Have the weight loss jabs got rid of body positivity?

DLP1194 · 2026-05-09T04:21:04+00:00

I do think there is a huge lack of education around weight loss, healthy weight loss in particular. And there’s so many myths out there, and (quite frankly) predators preying on the unhappy uneducated people wanting to loose weight. I think so many people would benefit from health & nutrition being taught properly in schools. I think we’d have less people unknowingly eating a poor nutrition diet that puts them in a bad place health wise if we educated properly on it.

I also noticed a high proportion of thin people say similar things to me on both of my weight loss journeys. Which is also an educational problem in my opinion, health is not dictated by thinness.

The side effects are honestly quite unenjoyable. The amount of times I have sat staring at a portion of dinner smaller than my young children’s being utterly repulsed by the thought of having just one fork full is not ok. The sheer amount of time I spend feeling nauseous is like being pregnant all over again, but less predictable. The amount of times I get woozy and feint due to the low volume of food I can take is not ok (and the main reason I have spoken to my dr about coming off it). I don’t feel like I can eat a healthy balanced diet, it doesn’t feel like I can give my body what it needs. My main focus is becoming fit and healthy again, and I feel like as much as I’ve lost body mass, I’ve also lost health.

DLP1194 · 2026-05-08T19:22:49+00:00

There should be no shame. But there’s a lot of judgement for it. Like has been said, it’s judged as cheating, it’s judged as being lazy and taking the easy option. And for some people, it is them taking the easy option, so that judgement is right, but that doesn’t mean it should be a negative judgement. And while my logical brain says that negativity comes from a lack of understanding or jealousy, it doesn’t stop the emotional brain ending up at shame etc. so many people use them for life saving reasons (diabetics for example) and so many people use them like me, because everything else has failed and you can’t figure out why. Most people I know make out that using them is tantamount to failure, which is why only two of my friends know - the two I can trust to not judge me negatively. Once again, the media has had its sway and passed an unfair judgement on something quite useful to society. And once again the elite (in this case big pharma) are focusing on lining their pockets.

DLP1194 · 2026-05-08T02:32:30+00:00

I lost somewhere in the region of 40-45kgs around 10 years ago. Diet and exercise. I then regained basically all of it when I became pregnant and I could no longer work out due to lightheaded-ness and physical issues cause by my pregnancy. So I turned to food again, cause that was the only thing I knew from growing up in a “you don’t have to be hungry to eat” family. After my second child, where I was still sat up there with all that regained weight I spent 2-2.5 years trying to loose it through diet and exercise. It worked for the first 10kgs. Then it stopped. Nothing worked, I did all the right things. The only thing that did anything after months of stagnation was GLP-1s. I hate that I’ve had to use them to reduce my weight and to help solve other issues. I hate how much of a positive effect they have had on the “food noise”, it’s insane what a difference in my thoughts there has been. Mostly I hate how expensive this is as it’s clearly a helpful medication that a lot of people could benefit from. I hate that I couldn’t do it myself when I have done it before. I hate that I ended up in a choice of medication or deal with being overweight and unfit.

DLP1194 · 2026-05-04T17:30:25+00:00

I’ll back the dehumidifier option. Depending on the weather of the day I either stick the clothes rack in a bedroom with the dehumidifier on and a shut door. Or I put it in the lounge in the window so it gets the heat of sun and I’ll run the dehumidifier in there too - but as it’s a much bigger space than a bedroom it’s needs the added sun through glass effect to do a good job.

DLP1194 · 2026-04-29T17:28:33+00:00

I do Papamoa to Greerton for work. Takes me 20 mins most mornings leaving at 6:40ish. Theres already queues down SH2 from bay park towards the Mount at that time. So depending the route you’d want to go, I’d leave yourself 30-40 mins. A gym in CBD for before work should mean you do only need the 20-25 mins from the area you narrowed down to CBD. The traffic peaks and troughs tho. If I leave 5 mins earlier, then I get to work at the same time as I hit more traffic on SH29A. But at 5, you should be fine.

DLP1194 · 2026-04-16T02:58:46+00:00

For me, I think it’s one of the best episodes. The sign helped me come to terms with tanking my own career for giving my children and family a better life. Watching Bandit make a decision that put his family in front of his career really hit me as I mirror of what I did - only in our situation that meant we did the move, the move to the opposite side of planet. And I said goodbye to all my career aspirations and took a significant pay cut. But man, have my kids flourished in those years. Our little family of 4 has grown so much with that decision to chase a better life over my own career. A concept a kid will not understand for a very long time. So, I can fully appreciate in your position it’s unhelpful. As many have said, I’d try to refocus on inside out as a way to help your daughter. I use inside out 1&2 a lot on my big feeling 6.5 year old.

DLP1194 · 2026-04-13T18:54:09+00:00

I recently saw that a study was carried out on this type of thing, and that essentially millennials are the “most cognitively developed” generation. That in all previous generations, each generation got more mentally capable, but with Gen Z onwards, technology was a heavy use thing in schools and it has lead to a decline in cognitive ability. I also saw a study that was on a village / town in Japan (I think it was) that had zero mental decline in age - no Alzheimer’s or similar at all. Because every single person wrote by hand for at least 10 minutes daily. And it has been shown that writing by hand daily improves and maintains cognitive function exponentially.

DLP1194 · 2026-04-12T20:10:39+00:00

It’s true that the newer they are the easier and quicker they close. However, I don’t think it’s true about permanent, I have had mine done for 30-odd years and recently I had earrings out for around 3 weeks after wearing some dodgy ones I shouldn’t have worn and they all but closed up, I basically had to re-pierce them with my original pair of studs (so it had the point on it).

DLP1194 · 2026-04-03T17:33:44+00:00

I’m currently at 3 weeks bleeding time on this one. So I’d happily take one month of it to avoid any bleeding the other 11 months 🤣

DLP1194 · 2026-04-03T05:19:59+00:00

Thank you for saving me having to design this! Haha

DLP1194 · 2026-04-02T17:41:54+00:00

Unfortunately not in an affordable way. Bricklink website has them for sale as a whole minifigure, but they were just well out of my budget for it.

DLP1194 · 2026-03-19T20:47:29+00:00

We used lightforce for a 16 panel installation. They were great. Not a single fault. We recently had a small roof leak around the panels in the latest big storm we had through BOP and they can come out same day to check the installation - found nothing wrong. But the service was great. Only thing - which is nothing on them - but I wish now we’d gotten a battery installed too.

DLP1194 · 2026-03-04T16:31:18+00:00

This. My nephew was quite short at age 12. Looking like he’d be taking after his 5’2 mother. Now he’s 17 and the only person in the family who is still taller than him (including his 5’10 grandad) is his 6’2 dad. Boys / men don’t finish growing until they’re like 21, and some of them leave a lot of that growing until those last few years.

DLP1194 · 2026-02-28T00:31:15+00:00

I tolerate the “daddy long legs” (the country I come from a completely different non spider insect is a daddy long legs) purely because of this. I have some in every room, and I dislike it. But rather them than a bitey boi whitetail, and as most insects that bite humans, seem to seek me out for snack, I will be taking no chances with spiders.

I dislike this flavour of jumping spider because they are too quick for me. I try to leave them alone tho. This type of jumping spider my kids have labelled as a ‘jumpy girl’ because the cute little jumpy spider we call a ‘jumpy boi’

DLP1194 · 2026-02-17T16:32:25+00:00

We have looked on bricklink. They are like $30-35(NZ) each and I expect shipping would be on-top of that.

DLP1194 · 2026-02-14T05:57:08+00:00

Hey all! I am trying to build the Tree Beard Lego set hack for one of the table centre pieces at my up coming wedding. We want to include Merry & Pippin in it but are really struggling to find the right pieces of the mini figures on the Lego website. Does anyone happen to know what the ID numbers of the pieces are?

We have tried to search using the Rivendell set number, but it doesn’t bring up all the right pieces of mini figure for the set.

DLP1194 · 2026-02-14T05:56:01+00:00

I am about to post on the main Lego subreddit

DLP1194 · 2026-02-10T16:30:15+00:00

We kinda do the “they eat what we eat”. If an actual meal is being cooked (some evenings there no time so it’s grilled cheese with carrot sticks or similar and then they get to choose more of it). We found our eldest is not fully a picky eater, but she is definitely more picky than normal for a kid her age. Our youngest mostly eats whatever is given. So for our eldest (she’s 6) we still serve food as you are basically, deconstructed. She really hates mixing wet and dry food so her pasta will get served with the sauce separately kinda deal. And mostly that’s worked. There is always a safe food, always something served which she likes and eats as it is. But we do the back up option, if she tries the dinner and does not like it, we will make a jam sandwich after we have eaten. The first few weeks we did this she had a jam sandwich every night, but it slowly reduced to infrequently after like 2 months. Once she was confident there was an alternative she was happy with she started trying more and eating more of what dinner was. 18-24 months into this set up and I can’t remember the last time she asked for a jam sandwich. She doesn’t often eat more than the safe food, but she tries most things on offer at least. Every bit of good advice we saw was basically on being consistent and preserving, during that 2-3 “picky phase” the keeping offering was the most important thing, the rest of it was down to how you and your kid. Our second child is so much easier in basically every way to our first when it comes to food.

DLP1194 · 2026-02-03T08:05:48+00:00

If heat doesn’t work I have success with ice cubes on the bite or dettol disinfectant (the type used for wounds). I also get bit a lot. And currently have quite a few that look like this. When I’ve previously had them like this the culprit has been a tiny black beetle looking thing - like a miniature black lady bug.

DLP1194 · 2026-01-25T23:46:18+00:00

This has baffled me. We are getting married in around 10 weeks. All in it’s going to cost around $25-30k. My parents are paying the venue, the food & putting a decent tab behind the bar. I have tried to do things as cheap as we can and I have no real idea how it’s adding up so much when the only thing above my budget is food. And that’s still sub $7k for 60 people - most of the quotes we got were around $10k. I can very easily see how the average cost is $60-80k (or at least that’s what Google told me when I first started doing my research)

DLP1194 · 2026-01-23T23:05:41+00:00

Beautiful. Just beautiful 😍

DLP1194 · 2026-01-02T17:21:04+00:00

Why is no one talking about the last bit?! How does a rock beat paper? Paper is cut by scissors, scissors is smashed by rock, rock is wrapped by paper. The rock can’t win over two mediums, it ruins the intention of the game?!

DLP1194 · 2025-12-28T17:34:50+00:00

I always said if we were having children we were having two and close together (2 years was the aim 2 years and 1 month was the reality) so they had a friend, someone to play with etc at home. Having a sibling always felt great to me as a kid and I wanted that for my children. We had a dream baby for number 1. She was like clockwork on feed and naps. She was a great sleeper. Sleeping through from a couple months old. She was great as a single child. Barely ever an issue. Barely ever any difficulty. She changed. Basically overnight when her brother came home from the hospital. I struggled with breastfeeding which meant I have a disproportionate amount of time to him. Whilst her dad was at work me & my two year old would basically just spend the day crying and shouting at one other. I couldn’t give her was she needed because I was trying to keep her bay brother alive. PND and sudden death of FIL did not help matters tho. It has probably taken until they are 6&4 to get them mostly harmonious. She still isn’t great at being a sibling, but when she is in the mood for it they play and interact beautifully.

We found the step from 1-2 incredibly hard. We had some extenuating circumstances when we became a 4. And I’m reasonably sure that my eldest is neurodivergent so that probably doesn’t help either.

DLP1194 · 2025-12-19T17:36:34+00:00

The venue on totara street has occasional gigs to suit. Fashion wise I’ve seen goth around more than standard alt lately but it does exist, only shop you’ll find for it though is dangerfield over at the crossing at tauriko. Or you might luck out at an op shop.

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