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Re:How long til we're all on Ozempic? by valval on Friday October 11, 2024 @03:16PM (#41812585)
Get ground beef in the supermarket, it’s cheap and takes 7 minutes to cook. If that’s all you eat you can’t be fat and out of shape. You also won’t be hungry.

At some point blaming society isn’t going to cut it.

Re:How long til we're all on Ozempic? by llamaimperative on Friday October 11, 2024 @03:19PM (#41812609)
At some point "have willpower" isn't going to cut it. That point was decades ago.

Blaming society sounds fatalistic, but yes we absolutely can change society. There are mechanisms to do it, and the first step to utilizing any of them is people getting pissed off about the state of things and talking to other people about how pissed off they are about it.

Re:How long til we're all on Ozempic? by yunwal on Friday October 11, 2024 @03:28PM (#41812702)
> If that’s all you eat you can’t be fat and out of shape.

I promise you if ground beef is all you eat you will be much worse than fat and out of shape.

Re:How long til we're all on Ozempic? by valval on Saturday October 12, 2024 @05:21AM (#41817763)
And I’ll promise you the opposite. Meat has everything you need.

You could try it for say, two weeks. I’ve done it for two years, so nothing super crazy can happen in two weeks.

Re:How long til we're all on Ozempic? by m_fayer on Friday October 11, 2024 @03:27PM (#41812683)
I’ve done plenty of grinding it out in my life with no energy or time to spare.

Even in that place you can do better than ground beef.

Get an instant pot and invest in some rudimentary cooking skills. I’ve spent a whole year making variations on the same dish in 15 minutes, using that cooking as end-of-day stress relief. Shopping for the same handful of things once a week.

It wasn’t fine dining but it was healthy, cheap, and a few steps up from ground beef. Come now.

Re:How long til we're all on Ozempic? by cactusplant7374 on Friday October 11, 2024 @08:22PM (#41815263)
What's your favorite instant pot recipe?
Re:How long til we're all on Ozempic? by m_fayer on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @01:25PM (#41850860)
I think the instant pot is too imprecise a tool for cooking by recipe, it’s for speed and convenience. I’ll improvise a curry with what’s on hand, sometimes the result is fine and sometimes it’s great :)
Re:How long til we're all on Ozempic? by valval on Saturday October 12, 2024 @05:28AM (#41817788)
I love fatty meat and salt. I can’t think of many things better than that. It’s also the only staple us and our ancestors have eaten for millions of years.
Re:How long til we're all on Ozempic? by sumeruchat on Friday October 11, 2024 @04:29PM (#41813406)
If the only option to stay healthy is to regularly eat ground beef from the supermarket wouldnt you say society has f**ed things up pretty badly :)
Re:How long til we're all on Ozempic? by valval on Saturday October 12, 2024 @05:26AM (#41817778)
It’s not the only thing. You can eat any meat, eggs, or many dairy products. Probably most fruit is fine too, although I don’t eat carbs myself.

Yes, all the processed grains and seed oils and artificial sweeteners and chemicals should never have been invented. But I’m not too fussed about that. What I can do is come here and write these comments about the diet that changed my life for the better. If only one person who reads them tries it out, I will already have succeeded.

Re:How long til we're all on Ozempic? by sumeruchat on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @07:28PM (#41864934)
Yeah agree with eggs and other dairy products.