There's no free lunch, and anecdotally I know people who've gained back weight both after surgery, and after Ozempic. These are not tools that let you "do whatever you want" and still lose weight, but people have been sold the expectation that no habitual change is necessary. Even if your satiety is dialed back, some products are relatively non-satiating yet calorie-dense (e.g. sugary drinks and alcohol, junk food and deep fried foods).<p>You don't get to binge for free. In the words of Alan Carr (of "the Easy Way to Stop Smoking" fame), if you view a change in dietary habit as a sacrifice, for instance focusing on healthier food, then you will not succeed.<p>All that being said, it may still be useful. A popular view of pharmaceuticals for primary disorders like for instance insomnia is that they can help "bridge the gap" or get a start and recovery, but that they cannot be relied on in the long-term. Your chemistry adapts. That is similarly the most generous view I have of these products.<p>Anyway, the WW approach has obvious limitations for the same reason low-fat or low-carb does. In WW they use an arbitrary point system to obfuscate restriction, by encouraging protein and low-calorie density foods. Some foods are 0-1 in points (e.g. 0% cottage cheese), some are high regardless of how healthy they are (avocado). You can easily see the problem with this: you quickly hit a wall where you aren't automatically reducing calorie intake by mere virtue of what you are eating. The same thing happens with low-carb and low-fat: what are you going to do once you've cut out all fat and all carbs? Eat negative-carbs?<p>For sustainable WL of a large amount of weight, there is no way around counting. You cannot "intuitively" do it. And here it's important to stress that there's a major difference between avoiding weight-gain, and losing weight. If you're a person of average weight, you don't need to worry about counting jack if you simply have good eating habits. This is not enough when it comes to caloric restriction.<p>edit: re reduced cravings, some don't just overeat from physical cravings, but for emotional satisfaction. A binge session on comfort food is not about hunger. This is something to be addressed through therapy.