WWTBAM Bored

... is ending.

Apparently the drug company found that, at high doses, participants experienced anger, depression and aggression.

I'm not sure yet whether I was on the drug, but my weight hasn't fluctuated more than 2-5 pounds in the 20 months I've been in the study, regardless of what I ate.

I told them to only give the drug to happy people.

Then I told them I was so furious they were ending the study, I wanted to cry and asked them who was responsible for this decision, because I was going to call them and give them a piece of my mind.

-- dimmzy, who apparently will soon be fatter, but gentler

You can work it off on the Amazing Race!!

dimmzy wrote:... is ending.

Apparently the drug company found that, at high doses, participants experienced anger, depression and aggression.

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Then I told them I was so furious they were ending the study, I wanted to cry and asked them who was responsible for this decision, because I was going to call them and give them a piece of my mind.

LOL!

You can work it off on the Amazing Race!!

Actually, the fact that I get paid to lose weight was going to be my schtick for that recent game show where contestants had to guess people's occupations ...

I think it's off the air now. (But I'm sure someone on the bored remembers it!)

dimmzy wrote:

You can work it off on the Amazing Race!!

Actually, the fact that I get paid to lose weight was going to be my schtick for that recent game show where contestants had to guess people's occupations ...

I think it's off the air now. (But I'm sure someone on the bored remembers it!)

I think it was called Identity.....

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dimmzy wrote:

You can work it off on the Amazing Race!!

Actually, the fact that I get paid to lose weight was going to be my schtick for that recent game show where contestants had to guess people's occupations ...

I think it's off the air now. (But I'm sure someone on the bored remembers it!)

I tried out for it, so I'm sure that's why it was canceled. That, and Penn Gillette wanted to be on Dancing with the Stars

Well, of course it's your fault, Rexer.

Aren't all people on severely restricted diets angry & depressed? I dunno about the aggression, though.

Clear something up for me.

If your weight hasn't fluctuated more than 2-5 pounds in 20 months, how is that weight loss?

Clear something up for me.

If your weight hasn't fluctuated more than 2-5 pounds in 20 months, how is that weight loss?

Oh, I guess I should have clarified: it was a drug for people who've undergone gastric bypass to help them KEEP the weight off.

Study participants (who weren't candidates for surgery because they weren't THAT overweight) were put on a liquid diet for six weeks (I lost almost 25 pounds) and THEN put on the drug to see if they could keep it off. We went back to a "normal" diet, but we had support (monthly meetings, dietician calls, exercise incentives like free classes, yoga mats, wrist weights etc.).

The drug supposedly worked on making you "think" you were full -- it didn't have unpleasant side effects (hey, I'd rather be angry than flatulent any day )

dimmzy wrote:

Clear something up for me.

If your weight hasn't fluctuated more than 2-5 pounds in 20 months, how is that weight loss?

Oh, I guess I should have clarified: it was a drug for people who've undergone gastric bypass to help them KEEP the weight off.

Study participants (who weren't candidates for surgery because they weren't THAT overweight) were put on a liquid diet for six weeks (I lost almost 25 pounds) and THEN put on the drug to see if they could keep it off. We went back to a "normal" diet, but we had support (monthly meetings, dietician calls, exercise incentives like free classes, yoga mats, wrist weights etc.).

The drug supposedly worked on making you "think" you were full -- it didn't have unpleasant side effects (hey, I'd rather be angry than flatulent any day )

so.... you kept your 20something pounds off and didn't lose more.

That is an awesome result.

I hope you find out you were not on the drug and that you had it in you all the time.

I went to one of those study groups last year because they offered me a free screening for something I was due to have anyway through my MD. Saved me about $200! But then they said the study was paying about $20 per day, for a 6 hour day, 3 days per week. Hardly worth my time. I hope your test center is more generous?

You didn't start this trial at about, oh, say, the time of the Olympics, didja?

so.... you kept your 20something pounds off and didn't lose more.

That is an awesome result.

I hope you find out you were not on the drug and that you had it in you all the time.

I know. That's the hope.

Or at least a small dosage so I won't go postal.