I remember when the doc pushed that shit on me in Q1 2023. The pamplet was so pristine and made ample use of popup-book technology.
She and the pamphlet went over virtually everything about the drug.... except the damn side effects. That was the red flag that told me to walk away from that crap.
In my opinion, the demand for will power and discipline with eating properly only arises in response to the turbulence with cutting out calories without correcting the physiological barriers.
From what I have seen, anyone can potentially side step the need for will power and discipline if they approach their weight management with a cohesive physiological context.
Unfortunately, the secret is so deviant from the establishment standard of care that people would probably accuse me of being a witch for bringing it up.
At the end of the day, you lose weight by eating less AND by keeping your insulin levels below threshold for as long as possible.
Most people who fail to lose weight by eating less and moving more often unknowingly keep their insulin levels chronically elevated, forcing the body to preferentially force people to eat by worsening hunger and cravings or by forcing the body to preferentially lower metabolic rate.
In essence, a deficit coupled with low insulin yields continuous long-term weight loss without the turbulence of discomfort. It is the missing piece of the puzzle for people who can't find the ability to reliably eat less.
That is an interesting point you made, because the price difference is a misconception.
Eating the cheap junk food only drives hunger even more, causing people to eat even more.
The paradox of healthy eating is that, despite it being more expensive, the food will fill you up to such an absurd degree that you will intuitively eat significantly less, resulting in a smaller food bill. The irony is that cheaply priced junk food is significantly more expensive.
From personal experience, I can comfortably subsist on a 48 hour fast if I eat ~6 dollars worth of meat. I would barely last 4 hours if I ate ~6 dollars worth of ultra processed garbage.
You completely disregarded the entire biochemical process behind weight loss.
And you people wonder why so many people fail to lose weight simply by "eating less, moving more". It is not a lack of will power or discipline. It is a lack of understanding of the physiological implications behind different foods.
Wrong. Eating different foods determine how easy it is to lose weight on a deficit.
You are more than welcome to prove us wrong by eating at a caloric deficit exclusively eating high fructose foods.
You people will never bother of course. People like me have experimented and can tell you that eating properly makes it easy to fast for up to 48 hours. It would be impossible to smoothly maintain a 48 hour fast if you eat junk food of the same caloric amount.
The only other person they harbor this much hatred is Hitler. Really makes you question what we have been told about history.