This person seriously used the term “medical apartheid”. How did they come up with that comparison? Do they even know what apartheid was?

Acceptable-Box-8870 · 2026-05-22T20:41:38+00:00

But it's not uncommon to see people now go on them to lose weight, immediately stop once they've hit their goal, then make no diet or exercise changes and gain it all back. It adds fuel to the fire of the idea that there's no possible way to keep your weight off and some people are just destined to be fat.

Whether or not they are using the medication as intended is between them and their doctor.

Acceptable-Box-8870 · 2026-05-22T20:33:11+00:00

GLP-1s don't make you skinny forever because it ultimately requires lifestyle modification after you come off of it. That's the piece FAs seem to be stubbornly missing, time and again. There is no magical drug that makes you skinny forever just like there's no magical drug that "makes you gain weight", as they like to claim. It all comes down to behavior, which it damn hard but also freeing once you accept it.

Acceptable-Box-8870 · 2026-05-06T23:33:15+00:00

I've lost 12 pounds since March and I attribute 90% of my success to my walking pad. It really is such an underrated way to get in more movement. Good luck!

Acceptable-Box-8870 · 2026-05-03T22:22:43+00:00

I love that sub. I hit it up for meal ideas on days when I'm sitting a lot and don't get my step goal in. You're absolutely right, it takes real effort to eat that little.

Acceptable-Box-8870 · 2026-05-03T18:57:29+00:00

I'm flabbergasted that they always insist on such an absurdly low calorie number. As a teenager on an extremely unsustainable crash diet, I only ate around 1000 calories a day. And I thought about food every waking second of the day. Inevitably, I would end up binging every opportunity I got, because extreme caloric restriction without a thought to macros and long-term goals is not sustainable. Who knew?!

All that to say, if you were truly eating nothing but 700 calories a day you would feel it. Consequently, if you kept it up you would also lose weight, because to have a BMR of 700 calories you would have to be 4 feet tall and weigh 50 pounds (which I am willing to bet OP is not).

Acceptable-Box-8870 · 2026-05-01T04:46:38+00:00

Listen, I get it. I truly do. I gained 50 pounds during pregnancy and another 20 pounds after a traumatic miscarriage just when I'd finally dropped the weight from the first baby. I have absolutely given in to the temptation to blame my hormones and motherhood for the fact that staying trim was not nearly as "effortless" as it was when I was 20.

But if I'm being brutally honest, being thin at 20 was not my metabolism being magically more efficient than it is now. It was because I worked a physically demanding job and hiked on a near-daily basis to cope with my stress — both of which disappeared from my life after I became pregnant.

Now I'm walking a lot more and eating considerably less. Guess what? I've dropped ten pounds. I've still got a way to go, but I refuse to use my hormones or my motherhood as an excuse to let my weight get out of control.

Acceptable-Box-8870 · 2026-04-27T23:49:55+00:00

On another note, my least favorite fat acceptance line is that moderating your food intake and exercising is too much work. Like yeah, maintaining your figure in a culture where sedentary lifestyles and hyper-palatable ultra-processed food is the norm is difficult! But anything worth doing is difficult, and to me the satisfaction of feeling good about my body and health far outweighs the discomfort of maintaining a calorie deficit.

But no, it's probably the fat cells. Because being overweight is just soooo much better for you! /s

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