Marcelle Pick discusses why people quit weight-loss medications. About 70% stop taking them, mostly due to side effects like nausea and chronic diarrhea. Many regain weight after quitting.
The good news is some people are able to have half a bagel, as she pointed out, to have a small container of French fries or other processed foods. But that's also part of the problem. So the noise of food goes away. But the choices that you make are so incredibly important. And the problem I have with all of this is that about 70% of people that start the medications actually stop them. We also have a number of people that are stay weighing on them that feel really horrible. And we have a number of people that are scared of taking them. And the GI symptoms that some experience, from nausea to chronic diarrhea to severe abdominal pain, is happening to a large number of people. And then the unfortunate part is when they stop the medication, they gain the weight back.
