It's been amusing to witness all these high profile, obese "body positive" women like (((Amy Schumer))) and Lizzo immediately give up that gimmick as soon as they could get their chubby little fingers on some Ozempic.
Everyone obviously already all knew these slobs were just coming up with a gimmick to justify their obesity, but seeing the resentment and sadness from other women who are still fat about this "betrayal" is honestly fucking hilarious.
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The primary reason Ozempic users regain weight when they stop the drug because they didn't grow the discipline to control their behavior. They had the drug do the effort for them ( with bonus side effects ).
The drug just nuked their appetite while keeping their energy up.
When the appetite is back they go back to their overeating.
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And they will inevitably end up in an even worse place than when they started the drug because 100% of the weight they are gain back is fat, where (as alluded to in the original post) a significant portion of their original weight loss was muscle.
I find it amusing that America was around 46% obese a few years ago, and if it ever declines, it won't be because they're actually healthier (excluding the rightful actions by RFK and the Trump administration against certain synthetic food additives, which brings America more in line with practically every other European-descended country), but because semaglutide and other, similar medications are just reducing that one symptom of it.
It's like the opioid epidemic. Sure, saturating society with access to buprenorphine, methadone, and naloxone reduces deaths, but they're just band-aid solutions. The weak willpower to avoid getting started on these drugs; the willpower, instead, to get started on them; the availability of these drugs; it's all still there. The underlying problem is still very much there and untouched.
Medications don't actually solve social problems. Transformative sociopolitical change is what solves social problems. Since the latter is nowhere in sight, and the discontent that leads to it still hasn't reached crisis levels, the response is simply medicalization: push the problem over to ambulances, clinics, doctors, hospitals, medicines, and nurses.
If we had a proper society, none of that medicalization would be felt necessary. We'd have a proper society with healthy, moral people who eat right and live clean: the *only* cure for both problems. Semaglutide would just be for diabetics and a few other edge cases, the opioid medications would only be for actual sufferers of chronic pain (and the recent suzetrigine could mark the beginning of moving away from opioids even for that kind of intense, chronic pain which heretofore only opioids could treat), and naloxone would have no real use at all.
> # Ozempic (semaglutide) can lead to significant skeletal muscle loss (sarcopenia) as part of rapid weight loss, with some studies indicating that up to 39% of weight lost may be lean mass rather than just fat.
These people deserve all the side effects. Big Pharma is only about treating symptoms with side effects, so they can sell you more magic pills that create more side effects require more and different magic pills, which create more side effects ...
Pssh, this is a bad assessment. 20-30% of the weight loss is lean *mass*, not just muscles which includes the water and glycogen etc... and this ratio is the same to those who diet on a calorie deficit without this drug.
There is zero evidence that these drugs eat the heart since it is a cardiac muscle that is highly protected. Evidence points to *reduced* cardiovascular events, there is just isn't anything to show myocardial wasting. It improves the heart.
>Forcing the pancreas to release insulin is same outcome as Type 1 diabetes
just stupid. this is backwards physiology.
>High insulin causes catabolism
LOL! Insulin *is* anti-catabolic. LOL
>All users regain 100% of the weight
Duh, obesity is a chronic condition this is not unique to GLP-1s... see what those on the show "biggest loser" have to say.
>They become dependent and can’t regulate glucose without the drug
Glasses make your eyes “dependent.”
I dont understand the apocalyptic framing... this drug is close to a miracle for many... without this drug they are subject to much worse cardiovascular diseases and cancers. I really expect the reports of heart disease and such to go down as the number of users on these GLP1 agonists increases.
This is not the battle Consume Product think it is unless it is specifically calling out the sham of the body positivity movement. This drug would help suppress consumerism despite the assumed nefarious intentions of pharma. We want healthy-er citizens. We can use crooked sticks to make straight lines.
Imagine being a multimillionaire with every connection in the book, including world “leaders” in her particular case, and you still can’t just NOT BE FAT. I’m not talking about being super lean an muscular. All a woman has to to do is not be fat. Even the ones with extreme power, and privilege can’t even do that. 🤣
Everyone obviously already all knew these slobs were just coming up with a gimmick to justify their obesity, but seeing the resentment and sadness from other women who are still fat about this "betrayal" is honestly fucking hilarious.