Posts Tagged ‘weight maintenance’

Rethinking the Dosing of Obesity Medicines with AMG 133

February 6, 2024 — We learned recently that questions about the need for ongoing dosing with obesity medicines raise discomforting thoughts. After all, obesity is a chronic disease, so we can’t dispute the need for continued daily or weekly doses with obesity medicines. Or can we? Amgen seems to think we can. Monthly Dosing? Induction and Maintenance? With a […]

Did Tirzepatide Steal the Show at EASD?

October 6, 2023 — At EASD this week, it was quite a showing for tirzepatide. Sold under the brand name Mounjaro, it’s already available for treating diabetes and it’s awaiting approval for treating obesity. Based on the research presented at EASD this week, semaglutide might be looking a little like old news. For tirzepatide, a total of 11 presentations […]

Small Change Theory? Don’t Count On It

May 30, 2022 — It’s pretty easy to find advice to make small changes that stick if a person wants to lose weight – or keep from gaining weight. It certainly sounds authoritative when a PhD psychologist offers up small change theory as a winning strategy: “When you focus on just a couple of small changes at a time, […]

Targeting Food Cues for Weight Management

May 23, 2022 — As we explained yesterday, there’s quite a body of research on the food cues that surround us and keep prodding us to eat. Food marketing embeds itself deeply in our daily lives. We suspect it explains a lot about our obesogenic food environment. Yet changing that environment has proven to be quite a challenge. So […]

More Evidence That Good Sleep Helps with Obesity

May 11, 2022 — Many people are not getting enough sleep and the trend is going in the wrong direction. This is a problem for youth and working adults alike. New data again reminds us that good sleep is an important tool for overcoming obesity. But the diet and exercise trope that dominates public discourse about obesity crowds out […]

Weighing the Rituals of Body Weight

February 10, 2022 — What is it about body weight and obesity that activates so many people in so many different ways? As people weigh the rituals of body weight, the reactions may be very different, but they are often just as intense as they are diverse. In the Washington Post today, Fortesa Latifi writes with intensity about telling […]

Rethinking a Study of the Biggest Loser

December 21, 2021 — If nothing else, we have learned in recent years that it is possible to rationalize anything. In the pandemic and in politics, we see people taking a set of facts and coming up with wildly different interpretations. Likewise in science, we have to think hard about how to make sense of new findings. With new […]

Maintaining a Lower Weight with Fewer Hours Sitting

May 26, 2021 — It’s pretty clear that spending a lot of time sitting isn’t helpful. Heart and metabolic health takes a hit. Weight tends to accumulate. Also clear is the fact that people who succeed in losing and keeping weight off tend to spend less time sitting and watching TV. Now data from 4,305 individuals in WW tells […]

New Study in NEJM: Controlling versus Losing Weight

May 6, 2021 — Weight loss is a minor part of obesity care. It’s blindingly obvious, but most people have a tough time wrapping their heads around this basic fact. A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine today tells this story in a very elegant way. It’s all about controlling weight over time. Getting Weight Loss […]

OW2020: A Week of Obesity Immersion We Needed

November 7, 2020 — In this world where few of us are traveling, it’s nice to get away. OW2020 offered immersion as a way to get away. This past week, we retreated to our interactive screens and soaked up a lot of new insights about obesity. Thus, many of us found a way to shut out other screens that […]