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Oh, how I missed Jessica Williams.

It does not stop working after 70 days. Yes, patients may plateau but that’s just because they’re bodies have reached new set points and the only way to continue to lose weight is to increase the dosage, but that is a conversation they need to have with their doctor. disclaimer: I’m on monjouro, in the same family but slightly different than ozempic. I’ve been on the medication, the lowest dosage, for over 6 months and it has brought my cholesterol into a normal level, I am no longer pre-diabetic and I have lost over 20 pounds. I still exercise when I can but dieting does not work for me. And it cuts down on cravings so big! I can have junk food in my house and not touch it for weeks. It used to be gone in hours.

Oh Jillian. She just thinks it’s so easy to lose weight on diet and exercise alone. For some people, it’s just not sustainable. I’ve lost significant amounts of weight in the past but that always entailed major calorie restriction and hours at the gym. Now that I have a family, I’m lucky if I can sneak away for an hour or two a week. And that includes pretty much every single former contestant on The Biggest Loser, or did she forget the study that showed they all ruined their metabolisms? And yes, ozempic is for life and can have horrible side effects but do you know what else does? Anti-rejection meds for transplant patients, High blood pressure medications, even some antidepressants. There’s even studies that show taking insulin can increase the risk of cancer but I’d like to think the alternative, dying, is a little worse. Anti-depressants also have an increased risk of suicide but that doesn’t mean we should get rid of them. I do, however, agree with her on the ultra-processed food.

Arizona has been slowly turning blue. Now that Sinema is out, there is nobody to split the democratic/ independent vote. I'm not saying it's a lock but the Arizona people didn't elect Lake once...

Dude, I grew up in the town where the company doing all the shady crap is located. I miss the old days when Hamden was famous for being name-checked on the X-Files and being the home of Eli Whitney, not illegally selling execution drugs.

As somebody who went through IVF, I can talk about this. To me, each embryo was a chance of life. I had two embryos and both implanted but one miscarried. I was heartbroken that it did (I still am) but I wouldn't trade my daughter for anything. Now if we'd had extra embryos, we were planning on donating them to research because they were chances of life, not actual children. Everybody is different. Some people discard them, some donate them to couples who can't conceive, some donate them to research, some keep them indefinitely and some do what's known as compassionate transfer where they transfer the embryos during a time in their cycle when they know the embryos won't implant just so they can say they have them a chance of life. All that being said, if my embryos were destroyed before I had made a choice, I'd be devastated and angry and want whoever was at fault to pay. IVF is not for the faint. It's weeks of injections, a painful procedure to remove the eggs and you're never guaranteed a large number of eggs or embryos, letalone viable ones. I had 11 eggs harvested. Out of those 11, I got my daughter. And did I mention how expensive it is? I'm lucky my son was conceived naturally because I don't know if I could have gone through that whole rigamaroll again. But it still wasn't murder. I mean, it was the murder of a dream and a chance of life but not a person. The guy that dropped the embryos deserved to pay as did the facility where the embryos were held but not for murder.

I didn’t like the mother present sketch. Once dad started giving out his gifts, I understood mom had been emotionally abused for years. That sort of thing should not be made light of. otherwise, I enjoyed the show, especially the joke swap. Michael Che just loves ragging on Jost for his marriage to ScarJo.

Oh no, that dance in the original was ridiculous. I remember watching and thinking, this is supposed to be good? Why is she so stilted? I don’t get it.

As a child and niece of people who have had multiple organ transplants, this episode hits close to home. My stepdad's uncle was one of those people who received a call saying they had a kidney for him and when the kidney showed up, it was... not good. Luckily, he received another call about a week later. My uncle, who was in his fifties at the time, received a kidney that somebody else turned down and that kidney never fully worked and ended up failing less than 5 years later. Turned out the kidney was from somebody in their late 70s and not in the best of health. I had a teenage patient that ended up getting two liver transplants in less than 2 weeks because the first one was also...well it had been turned down by other people too. That's the other thing that people don't tell you about organ transplants. They don't always work that well, bodies will reject them and it's very common for people to need repeat transplants. Now that doesn't mean I'm saying don't donate. Far from it. But it's definitely why we need more people to donate.

I had the EXACT same training. Actually more because we also had OMT lab twice a week where we practiced osteopathic techniques on each other. And when I reached residency, I was the only DO in my residency program. There have been DOs who have done their residencies at Stanford and the Cleveland Clinic and the current physician to the president is a DO.

She what? How dare she. I'm a DO. I was the only DO in my residency. I took the same exam as MDs. I work with MDs. I earn the same as MDs and I consult with MDs and they consult with me. Some of the best doctors in the country are DOs. She should stay in her lane which is law.

Sunny should ask herself, what is Israel supposed to do? They were attacked, innocent people kidnapped, are they supposed to just sit around and twiddle their thumbs? Yes, Sunny, be upset that innocent Palestinians are dying but she should also make sure to blame the actual culprits, the terrorists that knew exactly what was going to happen when they open fired on families.

He’s the guy with the fake nose in the trailers so obviously we need him now to get to him later. (Not a spoiler since it’s in the trailer)

That's where I know him from! That's been bothering me for years. In other news, those wall heads were freaky.

I saw it too and it's just a completely insane show in a good way. Where else are you going to see a professional operatic baritone sing Backstreet Boys? That being said, I know why they chose Roar figuring the actress was nominated but it is definitely not the best sing in the production. Saw Shucked and Kimberly Akimbo too and I think they could have done better with the Shucked number. Haven't seen SLIH. There was so much controversy and backlash when it first came out regarding the plot and its like all that has disappeared. Leopoldstadt is a very hard show to watch. It made me cry.