Andrew Huberman was on Real Time with Bill Maher this week and on the Overtime aftershow, they were talking about Ozempic and he said something I really found interesting. It’s the first 3 minutes of the show below but I’ll quote him here. “Ozempic has made one thing very clear that people have debated for a long time, which is the reason that so many Americans are obese is because they eat more than they burn”
Now I definitely remember 11 years ago when I first started looking in to why I was so fat, that the idea there was something special about our food beyond calories that was especially obesegenic for us was floated but it was very quickly proven incorrect. Someone is definitely fat because they ate too many calories. No question.
But as I said in a previous article, blaming obesity on calories is like blaming plane crashes on gravity. Sure, it’s definitely the ultimate cause of weight gain but the far more interesting question is, what is the proximate cause? Why can’t the average American go 3 hours without feeling hungry? Why do so many of us eat 3 large meals and 2 or 3 snacks per day? What is driving us to consume so many calories?
The way I’m reading the studies that are coming out about these GLP-1 inhibitors, they work by reducing the urge to eat and controlling hunger. That’s what I want. I want my hunger to be controlled and to be able to go long periods of time without hunger and be able to thrive on smaller meals.
What if you were as fat as I was, tipping the scales at 400 lbs and I told you there was a way to have all the benefits of Ozempic and none of the side effects? To be able to live your life without constantly thinking about when you next meal was going to be. To lose weight pretty consistently at the rate of 1-2 lbs per week until you get down to a healthy weight.
I truly believe that this is the strength of carnivore or mostly carnivore diet. I can eat as much as I want because I don’t want very much. I usually eat 2 meals a day and occasionally I might eat something small later in the day but usually not. I’m losing weight consistantly as I’m chronicaling in my Weightloss Wednesday posts or in my story of how I lost 200 lbs. It’s not difficult and it’s probably the cheapest way to eat imaginable. A typical day for me is 3 eggs and a piece of sausage in the morning and whatever mostly meat meal my wife cooks at dinner time. Super simple and easy to maintain.
Here’s the best part. No side effects. I don’t have to worry about Ozempic freezing my stomach or making me go blind or any of the other weird side effects people are reporting. I feel great and don’t feel like I’m putting my health at risk with an injection where the risk-profile isn’t fully understood yet.
Try it out and see how it works for you and if you have any questions, let me know in the comments below!
