Comment by blackjack_ | Hacker News Reader

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> Gaining weight and keeping it is a choice.

You are taking an anabolic androgenic steroid. Of course it will help you have muscles and be in "better" shape that when you weren't taking it. Same with the GLP1 drug and weight. You are literally taking drugs to lower your weight and drugs improve your muscle mass. I'm glad you are happy with the way you look now, but setting the bar to "must take drugs to make your body look a specific way that most bodies do not / have not at 45+" is literally part of the problem (or transhumanist). But calling it a choice everyone can make (hundreds of dollars per month plus all the doctors / etc plus all the gym time) is a bit far fetched.

I'm not on GLP1 agonists or TRT. I eat primarily legumes, grain, and dairy. I don't go to the gym. I lift using $30 resistance bands and get my cardio from running and a rowing machine that I used my annual discretionary budget on. And I don't need the rowing machine. He's right.

Humans do homeostasis very well. If you stop exercising at all ("rest days"), your brain normalizes that and creates inertia against resuming exercise. Like all good habits, the point is to make it automatic and the default rather than a choice.

Once you start exercising and make it a non-negotiable daily habit, it becomes progressively harder to stop exercising than to start. Most people that fall out of exercise habits do so primarily because of injuries rather than the failure of the habit itself. You just have to prioritize it ahead of or even alongside other habits (e.g. exercise while watching TV, take the stairs) until it becomes automatic.

Are the people forced into taking statins, high blood pressure medications, etc. due to obesity related issues also “transhumanist”?

We all have to make our own choices but obesity is a choice and the repercussions and treatments are often far worse than the treatments I have selected to avoid it.

Note: You can get glp1 medication for $40 a month if you look for it

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