Celebrities who lie about weight loss without Ozempic; Kelly Clarkson I'm looking at you!

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weight loss is a BILLION dollar business, no way someone was sitting on this miracle for 23 years and not selling it for weight loss if there were no side effects and it was amazing.

There is a dark side much like Phen Fen

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Anonymous wrote:Shea McGee is another

She looks like an entirely different person

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Anonymous wrote:weight loss is a BILLION dollar business, no way someone was sitting on this miracle for 23 years and not selling it for weight loss if there were no side effects and it was amazing.

There is a dark side much like Phen Fen

If it sounds too good to be true

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Anonymous wrote:How do we even know ozempic is safe long term? It seems reckless to use it for weight loss

It's been around for like 23 years. It was being gatekept for those years. They knew it worked for weightloss but it wasn't marketed as such until recently.

This is what I don't understand: if diabetics have been using these drugs for years for their diabetes, why weren't all of them losing weight? If they were, I would think the secret would have gotten out before now?

My mom has been on something similar for type 1 diabetes for many years, and did lose a significant amount of weight.

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Anonymous wrote:How do we even know ozempic is safe long term? It seems reckless to use it for weight loss

It's been around for like 23 years. It was being gatekept for those years. They knew it worked for weightloss but it wasn't marketed as such until recently.

This is what I don't understand: if diabetics have been using these drugs for years for their diabetes, why weren't all of them losing weight? If they were, I would think the secret would have gotten out before now?

My mom has been on something similar for type 1 diabetes for many years, and did lose a significant amount of weight.

^^Type 2!!

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Anonymous wrote:weight loss is a BILLION dollar business, no way someone was sitting on this miracle for 23 years and not selling it for weight loss if there were no side effects and it was amazing.

There is a dark side much like Phen Fen

This is how I feel but I really do hope it's not true. I have friends who are on Ozempic and it's working for them. I'm happy for them but it really does seem too good to be true.

Also, before Ozempic, our culture already had some very messed up ideas about weight and fitness and health that I felt we were finally unraveling. Like the idea that being a size 0 is automatically "healthy" and being a size 14 is automatically "unhealthy" even though it really doesn't work this way. I think Ozempic is undoing some of the progress we'd made on this front, at understanding that health and weight are not as directly correlated as many people believe, and that many (most) people cannot be super thin and healthy at the same time. It's a body type issue and bodies come in different shapes and sizes. You can be fit and healthy and still not fit a fashion industry ideal, and that's something we are still really struggling to accept.

Even if it turns out Ozempic has no downside when used appropriately, I do think it will (and likely already is) contribute to eating disorders and "skinny at any cost" attitudes that will have negative health impacts. It will, and almost certainly already is, get abused.

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Anonymous wrote:How do we even know ozempic is safe long term? It seems reckless to use it for weight loss

It's been around for like 23 years. It was being gatekept for those years. They knew it worked for weightloss but it wasn't marketed as such until recently.

... why wasn't it?

Pharmaceutical companies are not known for leaving a potentially extremely lucrative application of an *existing* drug in the drawer. Why didn't they push to be able to market it for weight loss much sooner? It's free money to them -- the R&D is done and weight loss is a much bigger market than diabetics (which is already a pretty big market).

So... why?

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I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll actually let go of the skinny obsession once everyone can easily have it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do we even know ozempic is safe long term? It seems reckless to use it for weight loss

It's been around for like 23 years. It was being gatekept for those years. They knew it worked for weightloss but it wasn't marketed as such until recently.

... why wasn't it?

Pharmaceutical companies are not known for leaving a potentially extremely lucrative application of an *existing* drug in the drawer. Why didn't they push to be able to market it for weight loss much sooner? It's free money to them -- the R&D is done and weight loss is a much bigger market than diabetics (which is already a pretty big market).

So... why?

Maybe they were waiting until larger scale, long term trials came out? We now have at least 20 years of experience using these peptides. Overall, the benefits enormously outweigh the costs, even after 20 years.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone gets to make their own choice about what they want to share, even celebrities. Why do you care so much, OP? How does this personally affect you?

+1 Even celebrities don't need to share their medical history. As long as she's not attributing her weight loss to superior moral character and willpower, I'm cool with not knowing what medication she swallows on a daily basis.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone gets to make their own choice about what they want to share, even celebrities. Why do you care so much, OP? How does this personally affect you?

+1 Even celebrities don't need to share their medical history. As long as she's not attributing her weight loss to superior moral character and willpower, I'm cool with not knowing what medication she swallows on a daily basis.

or injects on a weekly basis.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone gets to make their own choice about what they want to share, even celebrities. Why do you care so much, OP? How does this personally affect you?

+1 Even celebrities don't need to share their medical history. As long as she's not attributing her weight loss to superior moral character and willpower, I'm cool with not knowing what medication she swallows on a daily basis.

or injects on a weekly basis.

semaglutides are available in tablet form now, boomer.

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I know 7 different people who were all fat for 20+ years and within the last 18 months have all lost over half their body weight. All but one of them claims it’s because they started walking.

Only one admits that they got thin through drugs.

How dumb do these women think we are?

Kelly Clarkson has been fat for over 20 years and within 5 months she’s now underweight?? Through walking in the morning? What a liar. It’s irresponsible to everyone who is actually trying to lose weight through exercise.

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The excitement of being thin will wear off for normal people. I lost a lot of weight suddenly due to an illness a number of years ago. I felt awful, but looked model skinny. It took some time for me to realize that my (now managed) illness wasn’t why I felt awful, it was because I was seriously underweight.

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Anonymous wrote:I know 7 different people who were all fat for 20+ years and within the last 18 months have all lost over half their body weight. All but one of them claims it’s because they started walking.

Only one admits that they got thin through drugs.

How dumb do these women think we are?

Kelly Clarkson has been fat for over 20 years and within 5 months she’s now underweight?? Through walking in the morning? What a liar. It’s irresponsible to everyone who is actually trying to lose weight through exercise.

The people who lie or don't want to admit taking the drugs are doing a disservice. If the drugs are safe, effective, and should be available to everyone with no stigma, lying/omitting the truth is not helping the public perception.