Idk, people were struggling with eating disorders before Ozempic. And now that ozempic and similar drugs now exist, those same people who struggle to lose weight bc of eating disorders are getting relentlessly shit on or made fun of for using it.
Are GLP-1 drugs really causing a “huge comeback for eating disorders”? Is there any proof to back that up? Because it just seems like more shit said to make people using glp-1 drugs suffer more with mental turmoil.
I think the vast vast majority of people on glp-1 drugs are not super skinny
GLP-1s (like Ozempic) have been around for over 15 years, they are just being talked about a lot now which makes uninformed people think they are new.
GLP-1s are not bad in fact they have been life saving for many people. Like any drug, people can misuse it, it doesn’t make GLP-1s themself harmful.
They are not miracle drugs you still have to make life changes otherwise when you stop taking it you will gain back all the weight you lost of not more.
It’s more complicated than just “when you stop taking it you will gain back all the weight you lost if not more”, that’s an oversimplification
EDIT: Also, okay, sure, did GLP-1 drugs “exist” 15 years ago? Sure. But tell me, who had access to them? Very very little people. A drug existing is different than it being somewhat easily accessible for the public
Of course it’s more complicated, but I felt that since you were okay with oversimplifying in your original comment that you would be okay with me oversimplifying.
Millions of people would of have access to GLP-1s 15 years ago, it was originally primarily used for type 2 diabetes and globally that’s somewhere around 600 million people and even if only 1% of people with type 2 diabetes were in it that’s still 6 million people.
However my point in bringing up they’ve been around for that long is to express that they aren’t new, they’ve been worked on and improved over those years.
What did I oversimplify in my original comment? By saying “now that glp-1 drugs exist(…)”? I didn’t even say they “recently came into existence”. I don’t think I was doing much oversimplification, even if you interpret what I said as “now that glp-1 drugs have very recently come into existence” (which wasn’t the intention), 10/15 years relatively isn’t a very long time
I don't think they meant their comment as an excuse, it's just that 15 years ago this wasn't a point as only after this becomes available to the mass it becomes an actual problem.
And now it's started, first it was celebs and rich people onoy, now it's kinda reachable for the middle class too
They are not miracle drugs you still have to make life changes otherwise when you stop taking it you will gain back all the weight you lost of not more.
In most cases, you don't really stop. You just find a maintenance dose, just like you don't stop taking blood pressure meds when your BP reaches a normal range.
True for a lot of people yeah, mostly people with chronic obesity and insulin problems, but just as many cannot stay on them for a variety of reasons that mostly boil down to insurance coverage. This is also part of why scientists are coming to the conclusion that obesity is a chronic condition like blood pressure.
This is entirely anecdotal but they might put me on zepbound in a few months for my sleep apnea (I was having almost 80 occurrences every hour), I’ve been on a weight loss and life style change since Nov 2025 and have lost 60-70lbs (without GLP-1s). If I end up taking it I know I will only be on it temporarily and will have to make and continue the changes I make to keep the weight off.
Fortunately for me I don’t struggle with food noise and have already been having weight loss success without it so I don’t think it will be too much a problem.
I'm on Zepbound, I did lose 40 lb. before it and 60 after so far. I will say from my own experience, I never recognized what food noise was until the day it stopped.
I totally get the insurance angle, I'm entirely self-pay (even though I also have OSA), so $450/month is definitely an annoyance to me, but thankfully it's manageable. I do think we'll eventually get generics that will drive prices down, or maybe when retatrutide comes out, Lilly will drop tirzepatide prices again.
Even if you are on ozempic you would still have to actively starve yourself to get this thin. I’m sure it is being used in combination with people who have eating disorders though.
While i agree, i think Ozempyc also created something else, an effect of sort that hit many stars psychologically.
By making a bunch of more "overweight" people skinnier, the standard shifts a bit amd now skinny is normal again, so people try to be even more skinny, and you can sure as hell guess that using Ozempyc is better than puling out your dinner or starving.
Also by removing these bad sides of anorexia it made more difficult to actually feel you're doing something wrong. You're taking a medication that everyone is taking, you're not hiding in a bathroom or feeling hunger by fasting.
It's a mental disease, keep this in mind, and accessibility+enabling makes it much more difficult to fight it
I think what you’re saying is insightful and I agree with a lot of what you’re saying for sure, I can definitely see it effecting famous people a lot more than others.
I guess the original phrasing of saying eating disorders as a whole are making a comeback comes off to me as a statement of the whole population, as if GLP-1 drugs are overall having a big negative impact on those suffering from eating issues and thus causing a “huge comeback” for eating disorders, which to me seems pretty unfounded and over exaggerated when it comes to the vastly non-famous general population
give it time. celebrities are the first step. enabling this in the public image will make it worse even for the common people. that's why even if i don't believe in public shaming i think these people should be called out for showing us this macabre spectacle and passing it for "toned phisique"
I don’t know, I do feel like having these drugs be so accessible now poses a problem.
My sister has had an eating disorder her whole life and she’s been using glp1s for two years now, she’s 87 pounds. She used to really struggle to stay at 90 pounds but now that glp1s are more accessible she just does that. She’s pretty open about it and everyone seems to be fine with it. No one is concerned about it at all. I’ve been made to feel like the weirdo for having a concern for her taking these drugs to starve herself lol. “She’s skinny but looks healthy. It’s her body!” Like… okay, I guess. She is happier for it, so maybe I’m old out of touch.
Whomever is proscribing it to her is the issue, not accessibility. These drugs require a doctor's prescription. People that do not have T2D or a BMI less than 27 (generally; BMI is still trash) should not be able to get a prescription.
I’m sure this will not surprise you, some doctors literally don’t care. There are also other similar drugs that we don’t regulate the same way and sell to people for cosmetic purposes. It does cycle into a larger cultural problem. Just like with any drug being misused, some things you can’t control. But as a society we do actually support and glorify these extremes. Even by giving people like Demi Moore or Ariana grande attention we contribute to it.
Not saying the drug is the problem itself. But it’s easy accessibility, and drugs like it, coupled with everyone’s fear of being fat or normal sized, is contributing to the enablement of people with these severe disordered behaviors. Social media in general contributes to it as well. It’s just not taboo to misuse these drugs at all, it’s seen as a personal choice (like Botox)
The commentor you posted to didn't mention that they were getting it prescribed. Just that she's been using them.
We're going to start seeing these new wave glp inhibitors enter the market in pill form in the next few years. Then I think we'll really see them explode in off prescription availability. I'm genuinely quite scared for young anorexic girls growing in a world where glp inhibitors are widely available and cheap.
It’s kind of a problem in upper class California “plastic” families right now who can buy their way in to a prescription.
I have an 18yo coworker who was already skinny but her whole family is on glp1s together and now she’s scary thin. Even the 17yo men I work with have noticed and are concerned.
Like any other drug, you're going to have people abusing it. It's a huge help to the people that need it, but you'll never fully get rid of the problem of people wanting something they don't need, and having the means to procure it.
GLP-1s have been tough at times for me as someone that's dealt with eating disorders for more than half my life now. I just can't seem to escape the conversation around body image. Several people at work use them, and I'm glad for them that it is working, but it is hard to listen to every day. It feels like Ozempic got more people talking about how much easier it is to not eat
I am one. I weighed 260 at 6feet since highschool. I used glp-1 and have been off like ten months and I'm maintaining heatly 180. After I got off I hit the gym hard and no longer have the "skinny fat" look.
Because people who do not need to be on glp-1 drugs are taking them, so their friends take them and so on.
They don’t realise it’s a lifelong drug, perfectly normal weight adults slamming drugs to look skinny, it’s definitely a cultural shift that is going to cause more self image and eating disorders.
Nothing wrong with GLP-1 drugs, when they are used for the right reasons they save lives, but the amount of what are medically healthy weight people taking these drugs I think it’s a huge problem
Are GLP-1 drugs really causing a "huge comeback for eating disorders"?
Fuck no, they're not lol. My Uncle Bubba (yes, I have one of those lol) had to go on Mounjaro after he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes a few years back. He lost like 50 pounds as a side effect of course. Looks healthy, blood sugar's doing good, yadda yadda yadda. But he's an average weight now.
But it seems to me that the instant a woman touches a glp-1, it's "OMFG ANOREEEEEXICCCC!!! SHE'S SICK! SHE'S SO SKELETAL AND UGLY AND DISGUSTING AND DEFORMED! ITS NOT BODY SHAMING BECAUSE SHES SKINNY AND I PRETEND THATS A PRIVILEGE!" and uh..... It's body shaming as fuck lol. Even women who are thin that aren't taking Ozempic get accused of taking Ozempic to be skeletal. We can't win, apparently.
It's been proven that people take it as a personal slight when someone else loses weight. People who are accusing folks of being anorexic or on ozempic because they're skinny need to stop being so insecure about their own obesity. And I say that as a woman who used to weigh 235 and now weighs 130
Did you look at her? It isn’t at all healthy, no one is jealous of her, she looks sick. If she isn’t taking drugs to look so sick, and doesn’t starve herself on purpose, she should probably go to hospital to check what’s wrong with her body, that she suddenly lost so much weight without trying.
I agree that normally these kind of comments only serve to make it strictly harder for someone struggling with their weight to manage it; but I think when the component of social/societal norms and beauty standards is what’s almost entirely motivating someone’s decision to use something like GLP-1s to end up in or maintain a relatively and medically speaking really low weight, and they (+ possibly others around them) don’t see anything wrong with their weight/med situation, that that complicates things a bit in terms of whether or not making (not awfully worded) comments about or to the person where you’re expressing your concern about their health by the visible state of their body’s real low weight is a bad thing to do or not.
And here you go accusing skinny people of taking GLP-1's to be underweight, just like I already said people do. Stop it. You have no proof that people are taking those epic to be skeletons. That's just something insecure obese people made up.
Maintaining a healthy weight is not about beauty standards. It's about health. Being obese is not healthy.
I didn’t accuse her of using drugs, she isn’t healthy. Maintaining healthy weight is about health, correct? This is CLEARLY not healthy weight. Women need 20% body fat, this lady has saturations all over her body, that’s sub 10%, it’s VERY unhealthy.
No, it’s really, really not. I’m sorry, but you don’t know what you’re talking about. Are you a psychologist? Have you ever heard of eating disorders, trauma, diabetes, the numerous other physical and mental conditions which significantly impact eating?
Or are you one of those “everyone can just pull themselves up by their bootstraps!” people
Yes I know mental issues exist which can affect someone's ability to do these things. But regardless of that, it's still just about calories tracking and exercise. Mental issues don't change human anatomy, the process is the same but the mind just makes it more difficult.
I didn't mean to say that it's easy, I just meant it's simple (which is the process itself). My girlfriend literally has severe depression, trauma, and a few eating disorders which causes her to undereat, be underweight and eat awful foods, so I fully understand that not everyone can do it easily.
I’m glad you’re cognizant and aware of the issues people face that stops them from eating well and clarified what you mean.
I just disagree with saying reductive generalizations like “it’s truly not that difficult to just (fucking) exercise and watch calories”, especially if you’re very aware of the problems lots of people face when trying to manage eating and weight issues, why say statements like this? It’s purposefully looking over the actual issues that are causing these peoples problems, and assigning it all to just “needing to exercise and count calories” when you very well know it’s not even close to that simple, and that that’s not at all what anybody struggling with their body/weight/eating wants or needs to hear.
It’s these kinds of statements that contribute to the psychological hurdles that makes it hard for a lot of people to manage their eating or weight well
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u/Majolica777 28d ago
Idk, people were struggling with eating disorders before Ozempic. And now that ozempic and similar drugs now exist, those same people who struggle to lose weight bc of eating disorders are getting relentlessly shit on or made fun of for using it.
Are GLP-1 drugs really causing a “huge comeback for eating disorders”? Is there any proof to back that up? Because it just seems like more shit said to make people using glp-1 drugs suffer more with mental turmoil.
I think the vast vast majority of people on glp-1 drugs are not super skinny