Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I assume everyone who has lost weight is on a GLP.

I am guessing you know that this assumption doesn't hold in all cases. I have lost 35 to 40 pounds in the past year. I just accepted the weight gain, which happened over perhaps ten years, as "one gets older and plumper." But a year ago I found out I have a disease for which weight gain is a symptom. Untreated, the disease can be lethal. I am now under treatment for the underlying disease (no weight loss medications involved), which is why I have lost the weight.

I have had three people ask me about the weight loss, two of whom were close enough they knew about the disease. I don't mind telling people about the disease because it would have been caught much earlier had I simply had a physical every year, (One of the routine tests would have indicated the problem.) I didn't bother with physicals because I felt perfectly fine. That was a mistake on my part, and I don't mind reminding people that yearly testing is important.

Based on this thread, I now assume the people who don't ask think I am on a GLP-1.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If someone directly asks me how I lost weight, I will tell them, but so far only one person has directly asked me. Many people have said "you look great, have you lost weight?" and I just respond with "Thank you, yes I have" and move on to a different topic. I would answer this way regardless of how I lost weight.

Some people push it though. My mil is obsessed with weight. I refuse to share this sort of info with her bc I know she will discuss it endlessly with her friends. I know bc she does this about her sil. I don’t really want my appearance and weight loss to be gossip.

Anonymous wrote:I assume everyone who has lost weight is on a GLP.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That’s the only context in which I would share, to help someone asking me for tips. But it has not come up in that way since only always-thin people have commented and asked. So no, I just lie and say it’s exercise and different food habits (I have lost very slowly and do exercise a lot).

My SIL took over the conversation at a family dinner recently bragging about how she's lost over 50lbs working with a personal trainer. At the end of the evening, after impressing and amazing everyone with all of this, she says to me "I'm also on the GSPs like you are." I said "Do you mean a GLP-1"? She said "Yes." She was (and still is) quite obese, so working with the personal trainer involved being able to walk to the end of the block and back. She still does not use the upstairs in her house because she can't use the stairs. In other words, don't picture her in a gym doing squats and lifting weights.

Yes, being able to walk to the end of the block was good progress for her. But FFS. The trainer probably had 2% at most to do with her weight loss. I'm not against GLP-1 weight loss, I've lost over 70lbs on Wegovy. But let's stop the lying. I'm not interested in discussing my weight with people, but I'm going to set boundaries like an adult rather than "just lie" as you put it.