I'm not on Ozempic!

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Anonymous wrote:I have been on Ozempic for two years. Down 60 pounds, feel great, but if anyone asks (usually somewhat smugly) I feign ignorance and tell them it was diet and exercise. I know I shouldn’t lie but it’s just too fun to watch them seethe when they can’t tell me that I took the easy way out.

You are disgusting

Yeah, it’s fine. They know you are on meds (or maybe suspect a bypass). No is obese for a decade plus then is abruptly down 60+ lbs from diet and exercise.

They definitely do, if they start a keto diet or something. Really obese people who have been eating double or triple the recommended calories who suddenly go on a diet can drop weight incredibly fast without drugs.

(they will probably regain it but I assume that happens to people who stop the prescriptions as well)

Then they would have done it a long time ago. No one is super obese for as long as you have ever known them, then suddenly isn’t. It isn’t like keto is a new concept

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Anonymous wrote:OP really wanted people to come on here and congratulate her and tell her how amazing she is and instead everyone dumped on her for being such an ignorant jerk. Also, now we all know that OP was a fatty because she ate too much and not because she medically or hormonally couldn't lose it, so that makes it worse, LOL

It is amazing and she should feel proud! Nearly everyone who is obese got there because of their own lifestyle and diet habits.

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Anonymous wrote:I have been on Ozempic for two years. Down 60 pounds, feel great, but if anyone asks (usually somewhat smugly) I feign ignorance and tell them it was diet and exercise. I know I shouldn’t lie but it’s just too fun to watch them seethe when they can’t tell me that I took the easy way out.

You are disgusting

Yeah, it’s fine. They know you are on meds (or maybe suspect a bypass). No is obese for a decade plus then is abruptly down 60+ lbs from diet and exercise.

They definitely do, if they start a keto diet or something. Really obese people who have been eating double or triple the recommended calories who suddenly go on a diet can drop weight incredibly fast without drugs.

(they will probably regain it but I assume that happens to people who stop the prescriptions as well)

Then they would have done it a long time ago. No one is super obese for as long as you have ever known them, then suddenly isn’t. It isn’t like keto is a new concept

Neither is weight loss drugs.

Not everyone is actively trying to lose weight all the time. Many obese people are depressed, in denial, or overwhelmed at the idea of starting. Sometimes for years. If you don't know anyone like that you can browse reddit around new years and read their stories. There absolutely are people starting diets on 2023 and 2024.

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Anonymous wrote:I have been on Ozempic for two years. Down 60 pounds, feel great, but if anyone asks (usually somewhat smugly) I feign ignorance and tell them it was diet and exercise. I know I shouldn’t lie but it’s just too fun to watch them seethe when they can’t tell me that I took the easy way out.

You are disgusting

Yeah, it’s fine. They know you are on meds (or maybe suspect a bypass). No is obese for a decade plus then is abruptly down 60+ lbs from diet and exercise.

They definitely do, if they start a keto diet or something. Really obese people who have been eating double or triple the recommended calories who suddenly go on a diet can drop weight incredibly fast without drugs.

(they will probably regain it but I assume that happens to people who stop the prescriptions as well)

Then they would have done it a long time ago. No one is super obese for as long as you have ever known them, then suddenly isn’t. It isn’t like keto is a new concept

Neither is weight loss drugs.

Not everyone is actively trying to lose weight all the time. Many obese people are depressed, in denial, or overwhelmed at the idea of starting. Sometimes for years. If you don't know anyone like that you can browse reddit around new years and read their stories. There absolutely are people starting diets on 2023 and 2024.

Right. They start and fail and start and fail and start and fail. Which is why when they are suddenly successful, there is something else at play (drugs or surgery)

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Anonymous wrote:The fact is people on glp drugs still have to work at it.

They’re just not facing an uphill battle in making healthy choices.

But no one is lazy taking these drugs.

This. The side effects can be rough. Very. If I wasn’t committed to losing weight and getting healthy, it would be easier to quit. But I still take the shot every week know that it will likely be very rough for several days that week. I’ve been on it for 5 months. Side effects get worse over time, not better. And no, Zofran doesn’t work.

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Anonymous wrote:I have been on Ozempic for two years. Down 60 pounds, feel great, but if anyone asks (usually somewhat smugly) I feign ignorance and tell them it was diet and exercise. I know I shouldn’t lie but it’s just too fun to watch them seethe when they can’t tell me that I took the easy way out.

Why do you feel the need to lie? You could just say nothing

DP but IMO it's OK to lie when people are asking a very rude question, like if you're on medication. That's very private.

+1. Why does it matter how someone lost weight? They made a plan and committed to it. The plan they made is none of your business.

If you don’t want to answer, then don’t. Why lie? Are you embarrassed you took meds? Does it make you feel better to have people think you did it out of your own good decision making and will power?

As I said, because it’s fun

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Anonymous wrote:I have been on Ozempic for two years. Down 60 pounds, feel great, but if anyone asks (usually somewhat smugly) I feign ignorance and tell them it was diet and exercise. I know I shouldn’t lie but it’s just too fun to watch them seethe when they can’t tell me that I took the easy way out.

Why do you feel the need to lie? You could just say nothing

DP but IMO it's OK to lie when people are asking a very rude question, like if you're on medication. That's very private.

+1. Why does it matter how someone lost weight? They made a plan and committed to it. The plan they made is none of your business.

If you don’t want to answer, then don’t. Why lie? Are you embarrassed you took meds? Does it make you feel better to have people think you did it out of your own good decision making and will power?

As I said, because it’s fun

Weird that you're so invested in this. People who lie about this med are a dime a dozen. The thinning hair is the tell.

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Anonymous wrote:At the start of this year, I was about 25 lbs overweight, so I made a New Year's resolution to ramp up my cardio and diet. I did so, and I am now down 30 pounds. I'm seeing a lot of people this month who I haven't seen since last December, and I'm getting so many explicit and implicit comments that I'm on Ozempic. Nothing wrong with being on Ozempic, but it's just frustrating that nobody thinks it's possible to lose weight any other way.

Do you think you approach was more virtuous or something

Not the OP but yes, it was.

+1. The person I know who is taking the medication is still eating and drinking all of the same things but having less of them. She isn’t exercising either.

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Anonymous wrote:At the start of this year, I was about 25 lbs overweight, so I made a New Year's resolution to ramp up my cardio and diet. I did so, and I am now down 30 pounds. I'm seeing a lot of people this month who I haven't seen since last December, and I'm getting so many explicit and implicit comments that I'm on Ozempic. Nothing wrong with being on Ozempic, but it's just frustrating that nobody thinks it's possible to lose weight any other way.

Do you think you approach was more virtuous or something

Not the OP but yes, it was.

+1. The person I know who is taking the medication is still eating and drinking all of the same things but having less of them. She isn’t exercising either.

I’m sure it’s a fair bit of both. People taking these medications just as a throttle to their otherwise poor lifestyle and those actually making changes.

None of us should be judging anybody. And to be called judgmental for not wanting to be put into a bucket of having done nothing affirmative on your own to correct and energy imbalance consumption problem when you have - as OP did - demonstrates how fragile minded people are about these medications.

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Anonymous wrote:At the start of this year, I was about 25 lbs overweight, so I made a New Year's resolution to ramp up my cardio and diet. I did so, and I am now down 30 pounds. I'm seeing a lot of people this month who I haven't seen since last December, and I'm getting so many explicit and implicit comments that I'm on Ozempic. Nothing wrong with being on Ozempic, but it's just frustrating that nobody thinks it's possible to lose weight any other way.

Do you think you approach was more virtuous or something

Not the OP but yes, it was.

+1. The person I know who is taking the medication is still eating and drinking all of the same things but having less of them. She isn’t exercising either.

I’m sure it’s a fair bit of both. People taking these medications just as a throttle to their otherwise poor lifestyle and those actually making changes.

None of us should be judging anybody. And to be called judgmental for not wanting to be put into a bucket of having done nothing affirmative on your own to correct and energy imbalance consumption problem when you have - as OP did - demonstrates how fragile minded people are about these medications.

Contraire. Just as we just smokers or people with a large carbon footprint, judge away at the obese.

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Anonymous wrote:I have been on Ozempic for two years. Down 60 pounds, feel great, but if anyone asks (usually somewhat smugly) I feign ignorance and tell them it was diet and exercise. I know I shouldn’t lie but it’s just too fun to watch them seethe when they can’t tell me that I took the easy way out.

Why do you feel the need to lie? You could just say nothing

DP but IMO it's OK to lie when people are asking a very rude question, like if you're on medication. That's very private.

+1. Why does it matter how someone lost weight? They made a plan and committed to it. The plan they made is none of your business.

If you don’t want to answer, then don’t. Why lie? Are you embarrassed you took meds? Does it make you feel better to have people think you did it out of your own good decision making and will power?

As I said, because it’s fun

Fun? Sounds like you are defensive and embarrassed and will feel judged. But yeah…call it fun. While yes, no one should ask “how’d you do it” if they did, it is likely because they want to congratulate and encourage you for all the hard work it takes to lose weight. But you know that…which is probably why you lie.

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Anonymous wrote:I have been on Ozempic for two years. Down 60 pounds, feel great, but if anyone asks (usually somewhat smugly) I feign ignorance and tell them it was diet and exercise. I know I shouldn’t lie but it’s just too fun to watch them seethe when they can’t tell me that I took the easy way out.

Why do you feel the need to lie? You could just say nothing

DP but IMO it's OK to lie when people are asking a very rude question, like if you're on medication. That's very private.

+1. Why does it matter how someone lost weight? They made a plan and committed to it. The plan they made is none of your business.

If you don’t want to answer, then don’t. Why lie? Are you embarrassed you took meds? Does it make you feel better to have people think you did it out of your own good decision making and will power?

As I said, because it’s fun

Fun? Sounds like you are defensive and embarrassed and will feel judged. But yeah…call it fun. While yes, no one should ask “how’d you do it” if they did, it is likely because they want to congratulate and encourage you for all the hard work it takes to lose weight. But you know that…which is probably why you lie.

DP. Why are YOU so invested in them lying? No owes anyone the truth or a lie about how they lost weight. They could make up any kind of story. What difference does it make? I mean really?

I lost weight on semaglutide, and I use that name because I was on it before it was called Wegovy or Ozempic because I was in study. I lost over 100lbs. I’ve been off the medication for three years and stay within +/-3lbs of my goal weight. Most of my co-workers and friends don’t assume I lost it on those meds because I lost the weight before it became a craze. When people see me that haven’t seen me in a while and ask me, I just say I changed my eating and hit the gym. Which I did.

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Anonymous wrote:I have been on Ozempic for two years. Down 60 pounds, feel great, but if anyone asks (usually somewhat smugly) I feign ignorance and tell them it was diet and exercise. I know I shouldn’t lie but it’s just too fun to watch them seethe when they can’t tell me that I took the easy way out.

Why do you feel the need to lie? You could just say nothing

DP but IMO it's OK to lie when people are asking a very rude question, like if you're on medication. That's very private.

+1. Why does it matter how someone lost weight? They made a plan and committed to it. The plan they made is none of your business.

If you don’t want to answer, then don’t. Why lie? Are you embarrassed you took meds? Does it make you feel better to have people think you did it out of your own good decision making and will power?

As I said, because it’s fun

Fun? Sounds like you are defensive and embarrassed and will feel judged. But yeah…call it fun. While yes, no one should ask “how’d you do it” if they did, it is likely because they want to congratulate and encourage you for all the hard work it takes to lose weight. But you know that…which is probably why you lie.

DP. Strongly disagree that they are asking with good intentions. Most are being nosy and want to judge. They could congratulate and encourage without asking.

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Anonymous wrote:I have been on Ozempic for two years. Down 60 pounds, feel great, but if anyone asks (usually somewhat smugly) I feign ignorance and tell them it was diet and exercise. I know I shouldn’t lie but it’s just too fun to watch them seethe when they can’t tell me that I took the easy way out.

Why do you feel the need to lie? You could just say nothing

DP but IMO it's OK to lie when people are asking a very rude question, like if you're on medication. That's very private.

+1. Why does it matter how someone lost weight? They made a plan and committed to it. The plan they made is none of your business.

If you don’t want to answer, then don’t. Why lie? Are you embarrassed you took meds? Does it make you feel better to have people think you did it out of your own good decision making and will power?

As I said, because it’s fun

Weird that you're so invested in this. People who lie about this med are a dime a dozen. The thinning hair is the tell.

Interesting! My hair is fuller than ever thanks to Ozempic helping treat my PCOS and balancing my hormones. It’s great.

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Anonymous wrote:I have been on Ozempic for two years. Down 60 pounds, feel great, but if anyone asks (usually somewhat smugly) I feign ignorance and tell them it was diet and exercise. I know I shouldn’t lie but it’s just too fun to watch them seethe when they can’t tell me that I took the easy way out.

Why do you feel the need to lie? You could just say nothing

DP but IMO it's OK to lie when people are asking a very rude question, like if you're on medication. That's very private.

+1. Why does it matter how someone lost weight? They made a plan and committed to it. The plan they made is none of your business.

If you don’t want to answer, then don’t. Why lie? Are you embarrassed you took meds? Does it make you feel better to have people think you did it out of your own good decision making and will power?

As I said, because it’s fun

Fun? Sounds like you are defensive and embarrassed and will feel judged. But yeah…call it fun. While yes, no one should ask “how’d you do it” if they did, it is likely because they want to congratulate and encourage you for all the hard work it takes to lose weight. But you know that…which is probably why you lie.

Good to know! I definitely don’t want to have a conversation like that, so I’ll continue lying and then immediately changing the subject as I have been