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The thing is, many of the manufactured foods cause weight gain - not specifically 'junk food', just additives to common foods that cause the body to grab onto fat cells at an accelerated rate.

Couple that with the growth of commonly prescribed medications that lead to weight gain, and you have the beginnings of a vicious cycle. Once you have extra weight, it becomes significantly more difficult to lose it - you will have developed joint problems, diabetes, and other metabolic conditions that make moving freely difficult.

CAN you begin losing weight?

Certainly. But, it's NOT going to be easy. And, in the absence of access to a pool - which takes the pressure off the lower body - moving and exercising can cause problems such as shin splints, broken bones, back pain (not always a temporary condition, but leading to lifelong deterioration of the spine).

It's more expensive - junk food is cheaper.

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Hi Bill, thanks for clarifying that individuals are in no way responsible for the state of their own health.

Now what happens when you reach your desired weight - can you just stop your weekly injections and you're good to go? Or do you do them once in a while? Or is this one of those corporate every-week-for-the-rest-of-your-life dreams?

Perhaps the reader who so astutely skewered the thyroid cancer risk prominently featured on the web site might want to dig into other Mounjaro serious side "features," like pancreatitis, hypoglycemia, serious allergic reactions, kidney failure, severe stomach problems, changes in vision, or the common side "features," including nausea, diarrhea, decreased appetite, vomiting, constipation, indigestion, and stomach (abdominal) pain. N.B. "these are not all the possible side effects of Mounjaro."

Were I in your position, I might want to explore this: https://www.mindvalley.com/wildfit/content/people-dont-fail-diets - I have done other MindValley programs, and found them insightful and worthwhile.

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I did not "clarify" anything remotely like that.

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"Hi Bill, thanks for clarifying that individuals are in no way responsible for the state of their own health."

Whoosh! (That's the sound of the point going right over Barry's head.)

Yes or no: Barry is paid to sell $700 classes on mindvalley. I know which way I lean. After looking at their website, what I see is expensive self-promotion of what looks like pop-psychology mumbo-jumbo,and paid shills "reviewing" the program. That Ed Edmeades character reminds me of some used car salesmen I used to know.

For all her commercialization of the keto diet, at least Ann Bosworth also teaches the core principles for free on youtube, and in person if you can go to Tampa.

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I posted a link to an allegedly free online seminar. You suggested another free source of information. Great! Perhaps we're agreed that $1,000/month "safe and effective" (Kidney failure? Nah, just kidding!) pharmaceutical injections for life are not a good substitute for personal growth.

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Who, exactly, do you think you are talking to? The voices in your head? Certainly not to me. Especially given that I disagree with everything you have posted having to do with Mounjaro.

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Correct: not talking to you, but not talking to voices in my head. Talking on behalf of (torn between "more evolved" and "sane") people who will recognize that injecting oneself with expensive toxic pharmaceuticals, to address the obvious result of decades of poor decisions and bad habits, qualifies one for a front row seat on the short bus. That you disagree with the published and proven side effects of your beloved drug simply augments your qualifications for said seat on said bus.

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The only thing all your eructations about Mounjaro have demonstrated to me is that in your case, the stupid can't be fixed, especially given its essentially irrational and religious nature. Nor can ignorance, usually, as the principle that you can lead an ignoramus to knowledge but you can't make him think generally applies.

Unfortunately, I find health nut Luddites to be among the least interesting and most boring of the tribe, so I am terminating your commenting privileges both here and at Daily Pundit. Bye now.

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Got it. People who use informed consent to make different judgments than Barry given the same information but different worldviews are... insane. And retarded, too, although Barry is too genteel to use that word; he simply implies it with a metaphor.

Go on, Barry. You win. Every one on earth is your inferior, and we all bow down to your superior intellect.

Pardon me, I have to find a window to lick.

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I think Barry is immune to sarcasm. Stupid people often are. Anyway, I don't bow down to stupid people. I eliminate them from the conversation as needlessly irritating distractions. Which I have just done. He can go shout at the wind somewhere else.

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