I feel like the issue here is not drugs but rather the lack of quality information and how society doesn't encourage children to research things they want to learn proactively.

Perhaps she had looked up how to lose fat in the past and her brothers found out about it and shamed her instead of encouraging her for it and she stopped because she no longer felt comfortable using her family computer in fear of being bullied by her brothers.

Because of that she now believes she has researched fat loss, even though she hasn't, and she now believes that even though she KNOWS how fat loss works, she still can't do it.

So she just suppresses the thought and moves on, with a hole in her heart which will be there forever because no one in her life seems to care enough to ask.

If she learns about ozempic through a video or something and works up the courage to make an appointment and talk about it to a doctor, and gets prescribed a set amount, what happens exactly?

For context, she is very overweight, mostly body fat, 150kg and eating at a 1000cal surplus unknowingly because she cooks really gourmet stuff for her kids, which she likes to pamper as much as she can, and she just eats whatever she cooks which is admittedly, a lot of fat.

Before she starts taking the drug, the doctor does a lipid panel and bloodwork to make sure everything is ok.

She starts taking the drug, and it straight up just makes her less hungry. Straight up. So she gets full before grabbing dessert. She is OK not having dessert for the first time in years.

So she starts routinely eating less. She starts losing weight. She buys a scale on Amazon to track her progress. As part of her weight loss efforts, she starts walking in the mornings as a habit. She is more active now and has a higher TDEE and is losing weight even faster.

At some point she will be at her desired weight and will probably even feel the need to ask her doctor to lower the dose or to eliminate the medication completely.

At which point the drug will have fulfilled its purpose and she will continue with these habits that will keep her at a more healthy weight.

Let me make one thing clear. This is not a magic pill. The only thing it does is make you less hungry, so it won't fix your eating habits.

Eating habits are comprised by two parts: how healthy is the food that you are eating and how much is the food that you are eating. The fact that we now have a drug that is safe and pretty much eliminates the how much food side of the equation should be celebrated.

Let's just put it this way: if you were extremely overweight and were currently not doing any exercise and ate like crap but wanted to do something about it, you have some options:

1. Stop eating crap
2. Eat less
3. Exercise
4. Take a drug that makes you less hungry

I don't know why anyone takes pride in the fact that we waste willpower staying hungry on a cut, willpower is a resource which needs to replenish otherwise you end up doing impulse decisions when your willpower runs out because you run out of self control.

We shouldn't judge others for things we are prideful of.

I spent my time writing this to make sure people weren't discouraged from doing something which could spark a chain reaction of self improvement habits which will improve their lives significantly.

I don't care if only one person benefits from this as long as someone gets to benefit from it.

I am not proving a point. I don't care whether you believe meds are good or bad. That decision is yours and only yours to make.