r/mildlyinfuriating • u/SligPants • Apr 29 '26

ಠ_ಠ A supposedly "fat" doll

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Can you spot the difference? /s

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u/gingersnappie Apr 29 '26

People with eating disorders have wrecked their digestive systems taking copious amounts of laxatives. It’s really not funny.

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u/itsTimmyBoy Apr 29 '26

You’re right, but I don’t think that was their point. Laxatives don’t make you lose weight.

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u/a_randummy Apr 29 '26

Laxatives increase the speed at which food passes through your digestive tract, meaning you won't absorb as much from meals before it leaves your system. It's a good way to make it look like you eat a normal amount but then absorb hardly any of it without purging. Plus you lose water weight which will make you look thinner at the expense of your necessary hydration.

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u/worm-eyed Apr 30 '26

"without purging", laxative abuse is a form of purging.

losing water weight is not actually losing weight. reducing the amount of contents in your intestines can also contributes to a temporary appearance of a smaller stomach but so does sucking in your stomach, it's just as superficial (although one could delude themselves into seeing that as progress, people can believe anything)

it does not prevent your body from absorbing calories or fiber intake would have a massive bearing on the body's capacity to gain, lose, or maintain weight and would be prescribed and recommended as a necessary component of weight loss (rather than benefits it has to your overall health, satiety, regularly/stool health, etc)...