People shaming/gossiping over those in their circle taking ozempic?

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It's fine if a GLP1 helped you lose weight. But it is the easy way. If it bothers you to hear that, then that's on you. We all need help sometimes, but there's also nothing wrong with admitting you needed assistance. If you're going to enjoy someone commenting on your weightloss or how thin you look, then you also need to accept that people are going to wonder how you did it. These 2 things go together. If you feel shame about how you lost the weight, then that's your issue to reconcile.

Would you ever say:
"It's fine if an antidepressant helped you feel better. But it is the easy way. If it bothers you to hear that, then that's on you."

Why is it ok to take an antidepressant to help you if your brain chemistry works differently than other people's, but not OK to take a GLP1 if your hormones work differently than other people's. Same/same in my mind.

I would, and I have been both depressed and obese (not necessarily at the same times in my life).

Like I said, there's nothing wrong with taking things that help, but they ARE the easy way without trying other things first.

I'm sorry you and others are so triggered. Clearly I hit a nerve with the sensitivity.

The first bolding makes you an ass. The second makes you a narcissistic ass.

Would you say people taking another diabetes drug is taking the easy way out? Metformin, etc?

Also, what do you know what anybody has tried, and what they haven't?

Take a woman I know, now in her 40's. She's had a binge eating disorder since she was 15. She's tried it all, including meticulous meal planning and prep combined with working with a personal trainer 3 times per week. She did great (on the outside) until covid happened. She's now on Wegovy and doing well.
You though, only knowing that she's taking Wegovy, would say she's taking the easy way out.

This story doesn’t have the message you think it does.

What do you think it conveys? Please enlighten us.

Yes please.

That poster probably has issues with cancer patients using chemo, too. They should have done the hard work to not get cancer in the first place.

Imagine being so morally bankrupt that you need to compare using weight loss drugs to lose vanity pounds to cancer/chemo.

Vanity pounds? I’m the one who was prescribed the drug because of high BP and cholesterol but I’m positive that nothing, absolutely nothing, will convince your evil man jelous mind to leave us alone.

Evil and jealous. Ok, person who compares herself to a cancer patient.

That wasn’t me. But are you saying you’d be any different if thay analogy wasn’t made? Like you’d somehow be supportive of people trying to get healthy?

I have never once commented negatively on anyone taking a GLP1 who meets the indications on any thread ever. This thread is about vanity pounds per OP. I don’t think it’s cool to bring back eat disorders, so no I am not supportive of using a GLP for “cosmetic” reasons.

I guess in addition to being a hateful b you’re also lacking reading skills. Nowhere in OP did the poster mention vanity pounds. Quite the opposite actually. I welcome you to go back to page one and reread the OP.

Read the second post.

I did. I was a size 14 and now I’m a size 8 after losing 60 pounds. So I guess both you and OP are quite ignorant about how all of this works. Not that it’s stopping you from repeatedly spreading nonsense.

So you’ll retract your statement that OP wasn’t talking about cosmetics?

What cosmetics??? She said a lot of them went from size 12-14 to a size 4. That would require 60-70 lbs loss. That’s not cosmetics. Will you retract your dumb statements about this being vanity pounds. It litteraly meant I could get off high BP and cholesterol meds.

Quoting from OP, second post: “And the reason I mentioned upper middle class is because many did use it for somewhat cosmetic reasons- going from a 12/14 to a size 4.”

Are you drink? Please make sense.

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Anonymous wrote:The medications are interesting technology and nobody should be ashamed of using them.

But people acting like they are some kind of martyr still having overcome some huge obstacle while using the medications is compete BS. Same with acting like it’s some Herculean task - particularly having to actually do some form of exercise and eat real food.

It’s like the bozos at Ironman Mexico last year who cut the bike course, went to their hotel, and came back later to triumphantly run through the shoot as if they went under 10 hours. And there were multiples of them.

Don’t do that and don’t act like you’ve accomplished something, and nobody is going to care. At least normal people who don’t GAF what you are doing.

I have done both. It’s litteraly none of your business how people lose weight. It has zero bearing on your life. Why is that so hard to understand?

Can you read? You are right. It is “none of my business.” So in that sense, don’t act like the medications are something they aren’t and don’t broadcast efforts as if you have accomplished something. But doing that, somebody is literally “making it somebody else’s business”

I have accomplished plenty. I lost 60 lbs and don’t give a flying f if you think I took the easy way out. You are the one letting me live rent free in your head. It is a win win for me. 😘

Ok. I don’t know who you are, and nobody is living rent free anywhere. I was simply pointing out a recurrent theme here - people broadcasting about use of the drugs while simultaneously attempting to act as if it’s some form of an accomplishment.

Your personality disorder is so strong, you’ve managed to convince yourself of an achievement when you were just a passenger. Do you routinely commit plagiarism too?

NP to this thread here who wants to point out that literally no-one on this thread has done that, yet here you are going on and on for pages about it. People lose weight. People ask them why. They either tell them or they don't. People talk about them behind their backs. That is what this thread is about. It's not about someone saying "look at me I took a medicine and lost 50 lbs, you should be proud of me, it's an amazing accomplishment!". NOBODY has said that, at all. You made it up and now you're arguing about something that didn't happen.

I’m pretty sure there is at least one poster saying that.

Who???

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I have a physical disability and autoimmune condition. Zepbound has reduced my pain significantly which has allowed me to increase my exercise. It also keeps my binge eating disorder under control. I’ve had it since I was a preteen and experienced a significant trauma. It is a very powerful tool. For most people it makes the hard work easier but isn’t necessarily easy.

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Who TF is bragging that they 'accomplished anything"?

Virtually everyone is saying THIS DRUG is a miracle and saved my life after years of struggle.

Some of you people are both stupid and nasty. It's a really unfortunate combination.

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Anonymous wrote:Because they took the lazy way out.

Why do you think losing weight should be hard? Serious question.

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Sure Larla's cancer is in remission -- but she just had surgery and it worked. She didn't have to have chemo or radiation. She did it the easy way.

Comparing weightloss to cancer?

Are you trying to look like a joke?

OK, so you did not like PPs analogy, fine. You still have not responded to the clearly worded question: why do you want weight loss to be hard for other people?

Look, there is benefit in doing hard things.

As someone who has ben obese as a child and much of my adult life, most of us overeat for deep emotional reasons. It's not just because we love bread so much. Cool, a GLP1 will reduce your appetite and thus help you lose weight. But it never helps the person get to the deep reason why they coped with food in the first place. It's the reason why most regain when they go off the drug, and also the reaosn why most people re-gain in general.

Doing the deep emotional work is challenging and hard, but that's the only way one can untangle the bad habits in the first place to relaly fix them. Sorry that you feel butt hurt over that.

I want everyone to be healthy, but you can't fix the mind just by losing some pounds. Them's them hard apple facts.

Gained 90 pounds as a result of medication that causes massive weight gain. If I want to live, I have to take the medication.No “deep emotional work“ is going to fix that. “Them’s them hard apple facts.”

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Anonymous wrote:Because they took the lazy way out.

Why do you think losing weight should be hard? Serious question.

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Sure Larla's cancer is in remission -- but she just had surgery and it worked. She didn't have to have chemo or radiation. She did it the easy way.

Comparing weightloss to cancer?

Are you trying to look like a joke?

+1. The title of the thread tells you what it’s about. Yet people open it so they can offended by the responses. Imagine comparing losing vanity pounds to fighting cancer. So bankrupt.

Do you really not understand that obesity is a killer? And that it will make you very very sick before it kills you?

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Anonymous wrote:The medications are interesting technology and nobody should be ashamed of using them.

But people acting like they are some kind of martyr still having overcome some huge obstacle while using the medications is compete BS. Same with acting like it’s some Herculean task - particularly having to actually do some form of exercise and eat real food.

It’s like the bozos at Ironman Mexico last year who cut the bike course, went to their hotel, and came back later to triumphantly run through the shoot as if they went under 10 hours. And there were multiples of them.

Don’t do that and don’t act like you’ve accomplished something, and nobody is going to care. At least normal people who don’t GAF what you are doing.

I have done both. It’s litteraly none of your business how people lose weight. It has zero bearing on your life. Why is that so hard to understand?

Can you read? You are right. It is “none of my business.” So in that sense, don’t act like the medications are something they aren’t and don’t broadcast efforts as if you have accomplished something. But doing that, somebody is literally “making it somebody else’s business”

Wow. You are just mad that there is an easier way now.

Why do you prefer that people suffer?

Is this some sort of moral question for you?

Nobody is mad. I was just suggesting that acting like you have accomplished something is disingenuous. Don’t do that and I can assure you most people won’t care.

Do act like you’ve overcome some barrier when you were just a passenger is clowning.

Why do you care?

It’s a discussion forum. For discussion. Maybe we should just shut down discussion that you don’t agree with.

I was offering some perspective.

The fact that you have such a violent response to that demonstrates you’ve really over invested in this whole situation. Maybe go take a walk and calm down.

Again. People are defending personal choices they made to better their health vs you just being hateful for sport. You sound quite unhinged at this point.

I think that’s wonderful. Just don’t go around broadcasting it and acting like you’ve accomplished something. How hard is that?

Oh I’ve accomplished a hell of a lot. I’ll trust my doctor rather than hateful bi$$es like you. I lost 60 lbs, got off BP and cholesterol meds, feel great, don’t hurt. What did you accomplish? You’re a waste of oxygen

“I’ve accomplished a hell of a lot”

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Anonymous wrote:The medications are interesting technology and nobody should be ashamed of using them.

But people acting like they are some kind of martyr still having overcome some huge obstacle while using the medications is compete BS. Same with acting like it’s some Herculean task - particularly having to actually do some form of exercise and eat real food.

It’s like the bozos at Ironman Mexico last year who cut the bike course, went to their hotel, and came back later to triumphantly run through the shoot as if they went under 10 hours. And there were multiples of them.

Don’t do that and don’t act like you’ve accomplished something, and nobody is going to care. At least normal people who don’t GAF what you are doing.

I have done both. It’s litteraly none of your business how people lose weight. It has zero bearing on your life. Why is that so hard to understand?

Can you read? You are right. It is “none of my business.” So in that sense, don’t act like the medications are something they aren’t and don’t broadcast efforts as if you have accomplished something. But doing that, somebody is literally “making it somebody else’s business”

Wow. You are just mad that there is an easier way now.

Why do you prefer that people suffer?

Is this some sort of moral question for you?

Nobody is mad. I was just suggesting that acting like you have accomplished something is disingenuous. Don’t do that and I can assure you most people won’t care.

Do act like you’ve overcome some barrier when you were just a passenger is clowning.

But you care. So much!!!

Did you peak in high school because you were the mean girl and now people have grown up and matured and you aren’t relevant any more? Is that what happening here? Because I can’t imagine any secure, happy, intelligent person acting the way you’re acting.

I think you need to look in the mirror. Totally DP.

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Anonymous wrote:The medications are interesting technology and nobody should be ashamed of using them.

But people acting like they are some kind of martyr still having overcome some huge obstacle while using the medications is compete BS. Same with acting like it’s some Herculean task - particularly having to actually do some form of exercise and eat real food.

It’s like the bozos at Ironman Mexico last year who cut the bike course, went to their hotel, and came back later to triumphantly run through the shoot as if they went under 10 hours. And there were multiples of them.

Don’t do that and don’t act like you’ve accomplished something, and nobody is going to care. At least normal people who don’t GAF what you are doing.

I have done both. It’s litteraly none of your business how people lose weight. It has zero bearing on your life. Why is that so hard to understand?

Can you read? You are right. It is “none of my business.” So in that sense, don’t act like the medications are something they aren’t and don’t broadcast efforts as if you have accomplished something. But doing that, somebody is literally “making it somebody else’s business”

I have accomplished plenty. I lost 60 lbs and don’t give a flying f if you think I took the easy way out. You are the one letting me live rent free in your head. It is a win win for me. 😘

Ok. I don’t know who you are, and nobody is living rent free anywhere. I was simply pointing out a recurrent theme here - people broadcasting about use of the drugs while simultaneously attempting to act as if it’s some form of an accomplishment.

Your personality disorder is so strong, you’ve managed to convince yourself of an achievement when you were just a passenger. Do you routinely commit plagiarism too?

NP to this thread here who wants to point out that literally no-one on this thread has done that, yet here you are going on and on for pages about it. People lose weight. People ask them why. They either tell them or they don't. People talk about them behind their backs. That is what this thread is about. It's not about someone saying "look at me I took a medicine and lost 50 lbs, you should be proud of me, it's an amazing accomplishment!". NOBODY has said that, at all. You made it up and now you're arguing about something that didn't happen.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Because they took the lazy way out.

Why do you think losing weight should be hard? Serious question.

+1

Sure Larla's cancer is in remission -- but she just had surgery and it worked. She didn't have to have chemo or radiation. She did it the easy way.

Comparing weightloss to cancer?

Are you trying to look like a joke?

OK, so you did not like PPs analogy, fine. You still have not responded to the clearly worded question: why do you want weight loss to be hard for other people?

Look, there is benefit in doing hard things.

As someone who has ben obese as a child and much of my adult life, most of us overeat for deep emotional reasons. It's not just because we love bread so much. Cool, a GLP1 will reduce your appetite and thus help you lose weight. But it never helps the person get to the deep reason why they coped with food in the first place. It's the reason why most regain when they go off the drug, and also the reaosn why most people re-gain in general.

Doing the deep emotional work is challenging and hard, but that's the only way one can untangle the bad habits in the first place to relaly fix them. Sorry that you feel butt hurt over that.

I want everyone to be healthy, but you can't fix the mind just by losing some pounds. Them's them hard apple facts.

Gained 90 pounds as a result of medication that causes massive weight gain. If I want to live, I have to take the medication.No “deep emotional work“ is going to fix that. “Them’s them hard apple facts.”

Sincere question. How much are you eating now? If you gained all 90lbs because of a medication (and not over-eating), then you must be eating barely a couple hundred calories now with a GLP1.

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The defensiveness in this thread is insane. I have never seen a person lose weight via diet an exercise be so angry and bothered as some of the people here.

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Anonymous wrote:The defensiveness in this thread is insane. I have never seen a person lose weight via diet an exercise be so angry and bothered as some of the people here.

That’s because you didn’t act like an ahole to them like you are here

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Anonymous wrote:The defensiveness in this thread is insane. I have never seen a person lose weight via diet an exercise be so angry and bothered as some of the people here.

That’s because you didn’t act like an ahole to them like you are here

Literally no one is behaving like an ahole. They are answering OP’s question. The irritation you feel is a projection of your own issues.

Literally no one who loses and maintains weightloss the old fashioned way is so over the top sensitive. Pp who said “own it” is right.

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Huh. This isn’t my experience. I have a large circle circle. It is mostly thin or heathy weight women, but there are some larger women too. Honestly we never talk about weight at all. If someone is on it, I don’t know, nor would I care or talk about it.

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Anonymous wrote:The medications are interesting technology and nobody should be ashamed of using them.

But people acting like they are some kind of martyr still having overcome some huge obstacle while using the medications is compete BS. Same with acting like it’s some Herculean task - particularly having to actually do some form of exercise and eat real food.

It’s like the bozos at Ironman Mexico last year who cut the bike course, went to their hotel, and came back later to triumphantly run through the shoot as if they went under 10 hours. And there were multiples of them.

Don’t do that and don’t act like you’ve accomplished something, and nobody is going to care. At least normal people who don’t GAF what you are doing.

I have done both. It’s litteraly none of your business how people lose weight. It has zero bearing on your life. Why is that so hard to understand?

Can you read? You are right. It is “none of my business.” So in that sense, don’t act like the medications are something they aren’t and don’t broadcast efforts as if you have accomplished something. But doing that, somebody is literally “making it somebody else’s business”

Wow. You are just mad that there is an easier way now.

Why do you prefer that people suffer?

Is this some sort of moral question for you?

Nobody is mad. I was just suggesting that acting like you have accomplished something is disingenuous. Don’t do that and I can assure you most people won’t care.

Do act like you’ve overcome some barrier when you were just a passenger is clowning.

But you care. So much!!!

Did you peak in high school because you were the mean girl and now people have grown up and matured and you aren’t relevant any more? Is that what happening here? Because I can’t imagine any secure, happy, intelligent person acting the way you’re acting.

I think you need to look in the mirror. Totally DP.

I do. Every day and admire the weight loss.