Breaking Up With Willpower: Why Habits Do the Heavy Lifting on a GLP-1 medication

For most of my life, I thought my problem was willpower. If I could just “try harder” or “be more disciplined,” then weight loss would stick. Every diet, every programme, every app framed it as a moral failing: if you can’t control yourself, you’re not trying hard enough.

And I believed it. For years.

The irony is that GLP-1 medications proved that wasn’t true.