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.

Why not just take the semi-g? It sounds a heck of a lot easier than diets.

I think of Wegovy like glasses. I’m grateful that people wear glasses, because otherwise people who need them would be crashing into me all the time. Similarly, without Wegovy, people who need to take it would be crashing into me all the time, because they otherwise take up so much space. I hope everyone who ought to be taking Wegovy takes it. It’s better for all of us!

I lost 30 pounds this year on Wegovy and no one has asked me if I’m taking something. Not one person. Lots of people have commented on my weight loss.
Are people really asking you??

Anonymous wrote:This thread is a riot. OP says she loses some weight and gets a bunch of unwelcome comments implying she didn't manage to correct her weight issue on her own in her real life. OP says there is nothing wrong with using drugs, yet is told she is judgmental by this crowd.

If you want to saddle yourself to big pharma for the rest of your life, you should feel free to do so. But to refer to somebody as judgmental when they themselves were being judged with unwelcome comments demonstrates your own projections about controlling weight with these new drugs.

OP started a discussion and the discussion is unfolding.

This thread is a riot. OP says she loses some weight and gets a bunch of unwelcome comments implying she didn't manage to correct her weight issue on her own in her real life. OP says there is nothing wrong with using drugs, yet is told she is judgmental by this crowd.

If you want to saddle yourself to big pharma for the rest of your life, you should feel free to do so. But to refer to somebody as judgmental when they themselves were being judged with unwelcome comments demonstrates your own projections about controlling weight with these new drugs.

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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.

I have a question for you based on your experience taking the drug for two years. Do you think you took the easy way out? What other changes have you made in your life?

There was no possibility for me to lose 60 pounds and then maintain that loss for the rest of my life without this drug or bariatric surgery. So in that way I took the easy way out. I do not have what it takes to suffer through what maintaining this loss for a lifetime “naturally” requires—constant hunger, deprivation, and vigilance—after a lifetime of being obese. I do not have the self-discipline, resources, lifestyle or personality. A small percentage of people do, and that’s great for them. I don’t, which I learned over decades of losing and gaining the same 30-90 pounds three or four times over.

I have not changed much else about my life. I always ate pretty healthfully and exercised at moderate intensity frequently. I just eat less of all the same foods now, and exercise significantly less since it’s now something I do because it feels good and improves my functional fitness which I value, and not because I’m doing it to make my body smaller.

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Anonymous wrote:I just don't understand why people are annoyed when someone who needs a medication takes it and it helps them. Are you jealous? Are you upset because you can no longer feel that you are superior because you are skinnier?

I read an article somewhere about a woman whose friends dropped her after she lost a bunch of weight because she was no longer the fat friend.

This is exactly it. People only like fat people to get skinny when the journey to get there involves some level of punishment or asceticism as penance for being fat in the first place. Whether by constant hunger from calorie restriction, the pain of intense exercise, or mutilating our bodies with surgery, there must be some kind of cost. Otherwise it threatens the worldview that thin people just have superior morals and self-discipline. Ozempic or similar makes it relatively effortless without the scars and permanent damage from bariatric surgery, and that’s just not okay.

Yep. And it's so weird. I've lost over 100lbs on Wegovy. Life changing. But I haven't told a soul.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m on ozempic. I was morbidly obese and diabetic. I’ve tried diet and exercise for literally decades and it didn’t work. I’m down 100lbs on ozempic and still have about 50 lbs to go. I’m no longer diabetic. I no longer have high blood pressure.

I have a medical condition that I finally found a medicine to treat and the treatment is working.

Sorry that your friends are comparing you to horrible people like me.

To answer the previous poster’s questions. I didn’t take the easy way out, I took the only thing that has ever worked for me.

I am doing the same daily exercise routine, but getting treated much better by other people at the gym.

I’m eating the same stuff I always tried to, but no longer starving all the time. I was constantly starving. I could eat a huge massive meal, and would still be hungry. Now I eat the goal meal and can actually not think about eating. I’m doing so much better at work and life because I no longer spend all day thinking of food.

Thanks for your great answer, and congratulations on your weight loss.

Anonymous wrote:I’m on ozempic. I was morbidly obese and diabetic. I’ve tried diet and exercise for literally decades and it didn’t work. I’m down 100lbs on ozempic and still have about 50 lbs to go. I’m no longer diabetic. I no longer have high blood pressure.

I have a medical condition that I finally found a medicine to treat and the treatment is working.

Sorry that your friends are comparing you to horrible people like me.

To answer the previous poster’s questions. I didn’t take the easy way out, I took the only thing that has ever worked for me.

I am doing the same daily exercise routine, but getting treated much better by other people at the gym.

I’m eating the same stuff I always tried to, but no longer starving all the time. I was constantly starving. I could eat a huge massive meal, and would still be hungry. Now I eat the goal meal and can actually not think about eating. I’m doing so much better at work and life because I no longer spend all day thinking of food.

Anonymous wrote:I just don't understand why people are annoyed when someone who needs a medication takes it and it helps them. Are you jealous? Are you upset because you can no longer feel that you are superior because you are skinnier?

I read an article somewhere about a woman whose friends dropped her after she lost a bunch of weight because she was no longer the fat friend.

This is exactly it. People only like fat people to get skinny when the journey to get there involves some level of punishment or asceticism as penance for being fat in the first place. Whether by constant hunger from calorie restriction, the pain of intense exercise, or mutilating our bodies with surgery, there must be some kind of cost. Otherwise it threatens the worldview that thin people just have superior morals and self-discipline. Ozempic or similar makes it relatively effortless without the scars and permanent damage from bariatric surgery, and that’s just not okay.

I’m on ozempic. I was morbidly obese and diabetic. I’ve tried diet and exercise for literally decades and it didn’t work. I’m down 100lbs on ozempic and still have about 50 lbs to go. I’m no longer diabetic. I no longer have high blood pressure.

I have a medical condition that I finally found a medicine to treat and the treatment is working.

Sorry that your friends are comparing you to horrible people like me.

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.

I have a question for you based on your experience taking the drug for two years. Do you think you took the easy way out? What other changes have you made in your life?

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.

Ozempic is for diabetes.
Wegovy is for weight loss in obese people.

You are neither. You didn't need the medicine. Good for you for losing weight in the way most appropriate for your weight and not using medicine you didn't need anyway.

What is with skinny people losing a small amount of weight and then having some sort of superiority complex about it?

Losing 25lbs through exercise and diet is not the same as losing 100lbs with the combination of exercise, a healthy diet, and medicine specifically used to combat obesity.

I just don't understand why people are annoyed when someone who needs a medication takes it and it helps them. Are you jealous? Are you upset because you can no longer feel that you are superior because you are skinnier?

I read an article somewhere about a woman whose friends dropped her after she lost a bunch of weight because she was no longer the fat friend.