I understand it’s being misused by people who don’t need it, particularly in the entertainment industry. But I’m almost 400 lbs and my eating is worse than it’s ever been and I’m just in desperate need to rid myself of this obsession with always eating more no matter what. Does anyone here have any experience with it? I’ve heard it just works by making you nauseous but I’ve read elsewhere that that’s just a common side effect. At this point I’m nauseous most of the time anyway.
I mean the research is right there. You shouldn’t confuse causality. Eating twice as much food as you need is a behaviour that starts happening for some reason, just trying really hard not to is unlikely to be successful if the underlying reason is still present. If you treat the underlying reason, which might for example be disregulation in hormone pathways involved in hunger signalling, the behaviour will likely stop on its own.
also:
intervention (IN-ter-VEN-shun) In medicine, a treatment, procedure, or other action taken to prevent or treat disease, or improve health in other ways.
The research all points to lifestyle and diet changes being the best way to keep weight off which is the core of what I was saying. The decades of evidence is thorough and conclusive. Sometimes the science does back up conventional knowledge. This is one of those times.
If you want to talk about treating the underlying reasons for physical health issues related to diet then you may as well advocate for a full psychological evaluation before any other intervention. I’m not even against that as for many people their unhealthy relationship with food and their own health is seated in trauma. Maybe even for most people but I don’t care enough to search the data on that.