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Why does everyone say they love being fat until they get their hands on skinny jabs?

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Holmints · 06/08/2025 09:46

I’m seeing this so much on social media. People screaming from the rooftops how they love their bodies. Hate comments come and they combat them with body positivity, I admired them so much.

Lately though, the very people who were oh-so-body-positive are popping back up five stone lighter. Some comment on it and some don’t, as if they’re waiting for people to ask. Hang on a minute, I thought you loved your big body? Did you love being fat or not?

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goldenquestion · 07/08/2025 13:34

pamelanoon · 07/08/2025 13:31

My mother was told by her doctor that she had to take blood pressure tablets and pay for them.

She got her blood pressure checked by someone else and her blood pressure was normal.

We later found out that her doctor was getting paid money by pharma companies to prescribe certain drugs.

Another scam

In the UK?

goldenquestion · 07/08/2025 13:33

pamelanoon · 07/08/2025 13:20

I can't know the ins and outs of every drug as I'm not a scientist.

But if weight loss injections DO work for someone, it keeps people in a cycle of paying money every month for a diet drug for the rest of their life. As the minute that they stop, they put the weight back on.

If Weight loss injections DONT work for someone, (many people have reported having too many side effects on mounjaro to stay on it) that person then feels a failure and goes and buys a different dieting product

Either way, the pharmaceutical companies make a big profit

Edited

Don't know the ins and outs, but happy to state what is and isn't fact?

No, when you stop taking WLI, you don't put the weight back on the next minute. The fact you have such a lack of understanding of what they do and how they work, means this probably isnt a topic to be vocal on.

Do you feel the same about all long term medications? Deisgned to make a profit rather than help people with a chronic condition? Of course the pharmaceutical industry is almost unethically overpriced but I'm not sure that's a conspiracy...just capitalism!

pamelanoon · 07/08/2025 13:31

SkylarFalls · 07/08/2025 13:27

So why take statins if you need to stay on then to retain the benefits?

Why take blood pressure pills if you have to keep taking them?

Why go to the dentist if going once then never again doesn't protect your teeth for life?

My mother was told by her doctor that she had to take blood pressure tablets and pay for them.

She got her blood pressure checked by someone else and her blood pressure was normal.

We later found out that her doctor was getting paid money by pharma companies to prescribe certain drugs.

Another scam

SkylarFalls · 07/08/2025 13:30

pamelanoon · 07/08/2025 13:25

So then why take the drug in the first place?

the drug is marketed as "you were not able to lose weight without taking this drug, you will only be able to lose weight if you take this drug".

Everyone i know that is taking mounjaro, is saying that they want to take it for the rest of their life, as they are afraid that if they stop, they will put the weight back on.

It is psychological marketing. It puts fear into people that they cant maintain their weight without using this injection

Edited

Why join a gym? You gotta keep it up for life otherwise you decondition!

Why mow your lawn? Didn't you do that once and it didn't last for life?

SkylarFalls · 07/08/2025 13:27

pamelanoon · 07/08/2025 13:25

So then why take the drug in the first place?

the drug is marketed as "you were not able to lose weight without taking this drug, you will only be able to lose weight if you take this drug".

Everyone i know that is taking mounjaro, is saying that they want to take it for the rest of their life, as they are afraid that if they stop, they will put the weight back on.

It is psychological marketing. It puts fear into people that they cant maintain their weight without using this injection

Edited

So why take statins if you need to stay on then to retain the benefits?

Why take blood pressure pills if you have to keep taking them?

Why go to the dentist if going once then never again doesn't protect your teeth for life?

LaurieFairyCake · 07/08/2025 13:27

I didn’t need to change my diet or lifestyle, I needed a drug that would allow me to keep my very low calorie intake forever (maintenance is 1000 calories for me).

only a drug could do that as obviously I was hungrier than a thousand calories a day.

I will be on it forever as I’m short/menopausal/have various hormone issues. And I’m happy to pay for it.

younger, taller, fitter people than me may need to make lifestyle changes to come off it. Unfortunately that isn’t possible for me as nothing works to keep me within a 1000 calories.

I’ve made no changes to my diet. I have done the same thing as I’ve done the last 5 years, intermittent fasting and eating protein first every day. I eat the same thing every day as I did before the injections.

it took me a year to lose to healthy bmi at less than 0.5 to 1lb per week average.

The whole point of discussions about this should be that everyone is different.

SomeOfTheTrouble · 07/08/2025 13:26

Mrsbloggz · 07/08/2025 13:16

They work whilst you are taking them.
You can be slim as long as you keep paying money to the pharmaceutical companies for the products which enable you to stay slim.

I came off them 10 months ago and have maintained my weight (BMI 22)

PinkArt · 07/08/2025 13:26

KateMiskin · 07/08/2025 13:24

I am Asian, so am overweight for an Asian. I need to be below 23 ideally.

Ah, my bad. I'm also 5'7" and around 11 stone is my goal weight which was why it stood out to me.

SkylarFalls · 07/08/2025 13:26

That's me!

I hate being skinny, genuinely, but also need to be to, you know, live a long life.

Lots of reasons:

I am build for curves, I'm short and busty, and from genetics that went through famine, Im not from a elegant skinny line, I'm from a cuddly hobbit line, and is so every I love. I fit clothes better skinny, but I don't prefer myself naked skinny.

I'm sexually attractive to chunkier people: NOT unhealthily obese people, but like wildlings from GOT chunky, look like they could survive a quest through the wilderness chunky. So I don't feel sexy myself when I'm skinny.

Boney sex is yuck.

The fat phobes really show you their ugly when YOU are also thin. They do a poor job at holding it in when you're fat, but when you're thin they show you their whole ugly faces. The praise and acceptance is so disgusting to me. Its harder for me to be around them thin than fat. Instead of side comments and looks It becomes overt AND THE WORST PART is they expect you to be delighted by their "compliments" It makes me act obnoxious. I tolerate them better when they're holding it in (badly). Things like interviewing well with people you interviews with badly a few stone heavier, even if you went in better prepared the first time and jaded the second, just thinner: YUCK YUCK YUCK.

I've lost a heap of weight on the jabs: for my mobility & for my cardiac health

Did I hate the "fat" itself no! I hate the fat phobia dresses up as healthy concerns (BOLLOCKS, I am no better at my job thin than fat, my future health concerns are mine and the people who fully love me, no interview panel cares how I age!).

I hate having to have 3 sizes in my wardrobe at once because there's more fluctuation when you're fat, and all the associated environmental/fast fashion guilt. And another two sizes either size packed away for weight changes. And getting judged by people with eco brand capsule wardrobes for choosing the only brands that cater to my fat shape and size

I hate that professionalism is a look not behaviours, actions and skills. I've only ever been promoted when skinny, and often at that under qualified. I've been the best qualified on shortlists fat and failed. Not isolated events. Undeniable patterns.

I hate hate hate that people who have never been very fat / obese, do not believe fat people, about anything to do with being fat. Including that it might have been when they felt happiest despite subsequently losing weight. I'm healthier thinner, I'm not necessarily happier than way. I miss the softness and curves.

And there's a WHOLE EXTRA layer of rage once you use the jabs: when you realise that the way you feel on the jabs: satisfied, able to be hungy-ish but still wait or concentrate on other things, etc, is just the way the fat phobes feels ALL THE TIME and they genuinely believe that fat people are walking around having eaten "enough" to get on with their day and tasks, and and just CHOSING to stuff their faces beyond station!

I hate that if I go to a doctor fat, they don't look past the fat as the cause for all your symptoms. Even when it was your symptoms that caused you to gain weight. And I hate that if you go to them thin and on the jabs, they try to match you symptoms up with side effects of the jab, even if they don't even slightly correlate.

Not only that, they don't like the playing field being levelled! When all people are doing is making their body feel like your body feels if you are someone for whom eat-less-move-more works!

Can you tell from my tone how much angrier I am skinny than fat?

pamelanoon · 07/08/2025 13:25

SwingTheMonkey · 07/08/2025 13:21

As the minute they stop, they put the weight back on.

This is false.

So then why take the drug in the first place?

the drug is marketed as "you were not able to lose weight without taking this drug, you will only be able to lose weight if you take this drug".

Everyone i know that is taking mounjaro, is saying that they want to take it for the rest of their life, as they are afraid that if they stop, they will put the weight back on.

It is psychological marketing. It puts fear into people that they cant maintain their weight without using this injection

KateMiskin · 07/08/2025 13:24

PinkArt · 07/08/2025 13:22

At 11 stone and 5'7" you aren't 'slightly overweight' though, you have a BMI of 24, within the healthy range. Which is a useful reminder that although weight is a factor in a lot of health conditions, especially type 2 diabetes, it's rarely as straightforward as fat means unhealthy and thin mean healthy.

I am Asian, so am overweight for an Asian. I need to be below 23 ideally.

Mumjaro · 07/08/2025 13:23

Mrsbloggz · 07/08/2025 13:16

They work whilst you are taking them.
You can be slim as long as you keep paying money to the pharmaceutical companies for the products which enable you to stay slim.

And you know this how? Many people have found no problem keeping the weight off. Their body has reset, their habits have changed, job done. Anyway, do you feel the same about people who are on other medications for life? Blood pressure medication works while you take it, after all…

PinkArt · 07/08/2025 13:22

KateMiskin · 07/08/2025 12:44

I tip into pre-diabetes at 11 stone and 5'7. That's how dangerous being even slightly overweight is for some people. My GP is not trying to control me by giving me the data.

At 11 stone and 5'7" you aren't 'slightly overweight' though, you have a BMI of 24, within the healthy range. Which is a useful reminder that although weight is a factor in a lot of health conditions, especially type 2 diabetes, it's rarely as straightforward as fat means unhealthy and thin mean healthy.

SwingTheMonkey · 07/08/2025 13:21

pamelanoon · 07/08/2025 13:20

I can't know the ins and outs of every drug as I'm not a scientist.

But if weight loss injections DO work for someone, it keeps people in a cycle of paying money every month for a diet drug for the rest of their life. As the minute that they stop, they put the weight back on.

If Weight loss injections DONT work for someone, (many people have reported having too many side effects on mounjaro to stay on it) that person then feels a failure and goes and buys a different dieting product

Either way, the pharmaceutical companies make a big profit

Edited

As the minute they stop, they put the weight back on.

This is false.

pamelanoon · 07/08/2025 13:20

goldenquestion · 07/08/2025 13:14

Except WLI do work?

I can't know the ins and outs of every drug as I'm not a scientist.

But if weight loss injections DO work for someone, it keeps people in a cycle of paying money every month for a diet drug for the rest of their life. As the minute that they stop, they put the weight back on.

If Weight loss injections DONT work for someone, (many people have reported having too many side effects on mounjaro to stay on it) that person then feels a failure and goes and buys a different dieting product

Either way, the pharmaceutical companies make a big profit

SwingTheMonkey · 07/08/2025 13:19

Mrsbloggz · 07/08/2025 13:16

They work whilst you are taking them.
You can be slim as long as you keep paying money to the pharmaceutical companies for the products which enable you to stay slim.

No. If you’ve made changes to your diet and lifestyle, it’s perfectly possible to maintain your new weight.

goldenquestion · 07/08/2025 13:18

Mrsbloggz · 07/08/2025 13:16

They work whilst you are taking them.
You can be slim as long as you keep paying money to the pharmaceutical companies for the products which enable you to stay slim.

Well yes, any drug only works while you're taking it doesn't it.

That's not to say that in the case of obesity, when you stop taking them you'll wake up 10 stone heavier the next day.

Mrsbloggz · 07/08/2025 13:16

goldenquestion · 07/08/2025 13:14

Except WLI do work?

They work whilst you are taking them.
You can be slim as long as you keep paying money to the pharmaceutical companies for the products which enable you to stay slim.

goldenquestion · 07/08/2025 13:14

pamelanoon · 07/08/2025 13:08

You are not reading what i am writing

I didnt say that they want people to be skinny

I said that they keep telling everyone that they must be thin.

Fat people then buy diet products which DON'T WORK,

which keeps these people in a continuous cycle of dieting and thsn buying more diet products

Except WLI do work?

pamelanoon · 07/08/2025 13:08

SwingTheMonkey · 07/08/2025 13:01

But people being fat makes them more money than selling diet products! So why would they want people skinny as you claimed in your first post?

It’s very much you that isn’t making sense!

You are not reading what i am writing

I didnt say that they want people to be skinny

I said that they keep telling everyone that they must be thin.

Fat people then buy diet products which DON'T WORK,

which keeps these people in a continuous cycle of dieting and thsn buying more diet products

Gowlett · 07/08/2025 13:04

I know a fat positive influencer (who used to be slim).
She often posts about her various health issues…
And how doctors are fat-phobic, they’re the problem.
She makes delicious food, but her kids are fat now too.

pamelanoon · 07/08/2025 13:04

Mrsbloggz · 07/08/2025 12:59

Pharmaceutical companies will benefit because they are now in control of how fat or thin people are.
The food industry produces products which are highly addictive, irresistible to most humans. The pharmaceutical industry has a product which enables you to resist the lure of the addictive food. You ou can be slim, if you have the money to pay for this product.

Exactly!

The big companies all help each other to profit.

Some of the big food companies produce addictive "food" (it has barely any nutrients) that keep humans addicted to it and it keeps them over eating.

Humans get fat

The pharmaceutical companies then make loads of money from sellig diet products .

Pharma companies are also now making huge money from selling weight loss injections

Profit is their aim. Not health.

Loopylalalou · 07/08/2025 13:03

It amuses me to spot the never-had-a-problem-myself amongst these posts, with their little bit of hectoring! And those that have been a bit too comfortable and may be jabbing to get thin again.
I am around 19 stone. I’ve lost quite an amount of weight this year by focussing on
my self worth, something I’ve found difficult before in my 67 years. That’s the real problem. I’ve always eaten well, cooking most from scratch, but comforted that unease deep inside by eating too much of it.
Very rarely do you get fat by being totally happy. Mine started 29 years ago with PND, on reflection worsened by living remotely with a very busy DH and two littles.
However, I’m still married, have two children making their own way and happy in their own relationships - time to deal with ME, luckily without many extant health issues thankfully! You can only start from where you are and move forward.

SwingTheMonkey · 07/08/2025 13:01

pamelanoon · 07/08/2025 12:58

Its your post that doesnt make sense.

I already said that they want people constantly dieting - to buy all the diet products.

I feel like every woman i know is using something to try and diet

And a lot of the diet things do not work. The woman buys more and more, keeping her in a perpetual cycle of dieting.

But people being fat makes them more money than selling diet products! So why would they want people skinny as you claimed in your first post?

It’s very much you that isn’t making sense!

Mrsbloggz · 07/08/2025 12:59

SwingTheMonkey · 07/08/2025 12:49

Don’t you think pharmaceutical companies would benefit more from people being fat?!

How are pharmaceutical companies going to benefit from a slim, healthy populace?

Pharmaceutical companies will benefit because they are now in control of how fat or thin people are.
The food industry produces products which are highly addictive, irresistible to most humans. The pharmaceutical industry has a product which enables you to resist the lure of the addictive food. You ou can be slim, if you have the money to pay for this product.

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