We should also reward and encourage positive behavior by companies.
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We should also reward and encourage positive behavior by companies.
My doctor and I have talked about trying to see if I can drop the medications and still stay in remission but I'll still be a T2 patient.
Also, not all T2s can manage just through a ketogenic diet.
If the Prusa XL wasn't so expensive for 5 toolheads I'd get that since its' much faster for filament switches and the minimal amount of waste it generates.
If you stagnate skills wise or stop trying to grow/evolve your abilities then you definitely will have issues but that's true in many industries, not just ours.
About 6 months ago there was a posting about Ozempic and I had said something to the effect that it wasn't worth it watching some of the side effects my wife had from it. And then I went to the doctor for a check-up and lo and behold I had diabetes. Asymptomatic, but an A1C of 11. My doctor re-ran the test because he didn't believe it and it doesn't run in my family. My cholesterol had also jumped and he said he was going to put me on a statin after the initial 3 months of adjusting to the diabetes medication.
My Dr. puts me on Ozempic and I grumble about it but with that test results I had, I knew I had to do something. Fast forward 3 months, I dropped 20 pounds, and every other measurement is back in the green, including my A1C. Now, I made some serious lifestyle changes and ate a diabetic diet (limiting carbs, the types of carbs, etc), and have been keeping up with being more active but my entire relationship with food has changed because of Ozempic. Before I had a near compulsion to eat more than I should. Now, I don't because one, I feel fuller quicker and two, I know I'll feel horrible for hours if I over-eat. It only took one of those events to never want to do that again. I can't really explain why but I also don't have as strong of a desire to eat foods that are bad for me. I really thought I'd battle the cravings more after going cold turkey from "bad" foods. I can't say why it is but it's true. Side note, going to the grocery story was really difficult at first....there is so much sugar in the American food supply.
Energy wise I will say that I did struggle with low energy initially as my body adapted to lower calorie intake but I also learned that when I found the right balance of protein/complex carbs for me that my energy levels came back up and I now feel better than ever.
My doctor was shocked. I've never seen him that animated when I came back in for the 3 month follow-up. I didn't need to add any additional medications and they're slowly adjusting me back towards a single medication.
The Apple app has been even worse than Dark Sky was at this.
Permission issues also arise after every upgrade. I purposely wait until the .1 so that other people find all these issues but it's still super annoying.
It was also weird not being able to see the my throttle and yoke and all the different buttons I needed to use. I didn't have enough hours on the setup to have it all be via muscle memory yet so I needed to be able to look at my cheat sheet sometimes.
There was definitely some bias against it in a few corners of our group but by and large, most didn't care. Ironically, the guy on the team that didn't like her because she came from a coding bootcamp (he had a CS degree) was by far my worst performer.