re: 4 year long study on Wegovy/semaglutide shows heart benefits and safety

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Those people don’t eat as much as you think they do. That used to be me. I never ate particularly healthy. But I didn’t eat all that much. I may have eaten a decent amount at one sitting, so if anybody was around me they’d think I ate a lot and a lot of junk and never got fat. The truth is my overall calories for the day was not what people may have thought it was.

Then I started weight lifting and bulking up. Gained some mass, got bigger. Then I eventually stopped lifting but kept eating like I was bulking. I gained a lot of weight.

Then I got tired of being fat so I ate several hundred less calories, ate healthier food, lifted some weights, and amazingly, I’m not fat anymore.

I don’t have some unique willpower, I just decided to do what it took to get back in shape and I did it.

There are people close to me who think they are doing what it takes to lose weight, but they’re not. Plus, they don’t stick with it. So then they think they can’t lose weight and there’s some problem. There isn’t. They aren’t doing what it takes to lose weight like they think they are. Just like people may have assumed I could eat anything and not gain weight. Their perception was off.

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