For most people, the label "disease" means it's something you can't really control yourself.

For most people that means you need some kind of medical intervention to correct it.

They've tried surgical means for the disease of obesity - wiring jaws shut so you can't eat. Weight loss surgery. Liposuction.

And now there's the weight loss drugs.

There's drugs for almost everything these days, and the medical conditions that so far have no drugs to treat them - the ones who suffer from those conditions are campaigning for research to come up with a drug to treat it.

The last thing they think of is trying to change their diet - or they've tried it and just can't stick to it long enough to do any good, much less do it for a lifetime. That applies to low fat/calorie cutting diets as well as LC. They can't take the deprivation, and the cravings, so they cave and go off their diet.

I don't think the injections are the easy way out - they do suffer somewhat with them, some suffer a lot more than others, depending on what side effects they experience.

But whatever side effects they have have from the drugs, they still don't consider them to be as bad as trying to stick to a restrictive diet on their own. The injections are what's controlling their food intake, and it's a relief to them to no longer stress over how to avoid the foods they love, how to say no to the foods they love, how to deal with the temptation to "have just one more".

When they're on these drugs they literally CAN'T eat as much as they used to, they just feel entirely too full on about half of the food they used to eat.