Dd wants to get fat loss injection

There's a big risk to being obese for a long time as well

Your daughter is a grown woman. You don’t get to interfere in her health choices. Whether or not you agree with weight loss drugs is neither here nor there; your daughter isn’t a child.

Talking about her reluctance to exercise is a red herring, because the vast majority of weight loss is diet, not exercise. Of course exercise is healthy and certainly helps a bit, but she won’t go from obesity to a healthy weight simply by going to the gym a couple of times a week. She needs to address her eating as well, which is what weight loss injections should, in theory, help her with.

I understand why you’re concerned but it really isn’t any of your business. If my mum had been trying to engineer my decisions about my own body when I was in my 20s, I’d have thought she was massively overstepping, and infantilising me.

Its been really good for me and minimal side effects. Being obese has its own risks, suppose you just weight them up

There's always a smug Skinny Minnie

Also, this idea that there's a significant risk of thyroid cancer is just plain wrong.

I think it's important you support her to use legitimate prescribed injections and not dodgy vials you can buy off beauticians illegally.

Online large retailers like Boots, Asda, Lloyds Pharmacy prescribe these treatments. It is around £200 a month, price can vary from prescriber to prescriber, and if you have a referral code.

Does she have the ability to pay for them herself? Would she be able to use the time on the injections to work out where she's going wrong with her diet and how she can maintain any weight loss after she stops using them?

@GingerPirate honestly massive congratulations that you weren't born with an eating disorder, you got lucky

That's quite right.

While it does help , and I'd be supporting her wanting to lose the weight. I'd be cautious she is realistic...at her age losing weight should not be hard. She needs to eat less calories...
If she can't do that, then yes the injections may help but she has to understand she still needs to get in a calorie deficit and vast amounts of people put the weight back on as soon as they stop the injection.
If she sees it as helping her overhaul her whole lifestyle, that's good choices, calories, exercise, vaping etc...then great go for it
If she thinks it's easy quick fix then she'll be sadly mistaken

Which one are you taking

Spoken like someone who has never struggled with their weight a day in their life

Watching what and how much you stick in your mouth works better and is safer.
Not mentioning the cost.

You can get it online from Boots [which surely must be legitimate] and it costs about £200 per week. You start with a lower dose and increase every month if you wish. You just are not interested in food. Started November and very successful so far

It does work.

At 19 she can either go to the GP or pay for it herself. Its not up to you.

'Big risk of thyroid cancer, doesn't actually teach you to eat better, put the weight back on when you stop.'

Where is this magical diet that teaches you to eat better (as if we don't all already know what's good for us) and doesn't end up in the weight going back on? There isn't one, and that's because obesity is a metabolic condition. One which Mounjaro and Ozempic treats very effectively.

If you wish to help her and provide support in her weight loss journey, then offer to help her in ordering with a registered pharmacy, gaining the medicine under clinical guidance and not running the risk of fake or contaminated injections.

Otherwise, shut up and do not get involved in further discussions on the subject with her. Most 20 year olds, yes even ND ones, know perfectly what they should be eating and know to exercise. Once they get into the obese weight range there is an incredibly small chance of them losing to and maintaining a healthy weight without intervention. (For example the NHS soup and shakes diet for type 2 diabetics is in the news today for its success, but according to the BBC "Of many thousands invited, hundreds completed the year-long programme" only "A third shed lots of weight - nearly two-and-a-half stone (16kg) - and put their diabetes into remission." - as opposed to the much better results from weight loss injections. The NHS trial involved the participants being given all the food and advice they needed too). She almost certainly knows how to lose weight healthily, whether she can be successful without medical help is up to her to decide.

There is a big difference between being prescribed weight loss injections under pharmacy/doctor supervision and the scare stories from fake drugs bought illegally.

@behindthemall when you order weight loss injections online a doctor reviews your medical information before issuing a prescription and your own GP is informed.

I would support her OP. Better she loses weight now before it spirals even further out of control. Absolutely do not encourage her to do diets like the Cambridge diet!! So many people have severely disordered eating from being put on diets like that as teenagers.

I got offered Ozempic by my doctor yesterday but I refused as I don't trust there not being long term consequences. I suppose all you can do is tell her to do her research and then it is up to her as she is 19.

@behindthemall if this was the case you wouldn't be able to get a prescription through a pharmacy

If she goes to the doctor she's likely to be given the shakes and meal replacement programs as it's cheaper.

I would suggest OP, that you read the Mounjaro threads on here....100s of us having great success and losing steadily whilst following a sensible calorie controlled diet. The injection merely takes away cravings and makes sticking to a diet sustainable without feeling deprived.

There isn't anything to fear. It isn't a quick fix. It isn't a way to starve oneself thin. It is prescribed by doctors.

Your daughter is an obese adult and wants to do something to benefit her health. I think you should support her. Encourage her to do research and consider how she might follow a sensible, healthy diet long term once she had lost the weight.

As far as I am concerned the dangers of obesity outweigh those of the specific medication I have chosen to take.

There is some ridiculous and unnecessary scaremongering on here and I am pretty certain those doing it have no experience of the medication at all but are jumping to "it's bad, you'll die!" the same way you seem to be.

Of course she does. It’s borderline negligent to be advocating she starts a course of medical treatment without first speaking to her doctor.

@letsjustdothis you edited that response.

You don't turn to these injections as a first line. I have tried everything and now I am getting a helping hand with therapy tied in.

Big risk of thyroid cancer, doesn't actually teach you to eat better, put the weight back on when you stop.

Being/remaining obese also significantly increases cancer, and most diets don't teach you to eat better, with high rates of relapses when the diet is stopped.

Good on her for wanting to take control of her weight. I lost just over 2stone in 7 months and feel amazing. My bmi before was 30.1 and now it's 24.8 so only just healthy weight but it's made such a difference to how I feel in myself. I didn't tell anyone when I started though because of all the negative comments and judgements. Wouldn't you rather she was honest and confiding in you than doing it in secret?
Encourage her, support her, and best of luck to her

Is she asking you to pay?

If not: she's an adult woman and it's her body. It's between her and the person who signs off on the prescription (or not). I don't blame you for not being happy, but it's not up to you. I would at least strongly advise her not to buy it illegally.