Sabrina Chazen followed the rules. She cut her carbs, counted her calories and walked every day. But after four disciplined months, the scale hardly moved. “I lost maybe a pound,” the 39-year-old content creator tells TODAY.com. “Nothing changed.”

Frustrated, Chazen turned to her doctor for guidance, who recommended an injectable medication as a way to curb her appetite and support her weight loss.

“I thought, 'This is it, the magic thing that’s going to work where everything else hadn’t,'” she recalls.

But after two years on the drug, she lost roughly 20 pounds, a much smaller percentage of her starting weight than the "average 15%" advertised on the medication's website .

“It wasn’t magic for me,” she adds.

The limited results left her feeling "like a failure,” despite following t

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