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

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Anonymous wrote:Why does anyone tell anyone the medication they are on? Just do it and keep it to yourself. I don't understand.

It’s a status thing these days.

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Anonymous wrote:Well ... this afternoon was horrific.

I have been on Wegovy about a year, and have lost a little over 50 lbs (SW: 227 CW about 170). My weight gain was due to medication. It is frustrating to add another med to lose the weight caused by the first med, but I want to live, so, here we are.

For those of you who call GLP-1 meds "the easy way" ... I $h!t my pants today. Literally. I had a one hour drive. From FFX to home in the historic Occoquan area. About 20 mins from my destination, the gas and horrible stomach pain started. I was literally crying in my car and yelling "It's ok, it's ok" at myself, trying to hold it. It was the windy roads of Prince William and nowhere to stop. I got all the way home, in tears, stood up out of my car, and it all rushed out of my body. All over my new shorts and down my legs into my shoes.

Utterly humiliating. And it hurt. A lot.

So why am I taking the med if this happens? Well, this exact thing had not happened before. These really bad GI side effects only happen about once a month for me, and every time thus far they have happened at night at home when I was right next to a bathroom. It hadn't happened at work, and hadn't happened anywhere else but home. When it is as infrequent as once a month, you put up with it to deal with the obesity (and obesity related health issues -- no vanity here, I have severe obstructive sleep apnea, high cholesterol, arthritis in my knees, and am on the edge of pre-diabetes).

I have lost the weight twice on WW, counting points, and the weight came back each time. My doctor insisted I try the GLP-1. Do I feel better this much lighter? Of course. Will I stick with it? Probably. But I'm not sure, this was pretty bad and the thought of it happening again is traumatizing.

So ... is this the "easy way?" Hell no. Hell, hell, hell no.

If you haven't been through this, then you have no idea what your are talking about.

In my experience, this only happens if you are not eating a healthy diet -- you need to change your diet when you take these meds - Whole Foods and a lot of protein. No processed food, no oily crap. I eat clean.

PP here.

I love how everyone wants to jump in and tell me not to eat "processed crap." I don't. My diet is excellent -- virtually all whole foods and I track my protein to make sure I get enough. My doctor had me visit with a dietician shortly after I went on Wegovy (she was concerned I wasn't getting enough protein and that I wasn't eating enough) and I follow a very healthy meal plan that we worked out.

Everyone thinks they know everything and they just have to explain it to everyone else, lol.

This. It’s defensiveness. We’re most judgmental when we’re not feeling particularly happy or secure in ourselves.

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Anonymous wrote:Why does anyone tell anyone the medication they are on? Just do it and keep it to yourself. I don't understand.

It's a personal choice for sure.

I have chosen to tell everyone who asks because I believe it to be important to combat the misinformation and stigmas attached to these drugs.

You need not go beyond this thread to see evidence of the misinformation and stigmas, and those things are keeping people from seeking potentially life-saving treatment.

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Anonymous wrote:Why does anyone tell anyone the medication they are on? Just do it and keep it to yourself. I don't understand.

I discuss it in a weight loss support group, even though it was prescribed for diabetes. There is still judgement from a couple of members.

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Anonymous wrote:I take trizeptide because it helps stop binge eating disorder.
When I tell the shamers that they usually change the subject.

Were you actually diagnosed with BED? I ask because tirz stopped my binging also. It has changed my life, which was formerly dominated by food obsession and disgusting, frequent episodes of smashing burgers, candy, pastries and ice cream. I never called it BED though nor did I ever receive a diagnosis. I just considered it laziness and lack of discipline on my part and I still do. Probably why I keep my lips tightly zipped about taking this med. I feel I wasn’t strong enough to do it on my own - I feel embarrassed and ashamed that I stuffed my face with so much crap constantly before. It’s interesting though, if I think about it as a disorder, then it feels less shameful. At any rate, tirz has been miraculous for me. I’m back to a size 4 again and I feel beautiful, strong, happy and in control.

NP I was diagnosed when I went to an obesity specialist to try medication. Is it it’s crazy how I struggled with something for 30 years and it has immediately stopped. Zero binges in 12 weeks after having multiple per week. I even had some very stressful situations

It stopped immediately because you have a metabolic problem, and the medication addressed it. You don’t have a willpower problem, despite most of the people on this thread wanting to say so.

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Anonymous wrote:I started GLP-1 at 5’7 and 145 lbs. Now down to 124 lbs and getting a lot of comments and questions about what I did. I don’t confess. I just say I resolved to eat healthier this year and doubled my gym attendance, both of which are true. My long time gym did a spotlight on me. I do feel a sense of shame and guilt for not telling people the whole story, especially those who could really benefit from these miraculous drugs. But women are awful, as evidenced here. I’m keeping my secret!

Wow. This is really really lacking in integrity. You let a gym do a spotlight on you without disclosing that you also used a drug to help get the results you got? Just, wow.

As I said, and as you underscored with your comment, women are awful. The gym owner is a nice lady though, so I figure I was doing her a solid and supporting a small business by allowing her shout me and my gloriously trim physique out and attribute it to her exercise classes. 😜

Sorry, but thinking that you lack integrity hardly makes me awful. You did a whole spotlight leading people to believe they can get the results you did by just going to the gym or whatever. Meanwhile you, as a “long time gym goer” only got those results but adding weight loss drugs. Don’t you see how this feed a cycle of giving a lot of people unrealistic expectations? If it were me I would have declined the spotlight.

I have nothing against the weight loss drugs. I am thin and if someone asks me specifically about weight or maintaining my weight I am honest about my life style. None of this “oh ha, ha, you know, I just chase my kids around and take the stairs.”

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Anonymous wrote:Anecdote: a few years ago I posted on DCUM or a FB group when I was considering putting my son on growth hormone injections. He did not test as growth hormone deficient but for various reasons was projected to be max 5'4'' and the growth hormone was likely to give him a few extra inches at a minimum. A lot of women w/ no experience or skin in the game excoriated me for considering giving this to my otherwise healthy son while the moms w/ short sons tended to think the pros outweighed the cons. One of my takeaways from the feedback was that subconsciously, it was really uncomfortable for some women to confront their preference for tall men, and that admitting that a boy could be judged harshly for an immutable characteristic was a threat to their self-perception.

Back to GLP1s. I think there's a subconscious component in that it's uncomfortable for people to come face to face with their perceptions of people with obesity once those people become thinner. I know that I've been caught off guard a few times. In reality it's no ones fault--preferences for height, bmi, etc are mostly hardwired.

In any event, hormones and peptides are going to continue to become more mainstream and the price will drop, and my guess is that a lot of this pettiness will look silly in a few years time.

Agree with this. And it's a shame that an absolute troll has railroaded this thread to the extent they have. I really appreciate those who've been willing to share their stories and perspectives despite the troll.

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Anonymous wrote:I take trizeptide because it helps stop binge eating disorder.
When I tell the shamers that they usually change the subject.

Were you actually diagnosed with BED? I ask because tirz stopped my binging also. It has changed my life, which was formerly dominated by food obsession and disgusting, frequent episodes of smashing burgers, candy, pastries and ice cream. I never called it BED though nor did I ever receive a diagnosis. I just considered it laziness and lack of discipline on my part and I still do. Probably why I keep my lips tightly zipped about taking this med. I feel I wasn’t strong enough to do it on my own - I feel embarrassed and ashamed that I stuffed my face with so much crap constantly before. It’s interesting though, if I think about it as a disorder, then it feels less shameful. At any rate, tirz has been miraculous for me. I’m back to a size 4 again and I feel beautiful, strong, happy and in control.

NP I was diagnosed when I went to an obesity specialist to try medication. Is it it’s crazy how I struggled with something for 30 years and it has immediately stopped. Zero binges in 12 weeks after having multiple per week. I even had some very stressful situations

It stopped immediately because you have a metabolic problem, and the medication addressed it. You don’t have a willpower problem, despite most of the people on this thread wanting to say so.

Where was this metabolic problem before the wide availability of extremely calorie dense and widely available shelf stable food?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I take trizeptide because it helps stop binge eating disorder.
When I tell the shamers that they usually change the subject.

Were you actually diagnosed with BED? I ask because tirz stopped my binging also. It has changed my life, which was formerly dominated by food obsession and disgusting, frequent episodes of smashing burgers, candy, pastries and ice cream. I never called it BED though nor did I ever receive a diagnosis. I just considered it laziness and lack of discipline on my part and I still do. Probably why I keep my lips tightly zipped about taking this med. I feel I wasn’t strong enough to do it on my own - I feel embarrassed and ashamed that I stuffed my face with so much crap constantly before. It’s interesting though, if I think about it as a disorder, then it feels less shameful. At any rate, tirz has been miraculous for me. I’m back to a size 4 again and I feel beautiful, strong, happy and in control.

NP I was diagnosed when I went to an obesity specialist to try medication. Is it it’s crazy how I struggled with something for 30 years and it has immediately stopped. Zero binges in 12 weeks after having multiple per week. I even had some very stressful situations

It stopped immediately because you have a metabolic problem, and the medication addressed it. You don’t have a willpower problem, despite most of the people on this thread wanting to say so.

Where was this metabolic problem before the wide availability of extremely calorie dense and widely available shelf stable food?

1. There have always been fat people
2. People used to smoke and take diet pills at high rates
3. Food manufacturers are designing food to disrupt hunger signals, causing metabolic disorders in some people

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I take trizeptide because it helps stop binge eating disorder.
When I tell the shamers that they usually change the subject.

Were you actually diagnosed with BED? I ask because tirz stopped my binging also. It has changed my life, which was formerly dominated by food obsession and disgusting, frequent episodes of smashing burgers, candy, pastries and ice cream. I never called it BED though nor did I ever receive a diagnosis. I just considered it laziness and lack of discipline on my part and I still do. Probably why I keep my lips tightly zipped about taking this med. I feel I wasn’t strong enough to do it on my own - I feel embarrassed and ashamed that I stuffed my face with so much crap constantly before. It’s interesting though, if I think about it as a disorder, then it feels less shameful. At any rate, tirz has been miraculous for me. I’m back to a size 4 again and I feel beautiful, strong, happy and in control.

NP I was diagnosed when I went to an obesity specialist to try medication. Is it it’s crazy how I struggled with something for 30 years and it has immediately stopped. Zero binges in 12 weeks after having multiple per week. I even had some very stressful situations

It stopped immediately because you have a metabolic problem, and the medication addressed it. You don’t have a willpower problem, despite most of the people on this thread wanting to say so.

Where was this metabolic problem before the wide availability of extremely calorie dense and widely available shelf stable food?

1. There have always been fat people
2. People used to smoke and take diet pills at high rates
3. Food manufacturers are designing food to disrupt hunger signals, causing metabolic disorders in some people

It’s the first part of your 3, including their hyper palatable quality and people with high food drive compared to others. That together causes the metabolic disorder. This is not some biochemical change in human physiology.

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Anonymous wrote:The people that gossip about it are probably the ones whose self-worth is tied up in being hot. They feel threatened by other women that they previously felt superior to becoming more attractive.

I'm a little bit on the outer circle of one friend group, many who've know each other for 12-15+ years. A stunning, but a bit zaftig, woman decided to take one of these weight lost drugs and now she is even more stunning. There is a little chatter I might hear more if I were more embedded. Yes, there was a cosmetic rationale, but also for the health reasons described here as one of her children now diagnosed with a metabolic syndrome.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I take trizeptide because it helps stop binge eating disorder.
When I tell the shamers that they usually change the subject.

Were you actually diagnosed with BED? I ask because tirz stopped my binging also. It has changed my life, which was formerly dominated by food obsession and disgusting, frequent episodes of smashing burgers, candy, pastries and ice cream. I never called it BED though nor did I ever receive a diagnosis. I just considered it laziness and lack of discipline on my part and I still do. Probably why I keep my lips tightly zipped about taking this med. I feel I wasn’t strong enough to do it on my own - I feel embarrassed and ashamed that I stuffed my face with so much crap constantly before. It’s interesting though, if I think about it as a disorder, then it feels less shameful. At any rate, tirz has been miraculous for me. I’m back to a size 4 again and I feel beautiful, strong, happy and in control.

NP I was diagnosed when I went to an obesity specialist to try medication. Is it it’s crazy how I struggled with something for 30 years and it has immediately stopped. Zero binges in 12 weeks after having multiple per week. I even had some very stressful situations

It stopped immediately because you have a metabolic problem, and the medication addressed it. You don’t have a willpower problem, despite most of the people on this thread wanting to say so.

Where was this metabolic problem before the wide availability of extremely calorie dense and widely available shelf stable food?

Where was it? People have always had metabolic disorders that cause weight gain. It’s not like, oh, for example—hypothyroidism—is a new thing. But medications (psych meds and prednisone come right to mind) disrupt hormones and cause weight gain as well, and such medications are now ubiquitous. Probably all kinds of other endocrine disruption happening as well that we don’t know about.

Get over your nasty need to paint overweight people as sitting in front of a television pounding pizza and twinkies—it says more about you than anyone else.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

+1

I find that if something that somebody else says bothers me so much, it’s usually because I have some baggage around it. So OP – make peace with your decision after analyzing your baggage.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

+1

I find that if something that somebody else says bothers me so much, it’s usually because I have some baggage around it. So OP – make peace with your decision after analyzing your baggage.

How do you know? I'm assuming you're saying these because you've been on these drugs and know it's the "easy way."

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Anonymous wrote: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.

+1

I find that if something that somebody else says bothers me so much, it’s usually because I have some baggage around it. So OP – make peace with your decision after analyzing your baggage.

I find if something that somebody else says bothers me so much, it’s usually because they are acting like an a$$hole.

To each his own though, right?