This is quite snarky. I was giving kudos because the commentator first exhausted all the lifestyle options that extremely often work in reducing obesity to ensure their issue is more than just lifestyle choice then finally taking the drug, rather than short circuiting the process. This is sensible policy in deciding to take any drug for the rest of your life for a chronic illness.
In other words I was giving kudos that the commentator put in a lot of effort to verify that it was an illness in their case.
> This is quite snarky. I was giving kudos because the commentator first exhausted all the lifestyle options that extremely often work in reducing obesity to ensure their issue is more than just lifestyle choice then finally taking the drug, rather than short circuiting the process. This is sensible policy in deciding to take any drug for the rest of your life for a chronic illness.
> In other words I was giving kudos that the commentator put in a lot of effort to verify that it was an illness in their case.
The illness being addiction/food abuse?
Again we circle back to the question that OP posed. Because I have never seen someone say that they are an alchololic or smoke/tobacco addict and then get told: okay maybe, but first you should put in the work and find out if you really are that.
(Step one: admit that you are an addict. Step two, uh, confirm that you really are?)
It’s your assumption that 90%+ of people don’t do this that is the issue.
People seem to think that once these drugs became popular, suddenly obese people around the world awoke from a deep slumber, like zombies, and decided to see a doctor for the first time in their lives about their weight.
Please. These people are walking into doctor’s office having given up hope because most of them have, to one extent or another, tried everything.
Our society does not make it pleasant to be obese, no matter how you feel about body positivity or anything else.
The implication that obese people have never considered or tried eating less, working out more, etc., is in and of itself the problem. It implies laziness and imbues negative morality, when the reality is that most people who are obese know it, hate it, and have tried most of their lives to overcome it, unsuccessfully.
So now that there’s a medication that can help kickstart their creation of new habits for the first time in their lives, I don’t see how that is a bad thing.
Where did I make assumption that majority of obesity drug users don’t put this effort? I was more saying majority of those who try what the poster tried end up not needing the drug. These two statements are very different and it is a common logical fallacy to conflate them.
> I think it is because if 90% of the population did half of what you do (and kudos for you for doing it), they wouldn't have a problem with weight, you just happen to be one of the unlucky few where it doesn't work and these drugs are useful.
It is simply not true that if 90% of the population “tried to lose weight the right way” that they wouldn’t have a problem with it. That is an assumption you are making, and the underlying postulate is that that same 90% hasn’t tried.
I agree, how can anyone comes at this number ? Is there a study of any kind backing up this number ? Or is it just garbage empirical evidence from what the poster saw around him (which cannot possibly represent 90% of people).
Does the poster know the life of obese people to arrive at this number or is it just a belief/sterotype
In other words I was giving kudos that the commentator put in a lot of effort to verify that it was an illness in their case.