Lifestyle
Ozempic vs a Low Carb Vegan Diet: Start Making Healthy Food, or Pay Big Pharma for Life?
hmmmm, isn’t it a no brainer?
A buddy of mine is in love with Ozempic, since he’s been trying for years to lose weight and, like most people, finding that going to the gym didn’t help much (because weight loss is more about diet than exercise).
He used to be a professional athlete. When he was younger and in sports full time, always wanting to eat wasn’t much of a problem. But alas, time flies, we get older and take on more sedentary white collar duties. Accordingly, he was gaining weight uncontrollably because he was always hungry and thus, always eating.
Then along comes Ozempic and voilà— hunger pangs gone, he loses a lot of weight and now eats cheesecake for dinner when he feels like it, because he knows he won’t be hungry again for a long time afterwards.
What?
Don’t worry, I promptly told him that cheesecake is not the healthiest choice for dinner and made him buy my cookbook ;)
Here’s the thing — if you find yourself hungry all the time, it may just be that you have a metabolism that likes to eat often, rather than rarely. I have that same metabolism, and I eat all the time. The combination of both cooking my food, and eating the right stuff, makes me lose weight, not gain it.
Believe me, nothing will have you eating 8 hours/day quite like writing a cookbook! I lost 15 pounds while eating 10 meals a day. I was at the point of being practically unable to eat anymore, but then I’d have a new recipe idea, I’d experiment and make a few versions of it, of course I have to eat it, and then boom, my waistline gets smaller.
Producing my cookbook was absurd in this way, but unlike absurdist art and literature, it was quite meaningful and it actually made a lot of sense, based on the math of caloric intake and expenditure.
Living in Canada and getting most of my news from the BBC World Service app, I am genuinely shocked every time I turn on the cable box and watch a few minutes of US-based news. At least 50% of TV ads are for some new drug that Big Pharma is marketing to treat lifestyle related diseases. I love the sunny outdoor scenes of happy multiracial unbinaried people followed by a minute-long mandatory list of all the possible ways the drug might harm or kill you if it doesn’t work right.
I think if you’re in the US, you may not notice how inundated the airwaves are with drugs drugs drugs that exist because you eat like crap, don’t exercise enough and can’t manage your schedule to sleep properly.
You can either succumb to the overarching social madness of a contemporary lifestyle that pays you less for things that cost more and have you running around like a chicken with its head cut off to make ends meet while stuffing yourself with whatever fast cheap crap is readily available….OR, you might consider taking a step back and restructuring your lifestyle as a whole, and that means bringing more mindfulness to what you are putting inside your body.
Regarding Ozempic, who cares what its sped up spoken at the end of the commercial side effects are? Zantac — a common antacid — was considered safe for many years before a link to pancreatic cancer was found. Switching to a low carb diet eliminated my heartburn issues, and hopefully my body will recover from all that Zantac I took years ago.
Ozempic is new and over 9 million people are now injecting themselves with it, according to prescription data. Let’s say it works for you, great, one more bill to pay every month until you’re dead.
Shouldn’t you just learn what to food to buy and cook properly at home? Just a thought ;)
