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

I have been a size 8 and up to an 18 in my life.

I think it’s more about self acceptance than ‘loving being fat’.

What was so admirable about it? It was only ever people lying to themselves and others as a defence mechanism.

I was four stone overweight. I had been for about a decade. I knew it was bad for my health, I looked awful in my clothes, I knew it could cause me further health issues down the road. I’m not going to lie to myself and everyone else that I could be healthy at that weight and that I was happy with how I looked.

What annoys me is the new trend of saying someone 'has' obesity. As if it is a disease. (obviously I'm not including people for which it is due to a condition/disability). Lets be honest though, it is all about how much you eat - otherwise weight loss injections wouldn't work.

If your other habits haven't really changed, please do see a doctor. It could be nothing, it could be something

Good job no one is forcing you to then.
Obesity also comes along with serious health complications, so many people will deem it worth the risk.

The way people present themselves about this online is BS. I'm friends with an influencer with a small following who constantly shares things about how dreadful it is to comment that someone has lost weight as if it's a positive thing, and how miserable she was when she was size 14. She's lying - she's told me privately how she feels about being obese.

They were just trying to save face by making a smug virtue (hey, I am soooo confident and have amazing self esteem, and love my super curvy body more than anything, go me!) out of what is actually sad necessity (I am chronically obese and am on target to suffer with Type 2 Diabetes and heart disease by the time I'm 50).

And I get it, I really do. When I was 3 stones heavier I reassured myself that I looked rather voluptuous and had an amazing cleavage etc, etc. But I studiously ignored the double chin, the portly stomach and the permanently swollen fingers. I told myself that my stiff ankles and palpitations and sore knees were purely down to my age.

But since using WLI I cannot tell you how much better I look and feel. It's like my body clock has been turned back 15 years.

I am large at the moment. I don't hate my body or feel shame (not least because it was medication induced). I do however want to be a healthy weight because that wil be better for my body. I am trying to get their without jabs but if I cant I will feel no shame in using them.

What I'm finding interesting atm is the amount of people who find it funny that I managed to lose a lot of weight just before weight loss injections became a common thing.

The disdain people have for fat women losing weight is constant and very telling.

Cognitive dissonance, it's as simple as that.

I can't imagine anyone loves being fat. I've gained 2 stone in 6 months (no idea why, probably menopause) and I'm aware of it all of the time. And I'm 'only' a size 14.

Why do the two have to be mutually exclusive? I was happy with how I looked when I was fat.

However my blood pressure, my asthma and my joints didn't like it at all so I've lost a lot of weight.

I don't actually like how I look now, but my health is considerably better and that's what my kids need more.

I agree. No way am I putting that stuff in me.

I lost 22 pounds, didn't use injections but my 2 cents is change has to come from a place of positivity. Loathing of your body drives the bad decisions where loving your body leads you to eat right, exercise and make the lasting lifestyle changes.

Everyone?? Millions of people hate being fat.

I always thought that most fat positive people never actually love being fat, they love people thinking they are happy with themselves.

A consequence of WLI seems to be even greater disgust, disdain and hate towards fat people.

Because all this fat positivity stuff is just online crap.

A prominent diet influencer who was famous for replacing burger buns with peppers etc was recently forced to admit that she actually lost the weight with jabs. She had a huge following too. Just assume that nothing you see online is real and you'll be far better.

All this love your body stuff is too cringy Instaspeak for me.

How would you rather them present themselves on SM platforms?

I never said I loved being fat.

Hating yourself full time is quite a hard ask.

Anyone who is overweight is fully aware of the disdain and judgement that comes freely every day from 'better' people who only ever eat massive salads.

So yes, sometimes you try to like your fat body for the things it can do, despite being fat instead of constantly apologising for your existence and fatness.

I'm sick of hearing about these injections - the people who take them never seem to shut up about it. I think that's the bigger issue - attention seeking (usually on SM) from both 'body positive' people and the jab users.

I hate being fat. No energy, clothes look awful

Started mounjaro end of June. BMI is now under 30.
It's not a magic cure, still need will power.
Sensible eating and exercise.

Marketing is working very hard to make being fat unacceptable.

Of course people should love their bodies as their body is. What, you want them to sit there despising their body? Wait, don't answer that... We all know society wants fat people to sit there and despise themselves.

Many people found weight loss very difficult, or very slow, or the actions needed to enable weightloss lowered their quality of life (calorie counting, lack of food joy, making time and energy for exercise etc) so sustainable weight loss was extremely hard for them.

Of course they had to make peace with their bodies.

Now they have an injection which makes that weight loss much easier. It didn't mean they didn't make peace with their bodies previously, or learn to love the skin they felt stuck in... It means a new option is on the table.

I remember watching a fat positive influencer back in the day in YouTube. She said straight out "if there was a magic wand to make myself thin, of course I'd wave it, but I can't".

Well, the injections are that magic wand, so now they're waving it.

Don't get me wrong, I have issues with the injections - I have anorexia, have been in treatment and forced to eat more and gain weight, and take great issue with it now being okay to eat extremely little when you paie for an injection to make it possible for you to do so... but it is apparently a mental illness and a medical problem when I do it for free (I'm back at it now though - what they gonna do? I'm not eating any less than injection patients) .

But my issues arnt with the people taking them. I totally get it, really. I wish people could be better than me but I now realise that they're not - only difference between me and all these mounjaro takers is that I can starve myself without the injections. We're all the same, and society is to blame for it.