When is the last time you stepped on a scale? Did you like the results? I’m pretty sure you immediately thought about ways to lose weight and fast. No one wants to wait months or years to see a noticeable change. For as long as I can remember, society has specific guidelines on what a “perfect body” for a male and female. The characteristics are different, but the goal is to look good for others, no matter the cost…to one’s mental or physical health. When we do not have the body of what society deems “beautiful”, we sometimes may go to extreme habits in order to be excepted. Have many diets have you been on? Counting calories, eliminating carbs and sweets and implementing more fruits and vegetables in your daily routine? We will often try anything to look the par, but the methods do not stick because we are too busy trying to be accepted instead of being healthy. For example, when women give birth, often times their goal is to get back to pre-pregnancy weight or being labeled a “MILF Mother I Like to Fuck). In order to achieve this sometimes u realistic goal, rather than exercising and changing eating habits, one may look for a quicker approach, such as diet pills, special drinks and bars, insane diets such as only eating watermelon each day for a specified number of days (watermelon challenge) and the new craze, Ozempic injections. For me, I never really paid any attention to this weight loss drug because I am not a fan of needles (tattoo needles are not the same) and was under the impression that only Hollywood uses this drug, which from the before and after transformations that I’ve seen, do in fact look incredible, but at what risk? I took some time out of my day and listened to a podcast by Mike and Aubrey titled Ozempic. I learned a lot about this drug and came to the conclusion that it isn’t right for me and for those that use it without a medical reason are selfish. This drug is also the main ingredient that is used for people are have Diabetes. At the height of the Pandemic, the diabetic patients were rationing out their medication because people were purchasing it for weight loss. This drug has some unkind side effects such as regular gastro issues, acute kidney disease, gall bladder cancer, pancreas and other issues. If you are a healthy person, taking this drug has the potential to make you sick, but because society classifies beauty with weight, the scales should not be tipping with weight, but tipping with how much weight one has lost. Are you comfortable with yourself to lose weight the old fashion way or do you use a scale?
Unruly Bodies 
I’m someone who doesn’t like getting weighed, and the only time I ever learn about my weight is at routine checkups at the doctors office. I think that weight isn’t necessarily a good measure of how healthy a person is. It can tell us some things, like being dangerously underweight or overweight, but it is also just one factor.
I also like that you talk about fad diets and strategies for losing weight. A lot of them can be unhealthy and are aimed towards reaching a goal that’s unrealistic. I’ve especially seen this in male celebrities, where they go through transformations that are impossible to achieve without steroids, but act as if they have gotten to where they’re at using some weird diet and workout routine.
I personally dread when I have to weigh myself because I know I won’t be happy looking at the number. However, sometimes I want look at the scale to get an idea of where I am at in terms of weight. I know weight isn’t everything but sometimes I just get an urge to check and then feel immediate disappointment afterwards. When I listened to the Ozempic podcast and learned about the side effects I was appalled that there were non diabetics that were using it in order to lose weight when there are people who don’t have access to insulin readily. I also agree that using something like Ozempic for weight loss only is very selfish.
I dislike weighing myself. When I weigh myself and my weight isn’t where I want it to be it changes how I see myself. It causes me to question my eating habits and I somewhat spiral. So from that point of view, I understand why people would want to use Ozempic to change their weight as all most people want to do is feel comfortable but I think there are better ways to lose weight just not with the same results. I think weight loss is also a mindset. The thought process may be to lose weight to appeal to others but I feel you have to really want it for yourself. There are ways to aid in weight loss but at the end of the day, all that matters is if you are willing to work with the aid and not let it do all the work and that’s where I feel some of the people who use Ozempic to lose weight despite the negative effects and the affects it has on the supply of medicine for people with diabetes they still continue to use it.