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Same is true for diet and exercise

• Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
  "diet" implies a temporary change to achieve a certain goal. However, "changing your diet" has long term permanence in it. But this is hard for a lot of people because they don't have a fixed diet to begin with, instead just eating whatever whenever they're hungry. Same with exercise, people need to make that into a habit. But forming habits / making lifestyle changes is hard. And when people hear they can just take an injection instead of make lifestyle changes they're like oo, easy!
  • array_key_first 8mo ago
    The injection doesn't mean you don't make lifestyle changes. People have this delusion that GLP-1s just make you lose weight. They don't. People on GLP-1s lose weight the same as you or I, through diet and exercise. It just makes it easier to build those habits. Which I think reveals the obvious. Diet and exercise ARE NOT root cause solutions. Meaning, the root cause of obesity IS NOT eating too much. Rather, it's a propensity to eat too much. And, in that regard, GLP-1s are a root cause solutions, whereas diet necessarily is not.