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Elizabeth Heydary's avatar

I think the reason the ozempic of it all is fucking with me is because I am fat and I don’t want to take any meds. I also saw a bad experience with it from my college roommate’s husband-lost 20 pounds, plateaued, spent hours a day in the bathroom with GI issues and decided it wasn’t worth it, gained back half the weight. I hate that I still have the thought of Oh they DO look so great but I remind myself that thinking thin people are beautiful is very ingrained in my nearly 37 years on this earth. I try to follow more fat content creators to cleanse my brain of images of only thin, beautiful people but now the fat influencers are losing weight too.

I keep coming back to- I wasn’t happy when I was thin at the height of my ED so why would I be happy on meds for the rest of my life- just to maintain a body size that is perceived as beautiful by people I don’t even know? But there is a projecting issue too of ok if every fat person is taking these now, should I too? It’s all a mindfuck.

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Loose Leaf Tea's avatar

This hits so much of what I want to talk about and also don't want to talk about, but this part in particular: it's not the weight fluctuation itself (which is human, and normal, and will happen to most people throughout their lives for any number of reasons -- with or without intentionality or medication), but *how* people talk about and frame it. i'm still processing a lot of this -- especially after these past couple of weeks.

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