How have people reacted to you taking weightloss drugs?

Atlanatpr said:


My family really judged me, telling me I just needed to power through it and find more motivation and grit.

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Let me add, it is a blessing in disguise. If I got to walk one more non-computer guy what bit coin is and how to use it I might shoot myself. That is what happens when your circle gains interest and they are far from rocket scientists.
 
woundcarping said:


If you care, how you frame it matters. If you don't care, it doesn't. If you do care, perhaps you shouldn't tell them, or decide if you'd rather lie vs facing the music.

I've had several people ask directly if I was on the shot. I usually just say absolutely. If the conversation is worth it, I can explain that I take TRT to treat a condition, another medication for EoE that caused me to consume large amounts of liquids when I ate for decades, stretching my stomach and altering my hormones/brain, a GLP to help with food noise at least partially from the EoE, and I've walked hundreds of miles this year (although considerably less currently). It's usually not worth it.

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I applaud you're discipline, dedication and action! I for one find it inspiring!!!
 
I only discussed it with my best friend and she wanted in on it. I will tell people if they ask how I lost weight but idgaf what anyone thinks, especially my family.
 
Disability vs. Personal failing

Disability = factors beyond your control cause you to be overweight = it’s entirely proper for a civilized world to make reasonable accommodations for you in light of your condition

Personal failing = you should pull yourself up by your bootstraps and your problem is caused by your own choices = no concern for making any accommodations or concessions and you deserve whatever shitty treatment/life you get.

Guess which way of thinking is more convenient since it doesn’t require other people to care or act civilized?
 
Like others have mentioned, my personal experience with telling people how Tirz is an amazing assistant when getting healthy, I am met with judgement, especially when they learn I buy grey. Of course, these are the same folks stuffing their mouths with chemical laden fast food and guzzling down gallons of sugar and chemical laden soda judging me on subcutaneous Tirz that I get tested but hey....people are people.
 
I am keeping it a secret for as long as I can!

Only my husband knows and he accepts it because he knows how I have been struggling with my weight since we were dating.

I have a long history of losing and gaining weight doing all kinds of diets / drops / pills / fasting and eventually bariatric sleeve surgery.

I know how people judge.

The less they know the better.

But it is hard to keep my mouth shut because I feel so much better. Not only because of the weightloss but also the extra energy and feeling my metabolism is finally like other 'normal looking' people.
 
Nopenada said:


Disability vs. Personal failing

Disability = factors beyond your control cause you to be overweight = it’s entirely proper for a civilized world to make reasonable accommodations for you in light of your condition

Personal failing = you should pull yourself up by your bootstraps and your problem is caused by your own choices = no concern for making any accommodations or concessions and you deserve whatever shitty treatment/life you get.

Guess which way of thinking is more convenient since it doesn’t require other people to care or act civilized?

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Personal failing?🤔🤔
 
People just thought i was on gear and when i explained to them that it really isn't anywhere near equivalent to gear they would just respond with something along the lines of whatever man if you want your balls to go away that's all you.
 
My wife at first was furious with me, more so because I did not consult with her 😬

After some explaining she is now supportive and after IVF, wants to get in on it too!

When my best friend asked me a few weeks ago if I lost all that weight by doing “one of those shots” I said no, because a few years ago when I talked to him about Ozempic, he was very judgemental. I texted him a few days after and came clean that I am taking a shot (Reta) and that I just did not want to have a discussion with him. Fast forward to last night: he came by, I reconstituted a RT20 vial and his day today without foodnoise and with the appetite suppression was amazing!

Not telling my family though, too judgemental unfortunately…
 
I tell everyone and thankfully my circle doesn't judge me (to my face). BUT I was also the first one to get botox, the first one to get therapy and talk about it, drove down to Mexico to get chin lips, etc.

So one hand I think it's now my brand at this point, on the other, I choose to believe my talking about it normalizes is it more as they know I'm a generally safe, intelligent person who weighs personal risk based on probability vs possibility.

Finally, when people do start leaning towards speaking down on my choice - I remind them that the beer in their hand giving them the courage to is poison. So which of us is abusing our body more.
 
There are around 2-300 people in my real life (my job) who know I'm on tirzepatide. (A shockingly large percentage of those people are also on it and keeping it super secret, but they all tell ME, which honestly is wild to me. All y'all doing the same thing, keeping it secret from each other, and pretending like you're the only one. Welp, whatever makes you comfortable I guess.)

I am well-liked, have a strong personality, am prone to outrageous remarks and strong opinions, and don't present as an easy target for shame or uninvited criticism. If anyone has any snotty opinions about it, they're telling it to each other and not to ME. Which is as it should be.

I have no friends or family members who would even WANT to shame me or view my actions with contempt or scorn. A very few are troubled by it or don't think it's the "right" way to lose weight, which they have indicated exactly once to me, which was the last time we ever discussed it. They're my loved ones and their opinion has been noted, and there is no need to continue discussing that because we're in firm disagreement on that particular subject, so we can talk about OTHER things. Zero of them have tried to come back and harp on it some more, because I would never grow to love the kind of person who's prone to that.
 
Only my partner knows haha he is on peps too.

I’ve got one friend I know is on Reta, another one I know is on ghk-cu (and I suspect Reta). Another friends wife has told me he’s on Reta but he denies it lol. I’ve got two friends that know I’ve been on KLOW, as well as my physio.

So going by that I know logically they would react fine but I still keep it private. I don’t see any benefit in people knowing.

Edited to add: no one knows I get it direct from China either
 
Surveys in previous years have shown about 12% of Americans have at tried a GLP1 medication for weight loss. That’s just above 1/10! And that’s before retatrutide exponentially picking up especially in the last 6 months. At least in countries with similar obesity rates and access, I think people are slowly going to realise many more of the people they see every day are on this medication than not.

We’ll reach a critical threshold where it’ll be mainstream enough that hopefully people are happy to share they’ve taken a step to improve their health, even if it isn’t the ‘natural way’. And even more optimistically it’s widely more ‘acceptable’.
 
CreepyZebra said:


So one hand I think it's now my brand at this point, on the other, I choose to believe my talking about it normalizes is it more as they know I'm a generally safe, intelligent person who weighs personal risk based on probability vs possibility.

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💯 The more people talk about it, the less everyone will feel like they have to hide it, and more people who really need it will consider taking it.
 
ThunderBird said:


People just thought i was on gear and when i explained to them that it really isn't anywhere near equivalent to gear they would just respond with something along the lines of whatever man if you want your balls to go away that's all you.

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There's a peptide for this! Ginormaballizitide. It will make your balls grow 5 times larger! I seen it on TikTok!!!!!!!
 
Atlanatpr said:


My family really judged me, telling me I just needed to power through it and find more motivation and grit.

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My family was supportive of me. I also feel like a lot of people really worry about the side effects or long term affects and they may not tell you all the right things that you want to hear. I’m sure they love you and they mean the best.
 
A long time ago, when I was in London and a classmate lost a lot of weight, several peers were riling her about it. I asked the naysayers if they liked her when she was fat. They said of course. I told them necrophilia was barbaric. For some reason, we haven't spoken since then.

Romulusguy said:


There's a peptide for this! Ginormaballizitide. It will make your balls grow 5 times larger! I seen it on TikTok!!!!!!!

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Is there anything for freezing one's nuts off?
 
Mostly positive surprisingly! I had a few friends be unsupportive, and then they kinda dropped off when I lost the weight and wasn't the token fat friend anymore but I'm not sad at the loss. If they were only friends with me to make themselves feel better they were never real friends in the first place!
 
I do not tell people. Even the pushy ones. Usually, they are wanting a quick fix, so when I tell them I have been focusing on one pound at a time for almost two years, they move on to something else or start giving me advice based on the newest thing they are doing.

My husband, mother, daughter and wish she was my daughter all know and every single one of them is taking Reta now, so there is no judgement in my circle.
 
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