There have been many positive signs that nature is healing in terms of the cultural landscape. Voters have pushed back against the radical leftist agenda, people have said “No” to transgenderism and its attacks on women and children, and more Americans are following healthy lifestyles and fitness goals.

Back are some articles from fitness gurus suggesting ways to stick with your fitness goals. Or if they couldn’t go quite that far, they at least didn’t try to preach about how “fatphobic” it is to want to be fit and/or lose weight as a New Year’s resolution.

This is such a far cry from even three years ago, during which The New York Times had the gall to print an opinion piece titled, “Diet Culture is Unhealthy. It’s Also Immoral.” A similar article in Forbes told us that having a weight-loss resolution for the New Year was “fatphobic.”

While it was immediately apparent at the time that the fat activists were trying to stake their claim in the victim hierarchy, their active antagonism against people who wanted to be healthy was obnoxious. Those wokesters are only down with bodily autonomy if it deals with abortion.

This rigid and poorly named “body positivity movement” was even behind a leftist political idea pre-election. These radical leftists were claiming that going to the gym would turn you into a right-winger.

Fast-forward to January 2025, and the worst condemnation of a New Year’s fitness resolution was the New York Post’s recommendation to keep fitness goals realistic and not go for an unhealthy appearance based on body transformation fueled by fad dieting or creating worse eating habits. Frankly, this is solid advice.

Perhaps the only downside to this pro-health movement is that there has been a disturbing change in terms of dieting ads on television. Companies like Noom, which used to advertise changing habits to lose weight, are now advocating for weight-loss shots, a.k.a. Ozempic.

Ozempic — which was originally marketed to help type-2 diabetics — is the weight loss drug of choice. According to the Daily Mail, medically induced weight loss is actually the better way to go if you want to sustain it. As University of Ottawa Professor Yoni Freedhoff explains, these drugs “provide not only dramatically greater and more durable weight loss than lifestyle interventions, they have also been shown to very significantly reduce the risk for an ever-growing list of other medical concerns, including heart attacks, strokes, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea, fatty liver disease and more, while carrying minimal risk.”

While one can hardly blame people for taking this path toward a slimmer physique — after all, the American diet is saturated with sugar and other chemical poisons — it seems pretty far-fetched to claim that taking a medical shortcut is better than making a lasting lifestyle change.

On another tangent, the widespread use of Ozempic seems to have started this downfall of the narcissistic body positivity movement. Podcaster Brett Cooper predicted this back in the summer, and preachy articles chastising people for wanting to get in shape are no longer the mode du jour.

We are “allowed” to want to be healthy again. Thank goodness for that.

Happy New Year. And for those wanting to get healthy, Happy New You!