As I poke around the Net and YouTube, I am seeing the haters are out in abundance regarding The Pens… the injection pens for diabetes control that happen to help weight loss, too.
- Dulaglutide (Trulicity) GLP-1
- Tirzepatide (Mounjaro) GIP/GLP-1
- Semaglutide (Wegovy, Ozempic) GLP-1
- Liraglutide (Saxenda) GLP-1
- Exenatide (Byetta, Bydureon) GLP-1
- Liraglutide (Victoza) GLP-1
Weight Loss Haters & Judgers
I had my RNY Gastric Bypass in 2001. We didn’t have YouTube or TikTok or anything of that sort to talk to others. But we did have listservs, a way for groups of people to “meet” and talk about endless topics. I quickly found a Weight Loss Surgery group and as I chronicled my weight loss, I learned about web logs. I started my blog on Blogger in late 2001.
It was in both the listerv and blogs that the OG judges, juries, and haters flourished on the Internet. Oh, trolls, too.
It’s been interesting seeing that the same arguments against Weight Loss Surgery are being used against the medications:
- You should be able to control yourself and lose weight on your own.
- You aren’t fat enough to take the medications.
- You aren’t sick enough to take the medications.
- You are being selfish taking them from those that need the medications.
- You look fine.
- Your husband/wife/partner loves you like you are right now!
- “I don’t want you to change, darling. I like a little meat on my lovers.”
- You’re just going to get fat again, so why bother.
- You are cheating by taking medications.
- You are just going to quit the medication and get fat again.
- You’re lying to people when you use the medications and don’t tell them why you are losing weight.
- You’re not losing fast enough.
- You’re losing too fast.
- You’re acting holier than thou.
- (And a new one for the times) You are fat phobic. (I’ll do a whole post about this.)
And on and on and on.
SHUT UP!
My comment/answer/admonition to all the judgie judgersons is to just shut the F up.
You are not in our bodies. You do not know our medical histories. You don’t know our diet histories. You don’t know our weight loss histories. You are not privy to our conversations with our care providers. You have no business second guessing our decisions or the decisions of our providers.
Diabetes & weight loss medication folks, feel free to quote me.
And then turn around and get on with your own lives. Don’t let anyone make you feel bad for your medication choices or needs. Of any kind… psych, heart, blood pressure, diabetes… or weight loss.
You do you.
