#1227 Weight Loss Diary: Twelve

June 17, 2024Scott Benner

The eleventh installment of my weight loss series. I've now switched to Zepbound.

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Hello friends and welcome to episode 1227 of the Juicebox Podcast

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don't want to get near that. And jiggle jiggle jiggle. Don't want to hit a stretch mark there's a pro tip for you. It's like a little black and blue mark from last week. That interesting.

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Still there. I'm gonna go to the other side and turn off the lock. Lock is off. Squeeze fat bad squeezed. Pen touching skin and woohoo. We are done. Was that came out there. That's a little liquid. Don't go back in. Don't wanna waste get in there. Do the work. Alright, pen in the trash. Made it that time. Here's the story. Got blood work. done because I have a doctor's appointment coming up next week. Is it actually next week? It is next Saturday. Oh, well, this is interesting. Next Saturday, maybe I'll record this after the doctor's appointment next Saturday. Anyway, that's neither here nor there. I got a bunch of bloodwork done. And my numbers all came back really good. But the one number that was fascinating, was my ferritin, which if you listen to the podcast, you'll know that I've had trouble for years with low ferritin. So much so that I've had to go multiple multiple times to get infusions like I'll get an infusion and like six months later, I'll be out of ferritin again, and I've tried everything to get my body to absorb iron, but now that I'm on a GLP, it just works. My firt was 188 I almost cursed crazy. I haven't had an infusion over a year and my third one is 188. That's because my digestion is working better now and my body has time to absorb the nutrients that I'm eating. So it wasn't that I wasn't eating them. It was the prior to the GLP I couldn't absorb them. And that crazy. Makes me wonder what else is going right? Should I tell you anything else this time around now and that was enough, I'm zip bound and down. I'll see you next week after my doctor's appointment. If you take insulin or sulfonylureas you are at risk for your blood sugar going too low. You need a safety net when it matters most. Be ready with G voc hypo pen. 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It's like 11 o'clock at night, I had a crazy weekend, I did not shoot myself bound this weekend like I should have. And actually noticed that I eat more last night than I normally would have. Which I don't find crazy at all. But I'm going to share something quick with you and tell you I don't even have my weight today to tell you I'm sorry. I'll do better next week. But I've had this experience that I was going to share very quickly. If I eat till I get all like really full. The next time I see myself in a mirror while I'm feeling full. I expect to look back. I don't know another way to explain that to you other than when I feel full. When I go see myself, I think oh, I'm gonna be back to where I was. And it's not like a real conscious thought. It's just what's not fair. It is a conscious thought. It doesn't stick with me. I don't believe it or anything like that. It just feels that way. It's very strange. Anyway, I don't have a wait for today. I don't have anything for you. Just going to shoot this upbound 7.5. Also suppose that my doctor's appointment on Saturday like you guys know except she was exposed to COVID. So it got pushed back a week. So I don't have any reports back from my doctor's appointment, although like I said, I've got my bloodwork back and it looks great. Anyway, here we go. A lot of pressure on that one. All right. We're all done. I will do better for you next week. Hey, everybody, it is April 27. Saturday. I've had my doctor's appointment today. Very exciting. And I've got some good news to report some good news and some not great news, but you know, mostly good. So my bloodwork was fantastic. The doctor is thrilled she took my vitals and said My God Scott, you're like a kid, you know, with my blood pressure and everything. She talked a lot about health and just overall how I was feeling. She was super excited for me. But my weight this morning was 189. So this 7.5 of zap bound doesn't look like it's doing the job. And she's going to move me up to 10 So we're gonna go to 10 milligrams, but of course I've got to get that filled. My wife is where we get our insurance from and she's actually in between jobs. Right now she starts her new job on Monday, so I have to wait a little bit. So for today, we're going to shoot the 7.5 into my 189 pound body. So I'm up a number of pounds from my lowest weight, I was 183 at my lowest. Honestly, I don't know what to tell you about the six pounds, I'm not exactly sure I don't feel like I'm doing anything oddly different. But the doctor is very, very confident that a lot of weight loss on zap bound is seen at 10 milligrams and 12. She thinks I'm gonna have success at 10 I'm sorry, there's a cricket in here. I'm not sure if you can hear that or not. Anyway, I'm gonna shoot this that bound. Try to get the 10 as fast as I can. I don't know if I will be able to get to it this week or not, probably not till next, if I'm lucky. So I might end up doing this 7.5, another couple of weeks, not a big deal. I'm added some dumbbell work. And I'm seeing improvement in the muscles in my arms, my shoulders, my chest. And My shoulders feel better, like I'm regaining strength that I just wasn't lifting weights before. So that's helpful. I'm very content, not happy, obviously still have weight to lose. It's in my midsection. Maybe the 10 will do it. I'll try to add some other stuff on my side. I really don't know what else to change. I guess I could restrict calories, but I already don't eat very much. So not sure what to do here. We'll say anyway, they're going off the cap. Is that cricket? Hopefully, get that thing. unlocked the pen. I mean, obviously I put this in the right side of my stomach. Yes, last week, and I didn't lose any weight. So not that that has anything to do with anything, but I'm gonna go superstitious here and move it to the other side. And here we go. Alright guys, I will see you next week.

So today is not may 4, like it should be. Because I just did not have the energy to record last week, I still shot the set bound 7.5. But this is going to be a little talky for a minute on my button this episode up after this make it shorter. Because I think I'm starting over today. Let me tell you what I mean. through the entire process, thus far, the medication has just worked. And there were gaps of time where it wasn't working. You know, there was like slow downs, but I never gained weight. And people tell you like you know, there'll be times you don't gain weight, or don't lose weight, excuse me, like just be patient. So I was patient and then it kept going or there's times that you had to work on, you know, elimination stuff like you get a little constipated at some points, etc. Like in there were things to pick through. Big Picture a week didn't matter. Weeks doesn't matter. Big picture. However, last week, I woke up and I was so disappointed with my weight that I was like, I have nothing to record. Like I just don't. I'm like I'm not losing any weight. I keep like gaining. And last week, I started having a real panic that I was just gonna keep putting on weight. I don't know why. My eating again, it's not. It's not any different than it's been through the whole process. So perhaps I'm at the end. I don't know, maybe I'm in a maintenance space with a GLP. But my doctor doesn't think so. I mentioned that last episode. I've spoken to her since then. She genuinely doesn't think so. So she's moved me to this 10 milligrams that bound, which I have here today. Finally, I didn't have it last week. And I shot the 7.5 Like I said, and my weight is just doing this dance, you know? Let me see from one 90.2 this morning. Yesterday. I was 188 for I mean, what did I do yesterday I got up what I eat? I don't know if I didn't eat enough. I mean, I had pasta at the end of the day. Maybe I eat too late. Had a little bit of sorbet. I mean nothing that I hadn't eaten, you know, weeks before. I mean, there was this there was a time six eight months into this you guys will remember I lost my mind. One night I ate a pint of sorbet and lost the pound the next day. So you know I had a small dish of it. It's a call it dishes maybe too much. I had a few scoops little scoops of it last night. Yeah, I'm gonna go all the way back to 180 3.8 that was on April 1. Now here we are male leaven. What are we 40 days later? And I'm seven almost seven pounds heavier. Even then I thought I was a little dehydrated. I didn't I didn't think the know But it was real because I went on ad for for a few days that 187 180 680-584-8580 580-687-8780 680-887-8888 Yeah, maybe this is just where I was perfectly honest. Anyway, whatever. I've gotten out of the medication so far that made my weight drop doesn't exist at the moment. Hopefully it'll exist. But this is 10 milligrams. Doctor seems very sure that if it doesn't, she'll push me to 12. In probably four weeks, I will report this on seven and a half milligrams of zap bound. I don't fill up as quickly as I did on the weego V. So I guess that feeling full thing, I mean, obviously does slow you down from eating. But I can eat a little more on zap bound than I can on we go over and it does happen sometimes. Like, I'm not gonna lie to you. I have also had more sugar cravings the last week and a half. And I have had some simple sugars. That I mean, I wasn't thrilled with that. You say Oh, well, there's your answer, Scott, you can't. But I don't think so. Because before that I was still 187 188 Don't be mean like these couple of pounds here are different. Also, I should point out my clothes, they'll fit relatively the same, my shirts a little tighter in the front. And moreover, even though people are coming up to me and saying like, Oh, my God, you look terrific, or I can't believe it, or how are you doing this? Or tell me how to get that stuff like all that. I don't care about what people think about how I look, I've learned that that doesn't matter at all. Almost doesn't matter how I feel about how I look. It's body composition and health, right? And I've got got these three handfuls of fat on the front of me, and they gotta go. I'm not going out like that. Okay, I'm sure I'll die some other horrible way. But it's not going to be from a heart attack. Because I carried fat around on my front. I'm just not doing that. I want my knees to hurt when I run up the stairs. I don't want to feel out of breath like these are the things that I am concerned about. I travelled recently, and it was just so much easier. Just being thinner. And I have no other way of talking about it. Other than that, absolutely fantastic. I still haven't been able to fully talk to you about the gut health stuff that I'm doing because I don't have all the answers yet. But there is part of me that thinks that a supplement I'm taking is what stopped my weight loss. And I'm not certain so I've tried to dial that back to see I'm in the middle of an experiment to figure it out. You know, I said to my wife the other day like I haven't lost weight and she was where you eat that pack of cookies and I was like this pack of cookies like so I brought it up here so I could tell you about it. This is a little snack pack of cookies that I get from Costco. They're called thin and crispy chocolate chip cookies the package holds one ounce of cookies. And on the front it says Made with simple ingredients which is why I bought it originally. semi sweet chocolate chips sugar, unsweetened chocolate cocoa butter soy let that's what's in the chocolate, right? Wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron thiamin riboflavin, malted barley flour, butter, sugar, brown sugar, it's Listen, it ain't great. It's an ounce, like you know what I mean? Like an ounce of hard chocolate chip cookies every day or every other day or whatever like to like satisfy a sweet tooth. This is not some crazy thing I shouldn't be you know, gaining weight and calories wise I mean this one ounces 140 calories. I'm not exactly like you know Horkan it down. I still see over and over again salty foods, like we'll put water weight on me very simply happens really easily. Anyway, I think all this to say that I haven't eaten as well as I have in the past year in the last week and a half or two weeks. And maybe I should be thrilled that my weight is where it is. I'm not not thrilled at all I can tell you is that I got to look at myself at 183 and I thought my body if this fat leaves here, my body will be right around 175 Probably like for me I don't know what the you know, the apps gonna say about my you know, obesity level or you know what all the other stuff it tracks but I feel like I'll be good with my weight at that around right around there. I have put some like I told you before a little muscle on my arms, my chest. So I mean I'd like to say that that's some weight but it's certainly not six or seven pounds. It's certainly not six or seven pounds. Anyway, my weight today is one 90.2 I am starting over today with this 10 milligrams BMI 28.2 where I started at 34.6 still high body fat 20 4.9 Still Hi, my hydration body water hold steadily. Skeletal muscle mass has gone up a little bit in the last couple of weeks. BMR steady. That free bodyweight? Well, that's interesting. My fat free body weight. Yeah, it's pretty. It's all steady. subcutaneous fat, steady, visceral fat steady at 11. muscle mass, steady. bone mass steady, protein, steady, metabolic gauge 55. Okay, so let's just say I'm starting over. And I don't mean starting over, like I gave up in the middle. But starting over, like, maybe this is act two. You don't I mean, like, maybe act one was lower, you know, amounts of the medication, helped me lose weight, and now the medication needs to be jacked up a little bit to get to the rest of this fat. And if this isn't it, then the answer has to go some other place, like it's going to have to be pretty intense exercise and targeting of my midsection. Trying to lose more weight, so my back would feel better, before I started doing that kind of stuff, but maybe that is just what it's gonna have to be. But anyway, let's not call it starting over let's call it beginning act to Scotts weight loss journey got the 10 milligrams was a lot of liquid in there. 10 milligrams of zap bound, a pop it in my belly, I'm assuming I'm gonna feel a little pressure from all that liquid going in, I'm sure that'll be fine. And then I'm gonna go downstairs, have my breakfast of, you know, two eggs. Maybe in a wrap

with a little steak or chicken. That's been what I've been eating for breakfast for, you know, forever now. And let's hope that I come back on here in the next episode, because I am going to button this one up early. But let's hope I come back on here in the next episode to report to you that you know, it's been six weeks I've been on the higher dose and you know, I've lost 10 pounds, and I'm at 180. Now, that's my hope. If I get the 180 in a month or two. Obviously this would be working. If I dropped weight, slowly, I'd be thrilled. Even no matter what the number is. If I stay at this weight, I'm gonna think we're not in a good spot. Now well, we move to the 12 then, and see my doctor is very confident that most weight loss on Zep bound or Manjaro is seen at the 10 and 12 milligram level. So I trust her she's been rock solid for me since the day I met her. It's pop off the cap. Unlock the doohickey. I guess it's a lock. I up my multitude of options where my fat is on my stomach go a little lower down here because it looks a little softer. That makes it better? It does. Let's see if 10 milligrams feels different pressure wise, it was easy. I gotta go down that soft spot again. I just had to go down like another inch. Absolutely no pressure at all went right in there. Alright, kids, listen, I appreciate you doing with this with me. I was telling somebody the other day. They said you have a weight loss diary in your podcast. And I was like, Yeah, I said it really helps me. It's hard to know what you know what value talking about it gives but really does make me feel better after I talk about this and the replies I get from you guys. It's one of those things. It's funny. Um, not a lot of people want to go online and say, Hey, I listen to your weight loss stuff, because I think it makes you feel like you, you know, a little too seen. But a number of people have reached out to me to say how much they're enjoying these and I'm glad they're helping you guys as well. So 10 milligrams into the trash. And I'll see you guys in the next episode. I don't sound excited, but I I feel excited about what just happened there were those 10 milligrams. So let's cross our fingers and live seven days and see what happens. I did it I live seven more days. Today is in fact may 18 It is Saturday. And let's go over my Wait, shall we? Okay, I've got the app here. Go to the trends. Go back here a little bit to find where things went off the rails. Wow. Damn, how about that? Okay. So it's October kind of just following through a little bit here. Give me a second December 2023 When I start dropping out 190s Oops, sorry, February I got a 187 in there, it's may now I'm doing this for a reason. Hold on a second. pretty steady, pretty steady 187 and all sudden I get to 185. So I got real motion there on March 30. I hit my lowest weight ever on April 1, unless the scale was messing with me because it was April Fool's Day, but I was 180 3.8 That day, you've heard me say, I think I was dehydrated. It hung it hung, it hung for three or four days and then all of a sudden I was 187. Again, I figured okay, 183 wasn't real, that's fair, 180 sevens about my weight. I got into the one that you faiz pretty stably. But then I started bounced around 185 187 and all sudden when 88 And one day I was 189. And then on the 29th of April 190 1.4. I was like, Oh, this is going the wrong way. So we danced with that devil for a while and started talking to the doctor, as you know about moving up on the medication which I did shot my first one last week by go back to that day, one 90.2 As a week ago today. And today, well, let's step through it one 90.2 Next day, on the 12th 180 9.6 on the 13th 180 8.2 Then 180 7.2 Then 180 8.4 Then 187 180 7.8. And today 180 7.23 pounds, three pounds in a week. Let's call the 10 milligrams working. I'm going to tell you very briefly I recorded this fantastic episode. The other day with a gentleman and endocrinologist Tom Blevins, he's from Austin, Texas, he's going to come on and do a short GLP series with me knows a lot about TLPs very clear about it when he speaks. So we're gonna have him on to talk about it through a small series that'll come out soon. Ish. I don't know when honestly. But for now 10 milligrams of Manjaro I'm going to shoot this go have lunch, go to a party for a family member and continue to live my life. I also spoke out today spoke out strong but I made a post today on the private Facebook group letting everybody know that there are going to be conversations about GRPs in that group and on this podcast. And I know that there's varying opinions and perspectives and complexities but we are going to have that conversation. Because I think that one day this stuff's going to help a lot of people. And I think we need to start talking about it now. Anyway, I'm going to shoot this what I do in the bottom remember the embarrassment of rolling my fat around and finding the soft bottom of it last week to inject into well that worked great and it didn't hurt at all. So I'm doing it again. cap off. Cap on cap off. Can I hit the trashcan? Nope, I was left handed. I just missed or embarrassing. So I can unlock the lock. That soft underbelly. Oh, I guess that's where that phrase comes from. Stay away from my scar from my appendectomy. Say what I lost three pounds. I'm going back to the same side. I don't really think that matters. But what the hell? Here's another hit. I said God damn, I went right in nice and smooth. The silk, no blood. If I go right handed, can I get the trashcan. I really missed it that time. I'm like two feet from that trashcan. In fairness, I'm shooting around like a mic stand and a light and stuff but still feel embarrassed.

Back No, May 25. Saturday. So probably time for me to start talking a little bit inside of this diary about something else that I'm doing, which is I'm seeing kind of a gut specialist about like lifelong issues I've had with my my GI tract, right. So we're doing some things. And one of the things we're doing is taking something called slippery elm bark. And it seems like it's stopping me from losing weight. I'm not exactly sure how to put all this yet. It's a stop gap to get rid of some of my symptoms while testing goes on. And I try some other stuff which I'm not going to talk about in here but I will have an episode about maybe a couple of episodes about anyway for the moment. I'm not expecting a ton of weight loss. I guess also I don't know if maybe this 10 milligrams is going to take a little longer to work. I honestly I want to try to be really honest here. I don't know exactly what's happening right now but What I can tell you is that last week when I was 180 7.2, on the 18th, I went to 180 6.8 on the 98th. And I thought, oh, maybe this 10 milligrams is working. Then on the 20th, I was 188. On the 21st 187, six, on the 22nd 188, eight. I was 188. ate yesterday. And today, I'm 189 Eight. So, I mean, listen, I'm in the middle of something here, you know what I mean? So I don't have a ton of answers. My total weight goal is, you know, in limbo, but I'm trying to get this one thing done. So I'm going to be doing a kind of like a, like a flush, like a gallbladder liver kind of like detox thing over the next four weeks. So we'll see what's going to happen. And then after that, I'll be doing another step, which I'll tell you about later. But anyway, Mike, my urinalysis came back. And I had a couple of issues like Candida, which I think is yeast and a couple of other things that my gut, I'm trying to get that all worked out. Anyway, I'm going to keep going. Obviously, I'm not stopping with this. But I just don't know what's going to happen with my weight over the next couple of weeks, I guess we'll find out together. Not a lot to say, I'm not disappointed. It's just, I mean, I mean, I'm a little disappointed, like, you know what I mean? Like, I want to get to my goal weight, and I want to see the rest of this belly fat go and stuff like that. I just want to be healthy, honestly. But it seems like it's a bit of a process. So this is part of the process. And today's part is taken off this camp. Or the trashcan would actually went the trashcan. That's exciting. unlocking it, finding a soft, jiggly place to put this pen needle is looks good right here.

Okay, it's in. It's gonna be a bit of a ride here for the next few weeks, I have no idea what this wash is going to do or how it's going to make me feel or if I'm going to lose weight or not lose weight, or? I don't know. We'll find out together. Hey, everybody, this is going to be the last installment for this episode. It is Saturday, June 1, and I finally got back on track. Let me tell you about it. So today is June 1. Last Saturday would have been may 25. And I'm gonna go back in the app to May 25 189.8 pounds on May 25. Then I decided to take a tiny, maybe a different tactic this week. What am I two full weeks into the 10 milligrams now I think. And I'm finally getting the impact from the medication that I got previously. So it looks like going up in the dose was the right thing to do. 525 24 I was 189.8 pounds. The next day, I was one 90.2. And I made a decision then I was like, Okay, I'm not weighing myself that much this week, just because it was starting to bum me out. And I'm like, I just have to wait for this medication to start working again. So I don't want to not going to burn myself out every day. And I was able to eat less this week. And I think that's because the medication was back up to a strength that was working for me. I want to tell you what I mean by eating less. The sugar cravings I've been having the last couple of weeks are gone. So I guess I probably just didn't eat as much stuff with sugar in it. Which, by the way wasn't to say that I was having a lot of stuff we should grant but basically almost no sugar this week. It's still eating eggs, protein, steak, chicken. All that, you know at breakfast time. I have to be honest with you. I have I've been so not hungry this week. I think I've had chicken soup a couple of times for dinner. Just has not been a lot of calories this week. And we saw the impacts and how did we see them? The next time I jumped on the scale after the 26th sighs I mean, I was one 90.2 on the 26th I jumped back on the scale on the 30 If that's me 30 Couple days ago. So in between the 26th and the 30th. I went from one 90.2 to 180 5.6. And I was like Okay, that'll work. I didn't even need the scale. I could see it in my T shirt. And my face. It felt like my face looked more like I remembered it from when I was like 184 and my shirt fit the same way as I did when I was 184 So not a big surprise when I jump back on the scale 180 5.6 On the floor Already it was a little shocked on the 31st when I was one at 4.6 Because now we're looking at Friday, right like end of the month Jarno halflife is it's waning, basically in the in the sixth and seventh day. I thought all 180 4.6 There's no way when I get on the scale tomorrow on the first so that I can weigh in for the recording that I'm going to have that number. And then I was working for a while. Yesterday afternoon. My wife comes to me and she goes, would you come out to the bar with me and I have a french fry. I think she wanted a french fry. So we went to, you know, like this restaurant bar that we go to. And what did I have last night? Shrimp in a thin sauce. But man hours ago, it's salty. Like I thought for certain I'm waking up today like three pounds heavier. I had the shrimp actually had a couple of pieces of bread. I had a chicken wing from her dish. And something else. I'm thinking well Oh, she got a wing. It's so funny when you eat on GLP. Like she got wings and a cheesesteak and ate like an eighth of the cheesesteak and three of the chicken wings, but still, you know, that's what we ate just the amount is not great. I had a chicken wing. I mean that's deep fried, right. And then I picked some of the steak out of her role. So basically I had a pound a pound of shrimp now is a half a pound a half a pound of shrimp, couple of small pieces of bread small like two, three inches across, maybe a half an inch wide. The chicken wing, and what I'm gonna guess is like two ounces of like, you know, thin steak, and I'll be damn I was 180 4.6 this morning still. So anyway, um 180 4.6 Today, not bad. I'll give you my BMI 27.3 still over the threshold. Body fat is down to 24.1 it had been as high as 25 or 25 and a half at the beginning of the month. My body water increases as I lose weight, skeletal muscle has increased. Not a full point, but almost a full point in the last month. BMR is down 1743 fat free bodyweight is now one 40.2 was as much as 142 and a half at the beginning of the month. And my subcutaneous fat. O 21 Even. That's nice but not record breaking for me. visceral fat now my visceral fat is at a 10 a 10. It has only ever been at a 10 once before, and I guess it would not surprise you it was back when my weight was more like it is now. My muscle mass is a little down. Huh? Yeah, it's down to 132 from 134. I'm gonna want to do something about that bone mass nice and stable. Protein rising metabolic gauge at its lowest. But I've done this age before at this weight, metabolic age 54. No doubt I feel better about the process. I think this 10 milligrams that I'm going to shoot right now is I'm so excited about it. And I'm going to read you something someone sent me before I go and talk about it for a second. So cap off. Cap on cap off the capper. I hit the trashcan today. It's because I moved the light that was blocking it. That's pretty smart to me. I thought Mila unlock the pen. Definitely going back in a spot from last week and I call this the lucky spot. The lucky spot, nothing to do with anything. All right, actually, I'm going to move a little over more. A little soft piece of Scott right here. I'm going to use your ID stung a little bit at the end. Am I gonna see a drop of blood? Nope. No drop of blood no loss liquid. 10 milligrams is in the trashcan because things are going well. You think I was missing the trashcan because I was upset before as possible. All right. So I'm going to finish with this. And then I'm going to button up this episode. Somebody out there listening. Send a note as a person with type one that has struggled with body image issues, listening to Scott talk about how great he looks and feels because of weego V is getting really annoying. If only We all could just take a shot to lose weight. And it says check your priveledge. Now, I'm not going to tell you sent it or anything like that. But I am going to talk about it for a second. If you think that a decision to make a GLP diary and put it on a podcast was an easy decision to make, if you think I was just like, oh my god, I'm losing weight, I'll just tell people about it and celebrate, that is not what this is. So I have a significant feeling that GLP medications are going to be important to people moving forward people with type two people with weight to lose people with things that we might not even be thinking about yet, like PCOS, other metabolic issues, insulin resistance, and yes, I think it's going to be important for type ones as well. Now, the only way to spread that word, of course, is to talk about it. And then I make myself the target, because I know people like this person are gonna feel not good about this. And you're gonna hear from people are like, well, I can't afford it, or my insurance doesn't cover it. I hope you have, you've got privilege. And I mean, listen, you start saying, check your privilege. I started thinking you have other goals. But I understand. I have insurance that covers this. And that is a privileged situation.

Absolutely. And I accept that. And I absolutely agree. But you want people talking about this stuff. Because the way you're all gonna get covered by your insurance, is by showing that people are having great success with this by making it undeniable that it's necessary for people to have these if they want them. If people like me don't push, if we're not out and open about it. They're just gonna say, whatever. And you have to understand that type two is not a huge market. You know, a couple of million people with type two diabetes is not, you know, that's not what they're looking for when they're they're making drugs, they're looking for stuff that covers hundreds of millions of people, they're trying to make real money, you don't mean like money, like we can't imagine money. So you have to show them why it's important to put the effort into the studies that will lead to the insurance coverage. So a person with type one diabetes can use Manjaro, or we go V or ozempic. Or, by the way, why they also might want to get behind this little ditty here. biosimilars, lots of companies making biosimilar GLP medications, and they're being in some cases, they're having trouble, because of the mechanism of delivery that a couple of the companies chose. So they patented, I don't know all of this yet, I'm gonna have someone on to talk about it. But a couple of companies patented that pen that I just threw in the trash, not the medication. That's janky. So the Federal Trade Commission has been involved recently. And again, I'm going to have somebody come on to talk about it. Because if these biosimilar companies can make GRPs that are biologically similar to the ones that are available on the market now, then they can make viable medications and flood the market with them at lower prices. And then this person here who says, you know, if we could all just take a shot to lose weight, you might actually have that option. Now, the next thing I got to say is, if I only said things on this podcast that I knew 100% Everybody could agree with, that no one would be upset by or no one would feel like, Oh, I've been left out here. If I only spoke about those things, you wouldn't even listen to the podcast. It wouldn't be valuable. It would be what they call milquetoast, it would say nothing. It would be something everyone could agree with, which is not normally something that's going to help anyone that you can tell when I'm talking this is off the top my head, but point being, we have to say things that are happening. This is really happening to me. I didn't start making this diary. Once I knew it was working. I went on day one. I didn't know if this was gonna work. Do you think I'm excited to tell you I have diarrhea? You think I'm super excited to tell you how much I weigh. I hate this. This is not fun. It is not fun at all. But I think it's important. I think that if I look at the impacts, I'm seeing type ones who are getting a hold of GLP medications. If I look at the impacts, they're having a quality impacts on their life. And I want these conversations to keep happening. Well, then somebody's got to have them and even though I know that there gonna be people out there who are either disappointed because, you know, for just any number of reasons that this has been aren't about, I think it's important. If it hurt this person's feelings, I certainly don't want that. But my God, if you're going to be triggered by the conversation of a 50 year old guy who can afford insurance, whose insurance covers GLP, talking about his weight loss, and I have to ask this person, if they were here, I would ask them this. Why the fuck? Are you listening to this? Like, why would you listen to something that makes you this upset? That I don't understand. There are so many things in the world I don't like and so many things that make me sad and upset. I wouldn't listen to them. And if I did listen to them, and found myself not surprisingly sad and upset, about the last thing I would do was take my time to reach out to that person and say, Hey, there's a thing you're doing a thing that I knew I wasn't going to like, but I involve myself in any way. And turns out, you're going to be so surprised. I didn't like it. So now I'm gonna take the time to write to you, and try to make you feel good about it. So to this person, I feel terrible that you feel this way. But you made me feel exactly the way you feel. So you want to sit here and discuss what came first the chicken or the egg? We absolutely can. But I say, stop looking for things that make you upset. That's all I got for this one. I'm going to keep making this diary. Because despite this one note, so many of you have written to me to say, hey, this has been really inspiring for me or it's comforting to hear how the medication works, or thank you for drawing attention to this to this person doesn't realize that their opinion is, as far as I can tell, so far in the minority, that if they could see the balance of their note versus the other ones, I genuinely think they'd be embarrassed. Now, having said that, again, I am so sorry that it made you feel poorly. I did not want that. But I mean, it's getting really annoying. What does that mean? You're annoyed by it and you continue to listen to it. Like, stop listening if you don't like it? Seriously, I mean, things that I've heard and I go, I don't agree with that. It makes me upset so I don't do it again. I don't know. I might be wrong, but it's how I feel. Anyway, I'm zap bound and down to one ad for something and if I have a fine enough wood to knock on, I hope to be a couple pounds lighter. Next time I talk to you, I still have a significant amount of weight to lose so that I can be healthy. So to that person, I'm trying not have a heart attack, not just look good. That is literally a bonus. Trying to stay alive and be healthy while I'm doing it. You know, you think you have body image issues? So why so does everybody?

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