At work, I generally visit most of my clients once a month.
One client in particular, I’ve noticed, has been losing a significant amount of weight over the last several months. As an FFF (former fat fuck), it always makes me happy to see someone taking back control of their life and getting into shape, so I make a point to compliment them on it. A little compliment goes a long way. Especially when it’s your job to scrutinize and sometimes criticize the way a person manages their business.
I pointed out to the client that I noticed she had lost a lot of weight since we first met six or seven months ago, and congratulated her on her weight loss. After a little bit of polite prying about things like diet and exercise, the client said “Oh yeah, I’m taking Ozempic.”
And there it is, the reason that half the fat people I know have suddenly dropped 30 pounds overnight.
Let’s get this out of the way now. Ozempic has legitimate uses. If you’re dealing with actual medical conditions like diabetes, that’s what the drug is for and that’s not what I’m talking about.
I’m talking about the growing crowd using it as a weight loss shortcut because they don’t want to fix the actual problem.
These people didn’t make any lifestyle changes or hit the gym, they just stuck a pen in their stomach. People who couldn’t even commit to a walk around the block six months ago are suddenly showing up looking like a before and after ad without putting in any work.
It pisses me off, because I used to be fat:
I didn’t inject my way out of it, I got up off my ass and put in the work. I ate cleaner, started exercising, and started taking care of myself. Now I’m running half-marathons:
No shortcuts, no cheat codes, no weekly injection doing the work for me while I sat there convincing myself I was “making progress.” You either fix it or you don’t.
Ozempic is a shortcut, it’s the easy way out. It makes you lose weight, but it doesn’t fix the fact that you eat like shit and aren’t active. All it does is suppress your appetite enough to force a result. The second you come off it, you’ll gain the weight right back because you didn’t change your habits. Those injections aren’t going to magically make you wake up one day craving grilled chicken and vegetables instead of junk food.
And you can spare me the “genetics” excuse. If your body truly defied calorie intake the way some of these people pretend it does, starvation wouldn’t exist. The problem isn’t some mysterious condition that makes you immune to weight loss. The problem is people don’t stick to diets, or they have no idea how much they’re actually eating. A “small snack” that’s 800 calories isn’t a snack, it’s a meal you lied to yourself about.
Like usual, we’re fostering a culture where instead of fixing behavior, we just medicate around it, and everyone’s acting like this is some kind of breakthrough instead of what it actually is, a pharmaceutical shortcut. Has anyone thought about what the long-term effects of using Ozempic for weight loss are? We’re running a live experiment on a massive chunk of the population, and everyone’s just hoping it works out fine. Maybe it will, maybe it won’t, but acting like there’s zero downside is pure denial.
If you need Ozempic for an actual medical reason, that’s one thing. But if you’re using it because you don’t want to put in the work, then you’re just a lazy piece of shit. You didn’t address the root of the problem, which is that you eat like shit and sit on your ass all day. At some point, you’re going to have to get up off your fat ass, fix your habits, and take responsibility for your own body. No injection is going to do that part for you.
