Struggled with weight ever since I was a kid. It got really bad in my senior year of highschool and I'm finally starting to do better. I'v learned portion control and have given up drinking soda regularly and now I normally just have corbonated water I make. While I can't bring myself to goto the gym due to self esteem issue and not knowing what I'd even do their, I have started to walk more and move around as part of being a college student. Iv managed to drop a few pounds but I'm still overweight by more than 100 lbs.

I recognise that medication isn't a miracle solution but in some cases like mine, I'm not truely consuming as much calories as I used to yet I'm still weight so much. I do know that stuff out their could help me such as 2,4 Dinitrophenol or ephedra but both are illegal due to the side effects and the narrow gap between an effective dosage and toxicity. While I can recognize that these substances are not healthy long term, and they need to be respected, I also have trouble respecting that classification when I know how serious the side effects of common medications can be or how they can be abused just as easily.

Ironically I have trouble believing anything like this could help me would come to market soon. BAM15 is similar to 2,4 dinitrophenol but has less toxicity and is much safer but is no where ready to coming to market. GPL-1 drugs do show promise, I recently had to start one due to type 2 diabetes and other than slightly curbing my appetite it dosnt seem to be the miracle injection that is being proclaimed as.

All things aside, id love to be proven wrong and find out their is medication that could help me curb my cravings and boost my sloth like metabolism, but I also am warry of snake oil.

When I was younger, in my freshman years of highschool I was fat but it wasn't this bad. I wish I knew someone would have been honest and told me that I wasn't so overweight, and this may just be my mental health or body image perception issue but all I ever remember was people telling me I was obease and hearing bad comments, not that it was easily fixable. Iv suffered from back pain all my life and been told it was growing pains or my weight, I dropped 25 pounds but my back still kills me just as bad and some days walking can be to much, and the pain almost puts me to tears or causes me to feel weak in the legs.

TLDR: long life story stuff, I'm going to be skeptical