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Fat Shaming and GLP-1 - It's Biology
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- Apr 9, 2026
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The Chorus of “Just Eat Less” Spend a few minutes on social media, and you will hear it. On Bill Maher's podcast the other day, I heard it. Two people who know less about GLP-1 drugs than almost anyone, opining about how GLP-1s are horrific. Bill Maher says, “Just eat less.” Jillian Michaels warns that GLP-1 medications are dangerous. Did she even graduate from college? Meanwhile, a rotating cast of gym bros, coaches, and influencers insists that anyone using these medications is taking the easy way out. At first glance, these seem like different voices. A comedian, a fitness personality, a group of online trainers. However, they are all saying the same thing. If you are overweight, this is your fault. If you need help, you are weak. If you use medication, you are cheating. That message travels well. It is simple. It fits into a tweet. It sounds like common sense. Science shows us that fat shaming doesn't work ( reference ). It is also wrong. Who Is Doing the Shaming—and Why The fitness industry has something to lose here, and that part is easy to understand. Entire businesses are built on the idea that weight loss is a matter of discipline. Follow the plan, buy the program, track the macros, and success will follow. If it doesn’t, the explanation is built in. You didn’t try hard enough. However, the criticism does not stop there. When someone like Bill Maher reduces obesity to “just eat less,” it is not about selling a diet plan. Instead, it reflects something else entirely. A kind of cultural impatience with complexity. A belief that if a problem can be described simply, it must also be solved simply. And when that belief meets a condition like obesity, the result is dismissal. If I don’t struggle with this, then it must not be real. If you do struggle, then you must…