30 జూన్, 2025
"Then, given that I have no appetite, I don’t find cooking interesting any more. Food has become completely dull..."
"... and I have begun to wonder why I’d liked it in the first place. It’s extraordinary. I used to spend all day thinking about what to buy and what to cook and how much everyone would love it and how much I would love it, and now I can’t even get a flatbread down me.
If I were living on my own, that would be fine. I would have virtually nothing in my fridge except a bit of smoked salmon and some vegetables and fruit. But I’m still living with three out of my four children and there has always been this coming together as a family to eat delicious food prepared by me — it has always felt very bonding.
So they were rather taken aback when it got to the first Sunday of my weight-loss journey and no roast appeared. 'Oh, are we having a roast today?' my daughter asked, because she loves a Sunday roast...."
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A drug-induced "what's in it for me" mental state opens a lateral opportunity for treatment.
I hope she still makes sandwiches. That's what she's for.
What if they had a pill for all the deadly sins?
"when it got to the first Sunday of my weight-loss journey"
"My weight-loss journey"? Sounds like she's not the only one taking that trip.
The shot should come with instructions for family members on how to open a can of tuna.
Imagine the mentality of only doing something for everyone if you're going to relish in it too. She probably thinks of herself as a generous person, but apparently she's always been selfish. She didn't cook for her family. She cooked for herself. Her family were just lucky they got to tag along for the ride. We should all adopt this attitude. I barely ever use the guest powder room, I'll stop cleaning it. I don't use that park down the street, I'm going to start tossing my garbage out of my car when I pass it. If it's not about me me me then fuck it.
------ I look better and feel fitter
She doesn't look better. YMMV, but I prefer the Before. The After looks like some kind of machinery. A missile launcher, perhaps. Yes, she's thinner. But she has lost some of her femininity and humanity. Her face and head go better on her original non-chemicalized body.
Do they write this stuff to imply a free pass for everyone that thinks that way?
She had a family that eat together and that enhance family cohesiveness. Then her refusal to buy and cook food destroyed that. Seems wrong.
Kai Akker said...
She doesn't look better. YMMV, but I prefer the Before. The After looks like some kind of machinery. A missile launcher, perhaps. Yes, she's thinner. But she has lost some of her femininity and humanity. Her face and head go better on her original non-chemicalized body.
That's what amazes me, how many people I hear about being on the drugs that don't seem to need them. Althouse posted a clip from a Bill Maher podcast with Sean Penn recently. It was clear that Sean has been on them, he was so underweight that he looked like a 19th Century consumptive.
I want simply to scoff, but then I have never used a drug to reduce or eliminate my appetite, so I don't know for certain what it would do to my routines and rituals around cooking and eating. I hope that - once I realized how it was affecting me - I'd take the steps necessary to keep doing the things that benefit my family.
The closest I can come at the moment is when I've been recovering from illness and had no appetite, yet still felt it was my job to get food on the table. Or, as now, when I'm beat at the end of the day from moving-related activity (WHY so many stairs?!) but still cook an actual meal rather than ordering pizza or standing in the pantry eating tortilla chips. But these are ephemeral sensations. If I constantly had no appetite? Well, as I said, I hope I'd decide to keep doing the right thing.
"She doesn't look better."
I sure hope her husband is getting some on the side. She looks like a walleye and no amount of skinny is going to help that.
Are her kids fat, too?
I didn't appreciate how much of my life was oriented around food and eating until I started taking one of those drugs, and pretty much stopped eating.
The nice thing is I don't have to be "religious" about not, because it's not a "willpower fight", it's just that I'm full and not hungry
She looks fine in both pix. Surprisingly, in the after, she doesn't have "Ozempic face" nor the flappy arm skin thing. Most of these people that I know can't help but proceed to the cadaverous look. Dose modulate now, babe.
Her kids are spoiled brats, and so apparently ar a lot of you.
"She's not eating but she should still cook for everyone else!" Why?
"We no longer eat together" because no one else was willing to step up. How is that HER fault?
She cooked for everyone, and the response to her taking care of herself is "screw you" rather than "I hope you get where you want to be."
Such love
There's something Clockwork Orange about medical interventions that eliminate the desires that created our identities. Yes, the problem has been solved. But who's left to enjoy the solution?
She wasn't even that big and she gets mounjaro? I thought it was for morbidly obese. Like all the skinny cheaters in Hollywood and DC, rules for thee, etc
Jamie, I like your comment. We never know what we would do until we are faced with some situation. We HOPE we would do the right thing, Perhaps there are those who wonder why her family members don't take over that task? I suppose instead of "surprising" her child with the no roast at dinnertime, she could communicate with those family members and explain her situation up front ... and then maybe teach them how to take over some or all of those duties for her. I know many senior moms who no longer have the energy to shop, cook, and serve meals for even themselves and husbands -- much less for in-house children or visiting children. In my family, my sister took over Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner celebrations from my mom (I did the same for my wife's family) and now my niece has taken over Thanksgiving since the pandemic for my sister - who is 68. My family always contributes side dishes and helps with prep and invited guests may bring desserts if they ask.
I had a female chef who work for me at a Yacht Club and she fell and, as a result, lost her sense of smell (and some taste). She resigned about two months after returning to work. Her heart (and nose, she said) was no longer in it. Even though she knew her recipes, she didn't get the same satisfaction
At first, I was going to say something along the lines of "I've destroyed an important ritual that helped to forge and strengthen familial bonds with the people I love most, but I look FABULOUS!"
Then I saw the bit where her "children" are "aged 22, 21 and 18." Aside from the fact that they are still living at home despite technically being adults, this could be an opportunity to teach the meal prep skills to the "kids" so that they each can continue the ritual now and, eventually, with their own children. Seems like a missed opportunity.
"Food has become completely dull.. and I have begun to wonder why I’d liked it in the first place."
When I was taking an antidepressant (I think it was Prozac), I felt that way about sex. The plumbing still worked, so I could go through the motions, but I just didn't have much desire to do it, or anything related to it. When that "side effect" didn't go away, I stopped the pills.
I'm not a bad cook - I can pull together meals and get accolades, and my wife and I enjoy doing this for our friends. But I know exactly where she's coming from. When you start on one of these drugs, you absolutely lose interest in food. You not only lose your appetite, you have no interest, it's true. You'll see it immediately in your food bills, both restaurant and grocery. And because these are drugs that are mostly prescribed for old people, they make you feel old, because with no appetite, you grow weaker even if you're forcing yourself to eat and exercise. No fun at all.
Her kids are spoiled brats that need to be kicked out of the house - or she could show them a few cooking tricks to let them fend for themselves better, rather than letting them wallow in perceived abandonment.
I don't understand. By this woman's logic, one must be hungry to cook. AFAIK, being hungry makes cooking a miserable task because you want to get it done so you can eat. You then rush things and cut corners to speed it up. I doubt a chef goes to their job hungry. Sounds like this woman was sick of cooking for her brood and used this as an excuse to bow out.
I guess she's not part of the ducal Cavendish family. If she were, I'd tell her to stay in the kitchen and not make trouble like the Mitford aunties.
I think this is a test to see who clicks the link, because this has little to do about Mounjaro and its effects. See Biff's comment at 1:15p. The children, who are not minors, are "perfectly capable of cooking for themselves".
There is an aspect of what the woman is saying which I think is part of the problem for those that need Mounjaro for weight loss. Food has become part of her social life. Now it is not, but it still is for those with whom she is social. Because it is, there is a desire to consume food for the social connection. Drugs don't cause that to occur. She needs some other way of having a social connection with her family. Try a pre-dawn walk to the lake or something.
When I was on Prednisone, not only was I constantly hungry, food tasted wonderful, even things I wouldn't normally like.
If they can do this for weight loss, why haven't they done it for drug/alcohol addiction yet?
I too never realized how much taste and food were part of my life until radiation and chemo blew away taste and appetite. I think "It's the right occasion: make this, or eat that" and then remember "Why bother?"
In this case, as pointed out by others, the kids are more than old enough to learn how to put on a spread regularly.
There was a time I ate at a restaurant at least 4 or 5 days a week, seldom alone. Nowadays it's only while traveling.
But I weigh 115 lb less now than I did then.
Eat to live, don't live to eat.
She is fine in both pictures. What bothers me, and what is now the 'new normal', is that medication is there for everything. You son is too active? medicate him. He likes dolls? medicate him and change him to a girl. Can't stop eating too much? medicate yourself.
It's like Huxley, and Orwell are being used as a template for our lives now.
I do agree with some of the above- if she isn't cooking anymore, and her kids are old enough, why can't she explain that to them, and help them organize their own food prep.
I am diabetic, take Mounjaro, and have done so for over two years. This is not my experience. Anecdotal experiences, hers or mine, are not news.
TWWren said...
I am diabetic, take Mounjaro, and have done so for over two years. This is not my experience. Anecdotal experiences, hers or mine, are not news.
You're taking a much lower dose than she is
"I think this is a test to see who clicks the link, because this has little to do about Mounjaro and its effects."
Guilty as charged.
Reading the headline...
"It’s had a profound impact on her relationship with her children"
I was imagining actual 8, 7 or 6 year-old children, not old-enough-to-vote young adults. After seeing additional details, I think there's plenty of blame to go around here. If mom doesn't want to keep cooking, it would have been considerate to let her family know ahead of time. And twenty-something "children" should probably already have some idea as to how to prepare their own meals.
BTW, that's another example of a misleading headline. One reason I tend not to click through to read articles is that it's often the case that the article doesn't support the headline very well (or at all). You'd think that people who write for a living could do a better job of making their point clearly. But no.
The standard american diet is insanity.
If you eat the food your digestive system is designed to eat you will be shocked at how little you need to eat.
If you eat food with "fiber" and carbs you will need to eat a lot of food.
Right now most americans are participating in an experiment to turn ourselves back into plant eaters. Plant eaters have much larger guts.
Just walk around Costco or Target or Walmart and tell me that we aren't turning people back into chimpanzees with extra large gall bladders and guts made for eating plants.
rhhardin said...
I hope she still makes sandwiches. That's what she's for.
6/30/25, 11:33 AM
And, to fetch beer. as needed
Why is it Mom's job to cook for these ingrate kids? They're not helpless babies. I'm sure they're old enough to open a refrigerator door. When we were kids, often times we cooked the dinner and washed the dishes. A little self-reliance goes a long way.
Weight gain and loss is freighted with judgment. It’s asserted that people just want to overeat out of gluttony, or out of some kind of psychological “food issues.”
Is it not fascinating, though, that once on these new drugs, people are losing weight because they just….stop eating when they are no longer hungry? They don’t finish the whole bag of cookies just because they taste good or because they are gluttons. They don’t eat plate after plate of food because they are trying to stuff down their anxiety and trauma. They don’t snack all day because they are bored or weak-willed.
---- Why is it Mom's job to cook for these ingrate kids?
She made it her job and built the family around it; she says it herself. Not having any attraction to food, now, makes this nearly impossible, but also I suspect this whole maneuver may have been a sneaky way to resign the position without having to say, I am tired of doing this, you have to do for yourselves. Maybe she couldn't face saying that after so many years of being the chief architect of the structure; maybe she just didn't fully foresee all the consequences. The apparent lack of communication seems to say this is a solo act of resignation and now you kids figure it out. Passive-aggressive exit. I will go write about it instead and make me sound surprised and you guys sound mean and selfish.
How do you know what my dosage is?
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