Metformin is known to work (a little) and seems to have a longevity effect that no-one understands.
Orlistat works, as long as you can live your life near a toilet.
Semaglutide - looks very promising.
Gastric sleeving and other surgical intervensions are also known to work.
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Changes to oxygen levels due to altitude are still being researched. Higher altitudes in the USA and Europe correlate with lower levels of obesity at statistically significant levels; higher altitudes in Australia correlate with higher levels of obesity. No-one knows why.
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Most of the other advice in this thread has a very low probability of succeeding. There will be a lot of selection bias in this thread because the only people responding are the ones for whom it succeeded.
Most of the time for most people, interventions that focus on diet fail.
Interventions that focus on exercise average around 1-2 kg of weight loss in the general population. That said, if you aren't doing any exercise at the moment, then you can reduce your all-cause mortality pretty rapidly with a small amount of exercise (that would definitely fit into your lifestyle). Even if exercise doesn't help you lose weight, it improves your overall cardiac fitness, and that is probably the most important thing to work on.
You asked for weird tips... it seems that if you have the genetic factors that give you a higher predisposition towards obesity, then exercise will work better for you than average.
Orlistat works, as long as you can live your life near a toilet.
Semaglutide - looks very promising.
Gastric sleeving and other surgical intervensions are also known to work.
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Changes to oxygen levels due to altitude are still being researched. Higher altitudes in the USA and Europe correlate with lower levels of obesity at statistically significant levels; higher altitudes in Australia correlate with higher levels of obesity. No-one knows why.
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Most of the other advice in this thread has a very low probability of succeeding. There will be a lot of selection bias in this thread because the only people responding are the ones for whom it succeeded.
Most of the time for most people, interventions that focus on diet fail.
Interventions that focus on exercise average around 1-2 kg of weight loss in the general population. That said, if you aren't doing any exercise at the moment, then you can reduce your all-cause mortality pretty rapidly with a small amount of exercise (that would definitely fit into your lifestyle). Even if exercise doesn't help you lose weight, it improves your overall cardiac fitness, and that is probably the most important thing to work on.
You asked for weird tips... it seems that if you have the genetic factors that give you a higher predisposition towards obesity, then exercise will work better for you than average.