I don't disagree.

But.

People like you make it sound like sustained weight loss is easy.

It is not. And acting like it is exacerbates the problem.

It is a lifetime of awareness and shutting out signals. It's maintaining willpower for as long as you can eat solid food. And possibly longer.

Getting weight loss advice from somebody who has never been fat is like taking tax advice from a toddler. Or if MLK were white. You don't know. You do not understand. That's fine.

If you're one of the lucky < 1% who manage to lose weight permanently, great, good for you. You are an exception, not the norm. But you don't know that yet. Give it a few years. A seemingly small lifestyle change can start setting you back on old habits.

And that's the next problem, because when it does, it's a personal failure. And that puts fuel on the fire.

Very, very few people successfully break out of that cycle forever. And they never will without everyone else understanding that obesity is a symptom of a larger issue.

Science is finally starting to look at that, and GLP-1s are a great place to look...because your body also creates GLP-1s to control appetite and regulate digestion. However, the synthetic form tends to stick around longer.

Perhaps, then, one cause of the overeating that leads to obesity is either a deficiency, or a malabsorption of the natural GLP-1s.

In which case, trying to fight that without medication sounds like a losing battle, without first understanding what is causing that. And in which case, saying that people should avoid GLP-1s sounds an awful lot like telling diabetics that they need to stop taking insulin.