Please explain this to me. Fat people are stopping their weight loss drugs as they are losing too much weight

because most of the people using them do not know what they are doing and are not seeking the correct professional guidance: a friend's daughter dropped 75 pounds in a year and not is suffering multiple medical complications; this is not uncommon.

The gym and kitchen discipline is better every time. How many of these people are going into debt buying these shots? Plenty

It's a very strange phenomenon. I've seen this in real life (er doc). I understand fat people who are anxious about unintended weight loss despite still being obese. However, to be on a drug specifically in order to lose weight, and then to be anxious about the weight loss, while still being obese, is just bizarre. I guess it's a product of being raised a member of the 'clean plate club'.

I'd rather not have the weight loss drugs available because it makes it more difficult to immediately detect losers. I'm a loser myself as a self deprecating degenerate, but also a winner. Most losers are not simulatneous winners.

Being fat is just setting a bad example, although I'd acknowledge its primarily the result of low self esteem and/or trauma. Being fat is a sign of giving up because you think you are unworthy. "I suck, might as well get or stay fat." Gluttony is self sabotaging behavior.

These drugs just rewire your brain to not want food. Nutrition is a good thing!! You need food, Marcos, micros, vitamins, minerals, etc to function.

I think they have their place but they should be used with some behavior changes as well. Exercise and eating better.

What an odd thing to say

Skinny people are gay

Two Case Studies:

Wife's Friend - Very active lady in her late 40s who is attractive despite being about 40 pounds overweight. She works out daily and has a love of food and drink. She gets on Ozempic and the weight just melts off in a matter of about 5-6 months. She is now thin and is asking her doctor how to safely stop the drugs.

Father-in-Law - Thin pretty much his entire life, but gained a lot of weight after retirement in his late 50s. Retired too early and spent the last 20-something years watching TV, snacking, playing golf, and waiting for cocktail hour. Don't get me wrong, he is a wonderful human and kind/friendly as the day is long, but he didn't know what to do with himself outside of the office. I have tried so many times to get him in the gym, out for walks, etc. He played a decent amount of golf up until about a year ago, but that was with golf carts, drinks, and a lunch after #9 that probably soared north of 2,000 calories. But he no longer plays because it is too demanding at his age (and his friends stopped playing due to age, too). So he starts Ozempic about two years ago and immediately dislikes the side effect of not wanting to do the two things he's looked forward to each day for most of his life: eat and drink. At close to 80, he isn't going to start walking and lifting and his body is basically giving out on him. He has a hard time walking, going up/down stairs, and doing anything active at all. He missed that boat on getting fit when he had the chance. So he recently made the decision to get off the meds because he said they are taking away his joy. It's sad, but I understand. Just to be clear, he isn't obese and he isn't a raging drunk. He has one or two drinks every night and shuts it down.

Gotta love a bbw

It's funny how you rarely hear "fat acceptance" being championed in the media since these drugs came out.

This. I read the article. It includes a LOT of Big Pharma spin... "The company said that at least some of those people dropped out because they thought they were losing too much weight"

That's BS. It wasn't because they were losing weight too fast. Losing weight was a symptom of the real problems. It's because the known side effects of Ozempic are making some people so sick they can't eat. Here's a Perplexity AI response.... Ozempic (semaglutide) commonly causes gastrointestinal side effects like nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, and stomach pain. Apparently, it takes a rocket scientist to tell medical scientists that chronic nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, and stomach pain can make people too sick to want to eat.

The article goes on to say that they were testing a flexible dosing schedule. Translated: If taking 200mcg/dose makes you sick, let's try cutting it down to 100mcg/dose.

Well, duh! They should have been doing that from day one, not eight years after Ozempic/Wegovy became widely available!

This has been supposedly happening for what, a few years already.

I have not seen ONE fat person I know or work with lose any weight. They are all still fat. I know of a few celebrities who lost weight that might have done this, but regular people, no.

Regular fat people want to be fat. They like it.

This is the solution… taking a dose meant for diabetes when you’re only trying to lose weight is overkill. They’re losing as much muscle as they are fat, because it’s a starvation response.
Microdosing, weight training, watch your vitamins/minerals/hydration

What LRC doesn't understand is that even with healthy eating and exercise losing weight is really hard. Studies on prolonged starvation and overfeeding in lab settings have shown that the brain has an internal weight set point that it tries to defend and will resist changes above and below. Eating junk food over the long-term raises the set point because it overwhelms the reward system, but ceasing junk food consumption doesn't lower it.

If Ozempic makes it easier to diet and you are fat you should take it.

I was never a huge fan of fat acceptance, but it did make sense on some level when it was extraordinarily difficult for some people to lose weight. Now, with the GLP drugs, most people can lose weight, and most people who are obese should use the drugs to attain better health, not accept the fat.

Many Fat people are Addicted to food. when they take GLP-1s like Ozempic they stop eating so much due to early satiety and don’t feel the same joy from eating food. Many stop taking them because they no longer feel the high they used to from food. Other reasons: their weight loss may plateau due to a lack of lifestyle changes and they get frustrated and stop; they get complications from weight loss like gallstones.

Most Americans have severely distorted ideas of what a healthy weight looks like.