[deadbabe]

Agreed. I’ve come to realize I don’t know anyone in my life who ever lost significant weight and actually kept it off permanently through exercise.

I go to the gym regularly and when I look around and see other women who have been working out for a long time, they are pretty much the same body shape I’ve always seen them.

Once you reach a new weight, that’s just your body’s new normal. I stress to people now that they should aim to never gain weight in the first place unless it’s muscle.

[ijidak]

With GLP-1 doesn't this change the calculus?

It seems that it will be easier than ever to get back to a healthy weight.

[dragonwriter]

> With GLP-1 doesn’t this change the calculus?

GLP-1 agonists are not exercise and thus using them would not change the calculus on how common it is to lose “significant weight and actually [keep] it off permanently through exercise.”

Nor does their availability change the validity of GP’s advice.

[ijidak]

Sorry, I was referring to this part:

> Once you reach a new weight, that’s just your body’s new normal.