Ozempic costs money and its side effects include cancer, kidney failure, and ruining your eyes.
https://www.ozempic.com/faqs.html
edit: many point out calorie intake is the real problem, it's true: buy a kitchen scale, weigh your food, count your calories, and you will lose weight. Exercise is optional compared to that. Still, both are free and have more benefits.
Calories can still be a useful metric as a proxy but low calorie (“diet”) foods tend to compensate with more carbs. At least the ones I see regularly at my grocery store.
As a side note: It’s actually difficult to find pre-packaged low carb food at regular grocery stores sadly. It requires effort to make yourself, just like going to the gym. Like most good things in life.
And people wildly underestimate how many calories they need. Just by limiting the one portion to 50g of pasta, instead of my preferred 150+g, I can go under 100kg in less than a week. My 'how much should I cook' habits formed when I was young and spent at least a couple of hours commuting, but nowadays I'm quite literally just sit on my ass all day. It's bothersome and isn't fulfilling to use scales cut down on the food (especially if it's tasty) but...
It only takes ten or twelve hours of high-output exercise per day. Everyone's got that time to spare, right?
While aerobic exercise is more for a healthy circulatory system, anaerobic exercise has proven effective in weight loss.
And that works for what, 3% of the people that try it?
Exercise is medicine!
Far too few people understand that unfortunately. Something is wrong with our culture when the majority have the attitude that exercise isn't worth doing.
And every other culture on earth? You might as well "humanity", except it's a fairly new phenomena, so "humanity in last 100 years"
Meanwhile GLP-1 protects and even improves the function of brain, lungs, heart, muscles, bones, and kidneys, it improves sleep quality and reduces sleep duration, it definitely decreases addictive behavior, and even seems to help with some immune issues (anecdotally, but the effect is so strong it’s remarkable).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucagon-like_peptide-1#/med...
This feels like saying chocking is a side effect of eating vegetables.
Most negative side effects from exercise come in a few camps.
* The exercise of choice comes with a risk of accidents. Accidents happen everywhere, but they happen to skiers more frequently than mall power walkers.
* The exercise of choice is well known to put strain on certain body parts. Usually this is a joint or tendon. Pitchers and arms. Power lifting and knees.
* The exerciser did not prepare well for exercise. Do they have proper equipment? Did they stretch? Did they warm up? Did they drink enough fluid? Are they attempting a goal they aren't ready for? Are they over training? Did they get training to establish proper technique? Are they distracted when they should have been focused?
That’s actually my point. HN not getting anything that isn’t straightforward though is expected.
The side effect profile of these modern drugs is actually shockingly minimal so I felt the GP post was doing much the same as people who would claim exercise has side effects - missing the forest for the trees. Everything has side effects but if something has an overwhelmingly positive effect profile with seemingly minor side effects the discussion shouldn’t be misdirected like they were trying to do.