it’s easy to make sense of and i’m sure you’ve seen it: the fitness guru encouraging avoidance of GLP-1s or the lifestyle coach warning people of unproven side effects and risks. schemers selling diet fads and trend chasers who stand to lose a lot of money. all of that makes sense. it’s pathetic but understandable.

what doesn’t make sense is the anger from random people who view using a GLP-1 as some form of cheating because it takes away obesity as a permanent struggle of willpower. these folks are mad that fat people aren’t the useless and lazy pieces of shit they have been made to feel like. now they have to think of us as legitimately ill and that is earth shattering to them.

who to hate now? who to feel superior to now? no, no… something has to be wrong with these drugs!

…but there isn’t lol. there are no long term health risks that are worse than morbid obesity. these naysayers don’t know the long history of research and testing GLP-1s have went through. diabetics have been on similar classes for decades.

it’s so absurd to hate somebody else for their size and now we have definitive confirmation obesity is a disease and can be treated with medication. these people are truly assholes, just remember that!

don’t let them shame you or make you fear this journey. it might make you question everything but trust the science and your doctor, not some random dickhead.

  • JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    19·
    9 days ago

    The lord gave us fat to protect us from cold and starvation, and to feed our children. Fat is natural and good. I worry that people are taking these medications because they’ve been taught to hate their bodies by the media. If someone genuinely wants to be thinner I support their journey, but I think there should be an evaluation by a mental healthcare expert to make sure their desire to lose weight isn’t motivated by some kind of self-hatred.

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 days ago

      Are you in the Arctic tundra, and that’s why you need fat to protect yourself from cold & starvation?

      And you think women need to be fat to feed their babies? Women feed their babies with breast milk, not excess visceral fat. As long as Mom is eating something every day, baby is going to get plenty of nutrients through breast milk. Mom does not need to be obese to feed her babies.

      Some people enjoy being fat. So carry on with your big bad self.

      Some people however would rather feel healthy & free & unencumbered & light & enjoy running & climbing & jumping & lithely romping in the sheets with a lover. No self- hatred here. No mental evaluation needed.

      Have you considered that people who enjoy being fat are the ones weighed down with some kind of self-hatred & need a mental evaluation?

      • JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        11·
        9 days ago

        https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091743518301610

        Women with normal BMI who wished to lose weight reported lower energy and protein intake per kg of body weight, more signs of depression and less satisfaction with their quality of life than those who did not wish to lose weight in both age groups. The desire to lose weight was similarly associated with psychological health in women with overweight/obesity, in both age categories as well.

        The wish to lose weight is a possible health indicator and should not be normalized.

        Health care providers should be cautious when they communicate about weight and corpulence with their patients, refraining from valorizing thinness, and promoting adequate weight loss programs when appropriate.

        Moreover, these findings corroborates the observation that body dissatisfaction is a public health issue (Mond et al., 2013) and raise the question of how to devise public health campaigns so that they reach their goal without adverse side-effects (Walls et al., 2011).

        I’m going to have to push back on your attempt to spread unhealthy patterns of thought. We have a weight dissatisfaction epidemic that’s genuinely hurting people and your current actions are part of the problem.

        • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          9 days ago

          I’m guessing you’re pretty young and see being surrounded by fat people as normal. I fucking assure you, it is not healthy nor normal. I see people every day that would have been stared at in awe in the 80s and into the 90s. Not stared at to be mean or rude, just out of shock.

          This pic goes around a lot. The woman across the street is exactly that size, and there is nothing unusual about her.

          Saw a guy like that one night after the movies in 1990. None of us had ever seen a human that large. Awestruck indeed!

          Talking to a young friend about our mutual friend:

          “Meh, he’s not really fat, just a little pudgy.”

          “Bro, in my graduating class of 400 in 1989, he would have been one of the fattest, if not the fattest, kids in the entire school.”

          Every time I go to the doctor, I’m about the only person who isn’t fat. That speaks volumes to me.

          weight dissatisfaction epidemic that’s genuinely hurting people

          Fat people should be dissatisfied with their weight. They don’t have to be down on themselves, and no one should be hating, but they should be working on it.

          • JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            11·
            9 days ago

            People in that time would have also stared at a visibly trans woman. They would have stared at two men kissing. Kids were bullied for having autism. The KKK lynched a black man for the last time in 1981.

            The vast diversity the Lord put on this earth was not celebrated but shunned until very recently, and much of it still is. Now I showed you a source that what you’re doing is unhealthy, and your argument is “but fat people are new and scary”? These appeals to emotion do not convince me that you’re not hurting people.