Consideration #2: Be with your grief.
Grief is annoying because there is no way around it. And I love me a good loophole.
But grief just has to be felt, moved through. The dominant emotions I experience with body image grief are anger and sadness. Neither are fun.
But you might feel some anger and sadness. You might flood with it. It might feel completely overwhelming.
Floods make us feel like we are in danger, and that we need to DO something. Like maybe WE should go on Ozempic?
Don’t make any decisions from this place.
Expect grief to feel like a giant, insurmountable wave, and hold on.
Wait for your whole, level-headed, non-flooding brain to come back online. That might be next week. Wait for it.
Consideration #3: You can spam it.
This is what I do. I spam the entire thing.
Ozempic is not for me at this moment in time. If it’s not for YOU at this moment in time, that’s all you need to know. You don’t have to think about the future, you’re not responsible for any more than today.
I am not going to be using a weight loss drug right now, so I don’t want to think about it anymore.
I don’t want to think about it, talk about it, read articles about it, debate about it. I just don’t want to. It’s not good for me to spend too much energy on this topic, especially with folks who don’t understand where I’m coming from.
I focus on the people and conversations where this topic does not exist, and I allow my brain to focus on other things. I would set boundaries if I had to.
I know the parts of the world where this is not a discussion point (my social media space is one of them) and I know I can anchor there.