@Moirarosesgarden I didn’t mean it was a mental health problem per se but if you don’t change your routine, reduce your stress, remove your triggers, overcome sugar addictions etc then you will be back to square one once the hunger returns.
I have taken this drug, and stopped it, and read the studies so this is just my own experience and opinion.
Being thin has never been enough of an incentive in its own to stay thin, also throwing out clothes - these are minor peripheral actions, kind of shallow, they don’t really have a big impact on mindset long term - otherwise it would be enough for people not gain it back again - but they do.
in all honestly if often strikes me how many threads on here are still obsessively talking about eating junk food like pizza, Chinese takeaways and such like, people justifying taking a WLD but also trying to ‘be normal’ by calorie shifting to incorporate treat days in such early days of their WLJ and still rewarding themselves with food. That is the mindset to change. Food (or alcohol) is not a reward.
Willpower is not the answer… it’s so complicated. If I look at a pizza now I do not think ‘it’s bad I can’t have it’ and use willpower not to eat it. The problem with believing in willpower is that it creates a good/bad situation in your mind - you are good when you have it and bad when you don’t. This is why overweight people beat themselves up as they believe they don’t have willpower. It’s not - it’s because they have created a food self reward system that makes them feel good and blindly consume a lot of calories that they then lie to themselves they haven’t eaten. You can easily convince yourself that you ate far less than you actually did and make a whole load of promises that you will eat less calories over the next few days to compensate for it.. which never happens.
So I don’t eat pizza, or crisps, or takeaways, as I look at it and say ‘you know what, I don’t want that as I know the first bite tastes really nice but then it all blends into one big dull taste. There are other more tasty foods that are less greasy’ or.. ‘I’m not hungry so I don’t need that’ or.. ‘I will have one small piece only, this isn’t my meal today I need to go find something else as a meal’. It’s not willpower it’s reasoning with yourself to a better outcome
You aren’t there yet so it is frustrating to talk to people still on wegovy who think they have it all figured out already but crack on 😂