Anonymous #1 1d

Definitely bc we’ve only been using them for 21 years 🙄

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Anonymous #3 1d

Literally. Like how long term is long term? Nothing has popped up in 21 years. I’m not waiting 50 years to use them. I’m using them now because obesity will kill me or make my life dramatically worse.

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Anonymous #2 1d

If you have to stay on them forever, then you have to stay on them forever. Just like every single medication that isn’t an antibiotic. I’m not a big pharma boot licker but like, I don’t want to be fat anymore and I’m not willing to spend the rest of my life measuring chopped meat on a scale just to maintain. I’m going to use the medicine.

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Anonymous #2 1d

Also some of the data we have from retatrutide usage shows that a very large percentage of people who stopped using them continued to lose weight even 24 months later. So maybe we won’t have to be on them forever?

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Anonymous OP 1d

They’ve been approved for weight loss since 2014, and when someone follows their doctor’s guidance on diet, exercise, dosing, and duration, they can be used safely. It depends on the person, but they are generally used for 6-24 months.

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Anonymous #4 1d

When I hear someone is on a glp one, it’s not solving any issue of their body or curing any sickness, it’s just saying “hey I have no control over my body!”

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Anonymous #4 1d

It’s so crazy to me that some people think this way. Yes, self-control can be an issue for some people, but eating disorders are also very real, and not everything comes down to willpower.

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Anonymous #4 1d

This is like telling an alcoholic to just stop drinking. You can think that using a GLP-1 is a moral failing if you want, but the fact of the matter is that the vast majority of obese people can’t stop eating, no matter how much you tell them to. The question should not be “is this person of improved moral integrity and discipline?” when they lose weight. It should be “Is this person healthier? Are we controlling their diabetes? Is their QOL improved?”

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Anonymous OP 1d

I’m not making it a moral problem. I’m saying that these people do not need this medication, and the richest people in the world are profiting from making you sick and fat and you have the power to control that, eating disorder or not. If you don’t need the medicine, don’t take it. Nobody needs this and they’re charging you out the ass for it for what? So you don’t get hungry?

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Anonymous #4 1d

It’s such a waste to over medicate yourself for a problem that doesn’t exist the moment you want it to stop. You can say that’s not true, but there’s at least 5 steps every time you want to eat, and you control each and every one of those. I don’t take morphine every time I stub a toe, why should people take glps to stop eating

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Anonymous #4 1d

People are poisoning themselves every day with this bullshit and everyone’s so apathetic towards it

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Anonymous #4 1d

You’re assuming that everyone experiences appetite in the same way that you do. They don’t. You also seem to think that the current epidemic exists solely because people don’t want hard enough for it to cease. It’s not true. There would be far less obesity if it were. Medical advice for decades has been “eat less, move more.” Again, many millions of people can’t stop eating on their own. That’s why they and I use the medication. Not because we particularly like injecting chemicals.

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Anonymous #4 1d

as someone with a binge eating disorder you have genuinely no fucking clue what you’re talking about. its not just a matter of self control or willpower, and trust that i wish it was, because i’ve tried EVERY single method, even ones you couldn’t possibly imagine. just because you’re lucky enough to not know what it’s like doesn’t mean you should impose your biased perspective on people who need the medication to get healthier

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Anonymous #6 23h

Every single step of the way you have full control. You’re doing yourself a disservice by saying you don’t. I’m not going to make suggestions as I’m sure you say you’ve tried them, but you control it all. It can be an excuse or an empowerment depending on what you want it to be

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Anonymous OP 23h

People don’t want it hard enough for it to cease. Delete and block delivery apps, block the phone numbers for food around you, don’t buy shit at the store, change the kind of foods you’re eating, every time you get or make food, it’s like 6 different things you have to do. Stop doing one of those 6 things (it doesn’t have to be the eating part) and it’s fixed. It takes active effort to keep on the path and the only thing keeping people there is their own inertia

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Anonymous #7 20h

Malnutrition??? I guess if you’re eating like zero protein at all, then it’s possible. But nobody who’s eating enough with any variety is getting malnourished. As for loss of bone density, losing weight by any method does that because your skeleton has less weight stimulating it. Obviously there’s never a free lunch, but the whole point of the drugs is that they’re supposed to make it a lot easier to eat less for people who can’t eat less by themselves.

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Anonymous #4 14h

have you ever struggled with an eating disorder? because i promise ive tried everything you’re suggesting. i’ve called doordash and asked them to ban me. i’ve bought a literal lockbox for my credit card. i’ve bought padlocks for the fridge. i’ve tried having friends, family, strangers hold me accountable. it’s called a MENTAL ILLNESS for a reason.

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Anonymous #6 13h

i’ve struggled with an eating disorder almost my entire life and i hate to say it but it really does come down to willpower. nobody is forcing you to drive to the store and buy garbage snacks, or to a fast food restaurant. it’s you, you’re the one who is choosing to do that stuff. if you can’t overcome it with willpower then you simply don’t have enough discipline to control your own body. this isn’t necessarily a negative thing but it is the truth.

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Anonymous #8 13h

i wasn’t able to change until i accepted this fact. you can make the right choice, you just have to want it more than you want that food. if you can’t bring yourself to control your diet then you must not want to lose weight that bad. it sounds harsh but it really is true. you can bring yourself to eat less food, no matter how hard it might seem.

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