It’s strange, I don’t see WLI as a drastic way to lose weight, it’s a tool that regulates your blood sugar and insulin levels and that helps you to feel fuller for longer so you can stick to a calorie controlled sensible and healthy diet.
It is a medication so it carries risks, but the only people eligible to take it are obese or overweight with weight related health conditions so they are living in a state of higher health risk at the moment and losing weight will help with that, so the balance of risk is reasonable and has been judged as such by medical professional.
ive lost 80lb on Mounjaro, a total of 135lb all in, the first 55 lb were through just diet. I am medically in a much healthier position and can prove it with multiple blood tests, scans and all sorts, my diabetes is completely in control , sugar levels in normal range for the last 10 months, blood pressure has reduced to normal range, cholesterol has reduced to normal range…… I’ve gone from a size 22/24 to a size 10/12 from morbidly obese to healthy BMI.
I have loose skin on belly, thighs and arms, but I was obese for 30 of my 42 years, there’s only so much abuse skin can take and once it’s stretched past a certain point it’s not fully shrinking back no matter how I lose that weight.