, April 3 -- loss drugs are not the quick fix solution that many people believe, especially if you hope to keep the pounds off in the long-term.

Sarah Le Brocq has direct experience of the transformative effects of weight-loss drugs. She has lived with obesity for most of her adult life and tried numerous diets. "Anything that came out, I thought, 'I'll try that because that might work for me'." Unfortunately, the weight always came back, she told the BBC's Inside Health.

After taking weight-loss drugs for more than two years, she has lost almost eight stone (51kg/112lb). "All of a sudden I wasn't thinking about food anymore," she says. "I've just got more energy, I'm doing things I couldn't do before. it's kind of given me a new freedo...