Serena Williams shares use of GLP-1 for weight loss and stigma

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There are other tennis players who aren't especially thin and struggle with their weight.

I don't watch much tennis (none in recent years, but I loved the early years of the Williams sisters) but Lindsey Davenport and Monica Seles spring to mind.

Athletes do eat thousands of calories. It's hardly surprising if some of them overeat when they start to wind down is it? It's not a moral failing. Yet the snide implication is that all women, despite the patterns of the same issues among women of all backgrounds, body types, races, professions, are just that they're lying greedy cows who are stuffing their faces.

Anyone mind an only vaguely on-topic image insert? One of my fav tweets of all time!

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Horrible thing to say about one of the most exceptional sportspeople in the world.

Serina was epic but faced prejudice and abuse, and kept coming back for an incredibly long career. Remarkably few women return to elite sport after having a baby, and she was an older Mum too. We should be shouting her achievements from the rooftops not dragging her down because she struggled with her weight.

What MJ shows us is that gaining fat is often out of our control and has little to do with activity levels, and doesn't necessarily mean someone is a dreadful glutton.

As you say, you eat less.
I had someone staying with me not so long ago and then found empty wrappers in the guest room. Some people eat in secret.

I have seen lots of reports from walking holidays e.g. people doing the Camino and often the men lose weight because of the walking, but women gain weight because of the restaurants.