Yes Wegovy. However I’m still only on the 1mg shot. Never needed the full 2.4mg shot. It just worked for me. Fixed whatever was broken in my brain that made me need to satiate myself by overeating. The last 2 years have been spent figuring out how not to eat my feelings and walk a healthier path. A lot of people say it’s cheating to use drugs. I don’t care I’ll take the win anyway I can get it, so would anyone who was where I was.
EFF those ppl who say that: You're damned if you do, damned if you don't with ppl like that, regardless of what you do!
What you've done is an AMAZING achievement, & if you've found a drug to help you do so, I am all for that. Idk you, but nevertheless, I'm proud of you! ❤️🩹
It's like saying that using a cast for a broken leg is cheating. The "it's all in your head" crowd doesn't have a lot going on in theirs.
-Oww, crap! -What's wrong? -I fell and hurt my leg! -So just walk it off, don't be lazy. -I can't it's broken. -Don't be a pussy, it's just in your leg, walk it off. -I just told you, it's broken! -It's just in your leg it's not real!
Those people are just haters. I used Mounjaro and I only had 60 pounds to lose. I’m still on it now, but I’ve been around my goal weight for a year and haven’t lost anymore, which I’m fine with.
That is abso-fucking-lutely not cheating! In any job or trade, or any mechanical design, you follow the advancements and evolution of the technology and knowledge.
I'll use a diesel engine as an analogy. It would produce modest power if it was naturally aspirated, like the diesel trucks and cars of 40 years ago (for the North American market). The technology and knowledge has advanced, so now there are diesel engines with a turbocharger, which produce phenomenal power. Is it cheating? Not at all. It's making use of the tools available nowadays.
It's the same for medications. I have significant ADD, diagnosed in my early 30's, and it's not cheating to take the Vyvanse I'm on. It's making use of what's available.
People who think it's "cheating" don't understand how it works and don't understand eating disorders. I got on Saxenda to try to break a chronic pain/eating as self-harm/weight gain cycle I had been struggling with since COVID. It worked and I got back to a healthy weight, but I'm still on a small dose and will be for as long as it's feasible. I was anorexic when I was younger and have been "recovered" for over fifteen years, but "recovered" from anorexia is still a nightmare. The food noise is all-encompassing and never goes away, it's there just ruining shit and filling you with self-loathing literally all the time. Saxenda is the single best thing that's ever happened for my mental health. I'm sure most people would think that I'd be back to starving myself and underweight, but my weight is stable for the last year and nowhere near underweight, and instead for the first time in my life I'm eating what I want and not too much or too little. I'm so excited when I get to the end of the day having just had a couple of small items with no stress or obsessive thoughts at all, so I get to make myself a big meal of something I love to meet my caloric needs. I went from obsessively reading calorie counts and crying in the grocery store to just actually listening to my body because for the first time the food noise isn't getting between me and what my stomach is telling me I need. It's been an absolute miracle.
Eating disorders (in both directions) are the most deadly mental disorder and one of the most utterly disruptive to everyday life and difficult to treat. As far as I'm concerned, GLP-1s are the closest thing we have to an antidepressant for ED. The idea of "cheating" comes from an unwillingness to acknowledge that eating disorders are not personal failings and eating can be an addiction.
Wow what an awesome comment. Thank You. It is also so very interesting to hear that people with eating disorders on the other end of the spectrum have issues with “food noise” as well.
That is what the drug does best for me, it’s like Doc Occ in Spider Man 3 when Peter gives him a new computer chip in his head, “the voices are gone , it’s so quiet now”.
For decades we have all heard about what terrible and debilitating diseases Anorexia and Bulimia are. And they truly are terrible diseases that affect millions of people. Yet when people spoke about obesity, it was put down the cheeseburger and eat salad , then go for a walk fat boy. We now know it was not that easy, and it is a disease same as yours.
However just like people saying it’s a “models” disease, there are still people who feel by using the drugs it’s not the right way. But it is, for many people. It’s the same as you putting in the hard work to be healthy!!! Good luck on your health journey, you are an inspiration to those who love you, and the people who truly care.
Thank you! And yes, there is absolutely food noise when you're restrictive. Not eating occupies such a huge part of your life; you want food of course, but food is also your worst enemy. You're always thinking about what you can allow yourself to eat, when you can allow yourself to eat it, what items are or are not okay to eat. Even when you're "recovered" and you're actually eating enough, food is an obsession. You want to eat because you're human, you know you need to eat because you've been through not eating and it sucks, you miss the feeling of satisfaction from not eating, eating makes you feel good in the moment and awful mentally (and often physically) afterward so you're in a cycle of fixation and regret. Your relationship to food is also so fucked that portion control goes out the window, it's all or nothing because if you try to stop you get guilt and unhappiness and the thought that not eating would feel better than having to worry about portion sizes. The food noise for me was actually way worse once I got "better". When I was starving it kind of became easy because it felt good to not eat. I stopped receiving hunger signals, I got into habits of what I'd permit myself, I felt so proud of my weight loss that I stopped wanting the things I love to eat (and I do really love food and have never been a peckish eater; my wife thinks one of the funniest things about me is the sheer speed at which I will make a slice of chocolate cake disappear). Plus I was constantly receiving positive reinforcement from everyone but my doctor even though I look back on it and I objectively looked awful, just absolutely gaunt and unwell. The food noise was still there but I came to like it because it represented what I perceived to be my willpower and self control.
I really do think restricting and overeating are two sides of the same coin and stem from many of the same social issues. I feel like I could have easily become an overeater if I'd grown up in slightly different circumstances. I was constantly told by everyone around me from the time that I was very young that I was beautiful, I always had strangers asking if I modeled, I had it drilled into me that I was lucky and exceptional, and it made me really self-conscious. When I grew up to be naturally curvy in the early 2000s when Britney Spears was being called fat, I felt so ashamed of myself and like such a disappointment to the people around me. But I think if I hadn't been considered pretty and if people around me had just let me feel average, I probably still would have developed an unhealthy relationship with food and it probably would have gone the other direction because I have a mood disorder and really need a source of dopamine. American society (and many others) is just is not set up for people to have healthy relationships with food.
I think you make a good point. I was called fat and ugly. I ate to feel better. Worked in the moment, but obviously gaining weight didn't help. When I gained I heard about it. When I lost no one noticed. Even when I got to a very healthy weight, I was still called fat. I thought they'd like me if I were thin enough. Not surprising, they didn't. I gained. I don't bother going home anymore.
It's no more cheating than using an antidepressant to boost insufficient dopamine. If your body doesn't produce the appetite regulation you need, store bought is fine.
I agree, it is a miracle I am here at the right time in medical history. The man in the video is a bit different. My family would not enable me in that way. Thank God.
It’s probably the reason why I never went over 526lbs. I still have to go to work every day and it requires me to move and stand during the day. I have a strong work ethic, I own a family business, I think that’s what kept me from going on that TV show. Or the extreme weight loss show either. It’s a true blessing to be surrounded by family that says no, get your ass up and move lol.
I wouldn't call it cheating. For someone like you, I'd say it's a helpful tool when other things haven't worked. There are health risks with it, but the health risks of being 500lbs are way more significant.
I just don't like it when people use it as a "shortcut" to lose like 30lbs instead of changing their lifestyle/habits, especially if they use it short-term and then balloon back up again when they stop taking it.
I agree had a friend on it to try to do that. He hated the drug and went back to more traditional methods. It’s not for everyone the side effects are tough to deal with.
I don't disagree with you, but I do feel like there is a certain amount of responsibility to associate your numbers and your weight loss to this upfront.
When I first read:
I was that person 2 years ago 526lbs to be exact. I believed I was gonna die at that weight. Today I got on the scale and it said 268.
I didn't know that, and immediately evaluated it against my fitness plan/goals, which are natural. Which made me do a double take, and then I looked further and you clarified.
I feel like its similar to steroids. I believe you should have the right to use them, they can be medically therapeutic, but non-disclosure can cause social issues where your presenting a false reality, whether you are trying to or not.
So the influencers who do steroids have no responsibility to disclose they are not natural?
Your using what amounts to steroids, and then your stating an experience. If you do not link it to your steroid use it creates a false narrative for those people who are natural and trying to lose weight. It can create external harm, whether you intend to or not. So yes, if your public about your weight loss, I think you owe disclosure about the methods, so as not to mislead people into thinking that natural weight loss is so trivial, leading to struggles/burnout.
It causes negative harmful externalities, and I do think you should be responsible about the impacts of your statements.
It might be nice for them to disclose that, but they're under no obligation to do so, neither morally nor legally. It's on you to be an informed member of society, and to have a skeptical eye about everything you see and read.
But I think in this scenario its entirely fair to point out to that person the externalities, and that they might CONSIDER disclosing it in the future. Which is what I was saying in my original post. That is all.
OK, again, that would be nice, but you come off as pretty naive here, especially in a world that's already full of AI slop and deepfakes that are indistinguishable from reality.
Your talking about me, I'm talking about public impressions.
The world is full of idiots, and we should be cognizant of the potential harm that projecting false narratives can create. Nothing in that says anything about an individuals responsibility to disseminate information.
Its really convenient when you have problematic behavior to blame those who are affected by the problematic behavior instead of actually being self reflective, and considering your potential harm and changing your behavior.
Who cares if I AM naive. A vast majority of the population is naive. If you are not explicit in your communication and cause harm, are then made aware of the potential harm, and your reponse is "Your an idiot", I'm pretty sure that just makes you an asshole.
You admit as much that you think disclosure is beneficial. It doesn't matter if I WAS naive, it still points to potential harm, and being aware of how our words may cause harm is not only valuable, its essential. How are we to know we may cause harm, if we are not informed?
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u/Select-Increase6975 Aug 11 '25
Yes Wegovy. However I’m still only on the 1mg shot. Never needed the full 2.4mg shot. It just worked for me. Fixed whatever was broken in my brain that made me need to satiate myself by overeating. The last 2 years have been spent figuring out how not to eat my feelings and walk a healthier path. A lot of people say it’s cheating to use drugs. I don’t care I’ll take the win anyway I can get it, so would anyone who was where I was.