Because the risk of regain is very high, anyone who losss weight by dieting usually regains all if not more. I think it’s about 80 percent, and it’s the same if you use mounjaro to help you diet and then stop, your risk of regaining is high, no matter how hard you tried to get into new habits.
one things the drugs have proved is fat people on average are not fat as they are just greedy and lazy, if this was the case they’d be able to push through on the drugs and they simply wouldn’t work.
As it’s the diet that makes you lose weight, not the medication, it just supports you to do so, by managing your insulin and blood sugar levels, plus a number of other things, like slower gastric emptying. Many people who struggle to lose weight and keep it off have metabolic issues or don’t produce enough glp 1 naturally, it is just a synthetic peptide we produce anyway,
so ensuring obese people can stay on mitigates the risk of regain and the associated health issues, and that risk of regain is much higher than if a healthy weight person who has never been obese.
there are many medications you take and you don’t just stop as you become healthy. Of course some people are fat and don’t have metabolic issues, and each individual can make a decision on whether they feel they risk regain and it’s a high risk, possibly due to years of yo yo dieting, or if this was a one off deviation into obesity and they can manage it themselves.