Ozempic, Rapid Weight Loss & the Missing Conversation About Self-Relationship

JOURNAL REFLECTIONS on a rainy Saturday morning. Hmmmm… let’s talk about Ozempic.  I’ve been noticing this trend. It’s too drastic a transformation to be natural and sustainable.

… And this is a sad, sad world.

We've become extraordinarily sophisticated at altering the human body, yet remarkably disconnected from understanding and honouring the human being living inside.

Some days, I look at the world and how fucked up it is… and I wonder why I bother, or whether what I feel called to support people to see, so as to thrive and enjoy genuinely authentic sustainable lives - can even make a dent at things and how this world is just careening off the edge.

Then I think of my two daughters and the life ahead of them when I will no longer be here to protect them, and I feel it’s non-negotiable for me to just try and do my best. For their sake, I need to shine the light  in this darkness, as others are also doing their best to do too — in their own small and big way.

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There is something deeply troubling about a culture that first conditions people to feel inadequate in their bodies, then builds billion-dollar  industries around correcting that inadequacy.

And the goalposts keep moving.

Be curvy. Celebrate your curves. Be thin. Be youthful. Defy ageing. Reinvent yourself.

Meanwhile, the fundamental question gets lost:

• Is this human being actually well?

• Physically, emotionally, psychologically?

• Are they at home in themselves?

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I find these radical transformations disturbing — they send alarm  bells inside me — because it’s not rocket science to know — there is no way these are sustainable long term —-

—-  unless the individual radically hired a nutritionist; psychologist, and personal trainer -— to allow the internal shift in self-relationship to work within them alongside the radically short timeframe this medication (Ozempic) kicks in.

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And even that may not be enough, as the shift needs to be from the individual shifting self-perception enough as to create  new neural pathways that then alter behavior authentically.

That’s behavior. We haven’t touched the genetic argument and how this medication over rides that temporarily.

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What troubles me most is not the medical advances themselves, which can genuinely help people particularly those dealing with obesity, —-

 — what troubles me is how readily we confuse an externally visible transformation with genuine wellbeing.

And how little attention we give to the person inhabiting the body.

I see the most interesting tension in this entire phenomenon: the speed of the physical transformation VERSUS the time it can take for someone's relationship with themselves to change.

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As a masked approach, that can never be permanent or sustainable.

And the drastic change has severe side effects on the body — which — with so many celebrities visibly modeling this transformation — sends a very damaging message to women and young people — on valuing superficial  Image even at the cost of self-violation/ damage to the body’s well being.

Appearance or Health?

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External intervention can create an opportunity for change, but it cannot do the inner work on someone's behalf.

What do we tell our daughters?

How do we anchor and relate with ourselves in a healthy sustainable way?

Can we love ourselves enough to stand for heath over superficiality at the expense of health?

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