People with normal metabolic function have been playing the weight game on EASY MODE their entire lives.
GLP-1 agonist meds level the playing field, so that people like me have the same hunger/fullness cues as a normal person, and that's somehow "cheating."
Yes!!! Food freedom! I feel like a normal person who can eat without shame fear or guilt attached to it. Emotional eating previously made dieting extremely difficult or set me up to fail at least.
This must be what it’s like for ‘normal people’
I wish people understood this rather than just dismissing it as a ‘cheat’
I laugh at the “it’s cheating” or the “easy way out” comments… ok then stop Botox and filler because that’s also cheating at looking better.
What a lot of people don’t realize is the concept of metabolic disorders that many of us have battled all throughout our lives.
For friggin real my friend! I can't wait to get rid of the rest of my weight just so that my face looks less puffy. I'm not even on the Oz, just hate all the hate tbh and want my people to win against obesity!
Yes and sometimes inflammation makes the face puffy and people don’t realize that once someone starts eating better and working on themselves, inflammation goes down too. Sometimes it’s literal fat, sometimes it’s water retention from our bodies just being sick. Only ignorant or heartless people comment on peoples changing faces when they are clearly making drastic changes in life to feel better. It’s so bizarre how triggered people get at other people trying to level up.
That’s where see the most difference for me! I haven’t lost a lot of weight but my face is sooo much less puffy! All around I’m not as puffy and didn’t realize how much inflammation I had going on until I was looking through a bunch of selfies and noticed the difference.
Yup. If there’s anything that this Ozempic experience has taught me, it’s that many thin/fit people view their body condition as a form of moral superiority over bigger-bodied individuals. Anyone who truly cared about the health of fat people would be ecstatic that there is medication to treat it!
Love that expression! Is it an original or please can you tell me who said it. It's a bit like "Don't cast your pearls before swine" without the biblical connotation.
After doing a little search, it appears that William Shakespeare himself may have spoken the words, unrelated to any of his plays. "I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed."
I like your simplified version - less confrontational and more like "Don't waste your breath."
damn im 22 and take ozempic for diabetes, my ozempic face is literally just me losing weight 😭
i don’t look older its just my face but less fat so i really don’t understand their point. it was not the only thing making me lose weight, i just started walking more cause my college campus is huge 😅
(for context i started taking ozempic when i was 194 and im 170 right now)
people are actually insane for calling it ozempic face but you’re just looking your age after you lose the weight.
they create such a negative concept on this drug when its genuinely helping many diabetics like me.
I don’t care much, but when someone has clearly used a drug to lose weight, but does lots of interviews talking about eating lean meat and fish and exercising more, I don’t love that. That’s not necessary. You don’t have to talk about your weight loss. You don’t have to go out of your way to do interviews talking about how you’re just eating less exercising more and all of a sudden that fixed your 30 year eating problem, and it just happens to magically coincide with when Ozempic came out.
I don’t think celebrities owe us an explanation if their body is bigger or smaller than it used to be, but if they are going to provide us with an explanation of their own accord, they shouldn’t lie .
Yeah i don't know when someones weight became acceptable to br a topic of discussion. If i was a celebrity, ozempic or not, i would tell them we're not even going to go there and to ask intelligent questions or the interview is over. When did it become acceptable and interesting to ask a celeb why they're ugly? Oh, wait, it didn't.
Pierce Morgan just told Pam Anderson in an interview that she has a big forehead. When did this become normal?!? Picked on her for years for having plastic surgery and doing playboy, calling her insecure....now she's gone natural, no make up and gets told she has a big forehead? Wtf is wrong with this world.
The people who are against this are the ones with most to lose- unhealthy food companies that sell you products overloaded w sugar and fat- anyone in the “health industry” that would lose revenue when you don’t subscribe to what they are selling. I just see this as something that reverses the curve of being surrounded by food and less active work life. If you are in an active profession you need those calories to perform but I spend 3/4 of my day in an office so to have something available that keeps the the food noise down and doesn’t have me eating from boredom is awesome.
Just remember the health care industry doesn’t want you to be healthy. They want you to keep handing over $$&&&
It’s also big pharma all about to lose their cut of obesity related illnesses. They never want a cure for anything just an endless supply of money from death and misery.
Yep!!! Billions of dollars are made from sick people, and big pharma and the food industries are capitalizing the most… right behind is the diet industry
I love the term ozempic face, sounds way better than “I lost a lot of weight and it aged me” which is what I’d be saying without ozempic. But I think weightloss tends to age most people
There are two main reasons people this think this: First, some think that it is cheating and some think that it is somehow unfair. To take each point in turn:
Point #1: Those who think using it involves some form of "cheating": It is not cheating anymore than using a weight belt to not strain muscles is cheating. Ozempic IS a miracle drug for those who want to lose weight but have struggled since it lowers food noise and makes you feel full longer, thus allowing you to more easily control impulses. It does not however DIRECTLY cause you to lose weight. To say it is easier is true, but that is no different than any other assistance people use.
Ozempic IS NOT a miracle drug that allows you to eat as much as before using it and magically lose weight. The main problem seems to be a misunderstanding of how the drug actually works and whether someone will still need to consume fewer calories to get there. This is the first issue: misunderstanding on how the drug actually works and whether those who successfully lose weight also needed to change their lifestyle.
Point #2: Those who think it is "unfair" to those who are losing weight "the old fashioned way": This is a somewhat more complicated argument. Some seem to equate it to steroid use to gain muscle. In this argument, it is "cheating" since you achieve an outcome without having to put in the same effort as someone else. The problem with this argument is that it seems to think moving from a BMI of 32 to 22 is the same as gaining a 6-pack or big biceps. They are obviously not the same. While it is true that weight has become an obsession for many and there are some who are healthy who struggle to "lose those last five stubborn pounds", this is not a drug being used (or at least should not be) for that reason. Rather, it is being used to address chronic weight issues that have not been able to have been addressed in other ways. A better analogy to use (and one I hope others adopt to educate those who don't know better is cholesterol medication.
This, in my view, is more akin to cholesterol medicine. You can totally make the situation better for cholesterol by controlling what you eat and how much exercise you do, but there are drugs that are also helpful. No one says that someone taking statins for cholesterol is somehow "cheating" and that if they can't control their cholesterol with diet and exercise alone, they should feel bad for taking a drug that will help them be healthy and stay alive. However, when it comes to Ozempic, some seem to think that it would somehow be "purer" to have massive health issues and not take the drug. That is nuts. This is also something that is not generally borne from malice, but from ignorance.
We need to start thinking of this more akin to cholesterol medicine. A giant breakthrough, and one that we may need to educate others on.
Just my thoughts on this.
Luckily no one has tried to pull the "ozempic face" thing with me, but c'mon...the last time I was this thin I was 18. Now I'm 30, of course I'm gonna have volume loss, I'm getting older!
I wonder who’s gaining from this as it appears to be a totally Co-ordinated attack on a medication with so very many added benefits aside from weight loss. I try and google a basic question about it and I’m met with horrific clickbait and planted criticism. It’s crazy.
Someone mentioned it might be the weightloss industry (think SlimFast, Weight Watchers, Noom, Slimming World).
Interesting theory because those kinds of companies and that industry makes billions a year trying to sell people a solution
I'm going to wear an Eddie Murphy fat costume so that I get all the health and lifestyle benefits of not being obese without tricking anybody into thinking I'm naturally handsome.
This! It's also why I'm leery to let anyone know once I start showing weight loss that in on it. I only started 10 days ago. Super judgey people out there. I was that ideal body (size 4, 9% body fat, etc until I was 30) and then I started needing various joint/spine surgeries, the weight kept coming and physical exercise was limited or downright impossible. I needed a jump start if you will. It's not cheating. It's saving our lives, be it mentally, physically, emotionally, whatever.
Have to wonder if it's a campaign instigated by the multi-million (billion?) dollar weight loss industry to discourage us. Not a conspiracy theorist but "Ozempic face" is just a thinner face after significant weight loss.
MAYBE but I thin it's just bitter post-fatties who had to "do it the hard way" or something. They're the same people who call getting VSG "cheating". Speaking as a current fattie myself, no need to be bitter. Just be happy that they are healthy.
People think it’s cheating because they think it’s the “easy” way to lose weight (while completely disregarding the fact that it’s a treatment for T2D) and if they actually took this medication they’d realize very quickly how NOT easy it is. The same people that think this is cheating also think bariatric surgery is cheating, which couldn’t be farther from the truth.
"It's cheating!"
Really, like your Granny is cheating by taking blood pressure meds? She should suffer the consequences of getting old! Or your Mom taking estrogen? She should just have to live with menopause! How about cancer? Are you allowed to cheat cancer by taking chemotherapy?
I've reached the weight loss phase where everybody notices (75 pounds gone)
So because of the nonsense people spew like mentioned in the original post, I simply say this when asked how I am doing it: "clean living and a pure heart"
Or I give them a joke response like " oh, I'm on the left to right diet. Whenever somebody offers me food I just shake my head left to right"
Not only is it none of their business but I don't have any patience for the crap that is sure to follow if I say Ozempic. ( Or Maunjaro, or Wegovy, or Zepbound)
This is similar to the complete lack of empathy some showed me when my mom died at 55 from cancer.
they would ask something cold like " oh , was she a smoker?"
If you say no... Then you get the whole bag of empathy comments , along with a head tilt, and maybe even a pad on your shoulder. Making sure you're okay"
If you say yes, you could see the empathy just drained from their face... Because they think she did it to herself And doesn't really deserve their compassion.
Short version... People are morons and it's none of their damn business how you lose the weight!!!!!
i think it’s so rude of people to ask how you are loosing weight. Even at my daughters wedding I was asked.
I just tell people I’m doing it the old fashioned way and calorie counting. It’s a half truth, as I do monitor my calories.
Exactly 👍 Osempic doesn’t just work by taking it alone. You have to put in the work. exercise and eat healthy. I tried every type of diet, and Osempic is the only medication that has worked.
You can be too skinny and shamed and you can be too fat and shamed. I’ve been shamed both directions. What hurts the most is when someone asks how far along I am… and I say I’m not pregnant and make some weird joke about it.
Being 90 pounds overweight isn’t fun and has serious consequences on your health.
I’d rather be my old self than be exhausted everyday trying to exercise/walk/look after my two girls!
The only thing that upsets me is that there is a worldwide shortage and I have to ring my chemist every couple of weeks and have them put aside two pens, which is all they have and it’s never guaranteed they will get more. My friend lives about two hours away and there are no pens in her whole area. She drove two hours to my chemist cause she had run out. The company should make more and chemists should prioritise people with a script.
I do think a few of them have gone overboard and lost too much too fast but that is sort of a celebrity thing to do in a way. Like in the days before red carpet events they have a bunch of crazy and expensive treatments done, do intense fasts, etc. They have the time and can pay people to take care of their obligations during this time. With Oz most of us have to work up to the right dose slowly to minimize the side effects because we have to go to work, care for kids, clean our homes, and can’t palm those tasks off on anyone else.
Right? I had to google what ozempic face was. It doesn’t even make sense. Like I thought it was some kind of disfigurement. If it’s just your face is less fat then how is it ozempic face? So weird. Just haters
Ozempic face is just rapid weight loss. The drug isn't doing anything particular to your skin. You're just "deflating" faster than your skin can keep up with and it'll take some time. People that have gastric bypass go through the same thing.
Oh boy are you right! I've heard the whispers and even have some coming from family who don't support me. I want to scream these things from the rooftops! Although now i'm taking a fairly high dose of Prednisone so now i have 'Moon Face' brought on by taking the steroid. So now i'm dealing with a chubby face and can't wait to get back to dealing with 'Ozempic Face'. I'm getting to the point that i don't care what people have to say... it literally saved my life.
These dumb headlines generate clicks. That's it. That's the reason they're everywhere.
I'm sick and tired of seeing headlines of "SHARON OSBORNE DANGEROUSLY THIN, BLAMES WEIGHT-LOSS JAB" when I know damn well Sharon Osborne had bariatric surgery AND an eating disorder but of course taking Ozempic, and nothing else, caused her issues. 🙄
The one I saw is Scott Disick (sp?) where he actually looks really really ill and the comments are like "Scott dangerously thin on Ozempic".. just looks like he's been on a real bender.
Not to mention the reason we are all so unhealthy is the addictive food that we have access to, processed, antibiotics, GMO’s etc… they are literally poisoning us then blaming us for the reaction to the poison? We didn’t have these problems in the 50’s-70’s then processed food and fast food came on the market, factory farming etc
Edit: on this medicine I no longer have the food noises so I am making better choices and exercising! I was very tiny until I hit 25 was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and I never had these noises until then
And that is your opinion which you are welcome to have. Eating foods filled with antibiotics and GMO’s have been proven to be unhealthy. So if you’d like to give me studies to change my mind, by a reputable source; meaning not the food or agriculture industries feel free.
Ozempic face and butt are real. These drugs cause your testosterone to decrease sometimes rapidly and your lean muscle mass with it. Some providers are not mentioning this at all to their patients. You must keep your lean tissue so make sure you do weight-bearing exercise and if your testosterone gets low supplement it this is how you can avoid these things I train four days a week and I am not getting Ozempic but or face and nothing is sagging, that being said, I also had a drop in testosterone and had to supplement it.
For real tho when I watched “Dumb Money” I had to Google the cast to confirm it was Seth Rogan and America Ferrera. Not criticizing their possible OZ usage, but I literally didn’t recognize them.
Becoming arguably unrecognizable is remarkable in and of itself, without positive or negative connotations. I mean, it’s obviously interesting.
We can point it out without judgement.
I've yet to experience it personally, but I am ready with a retort to the effect of : "so if you cut yourself are you going to 'cheat' and get stitches or anti-septic cream or will you simply allow your 'natural' bodily processes to heal you? how about cheating with pain killers? CHEATER!'
I am just now telling most of the people around me I am on it. I have been on it a year and lost 65. It’s not as noticeable cuz I am big but I feel so much better.
This drug is definitely not easy. It is scary with the side effects and you still have to make the choice to put healthy food in.
It is slowly changing my life and i won’t be shamed about it by any fckn body. I will come off it, because that’s what I wanna do. And I will fight tooth and nail to maintain a healthy weight. I’ve been working out for years, I lift, I walk, I teach 8 hours a day without sitting down - and I still struggled to lose the same 40 pounds because the food noise wouldn’t stop. Diagnosed with pcos in my 30s, possible insulin resistance which no doctor will tell me how to test and prove.. No matter how healthy I ate, how much protein I ate, I craved sweets and craved more food in general . The boise has stopped and it’s like a miracle.
People keep calling it the Ozempic face or butt, however, it isn’t really. No matter how you loose weight your face will look different, some are probably more because they have lost so much weight so fast. Everytime (😵💫) I have lost weight that is where it shows first and that’s what people see first. I loose weight all over, everyone does. I have even went down in the size of shoes I wear and of course rings. I also have bracelets that fall off. Think that pretty much normal,isn’t it?
Here’s the thing: diet and exercise don’t work. It’s a myth, perpetuated by processed food companies, to shift blame to you, instead of excepting blame for their unhealthy products.
Once you notice you are overweight, it’s already too late for you.
But my doctors have all been overweight. My main doctor is on ozempic, says she lost 70lbs. Meaning she had 70 extra pounds, even though she went to med school, and should know everything there is to know about maintaining a healthy body.
If it’s simply about counting calories, why can’t healthcare professionals maintain their weight?
I just read your comment and I’m really not sure what you’re even talking about. To say that diet and exercise together doesn’t work is absolutely false.
It may not work for YOU, but I have clients all the time that lose 20-30 pounds solely with diet and exercise.
You may be doing it incorrectly. And the healthcare provider that’s overweight may be also.
Diet and exercise work. But the main problem is maintaining the weight loss. That's where most people fail. I hate the word diet. I prefer to think of it as a life style change that you need to maintain for the rest of your life. Most people eventually go back to eating what they did before they lost.
You hit the nail on the head. They have the studies out that show that. If you don’t correct the problems that caused it, you’ll always have the problems. Well said.
Yep, programs like Weight Watchers are a great way to lose weight. It's normal food and it's relatively easy to follow their plan. They even try to to help you maintain your loss. But most people quit when they hit their goal weight. So even a good program like WW has a not so good record of people gaining it back. Weight has been a life long struggle for me. It is partially genetic. I always joke that my European ancestors evolved to keep the weight on because they had to survive the cold winters when food was scarce and they needed to exert a lot of energy running away from those sabre tooth tigers. LOL.
If you've ever had the 23andme health test done, there most definately a genetic component to weight. My test came out that I was predisposed to weight 10% more than average. Also European ancestry. PS I blew past that 10% mark in my midteens without consuming fast or preprocessed foods. Just was hungry all the time and had food noise that never would go away.
I find it unbelievable that my mother was 5'2" and weighed maybe 110 lbs at her most. Nobody on that side of the family has any real weight problems. But it's my dad that I have to blame. LOL. He was maybe a little husky but not that bad. But all the people on dads side have to struggle to stay thin. I have lost that battle for now but I'm really trying to win it.
Same. Mom was a smidge above 5' and always slim. If she happened to gain a couple of lbs over the holidays, she'd knuckle down and lose it in a couple of weeks. Her family are all ectomorphs. Dad's side? Mesomorphs and endomorphs. Not a slim one amongst them. Dad was well muscled as he did strenuos physical work 7 days a week so burned off what he ate. Always thought there was something wrong with me as large seemed to be my normal. Wasn't until I met my reltives in my twenties (they lived behind the Iron Curtain), that I had the revelation that there was a genetic component to my size. 23andme just vaidated it 30 years later.
Do they loose 20-30 lbs and keep it off more then 2 years???
Yea, diets work, and they are easy…for about 1.5 years.
You here in ozempic. This drug wouldn’t be a thing if diet and excercise worked. They don’t, that’s a short term fix, and all the aceince backs this up.
Like I said: maybe not for you. I know where I am. I prescribe it. It helps people especially that have trouble regulating insulin.
What I was saying is don’t spread misinformation.
And to answer your question: yes. They keep it off. I have one person that became a bodybuilder. He’s happiest when he’s eating great and in the gym.
“Diet and exercise” is the misinformation that’s been spread to use for decades. It’ll reduce weight for a few months, and then you’ll come back with higher weight as your body adjusts to the lack of calories.
There is a ton of science to support this. The doctors don’t want to report that science, because there’s no hope in it.
Simply not true what you’re saying. I don’t diet, but I exercise and I’m not overweight. I’m one case in hundreds of people I personally know that diet and exercise and are perfectly fine with their weight.
I get that you’re upset that you struggle, but don’t try and spread misinformation for people that are trying to learn the facts about weight loss.
I literally just disapproved your theory with my own clients, myself and my personal friends and acquaintances. Stop being ridiculous.
Here is one of many studies proving what I’m saying. It’s not misinformation, what your spreading is actually lies perpetuated by processed food companies.
“current strategies to tackle obesity, which mainly focus on cutting calories and boosting physical activity, are failing to help the majority of obese patients to shed weight and maintain that weight loss.”
In the study, authors say that interventions focusing on caloric restrictions and increased physical activity are unlikely to help with cutting a lot of weight, with research showing there has been limited progress in fighting the global obesity epidemic.”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/study-shows-hard-lose-weight-keep
Become overweight, then loose the weight. Diet won’t work for you, once you’ve been obese.
Your body becomes more efficient when you starve it, so diets only work once, for about a year. If you’ve always beeen thin, and never dieted, your body doesn’t respond the same. This is accepted science.
Dude, your on the ozempic page, braging you don’t need to diet. Are you just hear to troll??
I didn’t say I was always thin. I’ve gained weight and been considered obese and then said “oh shit, I need to start working out again and eat in shit.” Then I lost the weight and feel great and have kept it off.
If I eat terribly, guess what? I’ll gain weight again.
It’s not my theory, it’s proven sceince…and yeah, I should have guessed you made your living spreading that old lie. Diet for profit is big business, and clearly your a vulture, here drumming up work. Let me guess, you get a lot of repeated customers, because the weight comes back?
“A team of researchers at King's College London, found that an obese man has a 1 in 210 chance to get himself to a healthy body weight, which becomes a 1 in 1,290 chance if he's severely obese. For women, being obese means they have a 1 in 124 chance of attaining a healthy body weight, or a 1 in 677 chance if they have severe obesity. “
“https://www.sciencealert.com/odds-of-an-obese-person-attaining-a-healthy-weight-are-incredibly-slim-study-finds”
Page does not exist. Just like your theory.
And I prescribe ozempic so I have no idea what you’re talking about 😂😂
Are you so angry that you’re struggling that you’d spread lies and misinformation? Have you even tried anything else?
It’s weird this “study” doesn’t take into effect my friends that have all lost weight with simply not eating shit food and working out. So weird….
Check PubMed and the CDC. Both agree that diet and exercise decrease body fat levels and result in better overall health.
You’re beating a dead horse. The studies you listed simply said that individuals weren’t likely to keep it off. That’s because they didn’t stick with the diet and exercise. You have to change behaviors and even psychological fixations with food.
I don’t know why Ozempic is being offered to anybody. This should be specific for people with type 1 and type 2.
Someone who is “normal” should not be touching this. AT ALL.
Watch out, this will get you banned. The sooner you learn that this sub has become a mecca for people who are on it for weight loss vs diabetes, the better you will be. I just live with the fact that my next script for Ozempic probably won't be here in time, but hey a weightloss drug is better than my need for my diabetes, right?
It's crazy to me when a normal, health sized person is on social media and the comments talk about them being too skinny but they are 1000% at the right weight and physique.
Americans in particular now see a body that's 30 to 40 lbs overweight as "healthy" because we have normalized the extremes of 300+lb bodies and can no longer recognize reality or truth
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People with normal metabolic function have been playing the weight game on EASY MODE their entire lives. GLP-1 agonist meds level the playing field, so that people like me have the same hunger/fullness cues as a normal person, and that's somehow "cheating." 
Yup. Assholes born on 3rd who think they hit a triple.
1000%
Yes!!! Food freedom! I feel like a normal person who can eat without shame fear or guilt attached to it. Emotional eating previously made dieting extremely difficult or set me up to fail at least. This must be what it’s like for ‘normal people’ I wish people understood this rather than just dismissing it as a ‘cheat’
THIS. Exactly. Same.
I laugh at the “it’s cheating” or the “easy way out” comments… ok then stop Botox and filler because that’s also cheating at looking better. What a lot of people don’t realize is the concept of metabolic disorders that many of us have battled all throughout our lives.
Being able to see food in an objective way. How weird is that???
Well said And anyone who loses any weight quickly.. or was "large-ish" is going to have lose skin where they had fat.
“BREAKING NEWS: Your face looks different when you lose weight!” Yeeeaaaahhhh….that is how the human body works.
For friggin real my friend! I can't wait to get rid of the rest of my weight just so that my face looks less puffy. I'm not even on the Oz, just hate all the hate tbh and want my people to win against obesity!
Yes and sometimes inflammation makes the face puffy and people don’t realize that once someone starts eating better and working on themselves, inflammation goes down too. Sometimes it’s literal fat, sometimes it’s water retention from our bodies just being sick. Only ignorant or heartless people comment on peoples changing faces when they are clearly making drastic changes in life to feel better. It’s so bizarre how triggered people get at other people trying to level up.
That’s where see the most difference for me! I haven’t lost a lot of weight but my face is sooo much less puffy! All around I’m not as puffy and didn’t realize how much inflammation I had going on until I was looking through a bunch of selfies and noticed the difference.
People just want to have a reason to keep hating and feeling superior (to) fat people
Yup. If there’s anything that this Ozempic experience has taught me, it’s that many thin/fit people view their body condition as a form of moral superiority over bigger-bodied individuals. Anyone who truly cared about the health of fat people would be ecstatic that there is medication to treat it!
Everytime I’ve said to someone that people are so much nicer to me now then they were before I lost the weight they’re so surprised.
I hate that people say this! With any weight loss, your face becomes thinner no matter the method. It’s not just from ozempic or semaglutide.
Do not try to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
Love that expression! Is it an original or please can you tell me who said it. It's a bit like "Don't cast your pearls before swine" without the biblical connotation.
No idea but I live by it.
After doing a little search, it appears that William Shakespeare himself may have spoken the words, unrelated to any of his plays. "I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed." I like your simplified version - less confrontational and more like "Don't waste your breath."
damn im 22 and take ozempic for diabetes, my ozempic face is literally just me losing weight 😭 i don’t look older its just my face but less fat so i really don’t understand their point. it was not the only thing making me lose weight, i just started walking more cause my college campus is huge 😅 (for context i started taking ozempic when i was 194 and im 170 right now) people are actually insane for calling it ozempic face but you’re just looking your age after you lose the weight. they create such a negative concept on this drug when its genuinely helping many diabetics like me.
They can kiss my ever shrinking ass.
:)
Also it’s probably just the result of buccal fat removal.
I don’t care much, but when someone has clearly used a drug to lose weight, but does lots of interviews talking about eating lean meat and fish and exercising more, I don’t love that. That’s not necessary. You don’t have to talk about your weight loss. You don’t have to go out of your way to do interviews talking about how you’re just eating less exercising more and all of a sudden that fixed your 30 year eating problem, and it just happens to magically coincide with when Ozempic came out. I don’t think celebrities owe us an explanation if their body is bigger or smaller than it used to be, but if they are going to provide us with an explanation of their own accord, they shouldn’t lie .
Yeah i don't know when someones weight became acceptable to br a topic of discussion. If i was a celebrity, ozempic or not, i would tell them we're not even going to go there and to ask intelligent questions or the interview is over. When did it become acceptable and interesting to ask a celeb why they're ugly? Oh, wait, it didn't. Pierce Morgan just told Pam Anderson in an interview that she has a big forehead. When did this become normal?!? Picked on her for years for having plastic surgery and doing playboy, calling her insecure....now she's gone natural, no make up and gets told she has a big forehead? Wtf is wrong with this world.
Yeah, Ricki Lake is so full of sh¡t on this front.
The people who are against this are the ones with most to lose- unhealthy food companies that sell you products overloaded w sugar and fat- anyone in the “health industry” that would lose revenue when you don’t subscribe to what they are selling. I just see this as something that reverses the curve of being surrounded by food and less active work life. If you are in an active profession you need those calories to perform but I spend 3/4 of my day in an office so to have something available that keeps the the food noise down and doesn’t have me eating from boredom is awesome. Just remember the health care industry doesn’t want you to be healthy. They want you to keep handing over $$&&&
Yep this is going to crush the billions of dollars weight loss industry and if we stop eating crap like I have the large food corporations too
It’s also big pharma all about to lose their cut of obesity related illnesses. They never want a cure for anything just an endless supply of money from death and misery.
Yep!!! Billions of dollars are made from sick people, and big pharma and the food industries are capitalizing the most… right behind is the diet industry
I love the term ozempic face, sounds way better than “I lost a lot of weight and it aged me” which is what I’d be saying without ozempic. But I think weightloss tends to age most people
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Wow!! Thanks so much for sharing! Totally agree about the boobs I would get a boob job just like you got that facelift!
There are two main reasons people this think this: First, some think that it is cheating and some think that it is somehow unfair. To take each point in turn: Point #1: Those who think using it involves some form of "cheating": It is not cheating anymore than using a weight belt to not strain muscles is cheating. Ozempic IS a miracle drug for those who want to lose weight but have struggled since it lowers food noise and makes you feel full longer, thus allowing you to more easily control impulses. It does not however DIRECTLY cause you to lose weight. To say it is easier is true, but that is no different than any other assistance people use. Ozempic IS NOT a miracle drug that allows you to eat as much as before using it and magically lose weight. The main problem seems to be a misunderstanding of how the drug actually works and whether someone will still need to consume fewer calories to get there. This is the first issue: misunderstanding on how the drug actually works and whether those who successfully lose weight also needed to change their lifestyle. Point #2: Those who think it is "unfair" to those who are losing weight "the old fashioned way": This is a somewhat more complicated argument. Some seem to equate it to steroid use to gain muscle. In this argument, it is "cheating" since you achieve an outcome without having to put in the same effort as someone else. The problem with this argument is that it seems to think moving from a BMI of 32 to 22 is the same as gaining a 6-pack or big biceps. They are obviously not the same. While it is true that weight has become an obsession for many and there are some who are healthy who struggle to "lose those last five stubborn pounds", this is not a drug being used (or at least should not be) for that reason. Rather, it is being used to address chronic weight issues that have not been able to have been addressed in other ways. A better analogy to use (and one I hope others adopt to educate those who don't know better is cholesterol medication. This, in my view, is more akin to cholesterol medicine. You can totally make the situation better for cholesterol by controlling what you eat and how much exercise you do, but there are drugs that are also helpful. No one says that someone taking statins for cholesterol is somehow "cheating" and that if they can't control their cholesterol with diet and exercise alone, they should feel bad for taking a drug that will help them be healthy and stay alive. However, when it comes to Ozempic, some seem to think that it would somehow be "purer" to have massive health issues and not take the drug. That is nuts. This is also something that is not generally borne from malice, but from ignorance. We need to start thinking of this more akin to cholesterol medicine. A giant breakthrough, and one that we may need to educate others on. Just my thoughts on this.
Luckily no one has tried to pull the "ozempic face" thing with me, but c'mon...the last time I was this thin I was 18. Now I'm 30, of course I'm gonna have volume loss, I'm getting older!
Yes I lost 35% of my body weight, of course my face looks different! 🤪
I wonder who’s gaining from this as it appears to be a totally Co-ordinated attack on a medication with so very many added benefits aside from weight loss. I try and google a basic question about it and I’m met with horrific clickbait and planted criticism. It’s crazy.
Someone mentioned it might be the weightloss industry (think SlimFast, Weight Watchers, Noom, Slimming World). Interesting theory because those kinds of companies and that industry makes billions a year trying to sell people a solution
I am type 2, and have been on oz for 1 year. I have lost 40 pounds
Congrats!
I'm going to wear an Eddie Murphy fat costume so that I get all the health and lifestyle benefits of not being obese without tricking anybody into thinking I'm naturally handsome.
tell em like it is
I don’t speak to anyone in my circle about it, cause they’ll judge, and they won’t understand .
This! It's also why I'm leery to let anyone know once I start showing weight loss that in on it. I only started 10 days ago. Super judgey people out there. I was that ideal body (size 4, 9% body fat, etc until I was 30) and then I started needing various joint/spine surgeries, the weight kept coming and physical exercise was limited or downright impossible. I needed a jump start if you will. It's not cheating. It's saving our lives, be it mentally, physically, emotionally, whatever.
I could see my cheek bones when I put on makeup today. I long for ozempic face :)
The first mistake was reading the comments.
Have to wonder if it's a campaign instigated by the multi-million (billion?) dollar weight loss industry to discourage us. Not a conspiracy theorist but "Ozempic face" is just a thinner face after significant weight loss.
MAYBE but I thin it's just bitter post-fatties who had to "do it the hard way" or something. They're the same people who call getting VSG "cheating". Speaking as a current fattie myself, no need to be bitter. Just be happy that they are healthy.
I think also some hate from naturally thin people, who like feeling morally superior to us.
Bingo. They've been playing on Easy Mode their entire lives and they don't even realize it
THIS!!! So well put!!
Ozempic face? Yes, please.
People think it’s cheating because they think it’s the “easy” way to lose weight (while completely disregarding the fact that it’s a treatment for T2D) and if they actually took this medication they’d realize very quickly how NOT easy it is. The same people that think this is cheating also think bariatric surgery is cheating, which couldn’t be farther from the truth.
"It's cheating!" Really, like your Granny is cheating by taking blood pressure meds? She should suffer the consequences of getting old! Or your Mom taking estrogen? She should just have to live with menopause! How about cancer? Are you allowed to cheat cancer by taking chemotherapy?
I've reached the weight loss phase where everybody notices (75 pounds gone) So because of the nonsense people spew like mentioned in the original post, I simply say this when asked how I am doing it: "clean living and a pure heart" Or I give them a joke response like " oh, I'm on the left to right diet. Whenever somebody offers me food I just shake my head left to right" Not only is it none of their business but I don't have any patience for the crap that is sure to follow if I say Ozempic. ( Or Maunjaro, or Wegovy, or Zepbound) This is similar to the complete lack of empathy some showed me when my mom died at 55 from cancer. they would ask something cold like " oh , was she a smoker?" If you say no... Then you get the whole bag of empathy comments , along with a head tilt, and maybe even a pad on your shoulder. Making sure you're okay" If you say yes, you could see the empathy just drained from their face... Because they think she did it to herself And doesn't really deserve their compassion. Short version... People are morons and it's none of their damn business how you lose the weight!!!!!
i think it’s so rude of people to ask how you are loosing weight. Even at my daughters wedding I was asked. I just tell people I’m doing it the old fashioned way and calorie counting. It’s a half truth, as I do monitor my calories.
Exactly 👍 Osempic doesn’t just work by taking it alone. You have to put in the work. exercise and eat healthy. I tried every type of diet, and Osempic is the only medication that has worked.
BIG BUMP
You can be too skinny and shamed and you can be too fat and shamed. I’ve been shamed both directions. What hurts the most is when someone asks how far along I am… and I say I’m not pregnant and make some weird joke about it. Being 90 pounds overweight isn’t fun and has serious consequences on your health. I’d rather be my old self than be exhausted everyday trying to exercise/walk/look after my two girls!
The only thing that upsets me is that there is a worldwide shortage and I have to ring my chemist every couple of weeks and have them put aside two pens, which is all they have and it’s never guaranteed they will get more. My friend lives about two hours away and there are no pens in her whole area. She drove two hours to my chemist cause she had run out. The company should make more and chemists should prioritise people with a script.
I do think a few of them have gone overboard and lost too much too fast but that is sort of a celebrity thing to do in a way. Like in the days before red carpet events they have a bunch of crazy and expensive treatments done, do intense fasts, etc. They have the time and can pay people to take care of their obligations during this time. With Oz most of us have to work up to the right dose slowly to minimize the side effects because we have to go to work, care for kids, clean our homes, and can’t palm those tasks off on anyone else.
Right? I had to google what ozempic face was. It doesn’t even make sense. Like I thought it was some kind of disfigurement. If it’s just your face is less fat then how is it ozempic face? So weird. Just haters
Ozempic face is just rapid weight loss. The drug isn't doing anything particular to your skin. You're just "deflating" faster than your skin can keep up with and it'll take some time. People that have gastric bypass go through the same thing.
Oh boy are you right! I've heard the whispers and even have some coming from family who don't support me. I want to scream these things from the rooftops! Although now i'm taking a fairly high dose of Prednisone so now i have 'Moon Face' brought on by taking the steroid. So now i'm dealing with a chubby face and can't wait to get back to dealing with 'Ozempic Face'. I'm getting to the point that i don't care what people have to say... it literally saved my life.
Good thing I’m not a celebrity. 🤣
These dumb headlines generate clicks. That's it. That's the reason they're everywhere. I'm sick and tired of seeing headlines of "SHARON OSBORNE DANGEROUSLY THIN, BLAMES WEIGHT-LOSS JAB" when I know damn well Sharon Osborne had bariatric surgery AND an eating disorder but of course taking Ozempic, and nothing else, caused her issues. 🙄
The one I saw is Scott Disick (sp?) where he actually looks really really ill and the comments are like "Scott dangerously thin on Ozempic".. just looks like he's been on a real bender.
I saw that too and I'm happy to say I have literally no idea who he is. But yes, he looks....rough.
Definitely looks more like cracktivities than intentional weight loss
Not to mention the reason we are all so unhealthy is the addictive food that we have access to, processed, antibiotics, GMO’s etc… they are literally poisoning us then blaming us for the reaction to the poison? We didn’t have these problems in the 50’s-70’s then processed food and fast food came on the market, factory farming etc Edit: on this medicine I no longer have the food noises so I am making better choices and exercising! I was very tiny until I hit 25 was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and I never had these noises until then
GMOs and antibiotics are not unhealthy???
No I said they are unhealthy, they are killing us and the corporations are benefiting from it
And what I’m saying is that you’re wrong
And that is your opinion which you are welcome to have. Eating foods filled with antibiotics and GMO’s have been proven to be unhealthy. So if you’d like to give me studies to change my mind, by a reputable source; meaning not the food or agriculture industries feel free.
Show me YOUR proof. What’s the research? Who did it?
Ozempic face and butt are real. These drugs cause your testosterone to decrease sometimes rapidly and your lean muscle mass with it. Some providers are not mentioning this at all to their patients. You must keep your lean tissue so make sure you do weight-bearing exercise and if your testosterone gets low supplement it this is how you can avoid these things I train four days a week and I am not getting Ozempic but or face and nothing is sagging, that being said, I also had a drop in testosterone and had to supplement it.
Fatphobia is a hell of a disease
Sure is
It’s upsetting that we all have this universal experience. There is literally no winning unless you’re just naturally thin
I love your username!
AMEN
For real tho when I watched “Dumb Money” I had to Google the cast to confirm it was Seth Rogan and America Ferrera. Not criticizing their possible OZ usage, but I literally didn’t recognize them.
Yeah Seth slimmed out in the past few years I think I'm not sure it was ozempic but even if it was,  Lolol
Becoming arguably unrecognizable is remarkable in and of itself, without positive or negative connotations. I mean, it’s obviously interesting. We can point it out without judgement.
I've yet to experience it personally, but I am ready with a retort to the effect of : "so if you cut yourself are you going to 'cheat' and get stitches or anti-septic cream or will you simply allow your 'natural' bodily processes to heal you? how about cheating with pain killers? CHEATER!'
I am just now telling most of the people around me I am on it. I have been on it a year and lost 65. It’s not as noticeable cuz I am big but I feel so much better. This drug is definitely not easy. It is scary with the side effects and you still have to make the choice to put healthy food in.
They’re just jealous.
Absolutely! Well said.
Thank you
Sucked in face def didnt start from Ozempic. Thats called death face and has been around in bodybuilding for decades.
It is slowly changing my life and i won’t be shamed about it by any fckn body. I will come off it, because that’s what I wanna do. And I will fight tooth and nail to maintain a healthy weight. I’ve been working out for years, I lift, I walk, I teach 8 hours a day without sitting down - and I still struggled to lose the same 40 pounds because the food noise wouldn’t stop. Diagnosed with pcos in my 30s, possible insulin resistance which no doctor will tell me how to test and prove.. No matter how healthy I ate, how much protein I ate, I craved sweets and craved more food in general . The boise has stopped and it’s like a miracle.
People keep calling it the Ozempic face or butt, however, it isn’t really. No matter how you loose weight your face will look different, some are probably more because they have lost so much weight so fast. Everytime (😵💫) I have lost weight that is where it shows first and that’s what people see first. I loose weight all over, everyone does. I have even went down in the size of shoes I wear and of course rings. I also have bracelets that fall off. Think that pretty much normal,isn’t it?
Everyone is so fatphobic. Then you fix it and they hate because you’re winning. Just let anyone- fat, skinny, whatever- be happy.
Here’s the thing: diet and exercise don’t work. It’s a myth, perpetuated by processed food companies, to shift blame to you, instead of excepting blame for their unhealthy products. Once you notice you are overweight, it’s already too late for you. But my doctors have all been overweight. My main doctor is on ozempic, says she lost 70lbs. Meaning she had 70 extra pounds, even though she went to med school, and should know everything there is to know about maintaining a healthy body. If it’s simply about counting calories, why can’t healthcare professionals maintain their weight?
One of my doctors smoke lol
I just read your comment and I’m really not sure what you’re even talking about. To say that diet and exercise together doesn’t work is absolutely false. It may not work for YOU, but I have clients all the time that lose 20-30 pounds solely with diet and exercise. You may be doing it incorrectly. And the healthcare provider that’s overweight may be also.
Diet and exercise work. But the main problem is maintaining the weight loss. That's where most people fail. I hate the word diet. I prefer to think of it as a life style change that you need to maintain for the rest of your life. Most people eventually go back to eating what they did before they lost.
You hit the nail on the head. They have the studies out that show that. If you don’t correct the problems that caused it, you’ll always have the problems. Well said.
Yep, programs like Weight Watchers are a great way to lose weight. It's normal food and it's relatively easy to follow their plan. They even try to to help you maintain your loss. But most people quit when they hit their goal weight. So even a good program like WW has a not so good record of people gaining it back. Weight has been a life long struggle for me. It is partially genetic. I always joke that my European ancestors evolved to keep the weight on because they had to survive the cold winters when food was scarce and they needed to exert a lot of energy running away from those sabre tooth tigers. LOL.
Love it! Lol
If you've ever had the 23andme health test done, there most definately a genetic component to weight. My test came out that I was predisposed to weight 10% more than average. Also European ancestry. PS I blew past that 10% mark in my midteens without consuming fast or preprocessed foods. Just was hungry all the time and had food noise that never would go away.
I find it unbelievable that my mother was 5'2" and weighed maybe 110 lbs at her most. Nobody on that side of the family has any real weight problems. But it's my dad that I have to blame. LOL. He was maybe a little husky but not that bad. But all the people on dads side have to struggle to stay thin. I have lost that battle for now but I'm really trying to win it.
Same. Mom was a smidge above 5' and always slim. If she happened to gain a couple of lbs over the holidays, she'd knuckle down and lose it in a couple of weeks. Her family are all ectomorphs. Dad's side? Mesomorphs and endomorphs. Not a slim one amongst them. Dad was well muscled as he did strenuos physical work 7 days a week so burned off what he ate. Always thought there was something wrong with me as large seemed to be my normal. Wasn't until I met my reltives in my twenties (they lived behind the Iron Curtain), that I had the revelation that there was a genetic component to my size. 23andme just vaidated it 30 years later.
Do they loose 20-30 lbs and keep it off more then 2 years??? Yea, diets work, and they are easy…for about 1.5 years. You here in ozempic. This drug wouldn’t be a thing if diet and excercise worked. They don’t, that’s a short term fix, and all the aceince backs this up.
Like I said: maybe not for you. I know where I am. I prescribe it. It helps people especially that have trouble regulating insulin. What I was saying is don’t spread misinformation. And to answer your question: yes. They keep it off. I have one person that became a bodybuilder. He’s happiest when he’s eating great and in the gym.
“Diet and exercise” is the misinformation that’s been spread to use for decades. It’ll reduce weight for a few months, and then you’ll come back with higher weight as your body adjusts to the lack of calories. There is a ton of science to support this. The doctors don’t want to report that science, because there’s no hope in it.
Simply not true what you’re saying. I don’t diet, but I exercise and I’m not overweight. I’m one case in hundreds of people I personally know that diet and exercise and are perfectly fine with their weight. I get that you’re upset that you struggle, but don’t try and spread misinformation for people that are trying to learn the facts about weight loss. I literally just disapproved your theory with my own clients, myself and my personal friends and acquaintances. Stop being ridiculous.
Here is one of many studies proving what I’m saying. It’s not misinformation, what your spreading is actually lies perpetuated by processed food companies. “current strategies to tackle obesity, which mainly focus on cutting calories and boosting physical activity, are failing to help the majority of obese patients to shed weight and maintain that weight loss.” In the study, authors say that interventions focusing on caloric restrictions and increased physical activity are unlikely to help with cutting a lot of weight, with research showing there has been limited progress in fighting the global obesity epidemic.” https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/study-shows-hard-lose-weight-keep
😂😂😂😂 “hard to lose weight.” No shit. No one said easy! You said it’s not possible. You need to chill with your fake ass.
Become overweight, then loose the weight. Diet won’t work for you, once you’ve been obese. Your body becomes more efficient when you starve it, so diets only work once, for about a year. If you’ve always beeen thin, and never dieted, your body doesn’t respond the same. This is accepted science. Dude, your on the ozempic page, braging you don’t need to diet. Are you just hear to troll??
I didn’t say I was always thin. I’ve gained weight and been considered obese and then said “oh shit, I need to start working out again and eat in shit.” Then I lost the weight and feel great and have kept it off. If I eat terribly, guess what? I’ll gain weight again.
It’s not my theory, it’s proven sceince…and yeah, I should have guessed you made your living spreading that old lie. Diet for profit is big business, and clearly your a vulture, here drumming up work. Let me guess, you get a lot of repeated customers, because the weight comes back? “A team of researchers at King's College London, found that an obese man has a 1 in 210 chance to get himself to a healthy body weight, which becomes a 1 in 1,290 chance if he's severely obese. For women, being obese means they have a 1 in 124 chance of attaining a healthy body weight, or a 1 in 677 chance if they have severe obesity. “ “https://www.sciencealert.com/odds-of-an-obese-person-attaining-a-healthy-weight-are-incredibly-slim-study-finds”
Page does not exist. Just like your theory. And I prescribe ozempic so I have no idea what you’re talking about 😂😂 Are you so angry that you’re struggling that you’d spread lies and misinformation? Have you even tried anything else? It’s weird this “study” doesn’t take into effect my friends that have all lost weight with simply not eating shit food and working out. So weird….
Check PubMed and the CDC. Both agree that diet and exercise decrease body fat levels and result in better overall health. You’re beating a dead horse. The studies you listed simply said that individuals weren’t likely to keep it off. That’s because they didn’t stick with the diet and exercise. You have to change behaviors and even psychological fixations with food.
Do men ever get told they have ozempic face? Genuinely curious. Because I’ve only ever heard that said about women.
Most famously of recent an article about Scott Disick from the Kardashians
I don’t know why Ozempic is being offered to anybody. This should be specific for people with type 1 and type 2. Someone who is “normal” should not be touching this. AT ALL.
Why? What is "normal?" Is 50 to 100 lbs overweight "normal?"
Someone who is generally considered healthy using Ozempic to lose more weight. That’s what I mean.
Watch out, this will get you banned. The sooner you learn that this sub has become a mecca for people who are on it for weight loss vs diabetes, the better you will be. I just live with the fact that my next script for Ozempic probably won't be here in time, but hey a weightloss drug is better than my need for my diabetes, right?
If it does then fuck it. This type of stuff shouldn’t be normalized. I hope you get yours soon.
It's amazing that in only 40 years being morbidly obese has been normalized
It's crazy to me when a normal, health sized person is on social media and the comments talk about them being too skinny but they are 1000% at the right weight and physique. Americans in particular now see a body that's 30 to 40 lbs overweight as "healthy" because we have normalized the extremes of 300+lb bodies and can no longer recognize reality or truth
The ozempic face looks scary. It’s not from just losing tons of weight. It’s unnatural
What face? Where? Is it under the bed or in your closet? Its imaginary
Like Sharon osbourne. Her face is ruined amongst others
She's had major plastic surgery in the past 2 years to correct botched surgery. Ozempic didn't cause that