Marcelle Pick (speaker) advises that for people with large amounts of weight to lose (e.g., 80–100+ pounds), medications can be very helpful provided side effects are absent. She emphasizes that long-term success depends on changing the kinds of foods eaten—specifically moving away from processed foods—so that stopping medication is less likely to cause weight regain.
So if you're somebody that has 100 pounds to lose, or 80 pounds, 90 pounds, you've tried everything and it's not working. Yes, these medications might be incredibly helpful for you as long as you don't have any of the side effects. But what's going to be so important is you've got to change the food that you're eating. Eating the same processed foods is not going to help in the long run. And it's conceivable that when you stop the medication by changing the kinds of foods that you're having, that you actually will notice that you're not going to gain the weight back.
