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13 pounds in a year. How much would you be paying per pound lost for those pills? 13 lbs. for a truly obese person is next to useless. 113 lbs. would be something to write about.
These people didn't magically become obese... their baseline annual weight gain was clearly not 0. So while losing 13 pounds might not sound like a lot, it's a hell of a lot better than gaining 10 or 20 pounds.
Anything that helps them put down the hamburgers and pizza and twinkies is helpful.
I am 5'2" and weight 182 pounds. I am considered obese. I would need to lose 18 more pounds to medically be deemed just overweight (using BMI). Thirteen pounds a year for me would amount to a very significant weight loss medically speaking in just around a year and a half.
Medical studies have shown that losing even just 10% of ones body weight (around 18 lbs for me) when obese dramatically reduces the chances of a person developing complications like diabetes which I am sure is much more expensive to treat over the same period of time than the cost of a single prescription, even one that it not available as a generic.
Also, I have not been obese my whole life and did not gain my weight several pounds a year over many years. I also happen to suffer from treatment resistant depression. The only medication for me that worked also made me gain 80 lbs in a single year (and I didn't gain the weight eating hamburgers, pizza, and twinkies). I had been so sick for so long I didn't care that I was fat because I no long felt the crushing weight of depression. I have continued to take this same drug for years now without any additional weight gain but also without much success at weight loss. It would be nice to have some additional help to lose the weight that another prescription actually caused me to gain!
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frenetica, since your weight gain was more related to medications than to overeating, I don't know if this particular drug would be of any benefit to you since it's an appetite suppressant. Of course, that would be for a doctor to determine.
Excuse ME? 13 pounds in a year? Just over a pound a month. Are they joking. Give me two weeks on Atkins and I can loose that.
We have a sick society when a medication is considered a success when you loose 13 pounds.
Wonder if it has some of those warnings like olestra did? Yea, I will give up a few pounds for anal leakage.
How many pounds would you think a 400 pound person had to have gained per year in order to get that heavy by the age of, say, 30?
Losing 13 pounds in a year is a huge improvement over gaining 10 or 20 pounds in a year.
And as a side note, this drug doesn't work like olestra or Alli... the article said it curbs cravings, cutting down on the gluttony before it happens. Whereas Alli keeps your body from absorbing half the fat you eat, so despite consuming excessive amounts food, you don't gain as much weight because the grease end up dripping out your back side.
The question that needs to be asked is, how did the people change their diets and lifestyle? If they lost the weight without any effort or change in lifestyle, then it has merit because it would help those actually trying to change their habits. As someone who has tried to change their eating habits and exercise routine and failed due to extremely slow results, it would be nice to have something that would help it along. Not as the only thing done to lose weight, but in a combination program.
Then you didn't change enough.....
If one is really heavy, 13 pounds a year doesn't really sound significant. How much does this stuff cost???
I visited a hyperobese friend in the hospital. He was in a 500 dollar a night hospital bed for three weeks. He was suffering from water retention that was bloating him up and weighing him down, so he was on diuretics while he had a catheter inserted in him, as a cannula was pumping oxygen-enriched air through his nose. His weight was causing him serious problems like an enlarged heart as well as respiratory and circulatory problems that made him black out into unconsciousness at random times, with increasing frequency. There, in that Intensive Care Unit, I was told by and nutritionist that if he would have lost weight slowly and exercised more, it makes it less likely he would have kept bouncing back on his weight twice or three times a year. But he lacked self discipline. He was also scheduled to regularly see a psychiatrist since one of the med staff claimed that much of the cause of his sorry condition was mental, social and emotional insecurities. After some point he was up for consideration for an intestinal bypass, stomach stapling, etc. The nutritionist went onto say that those that lost weight quickly often regained 100+ percent of their weight lost, after a year. No substitute for the continual discipline of sticking to reducing your caloric intake and getting daily exercise, though, and I'm not talking about the exercise you get from walking from the bed or couch, to your kitchen and back. But as a supplement, such drugs may help ... so long as the user doesn't psychologically depend on popping a pill in their mouth as the sole means of losing weight, while not really changing their eating habits. In this American gratification culture of television shortened attention spans and sedentary lifestyles, it's easy to expect that a pill will do all the miraculous hard work for you. There's measurable and steep medical and pharmaceutical prices to be paid down the road, for that sort of laziness coupled with unreasonable expectations.
Wise advise. Appetite suppressants can be used to assist in initiallizing control over appetite. But nutritional education which should lead to adjustments in diet consumed and consistent, adequate exercise is the only formula that will lead to long term success. There are no magic bullets. But the end result of following the formula is better quality of life. While you're alive, Live well!
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