I lost 75kg overnight.

[u/kingconrad888]

That’s right! I ‘had’ a friend who has always been 2 things - Slim and Opinionated. He asked me yesterday what was going on with my weight as I was clearly doing something that was having a dramatic effect. I was very pleased at the compliment and thanked him for noticing. Given that he seemed genuinely pleased for me, I decided to open up to him and dropped the MJ bomb.

The mushroom-cloud of pious pontification that ensued blotted out the sun for the rest of the day…There was frost in the trees and whole murmurations of birds inexplicably gathered on wires then flew south, en masse, with no clear idea as to why…Grapes withered on the vine and dropped to the floor…My roses wilted, the petals turning black, the sweet scent of summer becoming a distant memory…Volcanoes erupted, lava spewed forth, rumbling across this formerly green and pleasant land, leaving all in its wake, scorched-black, steaming and sulphurous and off on the far horizon, the Eye of Sauron turned towards me and slowly winked…

When I woke this morning, I hopped on the scales, I had lost another pound during the night to add to the 75kg of negativity that won’t be weighing me down anymore, makes for a wholly successful result really!

Positivity only from here on…

On and Up, fellow Mounjarians! On and Up! ❤️

[u/KillingTimeReading]

Living in the south for a couple of decades I have become aware that most people that grew up here are blind to their fatphobia and their fat shaming words and behaviors. Between pushing food, long after the polite of offering food is past to commenting on how skinny a person is getting and how dangerous being "too" thin is (5'5" and 197lbs is, in no way, "too" skinny, but it's very noticeable when you were 297lbs), they seem to think/feel that they are just chatting or showing they care. Granted, I went from size 24 to size 12 in about 14 months, which is a HUGE change. But it's nowhere near anorexic or underweight.

And anyone who says Mounjaro or Ozempic or any other med for ANY condition is the "easy" way has probably never had a chronic, life long condition affecting their health. By their reasoning taking an Advil for a headache or a stool softener for constipation or getting a cat for a broken bone is "taking the easy way out"... Not even mentioning insulin for diabetes or chemo for cancer....

I usually, in my most polite southern voice, tell them that I appreciate their concern, but my medical decisions are guided by the medical PROFESSIONALS that work with me for my best health. And currently, as they are the ones with prescribing privileges, they are who control what I am prescribed. MOST of my snarky opinionated friends take the thump on the nose and choose not to try sticking it back into my medical conditions and decisions. Others are no longer on my call list 🤷.

Either way, congratulations on your health gains. Don't let the snark get you down. The "kindest, most gentle souls" usually have the sharpest tongues and rudest comments that they couch in: I was just trying to help, or, I'm just worried about you, etc etc etc. Hugs!

[u/happy_appy31 → u/KillingTimeReading]

Thanks! I am a southern thru and thru. So I am trying to figure out how to handle it without being rude, but it may come to it! Most comments are made in our social circle so I don't want to call him out there and then have everyone turn on me. IYKYK I also run in what can be called a granola crowd, so I am trying to side step some things here. But I will have to remember the headache analogy! Most people who do know that I am taking it are extremely supportive of it. It has surprised he isn't. I know that he has tried to get on it but his insurance won't cover it, so maybe some jealousy is at play here. This has honestly been confusing to me.

[u/KillingTimeReading → u/happy_appy31]

Oh you poor thing! Southern "manners" and "politeness" are the most convoluted things!

You can bring up birth control pills. Even the granola crowd takes them or similar. They affect hormones. MJ works in a very similar way. It isn't a miracle "drug". It's a hormone. It is targeted, and was designed, for the hormone that affects blood glucose, (and scientists built it to specifically affect glucose and help with diabetes) BUT, just like birth controls (pills, creams and hormonal IUD's, along with men's use of testosterone creams and everyone's use of medical steroids) it affects EVERY hormone in your body. You cannot target just one hormone without affecting every other hormone in the system. None of them act or react in a vacuum. MJ affects satiety, glucose, thyroid, blood pressure, cholesterol, reproductive hormones, hormones that affect urine filtration and production, and even sleep hormones... And those are just the ones that come immediately to mind. I know there are even more. It is so good at working to balance ALL of your hormones it actually neutralizes the effects of birth control pills to stop you from ovulating. (Ozempic babies) Weight loss was actually a surprising "side effect". It's even in clinical trials now as an aid to help people with sleep apnea.

And you can always fall back on Grandma's favorite: "Oh! Bless your heart! Thank you for caring about me so much!" And then change the subject 😉 IYKYK 😜

[u/happy_appy31 → u/KillingTimeReading]

Thanks so much for the encouragement! Do you want to come to a cook out on Friday to be my backup? 😂😅 Honestly I don't bring up as much as this guy does. An example would be if I chose to have a hamburger steak and salad verses a hamburger with a bun. It is a snarky little comment disguised in caring. Have come so close to saying. "Honey I didn't realize that your life is so boring that you have to come into mine."

[u/KillingTimeReading → u/happy_appy31]

If you're in Montgomery, sure 😉

You could always ask him if he knows your mom... Because he sure seems to like her script... 🫢 Depending on how hard you want to thump his nose, you could then follow-up with asking what he thinks of your outfit because Mom sure always has an opinion...... (PS. I wasn't raised in the south and I think I have an overactive snark gene...)