Will Serena Williams's weight-loss admission help shed stigma of anti-obesity drugs?
Will Serena Williams's weight-loss admission help shed stigma of anti-obesity drugs?
Is there any stigma for weight loss drugs?
People who know and talk to you only care that your life is improving.
Yeah, I hear people talking about the side effects all the time.
Talking about the side effects is not stigma
There are serious side effects to these inhibitor drugs. Diet is far more effective. It's a dangerous path to go on, it usually degrades muscle mass and skeletal mass at the end of treatment. These drugs can't be persisted forever. Somebody coming off of these drugs absolutely needs to have nutritionally healthy eating habits, and many people are not learning those while they're on the drugs
None of this is stigma, these are all just parts of the treatment evaluation. If somebody chooses to go on these drugs, I support them. I want them to have the best version of themselves they can.
I don't think should be freely available because (as a lifelong porker that knows you need to change your lifestyle and has aways struggled), people are not changing. They are branded as miracle cures. Well, I've got news for you pal, there is NO CURE!
Women at work are using them and telling me they can still eat all they want!
People need to be supported and educated. Sadly that's not going to happen.
I can't speak for everyone, but as someone who was prescribed oral semaglutide, I'm always baffled by such exclamations. If I eat too much or too little, I've overcome by nausea and acid reflux. It forced me to address my portion sizes.
I was also lucky enough to pick up a new phone around the same time that came with a watch and so it was easy to start tracking my steps, which then motivated me to start going for daily walks to meet my modest step goals. That evolved into me setting new personal aspirations and being regimented about a calorie deficit. I had the NHS pushing and prodding me and couldn't have done it without their support.
That trifecta of the semaglutide, the watch/Fitbit and the NHS support were the miracle cure. It's not a one size fits all thing. But if I could, I would recommend that the government gave watches and Fitbit to everyone.
'But if I could, I would recommend that the government gave watches and Fitbit to everyone.' That would be preferable to handing it out here there and everywhere.
I'm not knocking you - you understand the process and know all to well that it affects different people in different ways. As I say, educating people is the key. Stop all the fast food ads on TV etc. Get people eating more healthily and pushing supermarkets to do the same. They won't do it out of the goodness of their hearts.
Some of us just need more pushing than others ;-)
This tells you all you need to know