Tired of being shamed for using Ozempic to lose weight

[Juice_TBH659]

Sorry if the formatting looks off, on mobile here. Been on ozempic about five months now and it's honestly been great. At the heaviest point, the scale got avoided entirely somewhere north of 260. Diet and exercise alone got things down to 200 eventually. Then came a diabetes diagnosis and a genuinely awful reaction to metformin, so the doctor recommended switching to ozempic instead. A1c numbers are the best they've been in years now, sitting at 185.

A sister-in-law knows about the medication and just can't hold back the snide remarks, questioning whether it was even needed, then accusing outright of taking shortcuts. Funny how none of that mattered during years of eating whatever, whenever, with zero comment. But bring a new medication into it and suddenly everyone's an overnight expert on managing this stuff.

Edit: genuinely grateful for the support here! Taking ozempic is nothing to feel embarrassed about, and this medication has honestly brought things to a far healthier place.

 

[tired_dreamer77]

Honestly, running GLP1s has only deepened my anger toward the systemic forces behind society-wide weight gain over the past forty years.

Genuinely enraged that we scrutinize individuals instead of the environment shaping them. Furious that people get shamed and judged walking down a street instead of directing that same scrutiny toward the corporations and living conditions that created this mess in the first place.

Did you know your zip code predicts your BMI better than almost anything else? Move somewhere new, and your weight tends to drift toward that area's average over time. That's a structural problem, not a personal one.

Beyond that, decades of evidence show sustainable weight loss through diet and exercise alone is functionally out of reach for most people. Over ninety percent of people who lose weight this way end up regaining it, plus extra. True across nearly every diet or exercise approach tested. Yet we keep shaming and attacking people carrying more weight as though they're the root cause.

Being on these medications made it clear weight management was never really about 'making good choices' (the same choices most of us kept making over and over