One question decides it: what was doing the heavy lifting in your weight loss? The answer changes which mechanisms are returning now — and which system fits.
Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound, or similar — and you've stopped, or you're planning to. The main thing coming back is appetite and food noise.
Sleeve, bypass, or another procedure — and the honeymoon phase (roughly the first 12–18 months) is over or ending. Restriction is loosening, hunger is returning.
Surgery plus GLP-1 (in either order). Start with the Post-Bariatric path — the anatomical changes are permanent and shape everything else. If you've recently stopped the medication, add the GLP-1 Exit book for the appetite-rebound side.
Still not sure? The two paths share one methodology — whichever you start with, the system will hold.