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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, it’s not your fault.

A post-viral health condition led to me gaining 30 pounds in a year. My entire day was driven by my relentless appetite. I wasn’t eating “unhealthy” foods, either. What I did do was consume 1500+ calories at lunch of quinoa, roasted veg, and chicken and then felt famished 90 minutes later. I tried eating a high protein diet, a gluten-free diet, a gluten and dairy-free diet, and a low histamine diet, sticking to each religiously for six weeks or more. Of course, I cut out alcohol throughout. No matter what I tried, I kept steadily gaining weight. Oddly, it was while taking prednisone, a medication that usually causes people to gain weight, that my inflammation came down enough to facilitate weight loss. From all the ups and downs of the past five years, the only thing I’ve learned is that there is so much we don’t yet understand about gaining and losing weight. Certainly psychological and genetic factors play a role, but docs don’t seem to know fully how to address those issues. As well, there is biochemistry that changes for all of us due to medication, health conditions, and phases of life.

I have an obese friend who recently started taking Ozempic. I also have an obese family member in a clinical trial for an oral semaglutide. I’ve seen both of these folks try very, very hard to lose weight. They’ve been through normal and extreme weight loss methods—Weight Watchers, addiction programs, all-liquid diets, two-hour daily workouts, fen/phen. They’ve been deeply committed to losing the weight and consistent in their behaviors for years, but as soon as they lift the intervention, the weight comes back. They are not morally bad people and they are the opposite of lazy. All of that said, the drugs have made a difference in a way that nothing else has. Their hunger, ability to stop eating, and feelings about food have all changed so quickly. This again reinforces to me that there are not-fully-understood biological reasons for weight gain.[/quote]

It is not OPs fault; agree.

It is the fault of the oppressors in society, who still engage in sizeism, ableism, and fat-phobia.

These are forms of oppression.  No one should be made to feel shame, embarrassment, not any of the things oppressors do to victimize others in the US, based on size.[/quote]

OK, agreed. But we also shouldn’t shame people who are tired of being overweight and want to use the new meds out there to fix it. I’ve been overweight and I’ve been average-weight and I can tell you, it’s better in every way to be average-weight. I feel better, I have an easier time finding clothes, I enjoy regular activities (sex, exercise, etc.) much more. 
Of course no one should make people feel bad about their bodies. But also, it’s really OK to want to be healthier and to acknowledge that carrying a lot of extra weight is usually unhealthy.

And FWIW, I’ve tried semaglutide. But it really seems to be changing lives, and I’m all for it. [/quote]

No of course not.  We should fully support people without regard to their body type.[/quote]

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