After reading this sentence, I don't trust the author. Misleading as hell.

The success of GLP-1 is based on the fact that the patient can eat less without suffering. No food noise, reduced feelings of hunger, smaller stomach capacity.

Saying that the platitude works is like saying that "just stop doing fentanyl" is the recipe to solve the fentanyl crisis in the US.

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stonedivot an hour ago | parent [-]

But the people claiming that they were some special case that just "couldn't lose weight" no matter how little they ate were bullshitting you. They couldn't handle the suffering, and as such the calorie intake was larger than the calories burned. They wanted you to believe eating less wasn't the solution. The drug proves that it WAS the solution, suffering aside.

	▲	howunfortunate an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		"No matter how little they ate" was always ridiculous, obviously everyone knows that literally not eating anything would result in weight loss. To me personally, the drug proved that people really ARE special cases. Before Ozempic, I lost about 80 pounds "naturally", by suffering immensely, then kept it off for years, again by suffering immensely. Every day, hunger was at the forefront of my mind all day, every day. It was the #1 concern in my life. I eventually gained back about 40 pounds, then went on Ozempic. It has been an eye opener because I now realize what it's like to not suffer from hunger. I realized for the first time that this is how "normal" people feel, all the time! The only way I could get fat now is by eating junk - so in a weird way I started to understand the judgement about being fat. Some people are just "calibrated" correctly, and that was absolutely mind blowing to me.
	▲	inglor_cz 9 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		"suffering aside." This is precisely the thing that cannot be put aside without making the solution much less useful / efficient / solution-esque.
	▲	IncreasePosts an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What percent of obese people were saying that? Who exactly are you arguing against?