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

[Holmints]

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?

Why do you doubt them? I'm exactly as you describe..I'm v short and peri. I will put on weight at much over 1000 a day which is pretty hard to stick to without a lot of prep, planning, and yes, willpower. MJ does do exactly as you said, readdress the hormone balance so I can eat the more limited calories my body needs without the hunger that drives over-eating.

We live in a culture that promotes body dissatisfaction for women. For some reason fat women think they have a monopoly on this but they really don’t. The western economy is predicated on our dissatisfaction

This 100% we need to consume less. WLI are by nature addictive themselves. Weight comes off with them, weight piles on for a significant % of people without them. You need a small % where it works to fuel the dream.

Plus no real lifestyle changes! I am surprised that there are no WLI ready meals and snacks in the supermarkets to keep us hooked on certain foods.

"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)."

Obesity isn't a disease apart from when it's a disease, good one 😅

I enjoyed being fat.

I think the answer is that it's impossible to exist in society in a bigger body without having to apologize for it. As a result, many people began to react by going the other direction to overtly be proud of their body. Shame only makes being overweight worse so I think somewhere in the middle would be better i.e. being body neutral.
You also have to watch social media like you are reading a magazine. People only post the things they want you to see. "Influencers" are the new age marketers, it's just not labelled as such because it's a female dominated field and it is looked down on.
As someone who was not fully body positive but tried to be as neutral about my body as possible and who has now lost a significant amount of weight I can say that you don't know the benefits until you've lost the weight. If you looked at me now you would think I'd be at the beginning of my WL journey not half way through and yet I feel a million times better. My body doesn't hurt the same (something I blamed on sleeping wrong), my blood pressure has significantly dropped (it was in normal but on verge of high which I hadn't even realized), I can do things I haven't done since I was a teenager and the power of being able to dress in a more stylish way has had a massive impact on my overall confidence. It's possible many people did think they were happy because there was no alternative but now they've been able to loose weight they can see the benefits.

In the nicest way - I don’t know why you believed them, it was always total bullshit 🤷♀️

No. They loved being a lazy fucker, now they like being a thin lazy fucker. I think they should all be given mandatory gym sessions, fat jabs are not a route to long term weight loss, since they do little to address underlying lifestyle issues that created the issue in the first instance.

GLP-1s quite literally work by doing the job of a natural hormone, which would logically suggest that said hormone doesn't function as it should.

Why do they have to present themselves as anything??
SM is not compulsory for anyone....

Maybe in some cases but I think this is an over simplification of the issue. You can be very fit and active and still carry some extra weight (and that's not necessarily down to bad diet). Especially when you start going through hormone changes at middle age.

It’s love hate with me. Oddly enough, I like the aesthetic of curves and fat, and it gets me plenty of attention. But I hate the out of breath side of being fat, I’m always out of breath. The jabs, I wouldn’t entertain it, it’s not natural. And I’m classified as morbidly obese

Of course WLI leads to lifestyle changes. What a strange idea. I eat far less than I used to. I prioritise protein and hardly drink alcohol. Are these not lifestyle changes? As a disabled person my exercise options are severely restricted, so to lose weight I need to eat fewer than 1350 calories a day. I found that impossible without Mounjaro.

I don’t understand the negativity. I am 60 and haven’t had to take HRT. I got through menopause without it. Doesn’t make me a better person than anyone who needed medication does it? Same applies to WLI. I have friends on HRT or anti depressants long term. I will be on Mounjaro long term, I am pretty much ready to maintain now as my BMI is 22 and my astonishingly high cholesterol levels are massively decreased, along with my arthritis symptoms.

Why would anyone begrudge me this?

There’s a difference in accepting your size and loving it. Even the body positivity people come across as so bitter I can’t believe they do love their bodies, but they are the bodies they have and it’s awfully wearing going around hating yourself.
I mean if the option was there who would stay fat? Despite their rhetoric being very overweight is unhealthy, it does affect their mobility, and they are stigmatised. WLDs are a fantastic tool and it’s great so many people are now healthier after taking them. We should rejoice in it, not point fingers.

I went to the gym 3 times a week when I was fat, and I still do now that I’m thin.

You sound thick as shit.

This is a prime example of why the body positivity movement took hold so voraciously and ultimately became OTT.
It was designed to challenge lazy thinking and loud stupidity.

Surely, SURELY, you can work this one out for yourself?!

Just a goady troll IMO.

Body positivity covers a wide range really doesn’t it. From people who say they love being fat to people who refuse to be defined by their body size and just accept it. I think the former are more prevalent on social media so just appear more common than they are in real life.

By what calculation? I’m getting just shy of 1800 cals to maintain on a tdee calculator. Which is reasonable. Have attached a photo for when it is approved after review.

OP - I am large and I don’t hate my body or feel shame. It is what it is. It carries me through the sport I love and I have a lot of muscle, and I am very strong. I am also overweight and on the injections to help me lose weight as I do need to lose a bit, but exercising for on average 8 hours a week makes me starving all the time. It’s helping me and I’ve lost 15kg this year. You can still love/not hate your body and want to lose weight. For me it’s about being able to compete faster but also maintaining my strength - I’m on a mid dose, as I want to keep my muscle tone. If you’re on a high dose you often lose muscle too.

ETA - I have also been the other end, having suffered with anorexia and bulimia for years, then binge eating disorder. The last 5-7 years have been my fattest but my most healthy by comparison, as I no longer struggle with an eating disorder. I eat healthy, I continue to work out a lot. I wouldn’t change my fatness for that again. I am now losing in a healthy way without feeling the ED pressure - I also believe this is down to how the jabs make me feel.

People on social media are not necessarily representative of people generally.

no one loves being fat (even the probably 50 people above who I imagine have said they love it).
Everyone who looks slim and with it societally acceptable prefers that every day of the week.

In general, people are masters of the art at engaging in self-deception and changing the narrative to justify their today and lack of change / effort / success etc. It's really simple psychology

Have you asked anyone who’s suddenly lost the weight why they did it, if they were so happy being larger? Health reasons alone would be good enough I think; plus setting a healthy example to DC perhaps. I am live and let live, but it’s not ‘sizeist’ to recognise that being slimmer is healthier and will likely give you a better quality of life for longer. It is understandable and desirable for people to have a positive self image at whatever size they are, but it’s also understandable that given the choice, people might choose the jab which equals better health.

This is just another fat bashing thread really. All the haters of those awful scary injections just hate seeing women getting slimmer. I hope those who would never put that filth in their bodies didn’t have any Covid vaccines 😱 probably pumping their bodies full of Botox and fillers though.

So what? I’ve lost weight using the jabs and I’m proud of myself. Why shouldn’t I mention it?