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

Bloody World Health Organisation, classifying obesity as a disease, quite obviously they are just following “the new trend”.

It doesn’t surprise me how ignorant some people are about WLI, there are lots of topics I don’t have the first idea about. It does surprise me when they don’t think twice about posting a load of shite, revealing their ignorance in the process and looking like a right twat.

I don't know if many people loved being morbidly obese but there were some insisting they were just as healthy as slim people. Not many of these over 40 though funnily.

I mean are there any examples of people who were genuinely pro-fat, where they insisted that being fat was great and healthy and now they are taking Mounjaro and are slim? Because I can’t really think of anyone - possibly Lizzo. But otherwise it’s just women who refused to openly hate their bodies and maybe posted some stuff about being happy and curvy.

So you want people who are overweight to hate themselves? That's no way to live.

I'd come to terms with always being fat until the jabs came along, now, happily, I can remedy the situation.

Yes, there were people who put on a possibly over-zealous performance of loving their size, but plenty of us were just fed up of just being made to feel shit, and learned to accept ourselves instead.

Me neither and I am morbidly obese. I have serious concerns about using thse drugs for weight loss and am waiting for several years to see what usage of the them on a mass scale comes up with in terms of side effects vs long term effectiveness (and by that I mean what proportion of people keep the weigh off if they stop the drugs) etc.

In the meantime, I will continue with my life where I work, have a loving husband, friends, nice holidays and continue to try my best to accept my usually very overweight body because 30+ years of losing and gaining weight is enough to make me think before I do the same thing again but by using a drug which may have serious long term side effects .

I admit the side effect are for probably a very small proportion of users but I have been very overweight, obese or morbidly obese my whole life (as I said for around 50 years since I was 13 ) and have not personally eveloped diabetes (or even pre diabetes) or high blood pressure. In the periods where I have been slimmer, I look back and can clearly see how I was not any happier really than I am now

I have in my life spent time hiking and gone to the gym. I have skiied, sailed, travelled. I have socialised, joing singing groups, spent time swimming, done yoga, bought my own house, had a child, had an active sex life. Despite being obese and morbidly obese for large periods of my life, I think I have had a good life and I certainly don't walk with a stick or need a wheelchair despite being in my mid 60s. I do regular daily exercises to ensure better mobility, I do weight training 1-2 a week to maintain my strength. I have had a busy productive, generally happy life.

My size may have had an impact and I may have been happier slimmer, but why focus on that when losing weight an keeping it off has been something I couldn't achieve. Why would I focus on the one area in my life that I have failed, I just don't want to.

Despite being in my 60s now I don't feel like I have to take a drug to lose weight when I have managed to lose a lot of weight several times in the past ((4- 6 stones each time). This drug may help me lose weight but I am pretty certain I could do that again on my own (if only I really wanted to). What I can't seem to do is keep that weight off long term. Since I am pretty certain that I won't be able to maintain any weight loss long term, I am reluctant to spend the time and effort to lose weight. I am just to happy as I am to bother with it

It is not nonsense, they don't work the same for everyone, my DH was still starving on a high dose of ozempic.
Between the hunger, bloating, constipation, he stopped using it.
It is much harder for some people.

I'm genuinely happy for you, I can feel the joy from your post.
I don't understand why people want to shit on the jabs, each to their own.
Congratulations on the new you. 🥂
Well done to all of you, those jabs aren't an easy ride either.

I don’t love being fat but in a way, I feel more comfortable now than I ever did than when I was size 8/10. Maybe that’s what being fat and 40 does for you, you just don’t give a monkeys what anyone else thinks. I would like to be slimmer for my health and I’m working on that but I’m not going to have any jabs to do it. No shade on anyone who has the jabs. It’s just not for me.

I'm sorry but this is nonsense. If you are starving on Mounjaro then you are not using it properly. I am on a largish dose, not the largest. I eat in a small calorie deficit, really enjoy my food, and I am losing weight slowly. 5 Stone down so far. It's been a miracle and given me my life back.

Do people really claim to love being fat, though? Or are you not actually listening to them properly and assuming “I love my body as it is” means “I think I’m perfection that could never be improved”?

Body positivity is “I’m not going to let how my body looks make me sad or self-conscious, and I might even dare to say I still like it even if it’s fat”. It doesn’t mean you think being fat is the objective perfect way to be. But equally, some people do still find fat bodies attractive, even if they acknowledge thinner ones are more so.

I was fat and happy before WLI. I always would have preferred to be slimmer, but I also was a generally happy person and didn’t hate my body. I wasn’t going to torture myself to get skinny, which is what it takes for me without WLI, in my experience.

For most people with lifelong obesity, WLI are the only way to lose significant weight. When there was nothing that could change their body shape, they embraced life as it was and didn’t let it dim their confidence or happiness in life. Now something is available to make the changes they want, so they’re doing it. That sounds like a totally healthy approach to me: accepting your body as it is when changes weren’t possible, making changes when it is possible if you want to.

Nobody wants to be fat. I used to say I didn't care, I did care. Im much much happier thin after 6 .months on injections. I hated being fat, it ruined years of my life.

Read this a while ago.

Because most people weren't truly happy being fat but they'd just resigned themselves to being that way after years of being the fat friend, unsuccessful diets or hours at the gym with no improvement.

I have a friend who ran a Slimming World insta for years. She did lose some weight here and there but eventually put it all back on plus some more and rebranded as a plus size body positivity influencer which gained her a massive following. I find it all very toxic personally. I don't think people should be shamed for being larger but I don't think thousands of followers telling you that your size 26 frame is perfect and beautiful is helping anyone.

As for me, I've lost over 50lbs on weight loss jabs that I would have never lost otherwise thanks to PCOS and taken up running (despite my username). They've changed my life.

Body positivity doesn't mean a person loves being fat, it is staying confident and mentally functioning in a society that judges fat people, especially women.

I don't see how it impacts on your life. Unless of course you'd rather that they stayed overweight.

I have never been fat, the opposite of fat, these jabs take commitment and dedication, it isn't a magic wand.

My DH threw the towel in on them, he wasn't ready to commit to the work. I don't blame him, it didn’t look easy, bloating, constipation, reflux.

I think it’s a survival mechanism. Generally you become fat over time and become used to feeling like shit. It becomes normal. You only realise how awful you felt when the weight comes off.

If you are genuinely interested in understanding this I recommend reading “Why We Eat (Too Much) by Andrew Jenkinson.

One would have to consume vast quantities of food and spend a lot of time cooking in order to become obese through eating only home cooked vegan fare- wouldn't you say?!

OP, social media is a self-selecting group of people who feel a profound urge to monetise their internal thoughts and preferences by expressing or going to extremes. It's an echo chamber full of a particular kind of person who just isn't typical of the wider majority. Nobody really just "loves" their body. Everyone has a very ambivalent relationship with it, regardless of how they look. But social media is about massively oversimplified feelings that are expressed in a very all or nothing way because that's nice and simple and pithy and aspirational whereas the truth takes longer to express and doesn't leave people thinking that if they were like you or doing what you're doing they'd just be happy.

This is why I really limit my social media use and would, if it was possible in my line of work, ditch it altogether.

This. I hate myself but I don't want the jabs, would rather try and lose weight by watching what I eat and regularly working out.

I think it's simply accepting your life as it is.

So many people beat themselves up for being fat, for being unable to lose weight, put their lives on pause till they have lost it all even if that day never comes. Or they lose the weight and gain it all back, lose it again and gain it all back and then some.

At that point it's better to stay fat and to learn to love your fat body despite the megaphone of hate that comes at you from all of society, who judges you as "stupid", "undisciplined", "greedy", "selfish", and who knows what else just because you are not thin.

Sometimes trying to lose weight is worse than just accepting and loving yourself as fat. It is worse if you end up fatter than before you started that latest diet and it is worse if the side effects of GLPT1 hurt or even kill you.

So, no, body positivity is not a scam. Sometimes it's the best option you have if being thin under reasonable circumstances just isn't possible. What's the point of hating yourself for a situation you can't control?

Whether you got obese through fast food and UPF or through huge portions of home cooked vegan fare you're still unhealthy through your own actions. The point is exactly right - the 'ugh I'd never poison my body with that stuff but I'll stay obese as if that's no big deal' crowd are ridiculous.

I hate being fat. Id love to be thinner. I wouldn't take the jab though. It's hardly going to fix why I over eat.

I love my body and couldn’t care less what anyone else thinks of it. But I was recently diagnosed as being pre-diabetic, and given a warning shot across the bows about how my weight was impacting my health given I’m over 50, so I’m taking the “skinny jab”. I have no intention of becoming skinny on it but will stop when the risk to by health reduces.

My guess is that these are people who got so much pleasure from food that they were prepared to accept the consequences of overeating, this then morphed into embracing the consequences of overeating.
I suppose we couldn't anticipate that something would come along which removed the drive to overeat, what previously seemed unachievable suddenly was in reach 🤷🏻‍♀️

I hate being fat. Felt too fat to go to the gym, got in a downwards spiral of eating because I hated myself and how I looked and always avoided photos. For the past 6 months, I've been telling myself I'm a good person who deserves to be fit and have been going to the gym and classes. Guess what? There are other fat people there doing the same as me. Jabs aren't for me but being kind to yourself and liking yourself is a good shield against the critical strangers out there. I'm still a work in progress.