My work friends are like this. We stopped going out for happy hour. Because all they eat is a half a kid's meal a day. A few of them are , at the point of your friend and some are on their journey. Once they hit their weight. They were off the meds , but they're cravings , came back , and they gained twenty pounds in two weeks. Then insurance approved them to be back on. They feel so proud of where their body is and waiting on insurance to approve for them to get there exccess skin removed.
I looked at her socials for the first time in a year or so, and my god. She was never "thin", but had gone through periods of weight loss when we were close friends. This shit is next level.
At first I was happy for her, and then upon digging a bit deeper she started boasting about her ozempic journey. Looking even deeper, her mom, sisters, etc all started the shot. Weight loss is hard, more power to them - or so I thought.
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Seeing the boney faces of the family I once knew, shocked me. The more I scrolled, the worse it got. She looked confident as hell, but seeing her ribcage and entire clavicle jutting out? In the most recent pictures, her stomach dips in at the ribs. She reminds me of how I looked when I was anorexic as a kid. Alarm bells going off in all directions.
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Waking up in literal pools of sweat because my body was creating cortisol to ensure I would actually WAKE UP ( and not just stay unconscious and die) due to lack of any form of energy in my body. My body was eating itself and was running out of “body” to eat
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My mom was on ozempic for actual diabetes but she almost died from a blood clot in her colon and had to get 9 feet of her intestines and part of her small bowel removed bc that tissue died off due to lack of blood flow. We have since learned that there are lawsuits against ozempic for blood clots. My mom's surgery was in October and she now has short gut syndrome and is still struggling with recovery from that life saving surgery.