Aisles and aisles of sugar drinks and colorful sugar packaging.
The way society leaves it up to people to make their own decisions creates the problem at scale.
Society essentially has to take weekly injections to avoid the temptation of coca cola.
Maybe it's well-known, but I read the starvation response Wikipedia page[0] and didn't grok it.
There's a part of my brain that constantly thinks about food. It's like tinnitus. GLPs stopped that cold.
For me, stopping fast food, most restaurant/takeout food, and processed food such as bread, pastries, chips, cookies, and any prepared/convenient "snack" items drastically reduced how often I felt hungry or just wanted to eat for no apparent reason.
Tinnitus really is the best way I can describe it. I didn't even realize how pervasive it was until it shut off.
You have to change your food regimen completely (higher fiber, more protein, less sugar, less carbs, less fat), and that's tough to do when you're surrounded by options that aren't...
I think the real problem is that the symptom we're trying to treat is "overweight", and it's actually a two-stage problem... Fix the hunger response... and only then work on fixing the weight... Fixinig the latter without fixing the former means you'll always gain the weight back, fixing the former doesn't guarantee you lose weight (and is only temporary, if you're using drugs for it)... You have to go after both problems.