Me too. 80 percent of people who lose weight, regain it all within 5 years on average, some weight loss methods having a much higher regain weight, ie slimming world is 97 percent regain and weight watchers 95 percent, but you’d expect that, that’s how they make money.
obesoty is a relapse disease, the goal is not just to get to a healthy weight, but keep it off. Forever. That’s why the WHO and other global health authorities recommend people take the meds and stay on them long term.
the good news is you can move to a low maintenance dose and maintain your weight, or if you regain within 12 months, most pharmacies will allow you to restart, they don’t want you to wait until you hit obesity again, so there is solutions depending on your finances. Ideally everyone could access of course.
but everyone on these drugs legitimately is on them as a last resort, not a first resort. No one is taking them as they don’t understand how to diet. As the simple fact is you do need to diet when on them. Again unless you abuse them, go on too high a dose, and rely on the drugs to do the heavy lifting. Which is the height of stupidity
i think it’s great the posters posting about their success without can do it, and keep it off, but they are in the minority, we have an obesity crisis. Two thirds of the uk are overweight or obese.
And it’s not becaude people are lazy and greedy,
it’s way way more complex than that, if it was just laziness and greed the drugs wouldn’t work, as everyone on them at the correct dosage for them, knows you can push through, eat more.if it was just laziness or greed, we would all do that and the drugs would fail.
Their very success is evidence of the complexity behind our bodies and the metabolic processes involved. Very few people wish to be fat. It scares us in terms of the very significant health impacts, we don’t often like our appearance, leading to mental health impacts as well as the physical ones.
and there has not been one death globally directly caused by the drugs. Not one. Lots of scare stories abound, from pancreatitis to random shit, I saw a ridiculous article in tne mail the other day saying they caused you to lose the fat pads in your feet.
in reality fhough these are very safe meds, used by about 70 million globally, been in use for decades and trials for 15 years before that, and they have many additional health benefits , for example about to be approved for cardio vascular disease, with fatty liver, sleep apnea, dementia etc all now in final testing. And fo course we factually know about the reduction in cancers, the fact there is no increase in pancreatitis, following several studies with tens of thousands of people and a significant reduction in pancreatic cancer , 69 percent on mounjaro.
Overall if you can do it without and keep it off, then absolutely thays fantastic. But if you’re not in thay minority, then medical science has moved forward, and we can now take a safe medication to enable us to achieve and maintain a healthy weight, without all the pscychological struggles normally associated with it.