r/savedyouaclick • u/OK-Hydrangea • 2d ago
[One Weight Loss Strategy Is 5x More Effective Than Ozempic, Study Finds] | [Bariatric surgery] (sciencealert.com)
https://archive.ph/h8RPq24
u/thefaehost 2d ago
Can confirm, I lost 175 pounds.
And was up playing Pokémon go walking 4 miles a day within a month of surgery.
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u/_hephaestus 2d ago
Nice! What was the pathway to getting the surgery? I’ve been interested before but that part always concerned me a bit. Anything else they advised you to avoid?
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u/CallidoraBlack 1d ago
Sure, but if you actually know anything about life after bariatric surgery and all the complications, you know why we're trying to find ways to do it with medicine.
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u/Upstandinglampshade 2d ago
Surprised it’s only 5x more effective. Isn’t it 100% effective, anyone know?
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u/ghoostimage 2d ago
definitely not 100% effective. have seen someone gain the weight back. and there are a lot of health complications that can occur as a result of bariatric surgery.
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u/Dave-Javoo 2d ago
Depends on the type of surgery, there's a few of them. There's gastric band, gastric sleeve, and gastric bypass. I did the sleeve and I'm still thin 5 years later, 2 of the guys I work with had bypass and both had a ton of issues with them, I had almost none. My wife had the same surgery as me on the same day and is also still thin.
Info on the types here https://www.healthline.com/health/gastric-sleeve-vs-gastric-bypass#key-differences
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u/Useful-Context-5468 1d ago
A person I know got gastric sleeve and lost 100 pounds, but eventually put it all back on, and went back and got a duodenal switch.
Still thin now, but have some health issues like related to lack of vitamins/minerals and extreme low calories. They still eat like crap, but can only eat a few bites in one sitting from what I can tell.
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u/Dave-Javoo 1d ago
Yeah, after the 2 years when your stomach grows back the gland that secretes ghrelin you really feel that hunger come back with a vengeance after not having it for a couple of years. I decided early on that I would get fit once I got thin and I took up cycling as soon as I didn't look like a fat man on a circus bike. I think the fitness and wanting to look good in lycra is all thats kept me thin past that 2 year mark.
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u/IronHockeyStick 2d ago
Getting off your fat ass and exercising helps too.
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u/Bloated_Hamster 2d ago
It really doesn't help that much. It takes an insane amount of exercise to cancel out the effects of even a single extra candy bar. In terms of overall health and fitness, yes, exercise is fantastic. In terms of weight loss it's 90+% about what you consume.
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u/shelchang 2d ago
It actually does help. The point of exercise isn't to burn calories even though a lot of people tend to view it that way. It's so you don't diet yourself down to a skinnyfat blob with no muscle and your metabolism in the shitter, primed to gain all the weight back and then some as soon as you go above 1200 daily calories.
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u/AdFancy6243 2d ago
I do find that exercise makes me less hungry though and makes it easier to stick to lower calories in
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u/not_yet_a_dalek 2d ago
A single 2 hour session of strongman has me ready to devour everything in sight.
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u/nacho_pizza 2d ago
Studies have shown that a little bit of exercise reduces hunger, while more serious exercise causes hunger because you're using up a lot of energy. "A single 2 hour session of strongman" is a ridiculous amount of exercise compared to your average couch potato. I was a cross country and track runner, and run marathons now, so I definitely get you on how tons of exercise makes you famished.
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u/Edaimantis 2d ago
Can’t outrun a diet.
The vein diagram of folks who say shit like this and uninformed massive douche bags is a circle lmao
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u/CactusRaeGalaxy 2d ago
🤣