If know a lot of people on these. A good percentage of them are using it as a cheat code to continue their existing patterns. A couple have used it to assist in behavior modification. They seem to have better outcomes.

We'll see how people are doing in the long run.

The recipe for weight loss is simple. Changing a lifetime of behavior is not. I speak from experience.

I think these drugs are the new gastric bypass surgery. For some they will see results but they will go back to their preferences before long. For a smaller group, long term behavior change will occur.

Fingers crossed that there are no longer term health problems from these because so many people I know are on them.

I think the next generation of these will be better...

[–] prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have a friend on ozempic (for diabetes). It really seems like it's impossible for him to just use it to continue his excessive eating habits, because it suppresses his appetite and he just doesn't eat much anymore. He still eats garbage, but much less.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

That is my thing. As soon as they stop, the habit is still there but the inhibition will be gone (I say this as a lifelong person who has issues with over eating).

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

By 2030 we will know one way or the other. By then they’ll also be cheap and generic.