u/wrylashes

... is that it takes more to really push yourself. If you run regularly, what it takes to feel really tired and spent goes up. If you downhill ski a lot, the steepness or challenge of a run needed to make you feel the thrill of pitting yourself against the mountain increases.

And if you periodically stuff yourself, even if not all that regularly, it takes a lot more to really feel you are at your limit.

In other words, at lunch today I went to a big buffet restaurant near my work, stayed for an hour, and kept track of the approximate calories I was eating (they have signs at each serving dish). I had about 3500 calories -- well more than my recommended daily amount, and all within an hour -- and feel ... full. mostly. Definitely not FULL, not waddling out full, not hard to breath full, not even "I couldn't do another full plate" full.

I wish I hadn't had to get back to work, taking another 15-20 minutes and eating some more of all my favourites might have gotten me there? Hard to be sure.

And I'm not a regular stuffer, maybe 3-4 times a year I go this hard, but I've also had such incidence for a lot of years, and had some years where it was a lot more common. I guess I really stretched out my capacity, and still do it often enough for my capacity not to shrink too much.

Anyway, I'm annoyed that 3500 calories worth of food is apparently not enough to make me feel I'm near my limit these days. Not sure what I'm going to do the next time that I really need a feedee fix.

Just a heads up that there is an upcoming (first airing June 10th) documentary called "Big Girls Wanted: Escaping Pearadise" which supposedly "details allegations of of manipulation, coercion and exploitation from plus-sized women who were part of a social media community."

These sorts of things tend to bring attention to the community, including some legitimately curious people but also scammers, trolls, the righteously indignant, and so on. This sub may not get much attention, but it is always possible. Also there is some chance that people in your lives could hear about it, depending on what secondary promotion it gets.

I'm not linking to where I read about this, but it was an article on USA Today, you can do your own searches.

Back before GLP-1s exploded in popularity for weight loss, back in 2019, the owner of the drug didn't renew their patents in Canada, but did in the US. There was still protections in place for years, but finally Health Canada has started approving generic versions, which should end up selling for about a third of the cost of the name brand one.

Meanwhile in the US, the patent runs for at least several more years.

While the countries are politically farther apart than at any time in my memory, and the health care systems are very different, socially the countries are fairly similar. It will be interesting to me to see if attitudes towards GLP-1s, usage levels, and so on diverge between the two countries.

Why post about this here?

- I now a lot of people on here have expressed concerns about the impacts of these drugs, and I thought they might be interested

- For those of you in Canada who were not listening to the news, head up if someone you were interested in suddenly starts losing a lot of weight, you might have an idea why

- And finally, if they are reasonably enough priced for middle class people to afford them without insurance coverage, I'm curious if we'll start some people being careless about gaining weight, figuring that they'll just go on a GLP-1 to lose it if it gets too much.