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How is that different from like antidepressants or thyroid medication, etc? You'll have symptoms again if you stop the pills.
The difference is the social understanding.
Nobody gets thyroid-shamed. People understand hyper-/hypo-thyroidism as an objective symptom of a physiological problem.
Obesity is not viewed the same, though it really should be.
Did I say anything about other medication?
No?
Why bring it up?
“These other things aren’t a permanent cure either!” Is a lazy response.
The original comment was acting like gold-1s are a cure where traditional weight loss isn’t. The reality is if you go off them, the same thing happens as going off your diet.
They're a cure for having an uncontrollable appetite, which makes dieting difficult to impossible.
So if you stop taking them, you retain your controlled appetite?
Spoiler: nope.
They’re not a cure for anything.
That's so pedantic, but yes, they're a treatment for an uncontrollable appetite. Do you mean to suggest that you're against medical treatments which are not cures?
It’s not pedantic when the original commenter I was responding to was saying that traditional weight loss wasn’t a permanent cure, for the same reason that gol1s aren’t a cure… but then framing them as a cure.
They’re not permanent and they do have risks associated with them (pancreatitis and GI tract issues iirc,)