Imaging eating 25% less calories. There was a subreddit for calories in calories out.
CICO is not as simple as it sounds when people suggest it. Individuals don’t absorb or expend calories the way that laboratory testing suggests people as a whole do. Nobody’s breaking the laws of thermodynamics, but accurately testing your calorie absorption requires an elimination diet and a lot of patience. CO is easier, but still depends on your body.
Imagine eating healthier.
No, hamburgar and drug.
calorie intake isn’t even about eating healthier, you can totally eat hamburgers, just not 20 of them in a week
sadly we evolved to gobble up as many calories as we can to get through rough times where there isn’t much food. Unfortunately we developed into a society where there is always food, and evolution hasn’t caught up. The primal desire to eat can be overwhelmingly strong, it’s different from person to person. I don’t stock up on snacks because of exactly this reason, but it still takes a lot of effort to not constantly overeat. Eating is just so good! Obesity is not necessarily a discipline issue, our biology is working against us
The big thing is still: what happens when you stop?
It doesn’t sound like it’ll be any different.
Generally lifestyle has a huge impact on weight and if they aren’t changing their lifestyle during the time taking the drugs it seems reasonable that they would gain the weight back.
lifestyle
It’s appetite. Yes, lifestyle certainly plays a role and bad habits are the core of it all but heightened appetite is what makes people build these habits in the first place. That’s why GLP-1 works. It reliably reduces appetite. That was always the problem. People do change their eating habits while on the drug but when they stop taking it the impulse to eat becomes a lot stronger and they start gaining weight again.
So what to do? Cycle. Take GLP-1 to drop weight into healthy range. Try to maintain it but most likely fail over time (this phase can be many months or even years long) and then begin the next cycle. It’s not optimal but it’s currently the best method we have to effectively fight obesity.
Buddy…
These drugs work by stopping you from feeling hunger…
There’s no “lifestyle change” to make that permanent.
You know what happens when you stop any of these meds?
Subjects gain a pound a month and usually are back at starting weight within two years.
Being on the meds doesn’t “build willpower” or even habits. You don’t eat because you literally can’t feel hungry.
On top of gaining the weight back, you do serious and possibly permanent damage to a couple important systems in your body. The longer on the meds, the more your body adapts to it, and the more fucked up it’ll be without it.
In 50 years this will be like the ladies who used uranium makeup or eye dropped belladonna.
