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cjyesterday at 9:52 PM2 repliesview on HN

If there's any mental effect, it's most likely from eating less food (and most likely healthier food) and feeling better because of that.

It doesn't increase your appetite for healthy food. It will punish you for eating bad food. "Don't eat that steak, you're going to have crazy stomach pain tomorrow if you do!"


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taejavuyesterday at 11:29 PM

What’s wrong with eating steak? Biologically I mean, not ethically.

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stavrosyesterday at 10:39 PM

That's not my experience with tirzepatide. When it worked for me (which was a brief period, admittedly), it kind of turned me off fatty foods, and I wouldn't want to have pizza, for example, but I'd crave a chicken breast and boiled potato, or salad.

When it didn't work, one of the failure modes was that I still craved fatty/fried food, but I got terrible stomach pain from it, which is the worst of both worlds. If I'm still going to be unable to resist food, I don't want to be punished for it any more than I already am by being overweight!

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