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My perception is that we judge fat people as weak and contemptible and therefore a drug is allowing them to cheat their way out of their sin instead of paying t
by silverquiet 2y ago
My perception is that we judge fat people as weak and contemptible and therefore a drug is allowing them to cheat their way out of their sin instead of paying the proper penance (diet and exercise).
It's well known that people treat fat people worse; I constantly wonder how aware people are of their own biases?
For what it's worth I've been fat before and I've been in shape before. I have my own biases that are beyond the scope of this comment. Never taken one of these drugs but only because of cost/access; I'm actually curious to experience them. If they work for people, I say they should take them.
- bamboozled 2y agoIt's not that it's a sin to be fat, it's that there are side effects to taking the short cut, as outlined in the article, which was the point I was trying to make originally.
- cm2187 2y agoOzempic doesn't make you lose weight unless you do a diet. All it does is to make it easy to do a diet by suppressing the craving for food. So it's not like people are losing weight with ozempic while stuffing themselves with burgers. As for exercise, it has many benefits but is a fairly minor contributor to weight loss. I am doing a bit of a hardcore diet at the moment (helped a ozempic competitor), lost 20kg/44lbs in 3 months, and I noticed no difference in change in weight whether I do 1h of exercise bike daily (max resistance) or whether I do a week without.
- silverquiet 2y agoBelieve me, I'm aware of calories in/calories out, but I've never really found it so simple. Exercise has benefits beyond purely burning calories. And moreover, if you want to change body composition rather than just lose weight, it's important (fitness types have the term "skinny fat" for people who don't weigh much but still have high body fat).