DH and me on Mounjaro weightloss injections

Honestly all drugs have side effects including paracetamol so to claim (as pp) that this drug miraculously hasn’t is BS. This aside I think your husband is probably just jealous.

And the studies about long term effects - doubt these have been tested since 40 years ago. Do you have no worries about what the impact will be in 40 years?

Some people have legitimate concerns about the injections. You're the one having a dig.

The research is also showing once people come off they struggle with extreme hunger.

I did not read this as a dig. Why so defensive? Rapid uncontrolled weightloss is dangerous to health

@Buddenbruchs you have summed up my views completely. It's absolutely not that I don't think it's great they've taken charge and lost the weight, but it is no way the same as someone who hasn't had the injections.

Mounjaro doesn't melt away the fat, you still have to put the work in, eat healthier, make better choices. I'm now averaging 2lbs loss per week but the food noise has gone, I still need willpower. Don't dismiss weight loss drugs as the easy option, for some it has been a life saver, at my heaviest a couple of years back I was touching 17 stone, losing and gaining a stone or 2. I'm now just under 13 stone, a couple more to go but I'm moving more, am fitter, the pain in my knees has gone. It's not a quick fix for all, you can't just eat, jab yourself and the calories don't count

Do you not realise losing 2 stone in a month is risky?

I am certainly not tiny, in fact I'm overweight myself. My opinion still stands.

I think you need to solve the root cause of your anger.

It's an open forum. In AIBU. I am entitled to share my opinion and I have.

I can absolutely guarantee I won't be the only one who thinks this.

I'm afraid I feel a bit of sympathy for OP's DH.

Presumably he has a good reason for not wanting to use this weight loss method. Knowing he is overweight himself seeing his DW losing weight will probably be making him feel worse about himself. He will be noticing how well she is doing but it's probably too sore a point for himself to want to talk about it.

I feel OP should be gaining enough self confidence in her weight loss not to need her DH to endorse it. Her DH is probably feeling despondent about himself.

My DH is on Mounjaro, he wasn’t technically overweight enough but fibbed on the form. Honestly, he’s turned into a right bore now. As a non dieting partner (because I’m not overweight and already do a lot of exercise) it’s really dull eating alone, hearing all the pride at losing weight by making no effort. He hasn’t changed his lifestyle to maintain a lower weight once he comes off it.

I don't know why he's not supportive but maybe he is struggeling to be because you are not fixing the root cause of the yo-yo dieting?

I have read threads on here by people who have lost a lot of weight with these injections but then when they have reached their goal and come off them they just gain weight again as the urge to eat and binge is still there in your brain. When you have continuously lost and gained 3-4 over and over again for many years there is something else deeper within you that needs fixing. Unless you fix that you will just continue to yo-yo but you will just do it faster with the drugs. It's a lot of money wasted that could have gone towards therapy instead with which you could have had a chance to actually fix the problem once and for all. Disordered eating is all in the head after all. Maybe you are doing a combination of drugs and therapy, but from what you have written it sounds more like you are happy that you have found a quick fix for the symptom, but you are not tackling the cause.

Similar to those having gastric bands. Well done but it’s certainly not using the same degree of will power than those who’ve done it naturally.
I put on 2 stone through illness and meds. I’ve lost a stone but struggling to loose the rest. Feel guilty saying this but it’s galling to see how easy it is for some using mounjaro etc but the rest of us don’t have that option.

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It’s all the man’s fault, surely?

But there can't be that much long term research because they haven't been in general use for that long? They have had some good research studies which have shown weight loss but a refusal to entertain the even remote possibility that there may be some negative isn't constructive debate! The world is littered with examples of drugs that have had unforeseen long term side effects.
OP has done brilliantly however and I can see how it's probably depressing for DH so he can't be happy for her. He's prob super sensitive because he knows he needs to lose the weight. But isn't.
It may be worth exploring with him what is driving his reluctance to use the drugs?

Why are you so angry? 🤷‍♀️ The thread is asking for opinions. That’s the point of posting!

Ok, going to get totally flamed for this but here goes.

If someone had lost loads of weight as a result of weight loss injections I wouldn't see it as any where near the achievement of grafting through rectifying diet and moving more.

Having said that, I actually don't disagree with the injections as weight gain is extremely complex.

But would I congratulate someone losing weight from injections in the same way as someone taking a traditional route? Just got to be honest and say no I wouldn't.

Not every reply to every thread has to support the op. I’d be concerned if my dh started to use them too. I think that’s reasonable. Yes there’s a lot of research showing positive effects but equally a lot of studies showing issues and you only have to look at the weight loss boards here to see people struggling with side effects etc. It’s naive to assume it’s all rosy.