In case you’re not following me on my personal Facebook, here’s a rant I posted after seeing gym-fluencers shit on people for using GLP-1s.

Personally, I’m sick of it and there’s a lot of stigma that just needs to die. Mean girl and Ugly in High School Behavior being carried out to knock other people down for trying to save themselves is not cute. I stopped going to the gym because of being made fun of so now I work out at home. It shouldn’t have been like that in the first place, but I still lose weight nonetheless. 

But here’s my take on it.

The best clapback I have heard in relation to gym-fluencers shitting on plus size people for doing what they need to do to lose weight, since they just think we're lackadaisical binge eating cows:

"Your genetics have served you, your brain has not."

I need people to start doing scholarly research put out by scientists and clinicians working in the field every day before listening to these mean girl children in adult bodies on social media.

I cried real actual tears when I told my nutritionist I wasn't binge eating but hadn't lost any more weight. She looked at my medical history, extensive food and exercise logs, my body composition scans, my low blood pressure and heart rate, and said, "I believe you." It was the first medical professional to ever believe me.

I used to run 4 miles a day. Two miles at 4:30 AM before a 13 1/2 hour shift and 2 miles at 7:30 PM after it. Every day, obsessively. I was well over 300 lbs when I did it. Macros were my religion and I could not drop the weight. Just because someone is fat does not mean they are binging and lazy. Let me introduce you to chemical imbalances, poly cystic ovarian syndrome, lymphedema, metabolic syndrome, perimenopause, and an entire host of other conditions that affect weight that don't have a flippin' thing to do with binge eating.

Big folks are damned if they do, damned if they don't. The shaming around weight loss methodologies supported by nutritionists, dietitians, and obesity centric medical practitioners needs to stop. I eat healthy, move my body, and I pay out of pocket for a shot every month. It's the only thing that's made the weight finally start coming off again after a 3 year stint of solid consistency doing everything I was told to do by medical professionals. And if some little girl parading around in Lulu Lemon she bought with daddy's money has a problem with it or an opinion about it, she can kiss my ass. I'm trying to stay alive for my little boy. Nothing else matters but that.