Semaglutide: Do the weight loss lawsuits make you second-guess, trying Semaglutide weight loss drugs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look, as someone who is on wegovy, I am not going to make fun of the lady's diet with high flatulence, if that's what works for her! I mean it's working for her so it's as good for her as the med is for me.

Thank you - and to clarify, nobody is making fun of me in real life, only when I post about a high fiber Whole Foods diet on these boards. Endless comments ‘you must fart and farting is gross’ - so childish!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would never use a drug like these. However I am naturally thin (5'5" and range from 98-108lbs; I'm 45). I think they will make everyone who uses them rebound the weight as SOON as the come off them. And they inflate all our med coverage 🙄 Being fat is not a medical condition; it's a lack of discipline and laziness. Anyone can eat less if they actually TRY.

How lucky for you that you won the genetics lottery. For those of us who did not, who have spent our lives trying one diet after another, these meds are a life saver.

I disagree. Anyone who was around in the 70s and 80s knows that 70% of our population was definitely NOT overweight or obese.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look, as someone who is on wegovy, I am not going to make fun of the lady's diet with high flatulence, if that's what works for her! I mean it's working for her so it's as good for her as the med is for me.

Thank you - and to clarify, nobody is making fun of me in real life, only when I post about a high fiber Whole Foods diet on these boards. Endless comments ‘you must fart and farting is gross’ - so childish!

Because you keep posting about your flatulence. What does your family say?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would never use a drug like these. However I am naturally thin (5'5" and range from 98-108lbs; I'm 45). I think they will make everyone who uses them rebound the weight as SOON as the come off them. And they inflate all our med coverage 🙄 Being fat is not a medical condition; it's a lack of discipline and laziness. Anyone can eat less if they actually TRY.

How lucky for you that you won the genetics lottery. For those of us who did not, who have spent our lives trying one diet after another, these meds are a life saver.

I disagree. Anyone who was around in the 70s and 80s knows that 70% of our population was definitely NOT overweight or obese.

Smoking kept people thin and unhealthy people died faster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would never use a drug like these. However I am naturally thin (5'5" and range from 98-108lbs; I'm 45). I think they will make everyone who uses them rebound the weight as SOON as the come off them. And they inflate all our med coverage 🙄 Being fat is not a medical condition; it's a lack of discipline and laziness. Anyone can eat less if they actually TRY.

How lucky for you that you won the genetics lottery. For those of us who did not, who have spent our lives trying one diet after another, these meds are a life saver.

I disagree. Anyone who was around in the 70s and 80s knows that 70% of our population was definitely NOT overweight or obese.

Smoking kept people thin and unhealthy people died faster.

Nobody actually believes smoking is the reason for lack of metabolic disease and a severely overweight population 50 years ago. But if it makes you feel better, you can cling to that notion.

[Anonymous]

No. It's been amazing for me. I now feel like a normal thin person in terms of eating habits and thoughts about food. I finally know it's not about will power and discipline at all, and I was not a bad, lazy person. It is so liberating, even beyond the weight itself. No side effects aside from slight constipation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. It's been amazing for me. I now feel like a normal thin person in terms of eating habits and thoughts about food. I finally know it's not about will power and discipline at all, and I was not a bad, lazy person. It is so liberating, even beyond the weight itself. No side effects aside from slight constipation.

Suuure Janice

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. It's been amazing for me. I now feel like a normal thin person in terms of eating habits and thoughts about food. I finally know it's not about will power and discipline at all, and I was not a bad, lazy person. It is so liberating, even beyond the weight itself. No side effects aside from slight constipation.

Suuure Janice

DP. Please elaborate. Do you think PP is lying about not having side effects? Or maybe you're disputing that the drug has altered her mental relationship to food?

PP's post sounded so much like what I've heard from others using these medications that I thought it was unremarkable. And then you chime in with what looks to be scornful disbelief. So, I'm interested in hearing what doesn't sound right to you.

[Anonymous]

I post this on every thread. Why aren’t these semaglutide haters saying the same thing about blood pressure medications, anxiety medications acne medications or heart medications. Many say those ailments can be remedied by eating healthy, exercising and walking in flower fields. Why don’t you guys go on the health forum and tell those folks they just need to try harder? They just need to eat more broccoli and carrots?


Some folks have taking BP meds and cholesterol meds for decades, why aren’t you guys flaming them to just try harder? I really want to know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I post this on every thread. Why aren’t these semaglutide haters saying the same thing about blood pressure medications, anxiety medications acne medications or heart medications. Many say those ailments can be remedied by eating healthy, exercising and walking in flower fields. Why don’t you guys go on the health forum and tell those folks they just need to try harder? They just need to eat more broccoli and carrots?


Some folks have taking BP meds and cholesterol meds for decades, why aren’t you guys flaming them to just try harder? I really want to know.

Because they are clinging to the idea that they are morally superior to fat people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are you mad your insurance doesn’t pay for it? What’s your real concern, concern troll?

NP here. Every person who questions the overuse of these new drugs to not have to be bitter trolls. We all know the other shoe is going to drop. This cannot be healthy. We all need to stop talking about "food noise," and just take responsibility for our health by making good choices. Trust me, I struggle every day. I am not in the overweight category, but close and gained a lot of weight, binge eating and drinking too much during the pandemic. Now I am sadly paying the price and controlling my binge eating on my own. It can be done. It's very hard. But there is no way that starving yourself through drugs, while losing muscle, is healthy.

I'm not taking it, don't need to take it and so won't be taking but this is Concern Trolling 101. If YOU don't want to take it, don't. If YOU want to white knuckle your way to weight loss, do it. Other people are making decisions about THEIR health not yours. Move around and find yourself some business.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I post this on every thread. Why aren’t these semaglutide haters saying the same thing about blood pressure medications, anxiety medications acne medications or heart medications. Many say those ailments can be remedied by eating healthy, exercising and walking in flower fields. Why don’t you guys go on the health forum and tell those folks they just need to try harder? They just need to eat more broccoli and carrots?


Some folks have taking BP meds and cholesterol meds for decades, why aren’t you guys flaming them to just try harder? I really want to know.

Nobody is flaming anybody. You interpret any suggestion that obesity is actually controllable without chemical intervention as crazy talk.

Many people do take hypertension medication because their condition is generic and cannot be controlled. Some cholesterol issues are genetic. Obesity that is out of a persons control is extremely rare, actual human history demonstrates that. And, if it is, it’s usually a function of decades of poor decision making.

Yet here we are, and any suggestion of causation actually connected to someone’s behavior is a moral issue. Casting it that way guarantees there can’t be a discussion. Convenient that line of thought.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I post this on every thread. Why aren’t these semaglutide haters saying the same thing about blood pressure medications, anxiety medications acne medications or heart medications. Many say those ailments can be remedied by eating healthy, exercising and walking in flower fields. Why don’t you guys go on the health forum and tell those folks they just need to try harder? They just need to eat more broccoli and carrots?


Some folks have taking BP meds and cholesterol meds for decades, why aren’t you guys flaming them to just try harder? I really want to know.

Nobody is flaming anybody. You interpret any suggestion that obesity is actually controllable without chemical intervention as crazy talk.

Many people do take hypertension medication because their condition is generic and cannot be controlled. Some cholesterol issues are genetic. Obesity that is out of a persons control is extremely rare, actual human history demonstrates that. And, if it is, it’s usually a function of decades of poor decision making.

Yet here we are, and any suggestion of causation actually connected to someone’s behavior is a moral issue. Casting it that way guarantees there can’t be a discussion. Convenient that line of thought.

Because it presumes people haven't tried that when in every.single.one.of.these.threads people talk about how they have yo-yo dieted for years, worked out, been on this or that diet, modified their eating and so on and none of that worked for them. This works for them. Why not celebrate that vs finding yet another reason to bash these people for not somehow managing to have the willpower you presume to have?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I post this on every thread. Why aren’t these semaglutide haters saying the same thing about blood pressure medications, anxiety medications acne medications or heart medications. Many say those ailments can be remedied by eating healthy, exercising and walking in flower fields. Why don’t you guys go on the health forum and tell those folks they just need to try harder? They just need to eat more broccoli and carrots?


Some folks have taking BP meds and cholesterol meds for decades, why aren’t you guys flaming them to just try harder? I really want to know.

Nobody is flaming anybody. You interpret any suggestion that obesity is actually controllable without chemical intervention as crazy talk.

Many people do take hypertension medication because their condition is generic and cannot be controlled. Some cholesterol issues are genetic. Obesity that is out of a persons control is extremely rare, actual human history demonstrates that. And, if it is, it’s usually a function of decades of poor decision making.

Yet here we are, and any suggestion of causation actually connected to someone’s behavior is a moral issue. Casting it that way guarantees there can’t be a discussion. Convenient that line of thought.

True - another issue is that our kids have bad habits already and they're taught that is not their fault. Taking drugs is the only way to fix this.

[Anonymous]

True - another issue is that our kids have bad habits already and they're taught that is not their fault. Taking drugs is the only way to fix this.

I don't know any kid taking Semaglutide for weight loss. As I see it, kids around me are very fit, work out and eat pretty well because image, nutrition and health are huge topics constantly talked about. Semaglutide is mostly older people who have tried many things before and failed. Why not do something that works?