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

I'm a positive fat person on jabs.

I didn't love being fat...I dont think anyone does. But I accepted it and refused to hide away or be ashamed of my size.

Didn't mean I didn't want to be slimmer and healthier, but I was also postitive about how I looked.

Absolutely agree

My experience of WW was that bigger weight losses = bigger praise and it was so toxic

I could always lose but not maintain without WLI, however the loss was a very jagged graph, think 4lbs down, 2lbs up, 3lbs down, 1.5lbs up. Big losses then rebounds.

On WLIs I managed a steady straight downwards line of 1-2lbs a week, never more. Until I go on maintenance, and then it's the straight-ish line with no more than 2lbs variation either way, for months on end, which I never, ever managed off WLIs.

There IS instant relief on WLIs, suddenly feeling how other people think everyone feels, is a huge revelation. But when it comes to weight loss or maintenance, it's still tracking, changing habits, all the same stuff, just without the odds stacked against you for a change

It’s jealousy because they aren’t able to change something about themselves they don’t like so don’t want anyone else to, either.

It’s fine to not want to use WLI. No one is ever going to force you. What I don’t, and will never understand is why some people have such great problems with other people using them. How does it affect you?

Ok I didn't read that bit!

Yeah, this poster had made her feelings clear when she asked me what, exactly, I had to feel proud about relating to my WLI weight loss. Her thoughts are shit.

I’m a medical professional, have done my research (actual medical research and evryfin) and I take them. I’m not starving myself- I had melon, cottage cheese and ham for breakfast, caponata with canillini beans and a yoghurt at lunch, and a Greek salad with olive oil and feta and a pitta for tea.

I’m losing about 1.5 lbs a week.

Brownbear, you said earlier in the thread that you thought people taking WLI were just attention seeking, so why do you keep posting on a thread that has weight loss injections in the thread title??

Its her thoughts!! You cant force people into having the same mindset as you.

What makes you think everyone is losing weight 'so quickly'? Obviously I can't speak for everyone on them but I'm averaging 1.6 lbs loss a week, so in the middle of the recommended 1-2lbs a week. From the threads I'm on here most people are losing at a similar rate. Most people are pretty well informed about the risks of losing too quickly - gall stones, hair loss, malnutrition etc - and so trying to avoid that .
The difference I/ we are finding with Mounjaro is that that progress is steady rather than falling off the tracks after a few months.
If you ever wanted to try them but to lose at a slower pace then nothing would be stopping you, you'd just need to make sure you were at a suitable calorie deficit. The key would probably be to stay on the lowest dose and if suppression was high, to prioritise higher calorie foods.

My GP said she wasn’t trained in prescribing them so couldn’t make any recommendations, but when I was last in she was massively impressed with all the improvements in my health indicators.

Sorry, who don’t recommend them? My gp is fully supportive.

Just say you’re jealous about people losing weight when you're still overweight. I’d have way more respect for you if you did.

Most people don't lose weight all that quickly - that seems to happen with people who are morbidly obese to start with. In those cases the rapid weight loss is still probably safer than continuing to be morbidly obese. Weight loss injections are very far from instant gratification, and who is the medical professional who doesn't recommend them? Lots of doctors are still prejudiced against modern/effective ways of losing weight because they are living in the 90s and recommend slimming clubs and low fat diets to people. Unless your medical professional is a specialist in obesity treatments I'm not sure why their recommendation is any more valid than the millions of medical professionals in the UK alone who both prescribe and use WLI.

I lost 1lb a week, totalling 3.5 stone. Came off them 10 months ago and have maintained my weight ever since.

Sorry but losing so much weight so quickly doesn’t sound any healthier to me than being overweight (which I am) in the first place. I’ve always understood you have a better chance of maintaining if you lose slowly. The jabs feel like instant gratification which is pretty much what most people want these days and that doesn’t sit right with me. I wish it did because I’d love to be 5 stone lighter in 6 months but I’ve been told by a medical professional that they don’t recommend them 🤷🏻‍♀️

It is only difficult to understand for the hard of thinking.

Why does everyone say they love being fat............

Lets be honest, no one aspires to be fat. Sometimes our bodies let us down, whatever the condition/symptom/disease is. Learning to love themselves and the body they have, and could not change, is not wrong. Some people just happen to show the self love more vocally than others on certain media platforms that encourage this.

..............until they get their hands on skinny jabs?

They don't "get their hands on skinny jabs" they get prescribed a medical treatment for a disease.

Regardless of what condition they had in the past and had to learn to embrace - now it can be treated, are they not allowed to still love themselves? Would you think the same for other conditions or is it just obesity?

When someone finds something to make their health better what kind of person feels the need to call them out on it? Can someone not love who they are and still want to change to be healthier now a medical treatment for their condition is available? It doesn't need to be one or the other.

Not only that but if you had side effects from any other drug, people's first suggestion would usually be to suggest you go back to your provider to try a different dose or preparation or brand rather than "SEE you silly thing! You just wanted it because your friends were on it didn't you? I hope you've learnt your lesson" then quote your medical history as a cautionary tale to everyone and anyone who will listen

Cause fat people apparently don't age past 14!

It's very hard to follow the thread when you've made it all about you.

Try to follow the thread.

No one said that no one knows what a degree is.

Araminta wrote to me in an extremely bizarre post that I was lying about having a Degree because I wrote that I had a Bachelor's Degree. She said thay no one called it that.

I then replied to her

I suppose that’s because for the vast majority, WLI are life savers. Some experience mild side effects, some none at all. A small number experience serious side effects. Same as most drugs. But nobody would be saying this about any other drug - just the ones relating to weight loss. Because so many people think they’re unnecessary. If your sister had experienced bad side effects from any other drug, you’d chalk that up to being unlucky. You’d not be telling everyone about it and advising them not to use them.

God. Look we all know what a degree is. We all know a first is academically better than a third. We know your degree is important to you. But it's got fuck all to do with the OG question of why seemingly happy fat people enjoy being thinner when presented with a really helpful tool to achieve that.
This might be a weird game to you, pointing sticks at the fatties, but the people you are arguing with are all fucking fed up of defending both their weight and their informed decisions about how to lose that weight. Derailing a conversation like you have chosen to do so just adds to the frustration.

Really never seen anyone say that, but I suppose if you look you’ll find them, who cares about someone else thinks about themselves fat or thin.

It is appropriate to mock you though as your second post again shows a lot of lack of understanding about the world.

You wrote "no one ever says that they have a Bachelors degree".

Where? In the U.K.?

You are aware that there is more than one country, right?

Your inabilty to grasp this extremely simple concept suggests that it is you who is not the full shilling

Obviously I know that the B in B.A or BSc degrees stands for Bachelors. I have a B.A. (Hons) myself. But no one ever actually says they have a 'Bachelors' degree. If they have a B.A or B.Sc they just say they have a degree because the fact it is a Bachelors degree is already a given. Gaining your Honours isn't a given and not every degree is a Honours degree.

But I digress. Your utterly dogmatic and inflexible attitude and total inability to 'read the room' leads me to suspect you are not the full shilling@pamelanoon and it's not appropriate to mock you.

NO!

Oh fgs love give OVER!