What kind of effort are you talking about? Weight loss has very little to do with exercise and mostly to do with how much you eat. Those drugs allow you to combat the carving when you restrict food. Is fighting the carving the "effort" you think people ought to make?
This, and there's seems to be a number of people with a misconception that getting medical assistance is either cheating, or you're not trying hard enough.
As someone who is quite strong and fit, but has a family history of obesity, and who has been packing on the kilos into their 40s - I've recently started with ozempic and it's a breakthrough drug. The incessant never ending demand to eat, that voice which never goes away and pervades every part of the day and task, the call which is almost impossible to ignore ore even after months of dieting and managing macros - it got moderated down from a 10/10 volume to about a 2/10 volume. I've started dropping the gut fat, and 6 weeks in my energy is coming back up to levels it was at 10 years ago.
I'm hoping that this isnt a permanent solution, but that it permits me to reset my bodies relationship with food, insulin, fat accumulation and hunger signals in the long term as the signalling cells senesce, the fat is reduced and demands less maintenance, etc.
It isn't a permanent solution, it's purely designed to drop weight. You have to do the mental and physical work to be able to maintain which is a different mindset.
> Weight loss has very little to do with exercise and mostly to do with how much you eat.
That's not an accurate statement. Over the past year I have averaged 2 hours of aerobics per day (~1500 active CAL). And I've simply buffeted my way eating multiple portions per day and haven't gained any weight.
It have a lot to do with a lot of exercises - it has little to do if you just had little exercise. It's all about the caloric balance, and it takes a lot of exercise to skew that balance while it's a lot easier to eat more.
