NYT: The hard truth of weight-loss drugs: You probably need them forever

Weight-loss drugs like Wegovy require a lifetime commitment. Stop taking them, and you’ll almost always gain back the weight you lost.
But many patients don’t want to hear that. Dr Padmaja Akkireddy, an endocrinologist at Nebraska Medicine, estimated that more than half of her patients don’t want to stay on a weight-loss drug long term.

And data shows that most Americans quit the drugs within a year of starting them.