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

I thought the singer Lizzo did, but now she’s a shadow of her former self…

A 0.6ml subcutaneous dose, once a week, is hardly “pumping yourself full of drugs”. Do you meticulously research everything you eat? Do you abstain from alcohol? Do you take the contraceptive pill?

I managed it just fine 😆
bread is vegan, potatoes are vegan, olive oil is vegan, and a calorie is a calorie so if you're eating too many of them you're going to get fat.

I don’t know a single person who has said they love being fat.

It's what's known as a "cope"

GLP1 drugs have been used since 2005, starting in USA as a treatment for diabetes. They aren’t that “new” or faddy. The ignorance is staggering.

It's funny, no one showed this level of concern about what I was taking when I was given GLP-1 drugs (on the NHS) to manage my insulin, almost a decade ago now.

Why the snark? You do know that the vast majority people on WLIs are paying for them themselves?

I’m surprised. The book explains very clearly the links between high calorie “canteen” food and hormones (and other factors such as genes) and how these interact together to cause obesity. Did you not agree with Dr Jenkinson’s theories?

Dothe jabs help with lipodema? If so, that’s a a tremendous benefit for those who have this awful condition.

I never like being fat, and I didn't get body positivity. To me it was like giving me a free pass to carry on getting fatter

No, I never got as big to qualify for WLI so I have to do it the hard way, constantly thinking about food, planning meals, saying no to "treats" , getting in the exercise. I got the weight off, its been two years, but still every day I have to manage what I eat

But its the price Im prepared to pay to stay a healthy weight ( Im not slim ) because I want to be around to see the grandkids get married

I have a histroy of breast cancer on both sides of the family. Mum, aunts, grans.

I have never smoked, dont really drink (think a glass of bubbles at a wedding max), I work out regularly and the only other lifestyle factor I can work on is obesity. It was very scary being overweight, knowing I was battling against my weight and watching the people I love being treated for cancer.

Whats worse? The cost of cancer treatment or doing the best I can to work on the risk factors?

I don’t hate myself enough to pump my body full of unknown drugs either

What ‘unknown’ drugs do you mean? Is there a new medication out that hasn’t been rigorously tested/used for years in various forms?

It’s so bloody tiresome hearing that fat people need counselling, or they’ll put all the weight back on. I definitely don’t need counselling. I ate massive portions of dinner because I gradually started eating the same size dinners as my much taller husband. I didn’t know what my tdee was and didn’t have a good grasp of how many calories were in the foods I ate. There’s no mental health issue here and I now know exactly how many calories I need to lose and maintain. I keep a tight check on my weight - something I’ve never done before.
Please stop assuming all fat people need mental health intervention, it’s simply not true.

I am fat.
I know I am fat.
I don’t “love” being this big - it’s annoying because of rubbing thighs/boob sweat/people look disgusted at you no matter what you eat etc. but I don’t hate myself enough to pump my body full of unknown drugs either.
I physically and medically cannot loose weight until I’ve had surgery (because dieting right now will make me even worse) so I’m waiting until September, and whilst I may never be svelte or slim, I know I can drop at least 3-4 dress sizes and feel better.

It’s because generally, thin people don’t want fat people to get thin. They’ll lose their perceived advantage over them.

Brilliant. My Mounjaro cost the NHS ‘zilch’ too, as I paid for it. Just like the vast majority of people who take it.

But surely it’s a rare person that takes (or can even access) medication without ‘good cause’? I wouldn’t take a paracetamol if I didn’t have a headache, for example. Conversely, tho, surely you’d take medication, even preventatively, if your doctor told you to?

Its very common. Just wait until the side effects of illness or medication catch up with them at some point. Same with the UPF crew.

MoVe MORe, EaT LeS$ yadda yadda yadda.

Someone shared a Reddit thread recently of Doctors saying they have told people to diet and exercise and it either doesnt work or doesnt last.

I tried to eat less and out train my illness, the result was even more weight gain and I got even sicker. Wasnt a good sight.

The thing I can NEVER get my head around is why people who don't take WLI, have any interest in the topic.

I've never smoked, so never had the desire to go and tell smokers trying to quit that the medication they are using to aid this is dangerous. If Mounjaro had never been rolled out for weight loss and the very same drug was just being used to treat diabetes, would people be going out of their way to tell diabetics of the dangers?

It's utterly bizarre!

No OP, what people mean is they often like ASPECTS of being fat - the bigger boobs (as long as they aren’t so big as to cause discomfort), the bigger bum, and especially in theory, the being able to eat whatever you fancy within reason.

As someone who has been every size between a size 10 and a size 30, I can safely say if there was a magic pill/jab that would let you keep all those things (especially the being able to eat whatever you fancy part), whilst giving you a slim waist, face, arms and legs and without significant side effects, then we would all be taking it.

But I’ve been there and done that with Orlistat amongst others, back when that was the latest thing that everyone was taking. Until they weren’t and most people eventually gained the weight back anyway (and often some more). Wait a decade, and I suspect these jabs will be the same.

I’d only have to put on half a stone now (sadly easily done for me) and I’d be medically eligible for the jabs. But I’m going to wait for more long term reports to come out, as I suspect they are just another weight loss gimmick. Hopefully I’m wrong and they will work for people without them just regaining the weight again eventually.

But personally I suspect that for most people the only thing that will truly work long term is counselling to get to the root cause of overeating or poor food choices, then a willingness to eat a lower sugar/very limited junk diet for rest of your life. Which is easier said than done, so I can see why people are so tempted by this latest thing to supposedly help.

You’re conflating two different things.

1. body positivity
2. being slimmer

When I was bigger there was virtually nothing I could do to get smaller. I didn’t want to be big. But as I was - and with little way out - I wanted to celebrate my body as it was.

When I got the option to lose weight I did.

doesn’t change the first scenario or the fact that I think we should accept all bodies.

Yup. Everyone I know on the jabs is paying for them privately.

Indeed. I know some people use their size as ‘plus’ models and bang on about how they love their ‘curves/juicy bum’ etc. They’re lying, imo. I know there are some very overweight influencers who appear successful , but I believe the tide, quite rightly, is turning on this. It’s an appalling influence to flaunt being very overweight and saying how it’s fine and ‘I’m probably fitter than a skinny person’. No, no, you’re really not.

Given the associated health issues, no way do they ‘love’ their bodies. Even buying clothes is a problem. Walking up a steep street is a problem, you end up out of breath, a sweaty mess and have to stop. I know, because I’ve lost half my body weight in the past 2 years, walked up a hill this week and didn’t even feel warm or uncomfortable.

Do I wish I’d been a ‘normal’ size instead of size 26 for years? Yes, of course. I’ve missed out being able to walk into a shop and buy whatever I wanted. I’ve missed out on doing activities eg diving because I would never have fit into a wetsuit. Couldn’t even ride my own horse in his latter years, I was way over his weight limit.

@Brownbearwhitebear
The vast majority of people on GLP meds do it in secret, any form makes that obvious.
Why?
Because of the vile attitude of people like you.