GLP-1s 'cheating' OR a TOOL

[professorpeppy]

Hi all!

I am having an interesting spiral of thoughts right now.. I see so many people online saying GLP1s are 'cheating'.

But lets be real. How is it cheating if it isn't a game? This is life. This is my health and my journey in taking back my body and being able to live the healthy life I should have been living all along.

GLP-s aren't cheating. You can only see it as cheating if you see weight loss as a competition. And that is an issue you need to look into yourself for, I understand you did it the 'traditional' way, but then why don't we view other medications for life changing disorders as cheating?

Be real. You are jealous that now you are losing the 'game' that you have created in your head, because there is now a tool for others to reach the health they need. Lets uplift each other, this is an amazing journey, and the first step is knowing that you need to lose weight to take back your health.

Thank you for coming to my TEDTALK 😆

 

[Tbagger]

People like that treat their own suffering as a form of social currency. It's as if them being able to raw-dog their own misery is some kind of character trait that should be envied.

 

[mraajr]

"If ya ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'."

The "cheating" argument is rather stupid in my opinion, and I used to kind of be one of those people, so I can see it from both sides. Are vaccines cheating? Are other life-saving or prolonging medications cheating? Of course not. Like you said, people look at being healthy and looking good as a "game." We can thank society's pushing of the narrative that everyone needs to be "sexy" for that. So naturally, they would look at anything that makes those two things easier as cheating.

I am not doing what I am doing with GLP-1s and other peptides for the approval of anyone else. I am doing it simply for my overall health and well-being. "Looking good" just happens to be a side effect of that and is highly subjective anyway.

 

[Jfrick11]

Hi all!

I am having an interesting spiral of thoughts right now.. I see so many people online saying GLP1s are 'cheating'.

But lets be real. How is it cheating if it isn't a game? This is life. This is my health and my journey in taking back my body and being able to live the healthy life I should have been living all along.

GLP-s aren't cheating. You can only see it as cheating if you see weight loss as a competition. And that is an issue you need to look into yourself for, I understand you did it the 'traditional' way, but then why don't we view other medications for life changing disorders as cheating?

Be real. You are jealous that now you are losing the 'game' that you have created in your head, because there is now a tool for others to reach the health they need. Lets uplift each other, this is an amazing journey, and the first step is knowing that you need to lose weight to take back your health.

Thank you for coming to my TEDTALK 😆

Outside of responding to the absurdity of the statement itself, this advice applies on so many levels.

Why would anyone let someone else’s opinion dictate their choices or perception of themselves? That’s a total control move — a manipulation tactic — and not worth even a second of your energy, attention, or self-care.

You just keep doing what’s best for you and your health — and walk right past all that silly noise.😉

 

[randompersonrandom]

I make no mental space for someone who says with their whole face that people should need to suffer unnecessarily in order to achieve health. I won't listen to "you must be punished for having the compulsive urge to overeat with the suffering of not being able to do it while wanting to do it, constantly." Absolutely not, they can get right off my internet.

 

[byefatlicia]

If I cheat, I cheat death. Death was pursuing me. And death was dealing from the bottom of the deck. I was down to just a few chips and decided to do something about it.

 

[MsGizmo]

Hi all!

I am having an interesting spiral of thoughts right now.. I see so many people online saying GLP1s are 'cheating'.

But lets be real. How is it cheating if it isn't a game? This is life. This is my health and my journey in taking back my body and being able to live the healthy life I should have been living all along.

GLP-s aren't cheating. You can only see it as cheating if you see weight loss as a competition. And that is an issue you need to look into yourself for, I understand you did it the 'traditional' way, but then why don't we view other medications for life changing disorders as cheating?

Be real. You are jealous that now you are losing the 'game' that you have created in your head, because there is now a tool for others to reach the health they need. Lets uplift each other, this is an amazing journey, and the first step is knowing that you need to lose weight to take back your health.

Thank you for coming to my TEDTALK 😆

Cheating is an odd concept to apply to someone trying to be healthier. Saying that GLP1s are taking the "easy way out" I get though. To that accusation I say. YES! Why shouldn't we take the easiest methods? The option that has the greatest chance of success. Who the hell thinks that we should have to suffer? Its not the people in our lives that matter I can tell you that.

 

[swimmer]

They need us to be fat so they can feel superior. We are screwing that up with glp1s. Their feelings of low self worth are the cause of those comments.

 

[ostrichsak]

I may be the wrong person to ask because I'm not a fan of demonizing supposed PEDs in professional sports either but... who cares? Why be a lesser version of yourself when you can use modern nutrition & medicine to be a better version of yourself? Especially when the risk profile is so low and we can get the stuff relatively inexpensively these days.

It's also odd that this mindset assumes that it's a zero sum game. Like, me getting healthier doesn't take away your ability to the do the same or in any way impact your life. Odd the mindset necessary to feel resentment towards someone who is endeavoring to be healthier. Whether you agree with their chosen methods or not.

I usually just block out the haters in all facets of life. This also allows you to be a healthier version of yourself.

 

[YoYoFat]

“Is Methadone cheating? Deal with the addiction? Is insulin cheating? Just deal with the diabetes? Are SSRIs cheating? Just deal with the depression? Is Excedrin cheating? Just deal with the migraines?”

You could try that, but it doesn’t work.

Because they think being fat is a personal failing, instead of American humans being a cog in the wheel of BigFood and BigPharma.

 

[YoYoFat]

That said, I often feel like I cheated… in the sense that Tirz made weight loss and changing my life for the better SO EFFING EASY. I could have never done it without the pep.

 

[Zydeceltico]

Who the hell thinks that we should have to suffer? Its not the people in our lives that matter I can tell you that.

You clearly weren't raised Country Southern Baptist! LOL!

At 62 and even though I walked (ran) away from the SBs 40+ years ago, I have only in the past few years realized that "NO - in fact - I do not need to be a suffering martyr to be "worthy" " - whatever worthy means.
🙂

 

[grizpat]

I hate that this attitude assumes I haven't 'done the work.' I've done every thing that's recommended and failed. I've been through 'health programs' that taught me nutrition and exercise and failed. I've been on every conceivable diet and followed them religiously and failed. I weighed and counted the calories of every ounce of food that have passed through my lips and failed. I'm positive I've worked harder than any of these mf'ers. My body always fights back and wins. My body doesn't play fair and fights dirty, so why should I? I've been obese since I was teased on the play ground at 9 years old. I have a fraternal twin raised in the same household who is skinny as a rail. For me, it's not about me being lazy or having bad morals. I just have the bad luck of being born with a shit metabolism (talk about unfair) and I'm done feeling shame for something that is outside my control. I'll exchange my body with all it's hormone imbalances with anyone who says it's cheating and let them have a go. They too will fail in the end. And I won't even go into all the extra health benefits outside of shedding weight that GLPs have. GLPs for life. They can pry the vial out of my cold, dead hand and find peptides in my autopsy.

 

[geoguy78]

I see so many people online saying GLP1s are 'cheating'.

Last I checked, I wasn't issued a rule book for how to manage my health and physical appearance. The whole "cheating" concept is fat-shaming. It insinuates that fat people are lazy, weak-willed and decadent, ruled by their own desires and excess. Which conveniently also infers that naturally skinny people that don't struggle with weight are morally superior. For some reason their needing to do nothing is "hard work". I have a lifelong friend that is a twig who tried giving me some BS preaching about staying skinny. Dude doesn't run, doesn't work out. I kept toasting his logic and finally all he could really say in the end was "I lucked out with my genetics". Bingo.

 

[pavlovs]

People like that treat their own suffering as a form of social currency. It's as if them being able to raw-dog their own misery is some kind of character trait that should be envied.

I feel the exact same way about patients with severe depression who refuse to take medication because "they don't believe in it."

 

[basedpepbae]

You clearly weren't raised Country Southern Baptist! LOL!

At 62 and even though I walked (ran) away from the SBs 40+ years ago, I have only in the past few years realized that "NO - in fact - I do not need to be a suffering martyr to be "worthy" " - whatever worthy means.
🙂

I didn’t want to get preachy about it, but I 100% agree. This is a big part of where that mindset comes from.

 

[Foggy-Hollow]

I feel the exact same way about patients with severe depression who refuse to take medication because "they don't believe in it."

I feel this one. Personally it felt like failure, like I was giving up trying by taking the pill. That was Jan 2013.

It’s closer to being like a cast: it holds a person together enough that they can heal and learn new habits, new patterns. Sometimes it has to be long term but you can’t know until you try.

Well… that’s not too far off from GLP-1s now that I type it out. Funny how chemistry works.

The more I learn the more we’re just a bag of chemicals lol.

 

[randompersonrandom]

The more I learn the more we’re just a bag of chemicals lol.

A bag of chemicals, TEEMING with bacteria!

Gentlemen...I'm single!

 

[byefatlicia]

A bag of chemicals, TEEMING with bacteria!

Gentlemen...I'm single!

Just a second while I spray you with alcohol🙂 Can't be too safe...

 

[miss-sanne]

We do the hard work, the peps just makes it easier.
Yes, I sometimes feel like I’m cheating, but mostly because society tells me so.
Who cares anyway ?
I usually call the natural skinny people for having a ‘thin privelege’
My coworkers can be so condesenting and downright stupid and un-informed about GLP’s, ( I’m a GP ), and guess what : they have thin privelege.
They can come back when they felt insulin resistance, genetics , medicine, etc, and lets talk. 🙃

 

[AndyPanda]

I’m cynical AF so my take may seem insensitive… I say it’s cheating if it’s all you do. If you just take GLPs and don’t do anything but starve yourself to lose weight, you will gain every pound back and probably more. The only person you are cheating is yourself though.

If you take GLPs and make better decisions, exercise once you can safely do so, and put in real work it’s a great tool. People say steroids are cheating, but the people who use them work their asses off in the gym to get gains. They don’t get muscles from just injecting themselves.

So many human beings are nosey, egocentric, self righteous, judgmental, and often jealous. Do what makes you feel good and don’t tell anyone you are even taking the meds. Don’t give them the opportunity to judge and remember that EVERYONE has their own problems and insecurities, some people are just better at hiding it.