Are Weight Loss Drugs Right for You? Understanding the Pros, Cons, and Who They're Recommended For

Have you been considering using a weight loss drug in an attempt to lose some stubborn weight? Losing weight can be an incredibly difficult journey, and I see so many turning to new weight loss medications as a solution. That’s why I wanted to write this article to properly define what weight loss drugs are, how they work inside our bodies and address the potential side effects that are not often discussed.

Many people turn to medications like Ozempic and other weight loss drugs to try and make the process of losing weight easier, but do they really work? What are the risks of these medications, and are you able to maintain weight loss once you stop taking them?

Breaking the Cycle of Food Obsession: A Comprehensive Guide to Feeling Confident and In Control

Food obsessions can be defined as thoughts about food that make you anxious or preoccupied. These thoughts can range in intensity from occasional to constant, but they all make it difficult for someone with an eating disorder to enjoy life without being scared of what their next thought might be.

Guilt is when you feel remorseful or regretful over something you have done or failed to do. It’s a feeling of inadequacy or failure. The guilt we experience around food is usually related to things like dieting, not trusting our body to know how much it needs to eat, restricting calories, overeating one day and then restricting the next day because we feel guilty about the first day’s overeating. We feel guilty about what we eat because we've been told that certain foods are bad or unhealthy.

And we experience anxiety around food because it's out of our control- we never know how much will be on our plate and when it will come. The double edged sword is that being restrictive and not eating properly can actually worsen our anxiety over time due to inadequate nutrition.

Ditching the Diet Mentality: 3 Essential Steps to Develop a Healthy Relationship with Food

Diet culture often makes us think that food is either good or bad, and if we choose the wrong food, we must suffer through guilt until we can make up for it with the next meal. Eating is framed as an act of self-control when it should be framed as an act of self-care.

It's time to start freeing yourself from the damaging messages of diet culture. Here are some steps you can take to start building a healthy relationship with food that’s based on nourishment, rather than deprivation and weight loss.

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