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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][size=9] [/size][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - I am in exactly the same boat you are in. On the smallest dose, I can’t imagine that the most harmful side effects even happen. And my doc is telling me that they are finding these meds to be beneficial in other ways, for example to help with autoimmune diseases. [/quote]

My prescriber is a small woman, she has no weight to lose or worry about maintaining, and she takes a GLP-1 once a month because she believes in the studies showing the long-term benefits in staving off dementia. [/quote]

Wow, the world really has gone nuts hasn’t it. Hint: there are no studies that show normal weight people who take a GLP1 once a month stave off dementia.[/quote]

Honest question not mean to be snarky, why are you so anti GLP-1s? What's your personal beef with it?

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What’s my personal beef with people with eating disorders using fake health claims to justify what they do?[b] Is that really the question?[/b]

By the way, I am far from the only one commenting strongly on this topic. [/quote]

Yes, that's exactly the question. I could see you feeling sorry for people you think have eating disorders using this method to lose more weight. Or perhaps being worried for them. But instead you seem personally angry at them. You're acting like the choice to take a GLP-1 when not obese is a personal affront to you. Is there a reason? [/quote]

NP. I see it as them leaning into their eating disorder, not trying to fight against. [/quote]

Different NP here. It’s also just participating in all the old crap where only thin women have value - not even normal weight, but thin. It’s to separate and be better-than, like the woman upthread who would literally choose death over “fat,” whatever her definition of fat is. There is something vicious and cruel towards all women, especially heavier other women, when you eagerly participate in this out of economic advantage. It always has knock-on effects. The attitude always contaminates, beginning with what you model for your kids, how your social treatment influences in turn how you treat others. It radiates and ripples out from each of us and it’s simply a lie to say it doesn’t.

I used to love watching figure skating and I remember well how Midori Ito, one of the best ever women, made it to the Olympics, described how awful it was to have a perfectly normal athletic body to power her in the sport she loved described as fat and ugly. It wasn’t! But reality doesn’t matter much when everyone seemingly decides fo deride, nastily and viciously, every fckin body type besides extremely thin frames on women from puberty to grave.[/quote]

Surya Bonaly is another skater that was constantly vilified for not fitting the mold despite her spectacular athletic abilities (too muscular, too black for figure skating). The treatment from the judges was heart breaking.

I hear you PP. But in the fight for acceptance of all bodies, not only the thin ones, some of you are not choosing the most convincing arms. I could appreciate the post above because it was more measured and it made me think. But if you are also one of those who just said "you are insane", "you are awful", "you are anorexic", "You should suffer" etc.. without having the tiniest doubt that you may not understand someone else's body and you are just not liking the numbers you read or the goals they have because they don't match your reality, then you end up just as intolerant and vicious as the rest. (I am the skinny fat OP of the other thread  with her month challenge to lower her 34% body fat).

And in that context the contamination you participate in may be the anti-thinness standard, which you could be happy with, but it is also the contamination/ spreading of a nasty way of talking to other women about their bodies, of judging them for their bodies and their choices.

This reminds me of the SAHM/WOH mom debates of some other threads. The losers here are tolerance, civility and empathy. 
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I just posted but - oh man!  Wait a minute: you are the poster who sneered at others that they should be protesting today because it “burns calories” and you have the temerity to tell others to reflect? You are that OP - and you abandoned your threat because YOU were nasty. I was not there or posting to you, but I read every post.

Hope you felt fulfilled engaging in your First Amendment rights today!

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Ha :) I was getting tired of the insults indeed, I thought they were mean and unproductive. I don't mind people who disagree with me but what is the point in responding to people who just call you name? There is nothing interesting to debate. I wasn't sneering,  I genuinely think the posters should focus their rage on important matters. And yes, I fulfilled my first amendment rights today (i did make a very sneery sign). [/quote]

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