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[quote=Anonymous]It seems to me that this thread is divided into people who have had success with the CICO (calories in/calories out) + exercise method of weight loss and maintenance and those who haven't.

If you've had success with CICO, let's imagine it was an 8/10 difficulty for you--a lot of hard work. You may look at others and say hey, I worked super hard to get where I am. You should be able to do that too.

But what if someone else has a 10/10 difficulty with the same method? I think most would agree that being at a maximum effort of 10/10 every single day of your life, forever, at multiple meals/eating opportunities each day would not be sustainable.

Most people I know with weight struggles have ... struggled. (It's right there in the name!) I am one of these people.

Do you know something I have never, ever for one second of my day struggled with? Reading. I literally learned to read at age 3 and I still read multiple books a week. I've had people over the years say "ooh, I wish I could be as 'good' as you, you're amazing, I need to read more, etc" and I am always like--don't. this is not a special effort for me. This happens to be something that comes easy for me.

This is how it must be for people who don't have weight struggles. I absolutely get that people have learning disabilities or just don't like the process of reading, but it's truly hard to imagine how that feels (and how it must impact everyday living, including education/career performance) because that is just in my bones not who I am.

GLP drugs have been a godsend to me. They made all of the things I have tried to do on my own over the past ... 35 years(!!!!) of being a participant in diet culture ... actually work. I didn't know what food noise was before I started these drugs, because that's just what I thought living was. Now I can eat a small portion of a sweet and stop when I am done with the amount I'm in the mood for. The rest of the treat doesn't call to me. I literally forget about sweets and have had to toss out things when they went bad. Never have I ever ... before GLP meds.

For me, these drugs make doing the "right" thing much, much easier. It is still something I need to be aware of, and I probably will be forever. But it dials the dial from 10/10 to something much lower. [/quote]

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