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

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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?

@RunSlowTalkFast My grandmother had gestational diabetes in 1964, and died of T2 DM related illness over 30 years ago. Plus of course the availability and promotion of cheap, high density foods is going to effect societal consumption.

Do people share the same outrage about the rise of childhood respiratory complaints and it’s correlation to the incidence of cars on the road?

Most people don't like to be fat.

They don't like dieting and exercising though either.

If they are given a solution that allows them to get thin without the pain of dieting and exercise then they will take it.

Otherwise they have to put up with being fat and make peace with that.

Not really difficult to explain.

It's cope. Unless they have a fetish, nobody likes being obese. Fat positivity is fake toxic positivity. I'm sorry but that's reality. I hated being obese, there's nothing to like about it. It looks awful, it feels awful, you can't do lots of things and it shortens your life. Fat positivity is a lie.

You have to diet and excercise even if taking WLI. Do people not even bother to read about things before bumping their gums about them?

Okay, so for arguments sake, if you're obese from eating uber organic food, grown in your own garden, you are still choosing to consume excessive amounts of it. And you choose to do this despite knowing that obesity causes Type 2 Diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, increased risk of strokes, kidney disease etc.

Yet you baulk at using WLIs?

If the people saying this are in the public eye then losing weight is good for your career as it brings lots of attention. It means being photographed and interviewed more. You might start being invited to fashion and beauty events and get “better” work because you’re skinny. Lots of jobs go for the person with the highest social media followings and a drastic image change will bring more business.

Hormones can make a huge difference. I was diagnosed with polycystic ovaries in my 20s, which seem to disappear after having my first child. I am now having symptoms again, apparently not enough for a diagnosis/treatment, but it has impacted my ability to lose weight.

I don't hate my body but would consider the jabs. It's not about appearance. I'm fine with how my body looks but there would be some health benefits to losing weight. I have lipodema and weight doesn't come off easily plus I have issues with food.
What I loathe is people who get on the jabs and then start judging other people and making their whole identity about being thinner.

It is a disease. Usually a self inflicted disease, but it is medically speaking a disease. Like alcoholism and drug addiction. They are self inflicted diseases of the body. Recognising that obesity is a disease and has long term effects even after weight is lost doesn't absolve individuals from their responsibility for becoming obese in the first place.

I hate being fat, and the prospect of me losing weight and keeping it off is realistically very low, so I try to be positive about who I am and limit how much I hate myself, and I’m certainly not open about that to others. People are dicks about fat people, I don’t need to join in.

Knowing there’s a drug that’s available that not only has other benefits other than weight loss is like suddenly having the equipment to climb a huge mountain, without which I’d barely make the foothills and keep sliding back.

Of course you do. But it's much less hard.

If it wasn't a hell of a lot easier to lose weight with weight loss injections then no one would need to take them.

Not entirely sure why I'm tagged here?

Yes obviously diabetes existed in the 60s.

And yes, that's what I'm saying, calorific food is much more available and easy to come by. That's why so many more people (myself included!) find it hard not to eat too much.

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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.

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.

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.

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 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?

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.

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.

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?!

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

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.

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.

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.