How have people reacted to you taking weightloss drugs?

domin8brix said:


His mom knew what a nightmare he made my life, and her blessing was the reason I finally left. I am still close to her

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That's sad, bub. I commiserate. So many out there don't deserve the testosterone they get.

domin8brix said:


My 30th is this year, though I haven't attended a single one and have zero plans to change that. I got bullied relentlessly

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Like I said before, I'm a man, so I assure you this is not meant to be offensive, but after hearing that, I kinda wanna see you go there. I mean, just to see their faces when they perceive the new you. NGL, I am imagining myself in your shoes, and I can't even fathom the depths of depravities I would visit in such a scenario. Damn..now I want to do it for my 30th. A 2k air fare vs all the peptides I could get for that...Ugh!

domin8brix said:


other high school in our district (they lived literally across the street but that was the dividing line for the bus routes and it was so f'ing stupid that they were geographically half a mile from my school, and 4 miles from theirs.)

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I'm a teacher. School choice and me are very well acquainted, believe me. I know her so well but I haven't seen her since moving to the West.

domin8brix said:


My personality apparently leans very masculine

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You don't say! I've news for you sister. personality? Try spirit. And masculine? Given the amount of simps out there, I think you would be more masculine than any ten of them, and that's a great thing.

domin8brix said:


so I suspect most people assume I am a guy

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See, now there is such a thing as too much hyperbole. Given how I know about project Dress-to-find-a-husband-that-will-croak-soon, and given your envious stats, I doubt anybody with a single functioning neuron would make that mistake.

domin8brix said:


and most of my friends are gay men

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Thank goodness. At least you said 'most'. I've hope.

Yesterday at the gym, a guy came upto me and asked if I was Egyptian. When I replied, he asked if I was a Brit. Then after my reply, he said he never knew there were obese Indians. I replied I didn't know there were live Yemenis. Then we worked out together for an hour, became friends, then my brother came, Yemeni's eyes popped out, he got confused, his worldview was destroyed. Heartbroken, he left and I continued training.
 
Smiter said:


Do you think the reason GLp'S work so well is that they make it very hard to keep those habits?

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The thing is, if you're not dialed in with nutrition and exercise before getting on a GLP-1, then once you get on one, it does become harder to eat. But...I wouldn't say GLP-1s make it so hard to keep those old habits because you can still choose to eat not so optimally after getting on them. Because they don't make it very hard, they just make it slightly easier not to gain weight. It simply just aids in your goal. So for example, if you choose a goal like, i wanna lose weight and I'm gonna be eating 1500 calories daily with high protein from now on, and then you get on reta, it'll just be harder to stray away from that 1500 a day goal. so it makes it easier to stick to your goal just because of the effects of reta on your brain chemstry. but the same person can choose to be like i dont care today and eat something and theyd get full quickly from it but then they messed up becuase they didnt hit their protein goal and may have overshot their calorie goal and then are left wonddering why the weight's not going down or the physique is not recomping as they'd like.
 
BNLFL said:


The ones that drive me nuts are the ones who post were they're are and what they're eating. My DIL, who I love is one of those.

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yes this became a thing..and most people stopped, but some still do. Especially when they travel.

Look what I have that you don't!
 
Smiter said:


That's sad, bub. I commiserate. So many out there don't deserve the testosterone they get.

Like I said before, I'm a man, so I assure you this is not meant to be offensive, but after hearing that, I kinda wanna see you go there. I mean, just to see their faces when they perceive the new you. NGL, I am imagining myself in your shoes, and I can't even fathom the depths of depravities I would visit in such a scenario. Damn..now I want to do it for my 30th. A 2k air fare vs all the peptides I could get for that...Ugh!

I'm a teacher. School choice and me are very well acquainted, believe me. I know her so well but I haven't seen her since moving to the West.

You don't say! I've news for you sister. personality? Try spirit. And masculine? Given the amount of simps out there, I think you would be more masculine than any ten of them, and that's a great thing.

See, now there is such a thing as too much hyperbole. Given how I know about project Dress-to-find-a-husband-that-will-croak-soon, and given your envious stats, I doubt anybody with a single functioning neuron would make that mistake.

Thank goodness. At least you said 'most'. I've hope.

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Yes, most not all. I was raised to be pretty self sufficient and I think I've done ok there.

I unfortunately see a lot of the folks I graduated with because this city seems to suck you back in like a black hole, and how I look now isn't really going to make waves. I just can't even fake interest in any of those people or their miserable lives. Anyone I care about I still have some sort of connection, save for the two who lost their lives in military service.
 
Tangentially related, but a stressed mom and her kid passed by me a couple times at costco the other day. We ended up in the same aisle, and she was eyeing up my foods. I've only recently become aware that this is a thing that people do to other people, so I observed and idly wondered what she was thinking, if she was even thinking about my items. Didn't take long, lol. She spoke up and said, "must be nice to be able to eat healthy and not have kid food". I was super indignant at that. I said back, "No, don't compare yourself to me." and promptly fucked off.

Victim of her own damn decisions, lol. I don't even know what was in her cart, I just wanted my sheep yoggies

I think people are ridiculous and their opinions are not very nuanced !
 
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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Its funny family members will tolerate drug addicts, thieves, alcoholics and "weird uncles". but god forbid a guy takes his health seriously. Trt and peptides are the modern creatine boogeyman for fogeys who know nothing of supplements. Like at some point are anabolics and peptides risky? Sure. But if alot of us kept going the way we were without intervention we would have been dead before 40. Maybe its because they see their inadequacy and fear they will be judged as much as we were for being the last functionally broken human beings in the family unit.
 
The only person who knows what I'm doing is the one who got me started on peptides. To me, it's nobody's business what I'm doing, because I'm only doing it for myself. Now, if a close friend that I trusted would ask for advice or what I'm doing, I would probably tell them if they were genuinely interested in it. For most, it would probably just be a starting point for unnecessary drama and I don't have time for that.
 
its been a mixed bag for me

I get a lot of questions about how I lost my weight, and I am very transparent about it. Once I say I am doing shots, most of them just check out of the conversation.

I am transparent about it cause I honestly think more of my acquaintances could be helped out a lot. But most of them are just not ready to hear that message. They still see it as cheating.

Skinny people just dont get it, so when I see judgy eyes I just write them off.

My doc is the most vocal about it, and he thinks I am insane. At first he thought I was getting it through a compounding pharmacy, which he said I was completely nuts for doing. I was like "no, you misunderstand, I am getting this from a Chinese lab", and then he was like "thats a1000 times worse" LOL
 
Cumulus said:


Tangentially related, but a stressed mom and her kid passed by me a couple times at costco the other day. We ended up in the same aisle, and she was eyeing up my foods. I've only recently become aware that this is a thing that people do to other people, so I observed and idly wondered what she was thinking, if she was even thinking about my items. Didn't take long, lol. She spoke up and said, "must be nice to be able to eat healthy and not have kid food". I was super indignant at that. I said back, "No, don't compare yourself to me." and promptly fucked off.

Victim of her own damn decisions, lol. I don't even know what was in her cart, I just wanted my sheep yoggies

I think people are ridiculous and their opinions are not very nuanced !

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Huh. I'm a childless divorced cat lady, and I get comments like that every other week or so; not food, just something that sounds to me like "you look like you have such a lovely life without all this work." I happen to agree with them, but there's so much pressure on people to have kids, and on women to raise them; I usually answer something to the effect of yes, I do, but I appreciate the important work you're doing; thanks for making sure there will be young people for me to lean on at work in ten-twenty years.
 
I knocked my beard off then made a public debut.

I’ve had 3 people tell me I look younger.

Saturday I had three people tell me I look like my twin.

Numerous people who don’t see me were visibly confused trying to decide who I was when I walked up to talking to them.

Overall a positive reaction.
 
randompersonrandom said:


Huh. I'm a childless divorced cat lady, and I get comments like that every other week or so; not food, just something that sounds to me like "you look like you have such a lovely life without all this work." I happen to agree with them, but there's so much pressure on people to have kids, and on women to raise them; I usually answer something to the effect of yes, I do, but I appreciate the important work you're doing; thanks for making sure there will be young people for me to lean on at work in ten-twenty years.

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I like your context and the way you handle it more than mine, I think. I did give her grace; it sounds harsher here than the jokey manner in which I said it IRL. It does bother me though! Why bother comparing, or denigrating oneself or regretting choices? To applaud someone else? Doesn't make me feel great. I'm sure it didn't make her feel great, either. Our lives are so vastly different and that isn't a good or bad thing. It just is. I think the biggest issue with that interaction is how difficult my life has been, but outsiders looking in think it's great 'cause I got some salmon and a nice face n bod. It's.... I guess, dismissive of my experience and a narrow, ultimately conceited perception. The other issue is that I'm sure her kid heard, and I don't imagine comments like that make him feel great. I thought he was a well behaved little guy, all things considering in a Costco.
 
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