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- Dec 18, 2018
Exactly!!! It doesn't take a medical degree to realize: Phentermine is for people who want to suppress their appetite. It might be odd to us that a food addict wouldn't want to take a magic pill to stop binging, but we're not food addicts (and I think someone can reach her weight w/o being a food addict, lack of self-control is a different issue). So... Food. Addict. Her need to consume food isn't physical, it's mental. Many alcoholics don't fill their prescriptions for antabuse, I've read about junkies ripping out naltrexone implants. If a pill prevents amber from comfort eating, she's not going to want to take it. Blood pressure has nothing to do with it, it was just a convenient excuse. Obese people usually have HBP, the pill is designed for obese patients, the risk of obesity probably outweighs the risk of phentermine in many cases. But it's a diet pill, that requires limiting food. Amber can't deal if she can't stuff herself full. I'm sure that's one of the things that's preventing her from getting weight loss surgery. She can't imagine life without her addiction.
Yeah. If a normal person took a magic pill that totally killed their appetite, they'd lose weight. It doesn't matter if they started off overweight or not, and it doesn't matter if half their calories came from eating when they weren't hungry to begin with -- no hunger = vastly reduced food intake.
Likewise, if a normal person replaced two meals a day with a Slimfast shake (or whatever) or cut fat/carbs/fast food/whatever out of their diet, they'd lose weight. Even if they replaced some of those missing calories with extra helpings at dinner, they'd still have a net reduction of their daily calorie intake and thus would gradually deporkify.
AL is not normal. If she did keto, she'd eat three pounds of bacon a day to make up for the empty space in her life left by carbs. If she went vegan, she'd eat potatoes and rice every waking moment. If she went low fat, she'd eat nothing but fat-free ice cream until she choked. Then she'd announce that these diets don't work for her, and furthermore, denying herself "made" her binge uncontrollably later. It's exactly the same with appetite suppressants. She'll do whatever it takes to keep eating, even if she's not hungry.
And you know, even that wouldn't put her beyond redemption if she'd only realize she actually has a problem and actually do what a doctor tells her to do. But she doesn't want to get better. Her excuses and rationalizations are so absurd at this point that even someone with her limited IQ (and EQ) can't possibly believe them. On some level, she has to know she's full of shit.
But she represses that knowledge and actively chooses to live the life she's living. So... Nothing for the rest of us to do but point and laugh.