That last one pretty much drained my political energy banks for a while, so let’s look into some of the more neglected Categories.
Starting with this: New Pill Helps With Smoking and Weight.
NEW ORLEANS – Tackling two big problems at once, a new pill in development appears to double people’s success quitting smoking while also helping them lose considerable amounts of weight.
The drug is in the final stages of testing and could be available in a year or two. It works in an entirely new way, taming urges for food and cigarettes by blocking the same circuits in the brain that make pot smokers hungry.
Doctors say the drug, called rimonabant, will probably be marketed both for dieting and smoking cessation, but it is likely to be especially appealing to people beset by both problems.
If only I had known this was coming out… no, I had to quit anyway. But I do look forward to losing some of this gut I’ve acquired. My white sugar intake is way down, which should help, but there’s nothing like buying the pharm, right?
Moe,
The best way to lose the gut is free weight circuit training. You’ll work like hell, it hurts like hell, but it gets the metabolic furnace going like nothing else I’ve ever done. I’ve been on it for three months and I’m down 30lbs without a dietary change. E-mail me if you want me to send you the workouts.
Otherwise? I may take up smoking just to try the pill!
Eat a bit less, exercise a bit more, and figure on losing weight slowly but surely.
I lost sixty pounds in two years doing just that.
I heard a comedian say that he started smoking again & when asked why say “they’re so close to a cure for cancer you’d be stupid not to take advantage of it NOW”. 🙂