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?

Read this a while ago.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 think the ‘nonsense’ this poster was referring to was the claim that people who are on WLI are basically anorexic (and getting away with it) because they are starving themselves. Nobody should be starving themselves on WLI.

That's not what this poster was saying. She was replying to someone saying that WLI work because they make the user starve themselves, i.e. barely eat. This poster was saying that that is not true and people on WLIs on the whole are not starving themselves.

I’m on them. I’ve lost nearly 8 stone. I’m running again, I’ve completely overhauled my diet and made the effort to learn about proper nutrition. I’ve very very thoroughly Researched the injections and spent a long time reading the research. I am preparing to taper down but I know there is a chance I will be on this for life. Which is fine by me because a year ago, at 22 stone, I don’t know who much life I had left. MJ has saved me.

Do you get them on the NHS? Will they pay maintenance doses for life, if not, are you prepared to fund them?

Well done! Your joy at your achievement shines through!

Why would you say 'no way am I putting that stuff in me' when you don't have the condition it's used to treat?!

I’m size TUI not size French

I’ve lost almost 6 stone with the WLI

I looked (and felt) sexy and attractive before … I look (and feel) sexy and attractive now.

Never had a shortage of attention. I’ve been married for 20 years to a man that loves me, who has never ever mentioned my weight.

i’m loosing weight due to a family history of Heart Attack and Stroke.

I just like myself at all weights

I'm a fat person, I've been fat since I was about 12 and I hate my body, I'm losing weight with help from Mounjaro but I have a long way to go still. I don't know any fat people in real life that live their bodies, sure I've come across them on Instagram and TikTok but they usually have an agenda and I don't believe them.

Again, did they claim they were just as healthy as all skinny people? I’ve never seen anyone claim that.

I have seen fat person who exercise regularly and eat a majority healthy base diet say they aren’t necessarily less healthy than a skinny, sedentary person with a poor diet would be.

You can’t outrun your fork, so many people are obese because they have a generally healthy diet but eat too much junk on top. Those people are getting their nutritional needs (protein, carbs, vitamins etc) met more than someone thin whose diet is mostly nutritionally useless junk (and I know plenty of those people!).

Just because people embrace the fact they are fat doesn't mean they cant decide to do something about it.l and still feel happy with their new body shape.

Why are you so against it? What actual impact does it have on your life?

Just because people embrace the fact they are fat doesn't mean they cant decide to do something about it.l and still feel happy with their new body shape.

Why are you so against it? What actual impact does it have on your life?

You'd save some time if you just wrote 'I hate fat people'. People would still know you're an ill informed judgey fucker but more quickly.
Well done for knowing exactly how every obese person became obese though. I'm fascinated to hear that in my case it was nothing to do with how my body changed after my gall bladder was removed and entirely because I'm a lazy bint.

I would absolutely pay for them for life- I’ve saved money since I started them, and the peace from the constant thinking about food, worrying about food and hating my body is priceless.
I 100% believe in a decade some form of GLP-1 medication will be readily available over the counter in Boots and Holland and Barrett.
It would be also interesting to see the cost of NHS provided GLP-1 vs the cost of managing obesity/ diabetes related health complaints in about a decade.