Seeing everyone get skinny on meds is making me feel fat now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Huh. I've always been small, am a little bigger thanks to menopause, and I just do not feel this way about any of my friends taking weight loss meds. I'm happy for them because at our age health is everything and in every case the weight loss has been a huge help wih improving their health, whether the issue was just weight or unhealthy eating or the weight was making exercise harder. I don't find their weight loss threatening.
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I just think if you are taking care of your own health and body then you won't have this resentment. I think you resent your friends because you know you could be taking better care of yourself but don't want too but they are no longer validating this approach by also giving up on their health. I would look to them for inspiration instead of being competitive.

I think this is really insightful. Middle age comes at you hard, especially for those of us with small kids and busy jobs and it is SO EASY to get fat. I don't think those drugs are easy to take, they have side effects and are very expensive. Seeing the people around me shrink to a healthy weight made me see that an extra 20 pounds is really too much and it's on me to get to a healthier weight the "free" way aka by eating the way I know I should and being more active.

[Anonymous]

I am using mounjaro to lose from 156 to 115. I am 5’2. In 6 weeks I have lost 16 pounds. I am now 140. My insurance covers it so I pay $25 for a month supply.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am using mounjaro to lose from 156 to 115. I am 5’2. In 6 weeks I have lost 16 pounds. I am now 140. My insurance covers it so I pay $25 for a month supply.

Does it just pay it forever when you no longer have a high BMI? It is a bit confusing - i'm 5'2 and 135 and don't qualify even if I want to pay out of pocket but you're covered to get to a much lower BMI than I'm at

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sigh. Practically no one on weight loss meds is getting "really skinny". You're lying, or, most probably, you don't realize you've gained quite a bit!

- size XS woman who definitely doesn't feel fat around anyone.

Oh I beg to differ. - np

I had the same response. I definitely know people who have gotten “really skinny” on it. In both cases, they were not overweight to start and were taking it for vanity weight reasons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last 10 of 110 is very different from Only Ten. Last 10 is hard to lose whereas Only Ten can be relatively easy if you have a good working metabolism. For context, I’ve been on Tirzepatide for four months and had to eat 1300 calories a day, 100-140 g of protein, exercise daily and watch my hydration and rest and fiber. I’ve dropped 30 out of 35 lbs and am now weight training to be sure I’m in great shape. It’s been a ton of work and I will have to do this for life to stay fit (but will up my calories for maintenance) My husband stopped eating sugar and started working out and eating healthy about 3 weeks ago and lost that stubborn 10 lbs and now his clothes are loose.
First and only 10 are much easier on a metabolically healthy person versus the last term of someone who has struggled against the disease of obesity.

Your “evidence” leaves something to be desired. You’re not more worthy to use weight loss meds. So just stop.

[Anonymous]

Oh god, not another one of these.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last 10 of 110 is very different from Only Ten. Last 10 is hard to lose whereas Only Ten can be relatively easy if you have a good working metabolism. For context, I’ve been on Tirzepatide for four months and had to eat 1300 calories a day, 100-140 g of protein, exercise daily and watch my hydration and rest and fiber. I’ve dropped 30 out of 35 lbs and am now weight training to be sure I’m in great shape. It’s been a ton of work and I will have to do this for life to stay fit (but will up my calories for maintenance) My husband stopped eating sugar and started working out and eating healthy about 3 weeks ago and lost that stubborn 10 lbs and now his clothes are loose.
First and only 10 are much easier on a metabolically healthy person versus the last term of someone who has struggled against the disease of obesity.

Your “evidence” leaves something to be desired. You’re not more worthy to use weight loss meds. So just stop.

Presumably that PP was obese and needed to lose 35 lbs to make it to a healthy weight. There's a big difference between going from 170 to 130 and going from 130 to 120. Surely you can understand that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am using mounjaro to lose from 156 to 115. I am 5’2. In 6 weeks I have lost 16 pounds. I am now 140. My insurance covers it so I pay $25 for a month supply.

Does it just pay it forever when you no longer have a high BMI? It is a bit confusing - i'm 5'2 and 135 and don't qualify even if I want to pay out of pocket but you're covered to get to a much lower BMI than I'm at

Proving that you are just jealous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am using mounjaro to lose from 156 to 115. I am 5’2. In 6 weeks I have lost 16 pounds. I am now 140. My insurance covers it so I pay $25 for a month supply.

Does it just pay it forever when you no longer have a high BMI? It is a bit confusing - i'm 5'2 and 135 and don't qualify even if I want to pay out of pocket but you're covered to get to a much lower BMI than I'm at

Proving that you are just jealous.

NP. I have the same question, too. I'm also 5'2" and 125, would love to be 115, but in my late 40s cannot get 10 lbs off with diet and exercise. Definitely jealous of those who can just take a pill or whatever! I would gladly pay $25 to lose my extra 10 lbs.

[Anonymous]

OP-
Think of it this way- in your entire life how many weight loss medication trends have you seen? A lot, right? And they all start off seeming effective because if you actually have weight to lose and try (at all), those pounds will start to budge.
However, how many of those medications are still working, or even available? Most aren’t. The side effects and the long term use issues became clear and people no longer take them.
The folks INJECTING themselves with a drug to lose 20lbs are ridiculous. Just another stop on a long standing tradition of hating our bodies, being vain and not caring about side effects or damage.

I get it if a morbidly obese person needs supplemental help to even begin exercising. But I don’t think that’s what this is about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last 10 of 110 is very different from Only Ten. Last 10 is hard to lose whereas Only Ten can be relatively easy if you have a good working metabolism. For context, I’ve been on Tirzepatide for four months and had to eat 1300 calories a day, 100-140 g of protein, exercise daily and watch my hydration and rest and fiber. I’ve dropped 30 out of 35 lbs and am now weight training to be sure I’m in great shape. It’s been a ton of work and I will have to do this for life to stay fit (but will up my calories for maintenance) My husband stopped eating sugar and started working out and eating healthy about 3 weeks ago and lost that stubborn 10 lbs and now his clothes are loose.
First and only 10 are much easier on a metabolically healthy person versus the last term of someone who has struggled against the disease of obesity.

Your “evidence” leaves something to be desired. You’re not more worthy to use weight loss meds. So just stop.

Presumably that PP was obese and needed to lose 35 lbs to make it to a healthy weight. There's a big difference between going from 170 to 130 and going from 130 to 120. Surely you can understand that?

Surely you can understand she was saying it’s much easier to lose “just ten” and used an unconvincing anecdote regarding a man. Surely you can also understand that any woman (or man) who has worked to be lean his or her entire life knows that the last 10 (or the “only 10”) are the hardest because it’s harder to lose the leaner you are. Athletes know that.

Therefore, surely you can understand that the OP’s entire point was to concoct an unconvincing excuse as to why she is the most worthy of these meds. I think anyone who wants them should get them. And many have via compounding pharmacies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP-
Think of it this way- in your entire life how many weight loss medication trends have you seen? A lot, right? And they all start off seeming effective because if you actually have weight to lose and try (at all), those pounds will start to budge.
However, how many of those medications are still working, or even available? Most aren’t. The side effects and the long term use issues became clear and people no longer take them.
The folks INJECTING themselves with a drug to lose 20lbs are ridiculous. Just another stop on a long standing tradition of hating our bodies, being vain and not caring about side effects or damage.

I get it if a morbidly obese person needs supplemental help to even begin exercising. But I don’t think that’s what this is about.

You clearly have no clue what you’re talking about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The issue with the loss of 10 vanity pounds by so many people is that we are going backward. We are resetting this ideal for women that is super skinny and bony again. I know there are people here who are using it to no longer be obese, and that's the right thing to do. But now that celebrities and women all around are using it to get super skinny, as I said, it's changing the ideal. We are going back to that super skinny waif as the goal for how women should look. This isn't healthy.

I feel the opposite. If anyone can be skinny—it’s no longer a flex or a sign of willpower. It just…is. So maybe we can all now be free to be a “normal” healthy size. Now that I think about it, I bet strong and uber fit will be the next big thing—because we all know that requires discipline (and for some reason we have to be competitive about our bodies).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am using mounjaro to lose from 156 to 115. I am 5’2. In 6 weeks I have lost 16 pounds. I am now 140. My insurance covers it so I pay $25 for a month supply.

Does it just pay it forever when you no longer have a high BMI? It is a bit confusing - i'm 5'2 and 135 and don't qualify even if I want to pay out of pocket but you're covered to get to a much lower BMI than I'm at

Would also love to know this. Seems it’s been proven that the weight most often comes back if drugs are stopped. If that’s true, does insurance pay forever?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The issue with the loss of 10 vanity pounds by so many people is that we are going backward. We are resetting this ideal for women that is super skinny and bony again. I know there are people here who are using it to no longer be obese, and that's the right thing to do. But now that celebrities and women all around are using it to get super skinny, as I said, it's changing the ideal. We are going back to that super skinny waif as the goal for how women should look. This isn't healthy.

I feel the opposite. If anyone can be skinny—it’s no longer a flex or a sign of willpower. It just…is. So maybe we can all now be free to be a “normal” healthy size. Now that I think about it, I bet strong and uber fit will be the next big thing—because we all know that requires discipline (and for some reason we have to be competitive about our bodies).

I think eventually this is true. For now though, it is really only more wealthy people who can afford it - hence the saying “wealthy people have Ozempic, poor people have body positivity”

Once it is cheaper and readily available, being slim won’t be the current flex it now is.