calculate calories burnt during exercise is through a process called “indirect calorimetry” which measures gas exchange (oxygen and…

Some good comments above I'm going to tough love you a bit. You met your goal regarding labs. That is great but to be brutally honest, it should be considered a short term goal. At 5'6" and 254 pounds you in the morbidly obese category on BMI. You; labs aren't going to stay good long term at that weight. You said your…

Then their activity should be banned from the gym.

IMO, you don't need some contribution to the state like lottery tickets. You mentioned having kids. Look at long term motivation. Do you want to be active with them. See them grow up and have their own children? A great motivator I stole from Dan John is I want to be able to dance with my granddaughter at her wedding…

So could I ask what you would propose as a solution (assuming you believe this is an issue)?

So could I ask what you would propose as a solution (assuming you believe this is an issue)? Actually high taxes on tobacco have reduced consumption: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6147505/

That is why I proposed an excise tax per gram of added sugar in a product (note the added sugar number includes actual sugar, corn syrup and anything else considered added sugar in the nutrition label calculation), I would propose an excise tax paid by the manufacture and passed on to the wholesaler/retailer/consumer in…

Have no idea what you're talking about.

So eating crap food doesn't contribute to health care cost? Harvard says differently: Full article: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesity-causes/#:~:text=lower%20the%20risk.-,Unhealthy%20Diets,the%20largest%20roles%20in%20obesity. I didn't say anything about probation. I would propose a high…

Eat crunchy vegetables in place of chips. Better for you and generally lower cost.