| Hi, Carolyn: After spending my entire adult life fighting my weight and being medically classified as overweight, then obese, I have finally found some success with the new GLP-1 weight loss drugs. Will it stick? Who knows. But I have lost 20 pounds so far and am feeling better than I have in a decade. And I am hopeful for the first time in a long time. People are now commenting on my weight loss, and I have given credit to these new drugs. But the response has been … weird and unexpected. So many friends and family members have complimented me on the weight loss only to turn around and zing me for the method. Comments have included saying these drugs are just for celebrities, or really should be for people with diabetes, they’re a shortcut and lazy, only for people with zero willpower, untested and probably dangerous, and and and … all sorts of uninformed-by-science, inaccurate and super-judgmental things. I’m wondering if I should just stop owning the method and smile and nod and say “thanks.” But I don’t want or feel the need to hide from the truth, were it not for these terrible comments. What do you think? — Weight-loss-drug Shamed | 
