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I’m sorry, but as one of the rare (decently) fit & nondiabetic people that have taken these drugs I’m going to call out your comment a bit.

While I have no doubt that obese people have gradually made appetite control harder for themselves, the full feeling you get on GLP meds is in no way the way us normal-weight people feel.

I too, could easy eat a whole bag of doritos after some pizza and then decide I want ice cream. I don’t do that because I know it’s an awful idea and so I maybe just have a pickle after the pizza instead.

On GLP-1 medications at a decent dose I don’t know if I could force myself to eat anything after half of my normal serving of pizza.

That’s not the way the rest of us normally are apart from rare exceptions, I assure you.



Yeah but right now we're just arguing about how strong each person's feeling of "I could eat more" is.

Personally, I really like how, on the medication, it's easy to say "nah, I'd better not". Off the medication, it's impossible, as I have to eat whatever is in front of me, or I won't stop thinking about it.


Sure, obviously there's no real way to compare that. I was just pointing out that the way it makes people feel isn't natural - as in, that's not how most skinny people feel either.


What's with the body shaming mate?

I literally have no feeling of 'full'. I used to. I have no idea when it stopped working, but it definitely stopped working.

You can't know what I feel. I can't know what you feel. I'm fit, I have zero appetite control.

If I stop doing tons of exercise, boom, problems. I got old, I stopped moving as much, boom, problems.

People like you are part of the problem, not the solution.

Honestly, you wouldn't say this shit to someone's face.

It was honestly hard enough posting this here in the first place and then a dick like you comes along.

Cheers thanks for ruining my day you prat.


I apologize for ruining your day, that wasn't my intention. As I stated in my post I don't doubt that obese people have screwed up that signaling over time. Are your cravings off medication worse than mine? Probably. We'd pretty quickly get in to a "Is your green my green?" type discussion talking about that, which obviously has no conclusion. However, I've seen many, many people repeat something along the lines of "Wow, I guess this is what skinny people feel like all the time!" in reference to these medications. I was just pointing out that it absolutely is not how we feel, and I'm one of the fairly rare people out there that can confirm that.




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