Sometimes I flip my $hit on TikTok lives because I drink too much coffee and get riled up. But after interviewing obesity specialist for 2.5 years, I’ve learned a few things.
1. Weight regulation is controlled in your brain and has nothing to do with willpower. It’s not your fault. Google the set weight theory.
2. Diet and Exercise do not TREAT obesity. They are imperative for overall health but they don’t treat your disease.
3.Most people who have obesity have insulin resistance and GLP-1 treat it by having your pancreas produce more insulin, unlocking resistant cells so your body can process insulin more efficiently and not store it in fat. It also treat your brain and food noise driving you to over eat. I’m not saying we’re not accountable for food choices. I’m just sayin they’re driven by a disease and give yourself grace.
4. Adipose tissue is an organ (mostly in your middle) that’s a secrets hormones and wreaks havoc with inflammation that affects all the organs in your body and put you at rest for 13 different kinds of cancer. Hunger and food noise are a symptom of your disease. And all medicines other than surgery only treated the symptom not the root cause which is usually insulin resistance and genetics.
5. Obesity is a vicious, chronic, progressive, multifactorial disease, and you are worthy of care.
6. If you stop taking the medication, you were gaining your weight, but not just because the food noise returns, but because your body is always trying to survive a famine that’s never going to come and again because weight is controlled in your brain. Your fat has memory. Your body literally processes and stores energy in a different way. You’re not weak. You are a sick person that needs medicine.
You’re not alone. It’s not your fault.
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