Dr. Jason Fung

But, you know, eat roughly the same food, just less of it, which is sort of the standard advice.

What happens?

Well, you get hungry, right?

So, okay, so you're eating less, but you're hungrier.

Well, that's not gonna last.

Like, and you're not gonna be able to maintain that for very long because you're constantly fighting with yourself.

So what if you instead you focus on the hunger, right?

If hunger goes down, then the calories will go down as well.

But notice that you're not fighting with yourself anymore, right?

And that's the real lesson of weight loss drugs like Ozempic, right?

So Ozempic clearly is very effective, right?

It's very popular and so on.

But it doesn't restrict your calories in any way.

There are ways to restrict your calories.

In the 60s, people, you'd wire their jaw shut for weight loss.

You could cut out somebody's stomach, right?

That's bariatric surgery, the sleeve gastrectomy or the Roux-en-Y.

It didn't work in the long term.

So we thought in the 2010s, this bariatric surgery is going to cure everything.

Obesity just went on and on, right?