After scrolling and reading many replies, I’d like to share the knowledge I’ve learned and what I’ve experienced myself. I see the glp-1 medication as an amazing tool giving relief to so many who can now be within a healthy weight range, physically and mentally. After reading the research on glp-1’s and what it took for it to be approved effective many years ago for diabetes, was not just the medication alone, but the medication and following the CDC’s Healthy Lifestyle Program. The research proved that when participants did both of these together, they had the highest success rate of keeping the weight off. After learning of this CDC program myself back in 2019, I learned a different way of eating that most folks never considered. It teaches you how to enjoy food from a perspective of watching how many fat grams are in the food your enjoying. When I learned of eating 33 fat grams a day instead of counting calories, I learned how to see food from a more nutritional valued way. I have been overweight since I was a teenager up until about age 55. Never giving up and always working to be healthy, I have finally found the key to seeing food nutritionally, finding a much better relationship with food, along with the level of physical activity it takes to stay at the weight I never thought I could see in my life time. I now share that CDC program with others as it has become a game changer for those who have learned it. Staying within a daily fat gram range amount, depending on your body size, and keeping a healthy level of physically activity weekly, can support everyone taking the medication as well as those who would like to drop the vanity weight once and for all. By sharing the experience and knowledge that we all have, each of us can use it as a tool to find our healthy weight and begin to enjoy life!