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No shit Sherlock, doesn't take a fucking genius to see that people have been losing weight by a variety of methods since weight management was even a thing. It's just fucking easier with GLP-1 agonists. I haven't read the article, is the blurb supposed to be dripping in sarcasm or something?
Surprisingly, they have not.
Before GLP1s, weightloss was a myth. 99. something % of people (edit 99.2% of women) who meet the medical definition of obese will always be obese despite a lifetime of effort.
We know for certain from decades of research that weightloss from willpower alone, even with diet plans or excersize plans is functionally impossible. The best they do is yoyo effects - no diet has ever produced perminant weight loss on a real scale.
Very rarely a statistically insignificant sample size enjoy permenant weight loss and these individuals are held up to show it's possible and you can do it too! But that's just not true, and we know it's not true because decades of stats show again and again that perminant weight loss just does not happen.
I don't say this often...that was a great article. Thanks for sharing.
😊 Right? It really stuck with me. One of those articles that ties together so many obvious and not so obvious pieces into a really clear picture. And in HuffPo no less!