Anyone taken weight loss injections and regretted it?

Exactly. Such a weird braindead comment.

No regrets whatsoever. Best thing I’ve ever done. Using the injections alongside changing my lifestyle long-term has helped me to get my health back. The injections are expensive, but worth every penny as far as I’m concerned. I’ve been using the injections for 6 months and no major side effects.

No they didn't 😂

How so? Law suits for what exactly?

As someone who has been obese most of my life until now - while also dieting and exercising - I’d say the “just eat less” brigade do not understand the first thing about what it’s like to be in my position.

I was never the “right” weight. People have judge me for that, treated me like I am stupid and have spoken down to me like I am a lesser person. I tried everything. Even on the jabs I am still an overweight BMI but I no longer stand out at large.

I lost weight from my own efforts then jabs over more than three years - around nine stone. People around me now probably don’t realise I’m still trying to lose weight as it’s been such a long time and the loss is so slow now.

Without MJ I would now be regaining weight and despairing about it. At least now I am merely a regular middle aged woman rather than chronically obese.

Can I ask your height and weight please? I’m 5’6 and 10 stone 4. Chatgbt says I need to eat 1270 calories to lose a lb a week. I’m not sure that’s low enough but new to the theory of calorie deficit

No, you are over simplifying a more complex issue. It stops me thinking about food all the time and struggling to feel full. Honestly wish people would stop saying just eat less. I'm 40 years old, I've been on a diet since I was 15. If just eating less worked, I wouldn't be obese at 40.

You really don’t understand how WLI work. Have a look into insulin resistance for a start.

Yes, I expect most people paying for MJ wish they could've lost the weight naturally!

I’m not on them, but what would worry me if the pancreatitis risk. I’ve had acute pancreatitis 5 times and it can be life threatening. I live in constant pain thanks to a damaged (and now half, after a surgery) pancreas, and don’t underestimate the devastating effect this could have on you if you were in the small minority who got it. You’ve got to weigh it up though with the health risks from being obese. I’ve seen people use the injections who have hardly any weight to lose (they can easily get them if know the right people), which is madness to me.

And they are all so defensive about it just now. Give it a couple of years. There will be law suits.

Of course eating less will do the same thing, as you correctly say, but that requires the resistance of urges and willpower. WLI remove that element therefore the makes the process much easier for people.

It still comes down to eating less, the difference is that you eat less because you are not hungry and food isn’t on your mind, rather then thinking about food, wanting food and craving food, but still eating less.

This. And go low carb op. SOOOO much better for you long term!

Funnily enough I had the same thing when I lost weight with keto. I felt it went back on differently and more round my tummy. So perhaps it's something about ketosis.

Agree that 3kg per week is far too much and that would have terrified me!

I think what is becoming clear is that they give temporary effects only so people can feel 'locked in' long term. For me, I realised early on they adjust something in my chemistry and I accept I will need to stay on them very long term. I do worry about availability and safety of very long term use.

I struggle with the responses of just eat less it’s not that hard. If that was the case then we wouldn’t have over weight people 🥴

Did he try other methods of weight loss before @Firstshoes ? I turned to MJ because absolutely nothing else would work, not anymore. There was no option to 'lose the weight naturally' as you put it (though on MJ, I pay very close attention to maintaining a healthy diet, not dangerously low-calorie but very balanced, and exercising for strength) Obesity really is a disease, and I couldn't fight it on my own. For me, and for many people taking it, there is no alternative - we live with obesity or we take the medication that enables us to beat it. I am taking it with the hope and expectation that I will need to be on some dose of it forever or I fully expect to be obese again. But I wouldn't have started the injections if there was anything left that I hadn't tried myself already (many times over three decades).

3kg a week is a frightening amount to lose @FeministUnderTheCatriarchy and weekly vomiting sounds dreadful to me. Did you lose at that rate throughout? I would think that would be very damaging to the body; 1-2lbs a week is a safe rate of weight loss. Lots of people lose a lot in the first week or two (water weight) but if that kept going, along with the vomiting, I think you did have a very bad reaction to the drugs and were not tolerating them well.

My DH. They worked amazingly well and he lost 2 stone. He didn't want to be on them forever mainly due to cost. He's been off them for a month. I can confirm he is eating really low calorie and exercising but he's put ten pounds back on already. The scales keep climbing. I'm not sure if MJ messed up his metabolism or something but the weight is going on far more rapidly than it should be. He really wishes he'd lost it naturally.

I have zero research or proof to back up my issues with them, but I will share them here anyways.

I thought it was amazing, I was losing around 3kg a week and only had side effects on a Sunday night (injection night) where I would throw up a few times. I stayed on the lowest dose and still had no appetite which was also great.

However, I had to stop them due to finances and I was really shocked when I put back on about half the weight. I have lost and gained weight my whole life, but this time my entire body composition changed.

I have always been a very standard hourglass shape. No matter what size I have been, my shape was clear. Now, I am an apple. All the weight I gained back went to my tummy which has NEVER happened before.

My body looks completely different to how it has done my entire life.

I know this can happen in peri and after menopause but I am 33 (was 31 at the time) with no signs of that and it happened directly in correlation to stopping the injections.

I've now been off them 2 years and have lost the weight on keto, but my shape is still an apple and I can't shift my tummy.

Again, I can't prove that it was the injections, but I am convinced they changed the way my body holds and loses fat.

For that reason I would never use them again.

I work in healthcare and was talking to a GP colleague who has a young patient who is now in renal failure after buying what she thought was MJ from a TikTok seller. She was sent a powder and administered it. It is awful to think people are injecting unregulated poison into their bodies that will do irreversible damage to their body. Fortunately the vast majority of people go through regulated sellers. I did also have a student who managed to get it by putting a cushion under their clothes and holding heavy weights on the scales.......scary!!

This thread reminds me of threads on alcohol consumption / addiction. Is it then fair to say to people who are addicted to alcohol or heroin ‘it’s simple.. just don’t drink / eat/ smoke/ Inject heroin’ ?

The thing in most cases that people are addicted to is not the heroin/ food etc itself- it’s the feeling they get from whatever their ‘drug’ of choice is. It’s an emotional addiction.

yes it’s easy and straightforward for some people but not for others. I don’t have a problem with food but I do understand addiction. If you don’t understand it and haven’t experienced it then refrain from your uninformed glib comments.

No regrets here. Helped me lost 3.5st. Will remain on it for maintenance as long as as I can. Game changer for me

surprising what’s out there. I know people supposedly taking retatrutide which hasn’t even passed phase 3 clinical trials yet.

the way they get round selling the peptides is saying research purpose only. Knowing full well people will inject it. Mostly gym bros from what I’ve seen.

God no. They are absolutely one of the best things that happened to me.
Apart from the weight loss, my autoimmune disease is in remission, my swollen diseased knees look normal and don't hurt for the first time in decades.
And my previously high blood pressure is positive athletic now .

Maybe it’s actually heroin, and you need a bit of tin foil and a lighter to prepare it
(lighthearted)

Seriously though, do people buy WLIs from unregulated providers?? Surely it’s obvious that’s asking for trouble