New Weight-loss Drug Heralded as Game-Changer

Psychgrrl

A drug currently used to treat Type Two diabetes administered at higher doses. People can lose up to 15% of their body weight in 68 weeks. Doesn’t say how the weight is lost, such as by reducing appetite and I haven’t looked up the study yet.

I’m not sure it’s the “game-changer” they think. People could lose that weight by reducing calories in that time frame. And if we’re super impatient.

And if the habits don’t change, when taking the drug is over, the weight will come back. Also side effects aren’t mentioned and we know some diet pills have had them in the past (orange, explosive poo, anyone?).

Maybe I’m just too cynical. Or maybe I should look up the study.

https://apple.news/AIRZGNm6BSZyeBGcRWZHrQA

ninerbuff

33lbs in one year? For an obese patient? That's under 3lbs a month. Lol, the average person can lose 4lbs a month on a moderate calorie deficit with consistency.

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lgfrie

15 % in 65 weeks, i.e. 15 months? If you weigh, say, 250 pounds, that'd be 38 pounds lost, or a little more than half a pound per week. That can easily be done by simple calorie-controlled dieting.

mpkpbk2015

Doesn't sound like much of a game changer. And pills and off brand use of medications are never the answer for sustained weight loss. 68 months for 15% and possible side effects. When learning how and what to eat seems like a better route for the truly obese. Just my opinion.

Strudders67

The news here (in the UK) said it suppressed appetite. I guess that's a game changer for people who don't really want to change their habits so don't make any effort but, as said above, what happens when they stop taking the drug? No prizes for guessing that they'll just put weight straight back on as they won't have learned anything.

corinasue1143

$10,000 to lose 20-30 pounds. I want to lose weight, but I’d rather have a new car.

sugaraddict4321

Here's another article from the BBC. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Participants did lose weight, but without learning and changing habits, the weight comes right back. A quote from the article:

However, now Jan has come off the trial her appetite has returned and she is putting weight back on.

She said: "It felt effortless losing weight while on the trial, but now it has gone back to feeling like a constant battle with food."

Article here: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56011979

lgfrie

sugaraddict4321 wrote: »

Here's another article from the BBC. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Participants did lose weight, but without learning and changing habits, the weight comes right back. A quote from the article:

However, now Jan has come off the trial her appetite has returned and she is putting weight back on.

She said: "It felt effortless losing weight while on the trial, but now it has gone back to feeling like a constant battle with food."

Article here: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56011979

Indeed. My sister was on an appetite suppressant drug and it absolutely worked, as far as suppressing her appetite. Not that she lost much weight during the time she was on it, because eating is not just a response to appetite for many people. Anyway, the instant she came off the drug, she was absolutely starving all the time and proceeded to gain way, WAY more weight than she'd lost on the drug.

There is no substitute for learning to eat right and developing good habits. Everyone wants some sort of savior drug or savior method or tool or program. There is no savior. It isn't going to come from the outside, in the form of a pill or anything else. There's only one road to the Normal-BMI destination: good eating habits, if possible supplemented by exercise.