[Petersipoi]

Just about every single adult woman in my wife's extended family is on Ozempic. None of them are obese at all. Or diabetic. They are all using it to "lose a few pounds" (we're talking like less than 20 pounds; Yes, as you might expect, there are some unrealistic beauty/success standards in my wife's family). So I think there are a lot of people who are annoyed by that, because of the message it sends to completely healthy-weight girls/young women who don't look like professional super models in a swimsuit.

Since we have young daughters, that aspect of Ozempic really bothers my wife. Though she would have no issue with obese/diabetic people using it to get healthy.

Personally I do think it is a miracle drug and I'm glad people are getting healthy because of it.

[angmarsbane]

I fall into the same category as your wife's extended family. I used it to get to the weight I feel most comfortable and I've gone back on it periodically (like after 5 weeks of work travel) to get back within 5 lbs of that weight (where I can manage the additional weight loss on my own).

When being fat becomes more of a deliberate choice (due to the drug accessibility) I do wonder how society and society's expectations Will change. Will women be even more pressured to "bounce back" during postpartum? Will the "baby fat" we only get to have during adolescence be eliminated and drop out of the shared experience of growing up?

There's also a lot of concern within the eating disorder community about the potential for abuse, because these drugs are so easy to get a hold of by lying on telehealth (could be argued that I've abused them by getting them when they're not truly necessary).

[procaryote]

To be fair, if you're an average height american woman (5'4"), the nominally healthy BMI range is just 37 pounds wide from 108 to 145 pounds, so 20 pounds can be pretty significant.

[brcmthrowaway]

How does one get Ozempic without being overweight?

[Der_Einzige]

There’s armies of grey market don’t ask don’t tell e doctors who will give it to you with no request for evidence of being overweight.

Thank god for poor regulation. Unironically thank god and may this situation continue.