My wife is currently taking it. We live near a bunch of upper class white lady lifestyle type places that will prescribe for just about anyone, and she talked a

My wife is currently taking it. We live near a bunch of upper class white lady lifestyle type places that will prescribe for just about anyone, and she talked about it forever, but kept not doing it. I finally just bought her some from an underground lab. She was nowhere near obese. Started at 5'6" 137 lbs. After five weeks, she's down to 123. No side effects. She just says food isn't appealing any more. At first, she kept making full meals but not finishing them, and eventually she started actually planning and making smaller meals. There doesn't seem to be much doubt it works, but most people do seem to report at least experiencing some nausea. As a side note, I'm starting to get tired of every thread on eating and weight control getting filled up with intermittent fasting evangelists. I'm going to assume they mean time-restricted feeding, not real fasting, and there is plenty of research on this. In some people, it results in better diet adherence than simply eating less but at your pre-existing regular schedule. This seems to even be true for a more or less average of people. But it is not true for all people. Some people do really well on it. Some people do really terribly. This is true of virtually any dietary intervention. Individual variation usually exceeds the differences between group mean results of different approaches. Stop assuming that what worked for you will automatically work exactly the same for everyone.