How can you make a determination that semaglutide etc needs to be taken "lifelong" when the drug itself is new and we don't even know if it is safe for longer periods of time? People need to learn how to eat correctly. Fat people will always out eat the treatment. Look at the gastric band surgery: most of those people learn to eat past the restriction and become even fatter than before.People gain the weight because obesity is a chronic, relapsing disease, and medicine is starting to recognize it. It's just one of the few diseases you can still get criticized for having. Drugs like semaglutide are meant to be lifelong, just like insulin or antidepressants or anything else used to treat chronic disease.
I'm so tired of this new lame outlook in society that everything is "lifelong". Obesity is not a disease. Spend some time with obese people. They are disgusting and they eat everything. And for the moderately overweight, they need to be more disciplined.






