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Anonymous wrote:Welp, my best friend just called me a "lazy b--ch" for starting Wegovy.
My BMI is around 27--27.5. My doctor didn't suggest I take it, but I asked and she was willing to prescribe it to me because I've been struggling with weight gain since I started perimenopause. My friend's BMI is over 32 and she's developed some weight-related health issues over the past few years. I don't think she should take weight loss meds if she doesn't want to, of course, and her doctor hasn't recommended them. But after calling me a lazy b--ch, she went on a tirade about how weight loss meds are for morbidly obese diabetics with heart disease.
Now I feel like shit.
Has anyone else gotten a reaction like this? I'm a bit concerned about this friendship now.

The insult was uncalled for. But the reality is that people like you who are using it for cosmetic reasons, i.e. just to lose weight, are normalising the idea that older women should be slimmer and creating a new beauty ideal which will be hard to achieve without medicating. I kind of resent you all for the exacerbating the societal pressure for women to forever remain slender and weight conscious. Please don’t complain when, somewhere down the line, it turns out that there are negative long-term effects which you weren’t aware of. You chose this path.

Whoaaa what a crazy take. If you want to let yourself go fine, but own it.

DP, I agree with this PP. That you call the take crazy and think PP must have let herself go to hold this view, is exactly the point she was making.

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Anonymous wrote:Welp, my best friend just called me a "lazy b--ch" for starting Wegovy.
My BMI is around 27--27.5. My doctor didn't suggest I take it, but I asked and she was willing to prescribe it to me because I've been struggling with weight gain since I started perimenopause. My friend's BMI is over 32 and she's developed some weight-related health issues over the past few years. I don't think she should take weight loss meds if she doesn't want to, of course, and her doctor hasn't recommended them. But after calling me a lazy b--ch, she went on a tirade about how weight loss meds are for morbidly obese diabetics with heart disease.
Now I feel like shit.
Has anyone else gotten a reaction like this? I'm a bit concerned about this friendship now.

The insult was uncalled for. But the reality is that people like you who are using it for cosmetic reasons, i.e. just to lose weight, are normalising the idea that older women should be slimmer and creating a new beauty ideal which will be hard to achieve without medicating. I kind of resent you all for the exacerbating the societal pressure for women to forever remain slender and weight conscious. Please don’t complain when, somewhere down the line, it turns out that there are negative long-term effects which you weren’t aware of. You chose this path.

Whoaaa what a crazy take. If you want to let yourself go fine, but own it.

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Anonymous wrote:Welp, my best friend just called me a "lazy b--ch" for starting Wegovy.
My BMI is around 27--27.5. My doctor didn't suggest I take it, but I asked and she was willing to prescribe it to me because I've been struggling with weight gain since I started perimenopause. My friend's BMI is over 32 and she's developed some weight-related health issues over the past few years. I don't think she should take weight loss meds if she doesn't want to, of course, and her doctor hasn't recommended them. But after calling me a lazy b--ch, she went on a tirade about how weight loss meds are for morbidly obese diabetics with heart disease.
Now I feel like shit.
Has anyone else gotten a reaction like this? I'm a bit concerned about this friendship now.

The insult was uncalled for. But the reality is that people like you who are using it for cosmetic reasons, i.e. just to lose weight, are normalising the idea that older women should be slimmer and creating a new beauty ideal which will be hard to achieve without medicating. I kind of resent you all for the exacerbating the societal pressure for women to forever remain slender and weight conscious. Please don’t complain when, somewhere down the line, it turns out that there are negative long-term effects which you weren’t aware of. You chose this path.

So you’re hoping for negative long term effects of taking weight loss meds to stick it to people who weren’t fat enough for you? How can you ensure that these negative effects don’t harm the people who were fat enough?

Of course I’m not hoping for it. Read more carefully. Clearly, there are very negative long term effects of being obese so I absolutely understand obese people assuming the long term risk of these drugs. But if someone takes them for cosmetic reasons then they are knowingly assuming a risk for little or no medical benefit.

Just because someone isn't obese, it doesn't mean that they're taking weight loss medication for cosmetic reasons. There is such as thing as being overweight, and overweight people who keep gaining weight despite their best efforts will become obese before long. I'd say there is significant medical benefit to stopping the slide before it becomes dire.

So you are saying people might take it to prevent future possible obesity?

DP - since the medications treat an insulin related issue, why wouldn't people take it before that issue manifests as a gigantic health risk?

DP- wow, that’s crazy. Take medication before there is any health issue.

What’s crazy is not treating a condition you know about until it’s a problem. You know that people get pre-cancerous conditions treated all the time correct? And that people take insulin and type two diabetes medicine before they have more serious health problems?

I don’t believe you’re stupid enough to actually think what you typed. You’re just someone with an agenda..

You are clearly not a doctor. You don't prescribe serious drugs with side effects to people who may or may not develop a condition. DP

You’re an idiot.

You treat conditions you know about before SYMPTOMS occur, and often to PREVENT them. LIFE THREATENING symptoms.

As has been explained to you about diabetes, cancer, and legion other drugs.

Stop posting. Go learn.

Yeah.

Clearly not a doctor.

Yeah.

Clearly an idiot. Who can’t respond to the points made about diabetes and cancer treatments.

FFS. I don't have time to argue with you about the "points" you are delusional enough to think you are making (or respond to your childish ad hominem -- virtually always used when one can't "respond to the points" in a substantive way). Believe whatever you want to believe, lol.

But I DID make the points first, and you are the one who started with the pointless ad hominem without responding on substance. Every accusation is a confession with you.

You also seem to have plenty of time to type words, just not ones that matter.

If you change your mind, I’ll be here, as an informed adult willing to have a discussion.

Lol

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Anonymous wrote:Welp, my best friend just called me a "lazy b--ch" for starting Wegovy.
My BMI is around 27--27.5. My doctor didn't suggest I take it, but I asked and she was willing to prescribe it to me because I've been struggling with weight gain since I started perimenopause. My friend's BMI is over 32 and she's developed some weight-related health issues over the past few years. I don't think she should take weight loss meds if she doesn't want to, of course, and her doctor hasn't recommended them. But after calling me a lazy b--ch, she went on a tirade about how weight loss meds are for morbidly obese diabetics with heart disease.
Now I feel like shit.
Has anyone else gotten a reaction like this? I'm a bit concerned about this friendship now.

The insult was uncalled for. But the reality is that people like you who are using it for cosmetic reasons, i.e. just to lose weight, are normalising the idea that older women should be slimmer and creating a new beauty ideal which will be hard to achieve without medicating. I kind of resent you all for the exacerbating the societal pressure for women to forever remain slender and weight conscious. Please don’t complain when, somewhere down the line, it turns out that there are negative long-term effects which you weren’t aware of. You chose this path.

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Anonymous wrote:Welp, my best friend just called me a "lazy b--ch" for starting Wegovy.
My BMI is around 27--27.5. My doctor didn't suggest I take it, but I asked and she was willing to prescribe it to me because I've been struggling with weight gain since I started perimenopause. My friend's BMI is over 32 and she's developed some weight-related health issues over the past few years. I don't think she should take weight loss meds if she doesn't want to, of course, and her doctor hasn't recommended them. But after calling me a lazy b--ch, she went on a tirade about how weight loss meds are for morbidly obese diabetics with heart disease.
Now I feel like shit.
Has anyone else gotten a reaction like this? I'm a bit concerned about this friendship now.

The insult was uncalled for. But the reality is that people like you who are using it for cosmetic reasons, i.e. just to lose weight, are normalising the idea that older women should be slimmer and creating a new beauty ideal which will be hard to achieve without medicating. I kind of resent you all for the exacerbating the societal pressure for women to forever remain slender and weight conscious. Please don’t complain when, somewhere down the line, it turns out that there are negative long-term effects which you weren’t aware of. You chose this path.

So you’re hoping for negative long term effects of taking weight loss meds to stick it to people who weren’t fat enough for you? How can you ensure that these negative effects don’t harm the people who were fat enough?

Of course I’m not hoping for it. Read more carefully. Clearly, there are very negative long term effects of being obese so I absolutely understand obese people assuming the long term risk of these drugs. But if someone takes them for cosmetic reasons then they are knowingly assuming a risk for little or no medical benefit.

Just because someone isn't obese, it doesn't mean that they're taking weight loss medication for cosmetic reasons. There is such as thing as being overweight, and overweight people who keep gaining weight despite their best efforts will become obese before long. I'd say there is significant medical benefit to stopping the slide before it becomes dire.

So you are saying people might take it to prevent future possible obesity?

DP - since the medications treat an insulin related issue, why wouldn't people take it before that issue manifests as a gigantic health risk?

DP- wow, that’s crazy. Take medication before there is any health issue.

What’s crazy is not treating a condition you know about until it’s a problem. You know that people get pre-cancerous conditions treated all the time correct? And that people take insulin and type two diabetes medicine before they have more serious health problems?

I don’t believe you’re stupid enough to actually think what you typed. You’re just someone with an agenda..

You are clearly not a doctor. You don't prescribe serious drugs with side effects to people who may or may not develop a condition. DP

You’re an idiot.

You treat conditions you know about before SYMPTOMS occur, and often to PREVENT them. LIFE THREATENING symptoms.

As has been explained to you about diabetes, cancer, and legion other drugs.

Stop posting. Go learn.

Yeah.

Clearly not a doctor.

Yeah.

Clearly an idiot. Who can’t respond to the points made about diabetes and cancer treatments.

FFS. I don't have time to argue with you about the "points" you are delusional enough to think you are making (or respond to your childish ad hominem -- virtually always used when one can't "respond to the points" in a substantive way). Believe whatever you want to believe, lol.

But I DID make the points first, and you are the one who started with the pointless ad hominem without responding on substance. Every accusation is a confession with you.

You also seem to have plenty of time to type words, just not ones that matter.

If you change your mind, I’ll be here, as an informed adult willing to have a discussion.

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Anonymous wrote:Welp, my best friend just called me a "lazy b--ch" for starting Wegovy.
My BMI is around 27--27.5. My doctor didn't suggest I take it, but I asked and she was willing to prescribe it to me because I've been struggling with weight gain since I started perimenopause. My friend's BMI is over 32 and she's developed some weight-related health issues over the past few years. I don't think she should take weight loss meds if she doesn't want to, of course, and her doctor hasn't recommended them. But after calling me a lazy b--ch, she went on a tirade about how weight loss meds are for morbidly obese diabetics with heart disease.
Now I feel like shit.
Has anyone else gotten a reaction like this? I'm a bit concerned about this friendship now.

The insult was uncalled for. But the reality is that people like you who are using it for cosmetic reasons, i.e. just to lose weight, are normalising the idea that older women should be slimmer and creating a new beauty ideal which will be hard to achieve without medicating. I kind of resent you all for the exacerbating the societal pressure for women to forever remain slender and weight conscious. Please don’t complain when, somewhere down the line, it turns out that there are negative long-term effects which you weren’t aware of. You chose this path.

So you’re hoping for negative long term effects of taking weight loss meds to stick it to people who weren’t fat enough for you? How can you ensure that these negative effects don’t harm the people who were fat enough?

Of course I’m not hoping for it. Read more carefully. Clearly, there are very negative long term effects of being obese so I absolutely understand obese people assuming the long term risk of these drugs. But if someone takes them for cosmetic reasons then they are knowingly assuming a risk for little or no medical benefit.

Just because someone isn't obese, it doesn't mean that they're taking weight loss medication for cosmetic reasons. There is such as thing as being overweight, and overweight people who keep gaining weight despite their best efforts will become obese before long. I'd say there is significant medical benefit to stopping the slide before it becomes dire.

So you are saying people might take it to prevent future possible obesity?

DP - since the medications treat an insulin related issue, why wouldn't people take it before that issue manifests as a gigantic health risk?

DP- wow, that’s crazy. Take medication before there is any health issue.

What’s crazy is not treating a condition you know about until it’s a problem. You know that people get pre-cancerous conditions treated all the time correct? And that people take insulin and type two diabetes medicine before they have more serious health problems?

I don’t believe you’re stupid enough to actually think what you typed. You’re just someone with an agenda..

You are clearly not a doctor. You don't prescribe serious drugs with side effects to people who may or may not develop a condition. DP

You’re an idiot.

You treat conditions you know about before SYMPTOMS occur, and often to PREVENT them. LIFE THREATENING symptoms.

As has been explained to you about diabetes, cancer, and legion other drugs.

Stop posting. Go learn.

Yeah.

Clearly not a doctor.

Yeah.

Clearly an idiot. Who can’t respond to the points made about diabetes and cancer treatments.

FFS. I don't have time to argue with you about the "points" you are delusional enough to think you are making (or respond to your childish ad hominem -- virtually always used when one can't "respond to the points" in a substantive way). Believe whatever you want to believe, lol.

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Anonymous wrote:Welp, my best friend just called me a "lazy b--ch" for starting Wegovy.
My BMI is around 27--27.5. My doctor didn't suggest I take it, but I asked and she was willing to prescribe it to me because I've been struggling with weight gain since I started perimenopause. My friend's BMI is over 32 and she's developed some weight-related health issues over the past few years. I don't think she should take weight loss meds if she doesn't want to, of course, and her doctor hasn't recommended them. But after calling me a lazy b--ch, she went on a tirade about how weight loss meds are for morbidly obese diabetics with heart disease.
Now I feel like shit.
Has anyone else gotten a reaction like this? I'm a bit concerned about this friendship now.

The insult was uncalled for. But the reality is that people like you who are using it for cosmetic reasons, i.e. just to lose weight, are normalising the idea that older women should be slimmer and creating a new beauty ideal which will be hard to achieve without medicating. I kind of resent you all for the exacerbating the societal pressure for women to forever remain slender and weight conscious. Please don’t complain when, somewhere down the line, it turns out that there are negative long-term effects which you weren’t aware of. You chose this path.

So you’re hoping for negative long term effects of taking weight loss meds to stick it to people who weren’t fat enough for you? How can you ensure that these negative effects don’t harm the people who were fat enough?

Of course I’m not hoping for it. Read more carefully. Clearly, there are very negative long term effects of being obese so I absolutely understand obese people assuming the long term risk of these drugs. But if someone takes them for cosmetic reasons then they are knowingly assuming a risk for little or no medical benefit.

Just because someone isn't obese, it doesn't mean that they're taking weight loss medication for cosmetic reasons. There is such as thing as being overweight, and overweight people who keep gaining weight despite their best efforts will become obese before long. I'd say there is significant medical benefit to stopping the slide before it becomes dire.

So you are saying people might take it to prevent future possible obesity?

DP - since the medications treat an insulin related issue, why wouldn't people take it before that issue manifests as a gigantic health risk?

DP- wow, that’s crazy. Take medication before there is any health issue.

What’s crazy is not treating a condition you know about until it’s a problem. You know that people get pre-cancerous conditions treated all the time correct? And that people take insulin and type two diabetes medicine before they have more serious health problems?

I don’t believe you’re stupid enough to actually think what you typed. You’re just someone with an agenda..

You are clearly not a doctor. You don't prescribe serious drugs with side effects to people who may or may not develop a condition. DP

You’re an idiot.

You treat conditions you know about before SYMPTOMS occur, and often to PREVENT them. LIFE THREATENING symptoms.

As has been explained to you about diabetes, cancer, and legion other drugs.

Stop posting. Go learn.

Yeah.

Clearly not a doctor.

Yeah.

Clearly an idiot. Who can’t respond to the points made about diabetes and cancer treatments.

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Anonymous wrote:Welp, my best friend just called me a "lazy b--ch" for starting Wegovy.
My BMI is around 27--27.5. My doctor didn't suggest I take it, but I asked and she was willing to prescribe it to me because I've been struggling with weight gain since I started perimenopause. My friend's BMI is over 32 and she's developed some weight-related health issues over the past few years. I don't think she should take weight loss meds if she doesn't want to, of course, and her doctor hasn't recommended them. But after calling me a lazy b--ch, she went on a tirade about how weight loss meds are for morbidly obese diabetics with heart disease.
Now I feel like shit.
Has anyone else gotten a reaction like this? I'm a bit concerned about this friendship now.

The insult was uncalled for. But the reality is that people like you who are using it for cosmetic reasons, i.e. just to lose weight, are normalising the idea that older women should be slimmer and creating a new beauty ideal which will be hard to achieve without medicating. I kind of resent you all for the exacerbating the societal pressure for women to forever remain slender and weight conscious. Please don’t complain when, somewhere down the line, it turns out that there are negative long-term effects which you weren’t aware of. You chose this path.

So you’re hoping for negative long term effects of taking weight loss meds to stick it to people who weren’t fat enough for you? How can you ensure that these negative effects don’t harm the people who were fat enough?

Of course I’m not hoping for it. Read more carefully. Clearly, there are very negative long term effects of being obese so I absolutely understand obese people assuming the long term risk of these drugs. But if someone takes them for cosmetic reasons then they are knowingly assuming a risk for little or no medical benefit.

Just because someone isn't obese, it doesn't mean that they're taking weight loss medication for cosmetic reasons. There is such as thing as being overweight, and overweight people who keep gaining weight despite their best efforts will become obese before long. I'd say there is significant medical benefit to stopping the slide before it becomes dire.

So you are saying people might take it to prevent future possible obesity?

DP - since the medications treat an insulin related issue, why wouldn't people take it before that issue manifests as a gigantic health risk?

DP- wow, that’s crazy. Take medication before there is any health issue.

What’s crazy is not treating a condition you know about until it’s a problem. You know that people get pre-cancerous conditions treated all the time correct? And that people take insulin and type two diabetes medicine before they have more serious health problems?

I don’t believe you’re stupid enough to actually think what you typed. You’re just someone with an agenda..

You are clearly not a doctor. You don't prescribe serious drugs with side effects to people who may or may not develop a condition. DP

You’re an idiot.

You treat conditions you know about before SYMPTOMS occur, and often to PREVENT them. LIFE THREATENING symptoms.

As has been explained to you about diabetes, cancer, and legion other drugs.

Stop posting. Go learn.

Yeah.

Clearly not a doctor.

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Anonymous wrote:Welp, my best friend just called me a "lazy b--ch" for starting Wegovy.
My BMI is around 27--27.5. My doctor didn't suggest I take it, but I asked and she was willing to prescribe it to me because I've been struggling with weight gain since I started perimenopause. My friend's BMI is over 32 and she's developed some weight-related health issues over the past few years. I don't think she should take weight loss meds if she doesn't want to, of course, and her doctor hasn't recommended them. But after calling me a lazy b--ch, she went on a tirade about how weight loss meds are for morbidly obese diabetics with heart disease.
Now I feel like shit.
Has anyone else gotten a reaction like this? I'm a bit concerned about this friendship now.

The insult was uncalled for. But the reality is that people like you who are using it for cosmetic reasons, i.e. just to lose weight, are normalising the idea that older women should be slimmer and creating a new beauty ideal which will be hard to achieve without medicating. I kind of resent you all for the exacerbating the societal pressure for women to forever remain slender and weight conscious. Please don’t complain when, somewhere down the line, it turns out that there are negative long-term effects which you weren’t aware of. You chose this path.

So you’re hoping for negative long term effects of taking weight loss meds to stick it to people who weren’t fat enough for you? How can you ensure that these negative effects don’t harm the people who were fat enough?

Of course I’m not hoping for it. Read more carefully. Clearly, there are very negative long term effects of being obese so I absolutely understand obese people assuming the long term risk of these drugs. But if someone takes them for cosmetic reasons then they are knowingly assuming a risk for little or no medical benefit.

Just because someone isn't obese, it doesn't mean that they're taking weight loss medication for cosmetic reasons. There is such as thing as being overweight, and overweight people who keep gaining weight despite their best efforts will become obese before long. I'd say there is significant medical benefit to stopping the slide before it becomes dire.

So you are saying people might take it to prevent future possible obesity?

DP - since the medications treat an insulin related issue, why wouldn't people take it before that issue manifests as a gigantic health risk?

DP- wow, that’s crazy. Take medication before there is any health issue.

What’s crazy is not treating a condition you know about until it’s a problem. You know that people get pre-cancerous conditions treated all the time correct? And that people take insulin and type two diabetes medicine before they have more serious health problems?

I don’t believe you’re stupid enough to actually think what you typed. You’re just someone with an agenda..

You are clearly not a doctor. You don't prescribe serious drugs with side effects to people who may or may not develop a condition. DP

You’re an idiot.

You treat conditions you know about before SYMPTOMS occur, and often to PREVENT them. LIFE THREATENING symptoms.

As has been explained to you about diabetes, cancer, and legion other drugs.

Stop posting. Go learn.

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Anonymous wrote:Welp, my best friend just called me a "lazy b--ch" for starting Wegovy.
My BMI is around 27--27.5. My doctor didn't suggest I take it, but I asked and she was willing to prescribe it to me because I've been struggling with weight gain since I started perimenopause. My friend's BMI is over 32 and she's developed some weight-related health issues over the past few years. I don't think she should take weight loss meds if she doesn't want to, of course, and her doctor hasn't recommended them. But after calling me a lazy b--ch, she went on a tirade about how weight loss meds are for morbidly obese diabetics with heart disease.
Now I feel like shit.
Has anyone else gotten a reaction like this? I'm a bit concerned about this friendship now.

The insult was uncalled for. But the reality is that people like you who are using it for cosmetic reasons, i.e. just to lose weight, are normalising the idea that older women should be slimmer and creating a new beauty ideal which will be hard to achieve without medicating. I kind of resent you all for the exacerbating the societal pressure for women to forever remain slender and weight conscious. Please don’t complain when, somewhere down the line, it turns out that there are negative long-term effects which you weren’t aware of. You chose this path.

So you’re hoping for negative long term effects of taking weight loss meds to stick it to people who weren’t fat enough for you? How can you ensure that these negative effects don’t harm the people who were fat enough?

Of course I’m not hoping for it. Read more carefully. Clearly, there are very negative long term effects of being obese so I absolutely understand obese people assuming the long term risk of these drugs. But if someone takes them for cosmetic reasons then they are knowingly assuming a risk for little or no medical benefit.

Just because someone isn't obese, it doesn't mean that they're taking weight loss medication for cosmetic reasons. There is such as thing as being overweight, and overweight people who keep gaining weight despite their best efforts will become obese before long. I'd say there is significant medical benefit to stopping the slide before it becomes dire.

So you are saying people might take it to prevent future possible obesity?

DP - since the medications treat an insulin related issue, why wouldn't people take it before that issue manifests as a gigantic health risk?

DP- wow, that’s crazy. Take medication before there is any health issue.

What’s crazy is not treating a condition you know about until it’s a problem. You know that people get pre-cancerous conditions treated all the time correct? And that people take insulin and type two diabetes medicine before they have more serious health problems?

I don’t believe you’re stupid enough to actually think what you typed. You’re just someone with an agenda..

You are clearly not a doctor. You don't prescribe serious drugs with side effects to people who may or may not develop a condition. DP

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Anonymous wrote:Welp, my best friend just called me a "lazy b--ch" for starting Wegovy.
My BMI is around 27--27.5. My doctor didn't suggest I take it, but I asked and she was willing to prescribe it to me because I've been struggling with weight gain since I started perimenopause. My friend's BMI is over 32 and she's developed some weight-related health issues over the past few years. I don't think she should take weight loss meds if she doesn't want to, of course, and her doctor hasn't recommended them. But after calling me a lazy b--ch, she went on a tirade about how weight loss meds are for morbidly obese diabetics with heart disease.
Now I feel like shit.
Has anyone else gotten a reaction like this? I'm a bit concerned about this friendship now.

The insult was uncalled for. But the reality is that people like you who are using it for cosmetic reasons, i.e. just to lose weight, are normalising the idea that older women should be slimmer and creating a new beauty ideal which will be hard to achieve without medicating. I kind of resent you all for the exacerbating the societal pressure for women to forever remain slender and weight conscious. Please don’t complain when, somewhere down the line, it turns out that there are negative long-term effects which you weren’t aware of. You chose this path.

So you’re hoping for negative long term effects of taking weight loss meds to stick it to people who weren’t fat enough for you? How can you ensure that these negative effects don’t harm the people who were fat enough?

Of course I’m not hoping for it. Read more carefully. Clearly, there are very negative long term effects of being obese so I absolutely understand obese people assuming the long term risk of these drugs. But if someone takes them for cosmetic reasons then they are knowingly assuming a risk for little or no medical benefit.

Just because someone isn't obese, it doesn't mean that they're taking weight loss medication for cosmetic reasons. There is such as thing as being overweight, and overweight people who keep gaining weight despite their best efforts will become obese before long. I'd say there is significant medical benefit to stopping the slide before it becomes dire.

So you are saying people might take it to prevent future possible obesity?

DP - since the medications treat an insulin related issue, why wouldn't people take it before that issue manifests as a gigantic health risk?

DP- wow, that’s crazy. Take medication before there is any health issue.

What’s crazy is not treating a condition you know about until it’s a problem. You know that people get pre-cancerous conditions treated all the time correct? And that people take insulin and type two diabetes medicine before they have more serious health problems?

I don’t believe you’re stupid enough to actually think what you typed. You’re just someone with an agenda..