1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,160 I need to start this episode off by saying that what I'm addressing here has everything 2 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:14,580 to do with the brainwashing of diet culture and its damage to our society. 3 00:00:14,580 --> 00:00:20,520 When I mention the drugs used in this episode, it is in reference to weight loss associated 4 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:27,720 with insecurities and societal pressures, not what was intentionally created for medical 5 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:28,720 uses. 6 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:32,480 I'm also only just scratching the surface here. 7 00:00:32,480 --> 00:00:37,840 I'm in an interesting position here to be able to comment on this. 8 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:43,320 As I was sitting on the couch on my phone, it was inevitable that tons of clickbait should 9 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:44,800 appear. 10 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:51,720 Maybe it's because I don't get out much or I do too much thinking but I need to ask 11 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:54,240 to what end? 12 00:00:54,240 --> 00:01:00,560 In my personal life, I've had the awareness that there are individuals who I know that 13 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:04,880 have started the use of the supposed wonder drug ozempic. 14 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:11,600 Now, I mind my own business but I know the intended purpose for weight loss. 15 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:18,840 I stand there like a deer in headlights, shocked as though I'd received some news that I didn't 16 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,040 know how to process, in a way I had. 17 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:26,280 I look at these people and I think, but why? 18 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:30,840 These are beautiful people inside and out, genuinely. 19 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:34,440 Why would someone want to do this to themselves? 20 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:39,920 To use a medication to lose weight for purely aesthetic purposes. 21 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,280 Ah, society. 22 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:44,160 Society and its norms. 23 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:47,440 Its clutches strike yet again. 24 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:54,360 It is especially alarming to me after what I've come to learn from my own life experiences. 25 00:01:54,360 --> 00:02:00,640 It's been a lot of work, a lot of thinking, a lot of self-awareness and I realize many 26 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,040 people have not reached this point. 27 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:04,440 Let's have a little chat. 28 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:08,920 I have had the luxury of being all sizes. 29 00:02:08,920 --> 00:02:14,200 I've been plus-sized, I've been mid-sized, I've been thin, I've been all the steps 30 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:15,400 in between. 31 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:21,160 I've had to change stores to shop at different ones because I didn't fit the largest sizes 32 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:26,680 they had and I've also had to shop in the children's department of some because the 33 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,520 smallest of the women's sizes was much too big. 34 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:34,320 All of these places I've been have taught me so many things. 35 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:38,400 The most important, your weight does not matter. 36 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:40,880 It will not fix your problems. 37 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:43,200 It will not make you happier. 38 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,960 It will not bring you what you're looking for in life. 39 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:53,800 It's easy to sit in unhappiness and blame your body, your size, something you aren't, 40 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:58,160 something you are under the illusion that you can change and it will make all the difference 41 00:02:58,160 --> 00:02:59,440 in the world. 42 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:02,440 It doesn't because that is not the issue. 43 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:08,600 I can tell you with 100% certainty that being thin is not the answer. 44 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:10,280 It doesn't make you happier. 45 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:14,240 If anything, it makes all that you're feeling worse. 46 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:15,920 That much worse. 47 00:03:15,920 --> 00:03:22,240 So many times I hoped and prayed that reaching a certain standard would absolve me of all 48 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:27,800 of the insecurities, all of the unhappiness that followed everywhere I went. 49 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:33,160 All it did in the end was make me wish that I didn't need to have a body as a physical 50 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:39,280 representation of who I am while I exist on earth because it's not the answer. 51 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:44,560 There are things that lurk and bubble beneath the surface and those are the things that 52 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:46,920 truly need your attention. 53 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:52,800 It's easier to sit and want to tackle something you can touch, feel, semblances of result. 54 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:57,280 It's a lot harder to know, to believe that you can actually change the real problems 55 00:03:57,280 --> 00:03:58,760 underneath. 56 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:00,120 Society is to blame. 57 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:01,120 Yes. 58 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:06,400 It tells us how we should be, what we should desire, how we should want to look, what we 59 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:13,160 should read, what hobbies to have, and then we all stand in line and join in. 60 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:18,440 We look upon those who do not fit that mold as though there is something wrong with them. 61 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:24,120 We unintentionally, and even sometimes intentionally, remind them of the ways in which they are 62 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:25,840 not fitting in. 63 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:30,520 This is the nature of our human in this entangled dance. 64 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:32,000 We can be good people. 65 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:37,640 We can have good intentions, but we still follow along and perpetuate this hell we're 66 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:38,640 in. 67 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:40,240 Imagine that. 68 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:45,240 Did you know that obesity genes exist scientifically speaking? 69 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:51,600 Do you know that in our history, our ancestry as humans on earth, there has always existed 70 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:56,520 humans that would have been labeled as plus sized even way back when? 71 00:04:56,520 --> 00:05:01,840 Do you remember when there was a time where having extra to love on your body was admired 72 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:03,280 even desired? 73 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:09,720 I recently learned that fat phobia and fat shaming are something that has existed forever, 74 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:14,320 though maybe in the old days of famine it would have been more about their standards 75 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:16,880 rather than focused in on our own. 76 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:23,320 There's evidence and a knowing that all those paintings you see in museums also have a filter 77 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:25,080 effect of their own. 78 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:29,640 Today, in photography, people are edited to look a certain way. 79 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:35,360 Well, it's no surprise, artists of the past used to also paint in this way. 80 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:40,320 Those portraits you'd see of people were created purposely in that way in order to 81 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:42,440 make them look flattering. 82 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:49,720 So if this is true that all sizes have existed in all of time, why are we like this? 83 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:53,520 Ah yes, insecurity sells. 84 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:58,800 The largest industry who profits the most is that of health and wellness, and I say 85 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:05,600 this in quotations because there is nothing well and healthy about this distorted propaganda. 86 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:11,880 Every diet product, workout product that promises miracles, supplements in support of the same, 87 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:16,480 coaches that claim they'll help you lose weight, I even saw two ads recently that were 88 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:21,040 quite disturbing, that you could buy a pair of earrings that will help you lose weight 89 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:26,520 and shrink your arms, that you can get a posture assistance device that will allow you to shed 90 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:32,360 the pounds if you use it because somehow a straighter spine as forced by an apparatus 91 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:34,240 would be able to provide that. 92 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:40,200 And the worst part is, there are people who would purchase this and try this out of desperation. 93 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:45,520 The most shocking thing of all that seems to be unknown, and I say this knowing that 94 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:52,640 I didn't know, nor did I really believe it when I first learned of it, diets do not work. 95 00:06:52,640 --> 00:07:01,040 Dates have a 95% failure rate, 95, even if you are aware, you may be in that 95% that 96 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,520 somehow still keeps trying. 97 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:07,120 If you put that into perspective, that is messed up. 98 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:11,600 Imagine being told that you have a 95% chance of getting into an accident if you get in 99 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:13,520 your car and drive today? 100 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:15,160 Are you going to get in and go? 101 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:19,960 I'm going to say probably not, but you're going to go on that diet or try that new product, 102 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:20,960 aren't you? 103 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:26,960 The pressure applied to us by society and by one another as a result of that brainwashing. 104 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:32,040 It means the industry keeps making money and will continue to do so. 105 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:34,560 Don't worry, they'll say, this time it'll work. 106 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:35,720 We got you. 107 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:41,600 And sometimes it's in a way of manipulating you, gaslighting you, perhaps saying, oh trust 108 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:44,880 me, this is not a diet, it's a lifestyle. 109 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:45,880 Mm-hmm. 110 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:50,000 Okay, so what is the standard of beauty anyways? 111 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,760 What do we want to look like? 112 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:56,160 What is it that will cure our sadness and all of our problems in this world? 113 00:07:56,160 --> 00:08:02,240 I think back to when I was younger and the body type desired was super thin, sickly, 114 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:03,240 skeletal. 115 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:08,280 I recently found old teen magazines when I was picking through items back home and I 116 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:09,520 was in shock. 117 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:11,400 We wanted to look like that. 118 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:16,960 I think about experiences I've had in nursing where I've seen people's appearance disintegrate 119 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:22,840 when they're terminally ill or palliative, how emaciated and hungry they look, a shell. 120 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:26,040 This is what the girls in the magazines looked like. 121 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,360 That's what we all aspired to be. 122 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:32,120 Now, well, I don't think we even know. 123 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:38,600 Every time I open my phone and gossip clickbait appears, it's a new celebrity that has succumbed 124 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:44,320 to the pressure of ozempic use, taking this miracle drug in order to lose weight. 125 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:50,480 Even celebrities who are fit or thin to begin with, eventually they look skeletal, hollowed 126 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:56,000 out eyes and cheekbones, clothing falling off of their bodies, even people like the 127 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:01,720 Kardashians, the ones who spent millions of dollars on plastic surgery, personal training 128 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:07,800 and supplements to achieve what we know as the gold standard of the body, the beauty. 129 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:08,800 And guess what? 130 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:10,920 They started ozempic too. 131 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:14,920 They weren't even happy with themselves, with their bodies. 132 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:19,440 Those are the ones that we're supposed to try to look like, to want to look like. 133 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:21,040 So which is it then? 134 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:26,920 If the people who have the supposed perfect bodies that will help us reach nirvana, if 135 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:31,600 they're not even happy with how they look, where they feel a need to push further past 136 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:35,480 where they're already at, what is that really saying? 137 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:41,680 It sends the message that even if you are enough, it's still not enough. 138 00:09:41,680 --> 00:09:45,600 So again, I ask, to what end? 139 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:51,720 What happens when everyone gets on the ozempic train and everyone looks the same? 140 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:53,680 Skeletal, sickly? 141 00:09:53,680 --> 00:09:55,640 Will we all be happy then? 142 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:57,760 Will we stop mocking one another? 143 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:02,760 Will we stop telling people they're not looking how they're supposed to? 144 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:04,040 Not likely. 145 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:07,760 Not to mention, that is not what will make anyone happy. 146 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:08,760 Look at it. 147 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:13,320 If the celebrities with the beautifully sculpted bodies that we admire and pine to be aren't 148 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:17,080 even happy with their bodies, that means that's not the issue. 149 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:21,960 They keep pushing it in the wrong direction, trying to change the wrong thing and scramble 150 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:24,680 to push even further because it isn't working. 151 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:26,320 I just haven't gotten there yet. 152 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:27,760 I haven't done it right. 153 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:29,800 That's what they say with their actions. 154 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:31,000 Not stopping to ask. 155 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,680 If maybe it's because it's the wrong direction, they're headed in. 156 00:10:34,680 --> 00:10:39,920 Why do you keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect a different result? 157 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:44,360 When time and time again, it's shown you you aren't getting where you need to be, 158 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:45,880 getting what you want. 159 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:50,720 Even a rat in a lab will figure out that after a time, they're pushing the wrong button 160 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:53,440 when the food doesn't come down the tube. 161 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:59,680 And if we're all the same, how will the diet industries continue to profit off of us then? 162 00:10:59,680 --> 00:11:01,640 And how boring! 163 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:03,440 Imagine if everyone looked the same? 164 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:06,000 There would be no variety, no beauty. 165 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,840 Why should we want to strive to look the same? 166 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:11,000 I guess it would make it easier. 167 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,000 There would only be one type. 168 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:17,240 Everyone would be an option to date and the opportunities would suddenly become endless 169 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,240 because everybody would be the exact same. 170 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:24,600 Your preference would have no choice but to be what society tells you it is, the only 171 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:26,480 available option. 172 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:27,760 Ugh. 173 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:32,560 Maybe I'm one of the only few that feels this way, but I personally think this has gone 174 00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:34,400 way too far. 175 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:40,440 I also wonder how many of these people using OZMPIC were the same people who refused the 176 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:45,560 pandemic vaccine when it was brought out with the arguments of they didn't know the long-term 177 00:11:45,560 --> 00:11:49,880 effects, they didn't want to put foreign materials into their bodies that would alter 178 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:54,920 their composition, but suddenly, if it's promising to wipe away all your problems, 179 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:57,800 who cares about all those other factors? 180 00:11:57,800 --> 00:11:58,960 Ugh. 181 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:05,520 It makes me angry that this is where the world is at, and will continue to head in that direction. 182 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:07,960 Variety is the spice of life, my friends. 183 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:10,080 We're not all meant to look the same. 184 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:13,280 If we did, our genetics would have evolved this way. 185 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:18,200 It would have caused us all to be similar in every attribute, but we aren't, for a 186 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:19,200 reason. 187 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:23,480 We, as a society, can't even be trusted to know how we should look. 188 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:28,120 Look at the trends over the last 20 years with regards to body image. 189 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:32,400 Society can't even make up its mind on what it wants us to do, what it wants us to look 190 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:35,200 like, and yet, we trust it blindly. 191 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:36,440 We become desperate. 192 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:42,840 We try to alter our bodies using meds just to fix the problems we blame our bodies for. 193 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:47,280 Maybe we should just start listening to what's in our hearts, find out what the real issues 194 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:53,440 are inside of us, learn to truly love ourselves as we are, and including those around us. 195 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,080 It might be something to consider, eh?