This is also exactly why I made my point about most people regaining weight from ‘traditional’ dieting as well. It doesn’t seem to be the method that’s important thing, just that the body itself, in most cases, fights back.
This is an interesting video to explain it too. Albeit it’s quite old now.
And in case anyone thinks I’m anti any of these interventions, I am absolutely not. As a now fat person, I have considered all options myself, including these injections and surgery. If I could wave a magic wand and be slim again, my god I would. Not because of the ‘health’ myth but because I would be ‘acceptable’. I’d not be ridiculed, I’d not be thought to be responsible, with my fellow fatties, for the downfall of the NHS, I’d not be thought of a greedy, or lazy. Not that I actually care what people think of me individually but as a whole, it’s tiresome and damaging to hear/read those messages all the time.
I’ve posted before to say how I became fat. I literally dieted myself fat. People may not believe that, but it’s true. I had my eldest son at 20, prior to which I’d always been slim, bordering on too slim at times. My family are all the same. We ate a well balanced, and well varied diet. We kids walked everywhere and were active. While pregnant with my son I gained a lot of weight. So when, at my 6 week post natal check up, the doctor gave me a Slimming World leaflet, I thought it was the done thing. I lost about a stone and half quickly. Then put it and a bit more back on. Then continued the cycle over about 20 years, until I ended up fat and with an eating disorder. So, like I said, I have nothing against peole taking these injections.