Geth
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- Comment on Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it? 4 days ago:
Hey OP, I will copy a point I made somewhere deeper in this thread that you might not see, because I do really believe that there is help to be had. I commend you on your desire to do something about this, since it will increase your quality of life in ways you never even imagined. Other people have also had great points I think and have touched on the tragedy that is the US medical system, I want to touch on the potential alternative solutions that are too often overlooked.
The obesity epidemic is caused by caloric density creeping up in ultra processed foods, tricking people into thinking they eat a normal amount when they most definitely don’t. The fact that these foods are almost like a drug for some brains combined with the fact that some bodies struggle more than others with burning calories can make it more difficult at first for people to loose weight, but you find yourself in the difficult circumstance of having to pay 200$ per week to do something about it, and there are two alternatives.
“Eat healthier, eat more fruits and veggies, cut out excess sugar, walk more, exercise more, the whole kit and caboodle” - as an external observer with no context all I can read from this is that you replaced some unhealthy calories with some healthy calories. So the first proposal is calorie counting by yourself. You have to be anal about it, every little detail, any little snack has to be on your list and fully counted. If you do this properly and have a hard limit of 1500-2000 per day you will absolutely see results without having to do any excercise or eat any specific food. This is proven science at this point and anyone arguing about this is trying to sell you something or someone else sold them something. More colorful trends like intermittent fasting also achieve caloric deficit in a roundabout way, but in the end it doesn’t matter what approach you take, any way that works for you is fine, as long as you don’t go over the caloric limit. Losing weight is not exciting and doesn’t have some funny quirky solution, it’s just simple hard brute force.
Second, a little less brute force solution, but also not free, spend a fraction of that ozempic money on a registered dietician that can monitor your intake and make recommendations. At least that way there’s external support and motivation, as well as much needed help in case you have a history of eating disorder. I found they are like 100-200$ per month so an 8th to a quarter of the ozempic price. This is still going to be hard work, but with support and help from an expert it will be far easier to establish and maintain.
Both of these solutions will help build good habits and help you build an intuition for food caloric content at a glance. Ozempic, if it works, skips these important aspects, which might make you rebound after finishing the treatment, since you never actually learned how to manage your intake, just had reduced appetite for the duration of the treatment. Any aditional things you do like eating healthier and exercising will be a great bonus to your health, but you should honestly skip if they are overwhelming you and impeding you from achieving your goal. It’s normal to expect failure when the requirements are steep, so keep it a level you can manage. If calorie restriction is all you can do, then stick to that, but don’t compromise it ever because that is the absolute minimum. Everything else may come later.
I wish you good luck with your journey and hope you’ll enjoy the new life when you finally succeed.
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 1 month ago:
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 1 month ago:
I didn’t actually catch the info that they managed to bribe officials to stand down so this is a pretty satisfying answer to my question. Thanks!
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 1 month ago:
Crazy. Thanks, I couldn’t find similar cases when I looked. Considering all the other coups the US has done, this is just a time honored tradition for them.
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 1 month ago:
You see, I thought you can’t just go in a foreign country and kidnap the leader…
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 1 month ago:
Technically you are right, but we already know the us is in love with Israel so them having nukes would have no effect on the hypothetical situation of clearing out the trash in that particular country.
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 1 month ago:
Does pakistan have a particularly problematic leader? Or why are we taking about them?
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 1 month ago:
North korea didn’t have them for the longest time. None of the middle east countries have them to this day. I wonder if Rusia would even retaliate like that, I suspect not.
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- Comment on 2 months ago:
What’s the minimum where you live?
- Comment on 🍺 🍻 2 months ago:
I’m not big.
- Comment on 🍺 🍻 2 months ago:
*your
- Comment on yo: sup? 4 months ago:
It’s like who’s on first but dumb.
- Comment on AMD and Sony’s PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline 4 months ago:
Forced upscaling and blurry TAA is compensating for the fact that they can’t push graphics much further on the hardware we have. The current hardware progression has stagnated, combined with the fact that we are seeing more diminishing returns in graphics as they improve, requiring more power to deliver less of a noticeable difference.
But it doesn’t mean these games won’t look great when you disable the fakeness and run it with brute force GPU power 10 years from now.
I honestly think the current graphics we can achive are fine and where the true improvements should come from are better animation and actually good art direction.
- Comment on Anon doesn't fit in 5 months ago:
In case you also wonder like op why no one likes you, it’s probably the elite snobbery and superiority complex.
- Comment on Spain is blocking unrelated internet addresses because of soccer 6 months ago:
I don’t give two shits about football or anyone pirating it, the problem is that they block a bunch of websites that have nothing to do with that. They had a similar idea last year when they wanted to completely block telegram in the whole country because some degenerates were sharig cp using the platform. The scorched earth policies are not just mildly annoying.
- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 6 months ago:
Humans are the ones that are harming and dividing us. If religion is gone they’ll find a new way to do it. Us vs them mentality is part of human nature and has always attached itself to anything that can be called ours vs theirs. Religion, politics, sports, skin color, language, the fucking phone brand you use, you name it.
- Comment on Anon is feeling romantic 6 months ago:
The guy he answered is showing a worse persona than your description throughout this whole thread and you haven’t really shown any kindness yourself.
Also you being insecure and uncultured doesn’t automatically make others around you pedantic and snobby.
- Comment on Anon is feeling romantic 6 months ago:
Who are these people? Guy asked you for legendary and you went niche. There are plenty of talented women that have written and performed legendary songs that you could have chosen.
- Comment on Switch 2 vs Steam Deck: the Cyberpunk 2077 face-off 7 months ago:
In theory it makes sense but in the past buying digitally as opposed to physically hasn’t netted anyone any savings. And with the new system where the card doesn’t even hold the actual game, it’s an even worse offering.
- Comment on we are creators 7 months ago:
Unfortunately, we’re cyberpunk futuristic instead of whatever futuristic flavor the Jetsons were doing.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 8 months ago:
Sure, that is the alternative, but nothing will beat the wide range of functionality that steam and valve provide. The death of this platform would be catastrophic.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 8 months ago:
Hate to think what will happen when Gaben retires.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 8 months ago:
The developer, Spiders, seem to be experts at creating mediocre games with very small budgets, and again they didn’t quite have the money to take it all the way with greedfall, but they did make more than a mediocre game in my opinion. For me it was memorable enough unlike others mentioned in this thread.
- Comment on Steam Deck and SteamOS hit 20,000 playable games 8 months ago:
You enabled in your settings to see porn, steam keeps it disabled by default. They even give 3 different options for the level of prudishness that you want. Go to store preferences and disable sexual content and you’re done.
- Comment on Steam Deck and SteamOS hit 20,000 playable games 8 months ago:
You enabled in your settings to see porn, steam keeps it disabled by default. They even give 3 different options for the level of prudishness that you want. Go to store preferences and disable sexual content and you’re done.
- Comment on Steam Deck and SteamOS hit 20,000 playable games 8 months ago:
I wonder how a must of a click smells like. Ah, you mean must have clicked. Autocorrect am I right? Right? Image
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
I guess we’re going into the definition of normality. To me this just means average, conventional, within certain limits. I would bet my ass most users of this simple forum are not average people, just based on the friction of the sign-up process alone.
And being unique while being normal is another oximoron from you. Either you are unique or you are average, you can’t be both.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
I don’t know how to paint it more clearly for you. You are talking about interests that are out of the ordinary, not typical for the average population, obscure by definition, you know… niche. Having obscure interests is relatively common in the grand scheme of things but still not typical of the average person on the street. Which makes it not normal. I would go so far as to call it neurodivergent, since it’s most probably the cause of the said interests.
I do prefer abnormality in my life, probably everyone that managed to get themselves on lemmy does, but we are not a representation of the general population, we are but a niche.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Niche in this context literally means to be of interest to a small minority. Or to say it in other words, not normal.
