Dr. Ania Jastreboff

We need to treat it lifelong.

And this is also why we don't call the medicines weight loss medicines.

It's not about weight loss per se, it's about maintenance.

And what the medicines do is not weight loss, they recalibrate, they lower the enough point so that your body wants to carry less weight, wants to carry less fat.

So that's exactly what happened to you when you lost all that weight.

Your enough point came down and the weight followed.

Now, what do we want to do?

We want to maintain that new enough point, so we want to maintain that new weight.

what would happen if we would stop it well the enough point your enough point would go back up and what happens when the enough point goes back up guess what you chase it you go right back up so you regain the weight so for most people on average they regain the weight you mentioned blood pressure okay so let's say you were taking a blood pressure medication and your blood pressure came down beautifully wonderful what would happen if you stopped taking the blood pressure medicine blood pressure would go back up and we're not surprised it's

It's the same thing with these medications.

So right now, what we're finding is in order to maintain that weight reduction, in order to maintain that weight, you have to keep taking the medicine.

In terms of the dose, you know, we're working all these things out.

We're trying to figure out what the best thing is in terms of maintaining.

Right now, just like for other diseases, the medicine that worked for you, the dose that worked for you is likely to maintain, but there could be some variability.

Your biology is like, uh-uh.

I'm not listening to that.

I'm going to go right back up.

Girl, I see where you're going.

You're heading back to 211.

You're heading back there.