My Big Fat Fabulous Life’s Whitney Way Thore Hasn’t ‘Really Thought’ About Ozempic, Explains Why She Weighs Herself Daily

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00:00You are helping so many people in the process too, and I'm sure that's probably another big reason of what keeps you going.

00:06And I know that you did, I think you opened up a few months ago about how you lost 100 pounds.

00:12How did the internet respond to that? Were they happy for you? Was it mixed reactions?

00:17How did you feel that the reaction was to that?

00:20Well, it's funny. I mean, 50 pounds I lost years ago, and then I lost 50 pounds after my mother died.

00:26So to me, it's not a huge change.

00:29But what it shows is that people on the internet, they see what they want to see, and they project themselves onto you.

00:35So I could post something today, and half the comments would say,

00:39Oh my gosh, you're skinny, like you're literally skinny now, even though I'm almost 300 pounds.

00:44And then the other half of the comments would say, Oh my God, she's as big as she's ever been.

00:48I mean, that's why I hate people commenting on my body,

00:51because it is literally just whatever people want to see that day, that time, that picture,

00:57they say. People constantly tell me, Oh, you've lost more weight.

01:01And I say, No, I haven't. I weigh myself every day.

01:04Like I can tell you exactly what I've weighed at every point of my entire life.

01:08I even have people in my personal life, you know, somebody I saw last week.

01:11Oh my God, how much more weight have you lost? None. Yes, you have.

01:15It's like, it's actually really offensive. Sure, yeah.

01:19So I don't know, people see what they want to see.

01:21I will say, of course, with like the Ozempic craze and everything like that,

01:26I got questioned a lot. It's funny. Simultaneously, people are insisting.

01:29I must have had weight loss surgery and then other people are saying she hasn't lost a pound.

01:32So, but you know, in terms of that, I think, you know,

01:37it's nuanced within the body positive community, whether people support that or they don't.

01:43I personally have no hard and fast opinion about it.

01:46I think people have the right to do whatever they want to do with their own bodies.

01:50And as a fat person who's been fat my entire adult life,

01:54I would never shame or criticize another fat person

01:58for choosing to do something that makes their life easier.

02:01Yeah. Are you tempted to do it at all?

02:06Um, I'm not saying that I wouldn't necessarily.

02:10I don't know. It's not something that I've really thought about or,

02:13you know, have felt like the medical need for,

02:15but it's not something that I would say I would never do.

02:19Yeah. You said before that you weigh yourself every day.

02:22How do you feel in your skin today?

02:25And why do you weigh yourself every day?

02:27Oh, I feel good. Actually, one of the reasons I weigh myself every day now is

02:30because I've just recently become a woman in the last few years with PCOS.

02:35I've just now started getting a cycle.

02:37So I love like I kind of just follow, you know, just recently I went up 10 pounds,

02:42you know, and then I got my period the next day and it was down all gone the next day.

02:47So I kind of track based on that.

02:49I know it's really sad. I'm 40 and I'm a changing woman.

02:53But um, but yeah, it's just a habit really.

02:55It's not um, it's not for any reason like it doesn't make me feel any kind of way

03:00or you know, I'm not actively trying to lose weight.

03:03But yeah.

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