Ozempic and the Unhealthy Obsession With Thinness
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
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Ozempic, a drug for people with diabetes that causes weight loss has spread like wildfire throughout Hollywood. Ozempic and its sister drug Wegovy has caused an influx of celebrities to shed drastic amounts of weight seemingly overnight. In this video, I discuss how this is rooted in diet culture and fatphobia that the media and society at large has perpetuated. I also explore the shift in beauty standards from the "slim-thick" ideal of the 2010s, characterized by curves enhanced through Brazilian Butt Lifts (BBLs) and waist trainers, to the current trend toward extreme thinness, exemplified by figures like Kim Kardashian.
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"Ozempic Face" Is Real - Here's What That Means
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“So long as thinness is a form of capital in the marketplace of dating, desirability, employment, etc, people are gonna use Ozempic” WHEW! A wordddd!!!
99% of people naturally love other people who are skinny and fit.
It is in our Biology and there is nothing we can change about our biology.
It is in our genes that we are drawn to beauty.
Instead of using Ozempic people should stop eating crap and start to get fit.
@@marshaphonda705799% of WP, not everywhere in the world is thinnest the standard
@marshaphonda7057 biology makes us attracted to people who we deem healthy and not sick. Because that is who we want to reproduce with.
As someone who formerly had an ED I can tell you that people do NOT care how you lost the weight. In 2010ish I starved myself all summer and went back to school that fall after losing a ton of weight and ppl were showering me with compliments about how good I looked not knowing I was the unhealthiest and nutrient deprived I’ve ever been. I can’t imagine how hard it is to be a young person in an Ozempic world. Sad times indeed.
I had ARFID my entire life, I would constantly get people complimenting me for being underweight, meanwhile I saw myself as hideous because I genuinely didn't like having visible bones.
My friend's almond mom was constantly demanding my friend to get to my weight, despite me often very openly complaining about having health issues due to being significantly underweight.
That lady REFUSED to believe me when I said that I literally only eat rice, seaweed and raw vegetables, and I lack any hobby that requires movement.
Eventually however, she gave up on idealizing the body of a random school girl, I dunno why but it was the same point I gave up on trying to feel pretty, because for the lack of a better word I had ribs visible in the front.
Once I gained a bunch of weight from a medication that also fucked my liver, gaining a healthiest look I had combined with worst health issues I had she went back to her creep bs, whining to my friend that everybody loves me and I have so many friends because I am so skinny/pretty..........
I had exactly one irl friend, and exactly three online friends, out of whom none knew what I looked like.
The funniest thing that happened to me regarding weight was a bunch of 11 year olds calling me fat... When I was at my lowest at 14.
You wanna know why? Cause they saw my normal stomach without abs...
They genuinely thought skinny equals abs, and fat equals no abs, regardless of everything else.
Not saying being skinny doesn't give one social perks at all, but from that experienve I concluded that people stereotype and exaggerate the positives of something when they really want it.
It is not nutrition that makes you fat!
It is sugar, carbs and unhealthy fats.
If you cut these things out of your diet, you will not be deprived on nutrient.
Go Keto and do some work out.
Same , i have tooth decay from purging, i always hted when someone would say "omg you lost so much weight" like no shit i own a mirror that's not a compliment 🙄
Keto isnt the answer, you do know that ketosis is an emergency function for your body when its in danger? More people need to learn well balanced nutrition, the wa i lost 80 lbs was by following a diabetic cookbook , of course since I'm not diabetic I got to have some Liberties but it worked great @@marshaphonda7057
@@marshaphonda7057 I did zero sugar + keto and all it did was give me an eating disorder and amenorrhea 👍
I have a good friend who I met in college who's very fat. In his junior year he started exercising a lot, and I heard several people ask him whether he was "on a diet" or otherwise trying to lose weight. He said no, that he was just tired of feeling sick and unhealthy and he wanted to feel healthier and happier. He wasn't counting calories, he was just trying to avoid sugary foods and drinks and exercise every day. He's still pretty fat, but its' been almost 3 years now and he's still exercising every day and he seems genuinely happy and healthy. Taught me a valuable lesson, since I've always been naturally pretty thin I never thought much about my lifestyle, but seeing him change his life made me realize I needed to change my habits just as much as he did, and that just being thin didn't make me healthy at all - that thinness never should have been the goal of healthy habits at all.
I'm concerned about the side effects of using Ozmepic for weight loss, like we care so much about thinness but make no effort for maintaining weight only losing weight. People forget your bones and muscles take up a LOT of the weight with your legs being like 20% of your body weight each.
That's what I've been saying. My mom was overweight her entire life and is genetically prone to diabetes, currently looking into ozempic, heavily considering side effects and how to stop it in the future, but for some reason most public figures who were seen using it hardly ever got to my mom's size.
My friend's mom, who was and is an almond mom also wants it, except that woman isn't just not overweight, she has good muscles, the thing she wants to get rid off is literally just her body type. She doesn't want to understand that ozempic won't change bones and mass distribution... She also takes any amount of loose skin for fat, except, it would seem she has loose skin in the first place due to aggressive diets she did ever since she was 16.
That part. And your brain and heart can and will starve workout enough fat.
I’m on a few fitness subs and a lot of people post that they do t want to even move their body, not eat healthy, no exercise - all red flags that their hormones are at an imbalance and their mental health should be adressed
These people don’t need ozempic, they would need someone to coach them on skills for living their lives as clearly their parents didn’t equip them with any
No Syringe or pill, being it ozempic or Xanax, will help them to get these skills
This! I have PoTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome) due to a connective tissue disorder, but it can also be caused by any sudden change that affects the nervous system, like rapid weight loss from gastric surgery or WL drugs. It is an extremely debilitating and life-changing disorder that I would not wish on anyone, so the lack of awareness around permanent side effects from WL drugs makes me scared for people taking them.
Lots of gastrointestinal issues. Also I’m sure normal people taking meds for diabetic people is going to effect their insulin/glucose reaction as time goes on.
13:55 "If you're outraged by the widespread use of Ozempic, you should be equally outraged by the dehumanizing ways in which we treat people who are not thin."
I wish this was the front-and-center message of every single discussion/ article/essay about Ozempic!
Loved the section about The Commodification of Thin...
and, hearing you talk about fat-shaming/jokes in the media that millennials grew up with really hit home for me ❤️
Thanks Ashley - keep doin what you're doin!
I have a 4 1/2 year old daughter and I’m so glad that RUclipsrs like you exist to educate young girls on toxic beauty standards targeted at young girls. Thank you for raising awareness 🩷
It's not even targeted at just young girls. It's targeted at insecure people. And I'm not judging anyone because I'm insecure about things as well. We're all human.
I think smth people miss about the concept of fatphobia/fat acceptance is the same track people missed with over all body positivity, body positivity became "everyone can look sexy!" rather than "everyone has a body and we shouldn't exhibit prejudice based on different body types"
Fat people aren't demanding other people look like them or find them attractive, fat people literally just want access to the same quality of life thin people do
Like you don't have to insult strangers in the street because they're not a size 00. 🤦🏾♀️
fatphobia, eating disorders, and body dysmorphia destroy people's health and ruin so many lives. thank you so much for continuing to speak out on this- it will never not be needed.
In addition to not having money, many people also don’t have the TIME it takes to be thin. If I wasn’t chained to my desk at my 9-5 job I, too, could be thinner than I am now. But between commuting working, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to prep meals exactly right, and go to the gym for hours. You cant afford to be hungry when you have a demanding job, but if I was unemployed I could easily go hungry and just lay in my bed all day. I truly believe corporate America makes you gain weight to a level that you otherwise naturally wouldn’t.
Yeah but it's okay. Feel proud that you are financially stable enough to have weight on your bones. As someone who was homeless and anorexic for years, you are right. You cannot work hard and maintain thinness. You would pass out at work. Some try and pretend they can, but everyone can see that they are spiraling. Me I got to see what it was like to be thin. But now, i want to enjoy my time here on earth.
@@EbonyHoopGyal interesting perspective! I hadn’t thought of it that way. Glad you’re doing better now 😌
You're right, but make sure you move a lot so your heart is healthy
It is still possible with 9/5 work to be thin but it really does take a lot of effort (walking at least 10k steps daily, working out at least an hour 2-3 times a week, healthy meal prep and no fast food/takeouts) and not many people are willing to do so, they would rather pay for a surgery/ozempic.
(Source: I work 9/5 full time at the office)
Feel you ❤
Thank you for discussing this drug and the concept of thin being a commodity. In my opinion this drug has taken the diet culture that was already bad to a whole new never before seen level that is very disturbing and sad.
Ozempic isn't a weight loss drug. It's a diabetes drug and one of the side effects is losing weight. Sadly, there will always be a beauty standard and that's sad.
Beauty standards are not made up by society.
Our ancestors who lived in caves have been very fit and skinny, so it is in our biology to be drawn to slenderness and beauty in general.
There is maybe not even 1% of worlds population who is drawn to the obese.
Sorry.
I am on Dulaglutid since two years because of DM type II. only in the first two month I have lost weight.
Every time my doctor prescribes this medication, I am on a waiting list at the pharmacy for several weeks
It’s scary bc it’s like what’s the long term effects?? My coworkers are looking into it and I just can’t believe how quickly they want to go on it with little to no research.
I took Ozempic for a month and it had zero side effects. Not even losing weight
I have been binge watching your videos for 2 days straight! I love your observations and I love your energy. You get right to the point and are always respectful!
Thanks for pointing out the toxic behaviour of doctors. I've received a lot of ableism from docs as a result of having an invisible disability (autoimmune).
Same here
The companies can make more. It is a very cheap drug to make. The forced scarcity is to drive up the price.
In this “thin-is-in” culture, it’s more important than ever to follow the right people on social media who prioritize being a good human over being a “pretty” human. Thank you for creating one of the few safe spaces online 💗
I'm a diabetic who actually needs this medication to maintain my blood sugars. I've lost a lot of weight on it, yes, but I tell people all the time that I feel like so much of it is muscle compared to fat. It's frustrating having the medication in shortage where I've had to drive thirty minutes one way just to get a pharmacy that has it in stock. I don't feel more beautiful with the weight loss...I was already beautiful before it all. I honestly feel more lethargic due to decreased food consumption.
People want microwave fixes with everything these days. We don’t know what patience and hard work is anymore. I, myself, am guilty of this. Sad 😢
Facts! I need to lose about 20 pounds and it seems so hard for me to stick to the effort. When I was younger, I worked my butt off all the time for whatever I wanted. I know in my mind I have to work for it, but I can’t get my body to do it. 😩
@@bigmona2741 I think we have been conditioned to be lazy.
Absolutely true. I'm trying to break the cycle. All my coworkers at work are on ozempic; I refused to join.
The doctor part is so real.
Last summer I went to see the doctor for a non weight related health issue. First thing he did was : weight me and telling me I was fat and needed to loose 20 kg (~ 40-45 pounds). I went home and I just cried my eyes out. Mind you, I was 21, I had just gotten out an unhealthy relationship, and I wad already a bit fragile and insecure. This was my last straw. I felt enormous, ugly, and undesirable.
Since then I have lost 15 kg (30-33 pounds), mostly thanks to unhealthy diet habits. This comment just triggered the ED I had in high school and sent me back to my old ways.
I'm now 65kg for 1m69 (~ 140 pounds for 5'5) which is bellow average in France (I'm French). I feel a bit better, but I still feel overweight and I'm still very insecure, especially about my legs (which are quite chunky).
All that because we have cardiovascular issues in the family and my grandma wanted me checked. 😅
Good thing tho : I now know that I do not have cardiovascular problems. A win is a win lol.
I personally disagree with Regina George being an example of the perpetuation or fatphobia. We're clearly not supposed to see any of her morals or values as justifiable at any point in the movie! To me, everything she and her friend group considered "good" was pretty obviously SUPPOSED to be bad. Everything from the way they treated the people around them, to their rampant materialism, etc. so why would her obsession with her weight be any different? Even as a kid seeing that movie, I saw the "oh no I gained 3 pounds" (or whatever it was she exactly said) hysteria to be, well, satire of her superficiality...and the fact that other people saw her as "fat" for gaining just a few pounds to be evidence that everyone else around her, under her influence, had also been consumed by superficiality.
I am on Ozempic because I have diabetes. However, I am working really hard to get off because the side effects are horrible. I can't imagine someone taking it without having to for medical reasons like diabetes.
I think gym culture also plays a huge role
Even when people want to try and lose weight without ozempic they are recorded and mocked.
Then when they are so sick of the harassment they try ozempic and get bullied for that too.
The gym culture is also pushing this idea of having a certain body or being thin.
I am so eternally grateful for my mom, who raised me, an elder millennial. My mother was/is not thin, but I never once heard her talk down about her own body or anyone else’s. I did not grow up with the same body insecurities as most girls of the 90s did because my mother was so careful to never talk bad about anyone’s body. I’m not saying I was totally immune to it all of being a teen in the early 00s, but I know without a doubt so much of my lack of body insecurity is a gift my mother gave me. Now that I have a tween stepdaughter I am so motivated to do the same and even with all the new influences on gen alpha I know if I do what my mother did that gift can be past on.
TLDR: women, one of the best gifts we can give young girls is the gift of never talking down other women or ourselves about our bodies. The children will internalize it, either way. And thank you to my mom, you gave me the gift of loving my body by loving yours. ❤️
I am happy that I deleted all social media except yt. I'm so out of the loop.
Wow u really touched on a LOT of controversial topics. Personally, I've been struggling with weight regain for about 7 years now. I stopped working out & I drink more which leads to eating more. But even cutting way back on drinking didn't get my weight down. I walk twice a day on average. But the scale goes up or stays the same. It's truly a struggle w/ feeling hungry a lot and eating more than I should. To keep it a buck, if I could get my hands on Ozempic or Wegovy I'd take it in a heartbeat to curb my appetite and at least get over this hump to lose some weight. My reasons have nothing to do w/ skinny culture & everything to do w/ wanting to feel better & prevent some other disease caused by obesity.
10:41 I glanced up from cleaning and I was like, "They giving BBL's in the Disney Bundle now!?" 😆😆😆
I’m so pissed off to see that rose celebrities that have normal female bodies are called fat. Like this is not fat at all!! How fucked up is it that we find fat just normal regular people ?
My theory is beauty standards usually proliferate from the top down. The people with wealth and status use their money and resources to look a way that is not attainable to the average working class person, setting them apart. Whether that’s skin tone, fashion, or body size as compared to the average person. The elite can have a nutritionist, a trainer, a cook, the top plastic surgeons, the latest skin treatment, expensive medications, etc all to achieve a certain look that then influence the masses. They’ll tease that you could be invited in if you fit the mold too. Even when it comes to advertising using otherwise “normal” people, they decided models have to be taller than the average person and thinner than the average person. Most models are a genetic exception rather than a standard.
It has nothing to do (or very, very little to do) with actual healthy living, which is what needs to be uncoupled from aesthetics, but even algorithms reproduce the same kind of results that we end up being inundated with, so essentially in order to have a “desirable” aesthetic, you have to win a genetic lottery or make it your full time job, which is the point - it’s not accessible unless you have time and resources.
And like you said, it's a tease. They are not going to let anyone in that they don't want into their society - no matter how "good" you look.
99% of all people find thin AND fit people much more attractive.
This preference is in our own biology. People in the past were fit and thin, they had no junk food and they were moving all day long.
It is in our genes to be drawn to beauty in general.
It isn’t always about thinness. Ozempic was created as a way to manage diabetes. It’s been abused by those who are not diabetic to benefit from the weight loss side effect. So people who are diabetic and take it as prescribed by their doctors are essentially being shamed because of the recklessness of others. These drugs can be beneficial to those who take them for their intended purpose.
Things like ozempic are good if you have insulin resistance problem but soon enough we will get the horror stories
What really grinds my gears is Kelly Osbourne talking sideways. I really did like her at one point but just as her persona not as if I knew Kelly but to see someone who struggled with her weight and addiction say something so tone deaf, ugh!
It could be the fact that when my doctor tried to prescribe it for me I couldn't afford it and it was disheartening to say the least because it would have cost me $1K per script so yes I couldn't afford but I never felt the need to bash those who could. I had to take control of my eating habits, eat more intuitively, and not criminalizing food just because society states this or that.
Two days ago, I was watching another content creator on similar topic and they stated Body Neutrality, and I took it upon myself to look it up and I like the concept and I will be slowly implementing it into my life. I enjoy my body but I have to accept what my body looks like and at the same time not mistreat it with food, clothes, or harmful affirmations.
2:35 "Reach for a Lucky instead"
That's some f'd up cigarette marketing :-o
I think Ozempic is such a great tool when done with guidance. It can really be life changing. But I am worried about the long term effects.
I was on Mounjaro for a few months but was super unhealthy (not moving, eating less nutrient-dense food). Lost about 15ish pounds, but gained it back (with more added) as soon as I was off (insurance stopped covering it).
Your editing is amazing. Love it!
I’m currently pregnant with twins and the weight gain is hard. It’s disgusting that we live in a culture where people feel bad for gaining weight doing something where you HAVE to gain weight, it’s non negotiable. The worst part is the doctors taking care of you during pregnancy are like “good, good” but other doctors (I see a specialist for another thing) are like “oh no this is bad.”
...you're growing a baby. Weight gain is part of it wtf do they mean bad? What? You don't meet the male gaze just cause you're healthily growing a human being? Gross.
I'm sorry you're going through that tho. I wish you the best, healthiest and safest pregnancy and birth. ❤
excellent analysis and insight with nuance, as usual. So interesting that this video hasn't gotten more views/likes.... I think that reflects how ingrained valuing thinness is in this culture
TLDR: Society's pressure to be thin perpetuates a harmful diet culture and fat phobia, and it's important to challenge societal norms and practice radical self-love and self-care to combat these pressures.
00:00 📈 Society's obsession with thinness has led to the rise of the weight loss industry, fueled by the assumption that celebrities use weight loss drugs and the historical association of weight loss with masculinity.
02:44 📉 Society's pressure to be thin leads to the prevalence of OIC as a weight loss method, but it's important to challenge societal norms and practice radical self-love and self-care.
04:38 📺 Diet culture is pervasive in media, perpetuating the fear of weight gain and promoting thinness as the ideal.
05:51 📺 Fat stigmatization in media affects self-esteem and eating behaviors, leading to prevalent fat phobia and diet culture on social media, with male characters engaging in fat stigmatization three times more often than female characters.
07:56 📉 The pressure to be thin and the normalization of thinness leads to desperation for quick fixes, and without a political stance against misogyny, diet culture, sexism, and fat phobia, self-love cannot be expected to counteract these societal pressures.
09:31 🚫 Healthcare professionals promote diet culture by prescribing weight loss drugs for cosmetic reasons, depriving those who need it for health reasons, leading to the rise of unsafe alternatives.
11:33 📉 Oat zic trend on Tik Tok promotes unhealthy and disordered eating, highlighting the commodification of thinness as a desirable and unattainable commodity.
13:00 👥 Society's pressure to be thin leads to insecurities and unhealthy habits, but resistance and collective action can combat this culture.
Obesity is unhealthy.
Our instincts say we look better with low body fat
It is not a pressure made by the society, it is in our genes and in our biology to be drawn to skinny, healthy and beautiful people.
Our ancestors in the caves were not fat and they were fit because they had no junk-food and they were moving constantly.
We associate slenderness with health and fitness and healthy offspring.
This will never change, no matter what.
Ozempic of course is bad und unhealthy.
I'm willing to entertain the idea that I could be an exceptional case, but I lost over 120 lbs because I wanted to have better health and body experiences. I wanted to progress in a relative strength sport (meaning, your bodyweight is the resistance so the heavier you are, the harder it is). I wanted to reverse my non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. I wanted more energy and to feel less tired. I achieved all of these things. I'm a very introverted person who pretty much avoids everyone so I haven't noticed being treated differently. I have always avoided doctors so I haven't noticed anything in that area either. I just don't care what men think at all, they could dematerialize entirely and I wouldn't care. Their opinions are a joke to me. I love myself a lot. The way my body feels now when I run and do my sport is just pure pleasure. I would honestly rather be dead than be morbidly obese again. I don't gaf what society has to say in either direction. I truly do not care because society doesn't have to live in my body, I do. I didn't use drugs but if I had I wouldn't feel any differently.
Kelly o looks like a different person. I’m keep getting asked by my doctor if want try to weight loss drugs. Then I did research and was a no for me. So much unknown then I swear doctors only prescribed whatever those companies tell them to.
Oh my gosh. Okay so I was a hunky kid raised in full-on 1980’s diet culture with a fat-phobic mom and a stunningly beautiful older sister. My whole life from age about 6 on has been consumed with being physically good enough to exist. I have had times when I was obese, I have had times when I was thin, I have had times like now when I am curvy. The difference in how I am treated based on what my body is doing is astounding. I have experienced it all. Thinness is 100% a way to make everything easier in your life. You just float through life like a Disney Princess with everyone enamored of you and people just as friendly as they can be! Then when you’re obese and forget that you’re obese, you’re still your same friendly self but people just kinda… aren’t? Lol. It’s wild out here. Watching that woman get made fun of in the gym reminded me of my entire childhood.
Um, “chunky” not “hunky” lmaooooo
Since I’ve remembered myself as a girl, I have always been not too skinny but not chubby too. When I was a child I struggled with abuse and bullying due to my weight. When I was a teen, I fell in love with a boy and I was so unsatisfied with my body, so I started to cut my carbs and do sport twice a day. Of course, I lost my weight. Now I’m 24, and I realized that whole my life is about counting constantly what I eat and how I will burn it after. I have never had flat tummy, booty and etc. and due to ozempic addiction I was trying to find it in my city, and thank god it was too expensive for me.. now I’m trying to build some balance between mind and weight. Thank you for sharing this story
Ozempic isn't a quick fix. It helps and boosts the weight loss but you need to use it for a 360 ° and change your lifestyle.
Having a better relationship with food, making the right choice and of course moving your body
I love your content! 🙏🏾🙌🏾
As someone who’s been going to the gym for a decade now I’ve literally never seen someone fat get made fun of. Never once and I’ve encountered some mean people there. I’ve seen the exact opposite actually where people were really excited for them and instantly started giving advice. Like they’ll hype you up so much lol
Same, most ppl go there to work out and just focus. I think the days about ppl making fun of fat ppl in the gym are long gone because I'm fat and I have not encountered anyone in the gym making fun of me or witness anyone go through it either. Some have even gave me the encouragement to keep going or just be glad to start. Ppl who take fitness seriously will typically cheer anyone like myself to keep going.
Algo que não foi dito neste vídeo: o Ozempic foi criado para doentes diabéticos! Mas quando se descobriu que fazia perder peso de forma substancial e depressa começou a corrida louca para o adquirir, o que tem levado a que alguns doentes diabéticos nao consigam ter acesso a essa droga e tenham morrido. Outra coisa que não foi abordada neste vídeo: o uso do Ozempic para emagrecer pode ter efeitos secundários fomo problemas gravíssimos de saúde e levar à morte!!
As someone in ed recovery who was underweight bc she believed that skinny, having abs, having a thigh gap meaning I’m beautiful, pretty, skinny as the epitome of health, fitness it’s so hard to recover and allow yourself to gain weight and be okay with your body changing. We live in a society that idealizes thinness, skinny ppl, is obsessed with bodies, diet culture is everywhere, we glamorize and have normalized disordered behaviors such as over exercising, under eating, restricting, burning off food or compensating and demonize calories or your body changing, being larger is perceived as bad. Skinny doesn’t mean more beautiful but here we are being obsessed and complimenting ppl when they are skinny so 😀 even the whole skinny not strong mindset is toxic bc you still control what you look like, you wanna be toned and lean which is another diet culture term. and it’s just another way to try to obsess over your appearance.
I’m so concerned with the emergence and popularity of this stuff becoming so mainstream and obsession!!
Where I live they have regulations for who can receive Ozempic. Not everyone and their dog can get it.
great vid. but as a side note you have one of my fav voices, I think you'd be good at doing voice work or reading audiobooks, not that you want to ha but just saying, if you did! love all your work thank you!
Tldr; I would be very cautious messing around with ozempic unless u want to permanently look like a wraith.
I have chronic gastroparesis, which is the disorder (& ozempic side effect) that causes the nausea & early satiety (feeling full too soon), plus the fun vomiting (guess who has 2 thumbs & no actual teeth? This gal!). Mine isn’t temporary, which is just a bad luck thing, ozempic ppl can get it permanently too. I actually got kinda mad because I know I’m too skinny & ugly in the face, but I had to remember what she’s saying IS true. I’d give anything to be a little plump again. I have idiopathic GP but likely it’s post viral & related (but they have no idea how exactly) to under-managed bipolar and being borderline obese. I DIY’d my own gastric bypass lol, just unintentionally. But being perma-thin without effort is actually horrible. I’m ugly, I’m bony, I’m exhausted, I’m always sick, & my very tiny appetite & extremely weird strict diet make people uncomfortable. Or they want me to say being sick is a miracle & im so grateful to be thin because they don’t see that thin privilege is for hot people, not skeletal living ghosts. Oh yeah, and then there’s people who want to intervention me over my anorexia (not the issue for me, I even still have binge issues - they are tiny binges calorically but hurt my guts very much…I wanted to die this morning because I ate 5 Hershey kisses last night & was in severe pain) or my meth addiction (I like weed but cmon, meth??? I drive a minivan & look at my unblemished skin! I’m not a tweaker! And yes I know meth addicts can be good ppl and can drive minivans but it’s very insulting to be accused just for being thin & sick). Sorry for the rant but why would anyone choose to mess around with ozempic just to look like me? 😂😂😂 trust me, the people who are attracted to bodies but not faces are not people you want to date or even boop-boop with..
You have to diet and exercise to maintain long term if you want to keep the weight off. We should all want to be a healthy weight but do it in a way that is sustainable
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I keep explaining this to my cousin who's always jumping from one diet to another and on who's on ozempic now. The thing is she loves to eat, especially eating out. So if she can't get that under control; then how the hell is this medicine going to help her long term 🙄 she's hopeful that it's a one and done process.
I can’t stand this whole Ozempic craze for weight loss, tbh. My mom is diabetic. She was put on Ozempic to manage her blood glucose levels maybe three months before the weight loss craze over it hit. (Nothing else was working as well as Ozempic was, either.) Well, the minute the craze hit, she started having a LOT of trouble getting her Ozempic refilled for her diabetes, because so many people were getting it for weight loss that it was creating shortages. She ended up having her blood glucose levels unmanaged for a while because she couldn’t reliably, consistently get her medications that she needed to manage her sugar. It got where she was calling the pharmacy every day to check if they’d had any come in, because they were intending to set some aside for her because she went three months without being able to take her Ozempic, and she couldn’t afford to swap to a different one because insurance wasn’t covering the others sufficiently enough for her to be able to try those. It was a VERY frustrating time for us. All because people are always looking for weight loss shortcuts instead of putting in the work and doing it properly and the right way.
You say "all because people are always looking for weight loss shortcuts instead of putting in the work and doing it properly and the right way." Why do you blame this for your mom's problems, rather than place the fault with the drug manufacturer for not producing enough of the drug, the patent system for not allowing competitors to produce it, and the insurance company for refusing to cover medication that she needed?
Thank you for giving me my word of the day: Vociferously ❤
Thank you for this video. I'm a proud fatty because unnaturally thin and acceptable is too much mental work. I much rather be fat and mentally sound, then purposely thin and miserable trying to stay that way.
Love the video! Do you think you would make a video about the incredible expense of weddings or even engagements? It would be interesting to see if most people justify the cost of expensive rings and big weddings or if more people are looking to avoid it, and if they consider buying $$$ rings justified
Brilliant video
I think thinness is just a US thing, from where I’m from what American considered as super model isn’t accepted here. Being curvy or even overweight is considered beautiful. And if some women are reaching to dangerous method to loose weight, other women are reaching to dangerous method to gain weight.
yeah if ur thin in my country they say youre a stick. but if your curvy,average or overweight they'll either compliment you or not say anything
That’s the problem with these celebrities, trying to fix everything expect their brains 🧠
4:26 GLP-1 medications is not a quick fix. A majority of people will have to be cronic users, meaning for the rest of their lives to maintain their weight. The minority who can come off it and maintain their weight can do so because they have increased their muscle mass signoficantly
Great video!
I’m gonna start taking a shot it’s for weight loss not diabetes and not to mention I’m considered obese I’m not to far from 300 pounds not 145
$900-1300 😮😮😮😮
What about all the people that need it for medical reasons but now can’t get it because of shortages so selfish in my opinion
Oprah said that she wouldn’t use weight loss drugs..
This is just my personal opinion on this topic as someone who is also a millennial and grew up with "diet culture". If we're just being honest, being lean/"slim thick" (once you're eating a healthy diet) is healthier and more attractive than being overweight.
I hate this ozempic craze so much because as Ashley indicated it deprives people who are diabetic who actually NEED the medication from getting it. If you don't NEED it for health reasons and just want to use it because of weightloss effects then to me, you're just lazy.....If you can afford $1500 to buy ozempic, you can afford a gym membership and healthy food. If you don't have time to go to the gym, walking around the neighbourhood or working out at home is free. One of the things not discussed frequently enough is the side effects of ozempic and the fact that you can regain the weight if you stop taking it.
Also, I absolutely refuse to feel sorry for celebrities and other one percenters because they're RICH. Do you need 15 bedrooms in your mega-mansion or can you have 14 bedrooms and convert one into a home gym? They have access to personal trainers, personal chefs and the best dieticians. There is absolutely no reason to deny people the NEED ozempic the access because they're lazy and undisciplined.... I have struggled with my weight for most of my adult life so I understand alot of the challenges around getting lean and maintaining it, heck I'm working on losing 50lbs right now (hopefully for the last time) because I got to understand that it's not a "diet" but a lifestyle change. Contrary to what Kelly Osbourne said, I can afford ozempic but REFUSE to take it for the reasons previously mentioned.
How is a shortage of ozempic the fault of the people using it, and not the fault of the companies producing it? They absolutely have the technical capability to produce more. If anything you should be blaming the patent system, not the users.
Thanks!
Thank you dear! 🩷
That oatzempic reminds me of the mastercleanse oh noo
This does not dig deep enough. While this video rings true for people who are average or slightly overweight, for many people, obesity is horrible for your health. Yes, many doctors are absolutely biased garbage and they don’t want to dig deeper for medical issues that are unrelated so ‘lol you’re fat’ is an easy way to check out, but that doesn’t mean that most people can carry an extreme amount of excessive weight without consequence. Assuming the side effects of this drug are limited and minimal (that’ll probably take another decade to truly determine), this could really be an amazing solution for people who have truly struggled if it becomes an affordable solution. I gained 30 lbs. postpartum and I feel like shit. I’m still active but my joints hurt, my blood pressure has increased, and I’m probably prediabetic now. “Healthy at all sizes” is an over-corrective response to body shaming and it’s more complicated than that.
Preach 🙌 u hit the nails on the head! 30+ lbs on some ppl can put them into the obese category (me) and have u feeling awful (all the things u mentioned). I recently learned Ozempic is not new, been around decades. That actually made me feel better about pursuing it since it's not brand new w/ too many unknowns.
It saves lifes.
Not necessarily those of stars. But those of many very fat people who are unable to lose weight.
Yes, it CAN have side effects. But do you know what definitely has negative consequences? obesity.
🙌 Thank U!! It's a major struggle for some of us who are overweight. And obesity can cause all sorts of other health problems. If Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound, etc helps u get some weight off then why not use it as a tool. The whole point is to adopt healthier eating habits, portion control, and add physical activity into your daily life.
Hmm 🤔…. I think that you’re asking humanity to ignore its natural tendencies towards health and how we see beautiful people and their proximity to the ideals of health. We all know someone who is obese is not healthy and therefore we are repulsed by that on an animal instinctual level because it’s a marker of illness and lack of health. We can’t just turn off the natural impulses in our bodies towards cleanliness, health and longevity 😂😂😂😂
Just wrote a song about this :0
11:55 so lime oat milk, worst smoothie ever
but it's not a quick fix. it's not the easy way out either.
Pple magically forgot about thyroid cancer
You are right in certain points, but you're also being misleading. It's right that society shouldn't push the "being thin" agenda, but a "fitness" state, is ultimately a "healthy" state, while a "fat" or "overweight" state, carries so many health risks that you're leaving out in order to push your agenda of a bad-intended "inclusion". I'm with you in the shaming part. We should not shame, as a society or as human beings, anyone, BUT, when your cholesterol goes to the roof, when you're more propense to heart attacks, when your knees hurt while walking, when standing up from your seat is not as easy as before, when your lower back pain stops you for a minute while you try to stretch trying for anyone not to notice, when your blood pressure is now high and you have to stick to your medicines, when you can't run like before, when is hard to breathe, just because you're OVERWEIGHT... Tell me that being in a fitness state won't worth it. Dieting to lose weight won't worth it... To feel good again. No. Don't tell me, because I KNOW you're wrong, because I'm going through it. You're just an embassador of the woke agenda. This is wrong. Fat is not healthy, as well as the push of a very thin body isn't either. But, FAT, is not the healthy way... And that's a FACT. 🤷🏻♀️
YES!! Tax the rich!! Billionaires should not exist!! I love that!!!
Great video
In the 50s being thicc was good
I work in a hospital and it's sickening how many medical professions from nurses, nurse practitioners, doctors, administration, and even higher ups from corporate to the CEO is on Ozempic! Yes they all lost a lot of weight but one thing I noticed about from the more heavier ppl, it doesn't seem to be natural. They look small but their face is still kind of fat and their body seems uneven...I can't really explain it lol I just can't get on the bandwagon not knowing the side effects plus; I believe that true success of a diet really starts in the mind.
Ozempic doesn’t change how you lose weight from your body, it just removes barriers that have made weight loss incredibly difficult for people who have likely been trying for a long time and failing. Saying that the people who were previously obese who lost a lot of weight now look “unnatural” and “uneven” is just body shaming them for using a drug to aid them in losing weight. That’s gross behavior.
@BoringTroublemaker I'm not body shaming them,it's just an observation and for the record, I'm obese! Of all ppl, I know what body shaming is and I'm so tired of this over sensitivity amongst the fat community. If you're triggered so be it. Every little criticism you guys get is considered "FAT SHAMING"...girl gimme a break. If you think so then SO be it.
@@Ms.MD7 I didn’t say “fat shaming” I said “body shaming” and making disparaging comments about the way someone’s body looks in the same breath as using the word “sickening” because they lost weight in a way YOU PERSONALLY disapprove of without knowing ANYTHING about their circumstances - is EXACTLY that.
@@Ms.MD7 furthermore, you can simply keep your opinions about how other people look to yourself. It isn’t being “sensitive” to call people out for being bullies. It’s being a reasonable person.
@BoringTroublemaker No where did I mention I'm telling them my opinions; like I said it was just an observation meaning "to observe in my mind" genius. So there you go again on your high horse being savior lol
My biggest thing in all of this is that many ppl that I know go on it thinking it's the magic pill that would solve their problem so they still glutton themselves. Absolutely no self-control, so yes, they can keep going on a weight-loss journey over and over again only to jump on the next bandwagon without acknowledging the problem is it starts with the mindset. You can't expect to go on a diet pill losing a lot of weight and think, "well I can just keep eating like I used to and everything would be great."
Then again, that's what wrong with ppl like you, always having your feelings triggered about any comments regarding "fat". If you can't understand what I'm trying to say, just go eat your feelings somewhere coz all you did was give me the same word salad so many of you "fat acceptance" love to spew; hence, another reason why I don't want to be lump sum with the rest of the "community" always crying about "fat victimhood". If you wanna go on Ozempic, you do you girl lol no one's stopping you. Don't let anyone on the internet trigger you so much for wanting to take it.
I think we should cancel everyone who uses this. I was plus size, I struggled with binge eating half of my life, but I know it's the medicine that some people need to LIVE, so there always was a line. I hurt, starved myself, threw up, but never do that cause it felt immoral, AND IT IS.
This is a ridiculous take. Most people who take these drugs for weight loss are not celebrities. They are people who are actually severely obese with serious health conditions as a result. Just because those health conditions may not YET include T2D doesn’t make them any less serious than someone who has already gotten there. T2D is a condition that can be managed through diet and exercise but I don’t hear people like you saying anything about T2D patients ‘taking the easy way out’ or moralizing their health condition by using these drugs.
what an awesome video
Non of my business but I think Lana have been using ozempic… unfortunately it’s even makes unpacked on her voice. Idk. Seems like it.
I don’t like ozempic because it’s tested on animals
Sharon Osborne looks terrible!
I want the tax the rich capitalist analysis why billionaires shouldn't exist video nowwwwwwww
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Tsk. Lazy. 😁
@@cloakster i know....I'm still thinking ): /hj ))
Tbh phentermine is a great way to lose weight short term if that’s what people are looking for and way cheaper. Leave the ozempic to those who need it the doctors prescribing the medicine to those who don’t need it should get their license taken away
Phentermine is a high level stimulant. Anyone with high blood pressure should not take it. That excludes the majority of obese people.
I used phentermine many yrs ago & got to my goal weight. I had severe anxiety but fought thru it. Made workouts & portion control a regular part of my life. Kept off the weight for over a decade. Then got bored & tired of working out. Started eating larger portions n slowly packed back on the pounds. 😢 Tried Lomaira recently, it's a low dose version of phentermine, & I cldnt deal w/ the anxiety n heart palpitations it was causing so i stopped taking it. Now I'm back to square one bc insurance only will cover stimulant drugs like phentermine and I do not wanna take them anymore esp being older now. I want to try Wegovy but ofc insurance doesn't cover it 😒
here i am trying to GAIN weight furiously 😅
SAME!! I wanna be plus size at this point lmao. Them ladies get married.
when I look around the trend is not 90s skinny, but big bums and big boobs and I'm not that. I've accepted that I cannot change my genetics, my genes, you know. But people constantly tell me to gain weight, that I look like a skeleton, that I'm too skinny, that I NEED and SHOULD eat more...
I don't go around telling people to lose weight, cause that's rude.
But being told even by strangers to "eat something" apparently is ok.
People who need it can't get it ir afford it. Those who don't need it get it all. The side affects are unknown and we will soon tell. The Osbourne women look scary.
Simply fixing your diet and doing resistance exercise+cardio is enough to lose weight. But of course, these low self esteem losers have to find a shortcut to reach their goal. With a cost of course.
Ozempic and meds alike are as cheap as $250/month. It’s affordable to regular people now.
Wrong answer! Just checked yesterday n wegovy (the version for weight loss) is minimum $650 per mo‼️ and that's for ppl that have insurance that does not cover the medicine. 😬😬😬
@@dreamgirrrl9 Go away, please.
Learn to read.
Whoever got ur brows done must go to JAIL
Wow lol that was mean!
You don't need to be thin. Being chubby is actually really cute.
But being actually fat or morbidly obese is not good, no matter how you try to spin it it as 'self love'..
its not good.
And also, obese people smell. that is just a fact.
I have t hold my breath when I'm around them them all the time
All "Obese" people do not smell lol. That was a dumb blanket statement.
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I'm not overweight. but I'd rather be fat than ruin my face with Ozempic. Not worth it.
If you would knew how it’s like to be fat and have health problems, you wouldn't say that.
Must be great to be so ignorant.
‘Ozempic face’ isn’t a thing. This happens with any major weight loss. Call it ‘keto face’ or ‘bariatric surgery face’ or just plain ol ‘weight loss face’
@@BoringTroublemaker Well, I'd rather be fat than ruin my face with any kind of excessive weightless.
@@CarysGM that’s fine for you. Do you.
But if you’re not obese and haven’t spent your life struggling with your weight then you probably aren’t in a position to say what you would or wouldn’t do. Furthermore, if you had to lose a large amount of weight to, say, qualify for a life saving organ transplant, you might be a little less concerned about “ruining your face”
@@BoringTroublemaker Nah, I'd still prioritize keeping my face in tact. I AM that vain.
TLDR: Society's pressure to be thin perpetuates a harmful diet culture and fat phobia, and it's important to challenge societal norms and practice radical self-love and self-care to combat these pressures.
00:00 📈 Society's obsession with thinness has led to the rise of the weight loss industry, fueled by the assumption that celebrities use weight loss drugs and the historical association of weight loss with masculinity.
02:44 📉 Society's pressure to be thin leads to the prevalence of OIC as a weight loss method, but it's important to challenge societal norms and practice radical self-love and self-care.
04:38 📺 Diet culture is pervasive in media, perpetuating the fear of weight gain and promoting thinness as the ideal.
05:51 📺 Fat stigmatization in media affects self-esteem and eating behaviors, leading to prevalent fat phobia and diet culture on social media, with male characters engaging in fat stigmatization three times more often than female characters.
07:56 📉 The pressure to be thin and the normalization of thinness leads to desperation for quick fixes, and without a political stance against misogyny, diet culture, sexism, and fat phobia, self-love cannot be expected to counteract these societal pressures.
09:31 🚫 Healthcare professionals promote diet culture by prescribing weight loss drugs for cosmetic reasons, depriving those who need it for health reasons, leading to the rise of unsafe alternatives.
11:33 📉 Oat zic trend on Tik Tok promotes unhealthy and disordered eating, highlighting the commodification of thinness as a desirable and unattainable commodity.
13:00 👥 Society's pressure to be thin leads to insecurities and unhealthy habits, but resistance and collective action can combat this culture.
In the 50s being thicc was good