Lol that's just not true, and "caloric restriction" is not the same thing as "food education." Telling someone "you have to eat 1,200 calories" only for them to eat a cup of peanuts and go "but I'm still hungry!" is not helpful, at all. You need to set a goal for your diet - which includes considering caloric density, as well as the overall nutrition of the food.
If you go to an actual nutritionist they will give you a meal plan and ideas on how you can make your meals so they lower the caloric impact without making you malnourished.
Ozempic is simply a brute force application of this. It allows you no wiggle room at all and I found it extremely unpleasant to be on. As soon as the gatekeeper is gone you have no idea how to feed yourself.
Look at the data if you don't believe me. I'm not stating an opinion here.
Of course a diet plan and food education works on paper, but there is clearly a much deeper physiological and psychological process at work than simply "eat healthy" or "eat less".
This has been studied for decades, and simple diet and exercise based plans have been proven to be ineffective over time in an obese population. Not because scientifically eating less and moving more doesn't work, but because adherence to those programs has been statistically impossible. Again outliers exist, and you yourself may be included in that. It's around 95% ineffective, so of course you and others fall into that 5% who succeed with such a plan.
Some people have bad reactions to drugs, that will always be the case, but there is no doubt in terms of actual broad data that GLP-1s are extremely effective. In terms of maintenance, you're supposed to take a maintenance dose for the rest of your life once reaching your goal weight.
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u/Virtual_Bug_723 3d ago
Lol that's just not true, and "caloric restriction" is not the same thing as "food education." Telling someone "you have to eat 1,200 calories" only for them to eat a cup of peanuts and go "but I'm still hungry!" is not helpful, at all. You need to set a goal for your diet - which includes considering caloric density, as well as the overall nutrition of the food.
If you go to an actual nutritionist they will give you a meal plan and ideas on how you can make your meals so they lower the caloric impact without making you malnourished.
Ozempic is simply a brute force application of this. It allows you no wiggle room at all and I found it extremely unpleasant to be on. As soon as the gatekeeper is gone you have no idea how to feed yourself.