The Pendulum Swung Away From Blame. It Swung Too Far.

Clinical Takeaway

Domain	Key Finding	Evidence Level
The mechanism	Hunger and satiety are generated in subcortical regions you do not consciously control. Effort does not reach them. Medication does.	Human neuroimaging
The headline number	19.4 percentage points. SURMOUNT-4 separated continuation from withdrawal by that much with diet and activity counseling identical in both arms.	RCT, n = 670
The number nobody targets	11.9% versus 3.6%. One-year loss among those who stayed on the drug against those who quit inside three months. The largest modifiable effect in the real-world literature.	Cohort, n = 7,881
The caveat	Nobody has tested whether meal composition changes GLP-1 nausea. Not one randomized trial, not one prospective cohort. My own experience is consistent, repeatable, and n = 1.	No trial exists
Where it fits	Stop assigning responsibility for the hunger. Assign it for the treatment: persistence, dose escalation, lifting, sleep. Then say out loud which parts are evidence and which are extrapolation.	Mixed

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