people need to work out their maintainence cals. Whilst coming off. So reverse diet, increase cals by a hundred or so a week, as you reduce the dose of the meds, till you know you’re eating to maintenance and then stop the drugs and keep eating to that level. For ever.
its incredibly difficult. 80 percent of people who diet regain the weight, slimming world has a 97 percent regain rate. Any diet it’s effectively for life. Obesity is a relapse disease.
so when normal hunger returns, people go back to eating as they did. Maybe quickly maybe they struggle trying to maintain for months or years, but ultimately they regain. It’s the same for any weight loss method. People relapse. Life gets in the way, they don’t want to just eat maintenance cals. Portion sizes creep up, the occasional treat.
im staying on a low maintenance dose, im lucky i can afford it, although i hope the price comes down at some point. But ultimately I know life will get in the way, I want to continue to socialise, have fun, and just not always be stressed or feeling deprived, worried about the number on the scales and counting cals. I’ve been there, done that and it’s utterly miserable.
so yeah the only way I think to do it, is to reverse diet, find out your maintenance cals, make sure your new habits are embedded and then stick to it. And recognise it’s just the same as if you’d never taken the drugs when you stop, hunger will return, your body will process blood sugar and insulin as it used to, and you will absolutely 100 percent be back to what you were pre drugs, just slimmer.