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to think my colleague should just admit she is on weight loss injections?

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betnet · 11/08/2025 17:31

At work we have all noticed Sally has lost a lot of weight in the past few months. She is always talking about diets and what she eats and does not eat anymore and makes a big deal about avoiding the biscuit tin in the kitchen. She keeps saying it is just willpower and cutting out snacks.

Last week I walked past her desk, her bag was open, and there was one of those weight loss injection pens in plain sight.

Now I cannot unsee it and every time she goes on about her self control it feels performative.

I am not saying she has to announce it to the whole office, but when she is preaching about anyone can do it if they just try it feels a bit dishonest.

AIBU to think she should either be upfront or just stop making a song and dance about how she has done it all naturally?

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betnet · 11/08/2025 19:05

CoraPirbright · 11/08/2025 19:03

I am on them. The first couple of people I told, I had quite bad reactions from so I decided to not tell ppl as I feared what they would say. Now I am a bit braver and my friends and family generally know but I still haven’t told my colleagues as I am embarrassed that I wasn’t upfront from the beginning. Maybe it’s something like that?

That would be completely understandable. But why keep making a song and dance about all the dieting, food, exercise 5 days a week?

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betnet · 11/08/2025 19:04

Oscarsmom71 · 11/08/2025 18:59

I think it’s her business not yours.
why does it bother you so much.
Ive noticed lots of women in our office losing weight and getting the Ozempic eyes look. Obviously on weight loss jabs. They don’t admit to it but I don’t care it’s their business and they can tell/not tell who they like.

It bothers me for the reasons I have listed in a previous post.

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Dinosaursare · 11/08/2025 19:04

My mother in law is on them and keeps telling people she is reformed- does my head in as why lie 😂 but also none of my business!

CoraPirbright · 11/08/2025 19:03

I am on them. The first couple of people I told, I had quite bad reactions from so I decided to not tell ppl as I feared what they would say. Now I am a bit braver and my friends and family generally know but I still haven’t told my colleagues as I am embarrassed that I wasn’t upfront from the beginning. Maybe it’s something like that?

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betnet · 11/08/2025 19:03

SomeOfTheTrouble · 11/08/2025 18:52

Someone who says they lost weight by dieting and exercising but then didn't?

How do you think you lose weight on WLI? Spoiler, it’s by diet and exercise.

Honestly if this is true then it’s one of the reasons I’m so happy to have my own office at work. So much pathetic sniping/judgement/gossip/bulling amongst colleagues.

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That is what I am supposedly jealous of?

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WorriedRelative · 11/08/2025 19:03

Diarygirlqueen · 11/08/2025 18:50

My sister is at slimming world and has just won woman of the month, she's on mounjaro! Hasn't told them and lies about her diet on sw. I hate this! There should be no shame being on mj, it's helping people.
I think people should mind their own business, its no concern of anyone how someone loses weight, its just the lying i despise.
I really don't believe you when you say you saw it in her bag. 100% didn't happen.

Why should she share her private medical information with others? Do you think people should publicly share whether they take antidepressants or anxiety medication or whether they are using pessaries for thrush? Do you expect them to announce their HRT and then judge them for cheating?

MrsPerfect12 · 11/08/2025 19:03

MrsSunshine2b · 11/08/2025 18:13

It is amazing how many people have been on fad diet after fad diet, some for 30+ years, and finally found that the solution was simply calorie counting and self control, right around the time the weight loss jabs went on the market.

I know someone who has never been below a size 20 since she was 16 and over the past year has dropped to a size 14, all through the power of just eating less and her personal trainer, who she meets up with every day and is definitely not sleeping with.

It's an incredible coincidence.

And it’s completely clear why she won’t confide in you.

Oscarsmom71 · 11/08/2025 18:59

I think it’s her business not yours.
why does it bother you so much.
Ive noticed lots of women in our office losing weight and getting the Ozempic eyes look. Obviously on weight loss jabs. They don’t admit to it but I don’t care it’s their business and they can tell/not tell who they like.

WorriedRelative · 11/08/2025 18:58

steff13 · 11/08/2025 17:59

Not here it doesn't; it's four individual pens for each dose.

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Where is "here"?

This is a UK site, in the UK it is one pen containing 4 doses. It is single use pens in the USA. Other countries vary.

Praying4Peace · 11/08/2025 18:58

Glad she is looking good and unsure why this bothers you so much?

TheRealGoose · 11/08/2025 18:56

betnet · 11/08/2025 18:50

What am I jealous of? Someone who says they lost weight by dieting and exercising but then didn't? Someone who keeps talking about food and dieting all the time? Someone who tells everyone else to stop eating snacks and then eats them herself?

What exactly is there to be jealous of?

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Thanks op, you gave me a proper chuckle reading your thread, how do you think people lose weight on the jabs, do you think they just Melt the fat off? Melt it off your mate who lies about the jab then takes it out with her and leaves it on full display in her open bag on the desk?😂😂😂😂

DiscoBob · 11/08/2025 18:55

It's private. Why do you care so much?
You shouldn't be peering into her bag anyway.
It's just like any other medication. None of anyone else's business.

How would you feel if a colleague started potentially spreading rumours about your medicine and trying to get you to tell them about your health situation?

LlynTegid · 11/08/2025 18:54

Why or how Sally is losing weight is none of your business. Incessant talking about it and a wish to have other discussions or none is a reasonable thing to ask. Just as if someone spoke incessantly about football and you had no interest in it.

outerspacepotato · 11/08/2025 18:54

It's none of your business. Why would you even care?

SomeOfTheTrouble · 11/08/2025 18:52

betnet · 11/08/2025 18:50

What am I jealous of? Someone who says they lost weight by dieting and exercising but then didn't? Someone who keeps talking about food and dieting all the time? Someone who tells everyone else to stop eating snacks and then eats them herself?

What exactly is there to be jealous of?

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Someone who says they lost weight by dieting and exercising but then didn't?

How do you think you lose weight on WLI? Spoiler, it’s by diet and exercise.

Honestly if this is true then it’s one of the reasons I’m so happy to have my own office at work. So much pathetic sniping/judgement/gossip/bulling amongst colleagues.

Nanof8 · 11/08/2025 18:52

Could it have been an epipen? Either way, it's none if your concern. If it makes her feel better, let her talk about it.

Diarygirlqueen · 11/08/2025 18:50

My sister is at slimming world and has just won woman of the month, she's on mounjaro! Hasn't told them and lies about her diet on sw. I hate this! There should be no shame being on mj, it's helping people.
I think people should mind their own business, its no concern of anyone how someone loses weight, its just the lying i despise.
I really don't believe you when you say you saw it in her bag. 100% didn't happen.

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betnet · 11/08/2025 18:50

myfriendsfamily · 11/08/2025 18:48

You sound jealous and obnoxious, OP!

You don’t know what the medication actually is ! I know that if I saw a random injection in someone’s bag, I wouldn’t be able to identify it! Do you take the same thing?

I’m actually struggling a little to even believe this happened.

What am I jealous of? Someone who says they lost weight by dieting and exercising but then didn't? Someone who keeps talking about food and dieting all the time? Someone who tells everyone else to stop eating snacks and then eats them herself?

What exactly is there to be jealous of?

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Elle771 · 11/08/2025 18:48

SomeOfTheTrouble · 11/08/2025 17:36

Why would she be carrying it around with her?

This. And they're supposed to be in the fridge really. I don't know a single person who would take one to work in their handbag 😅😅😅

Gowlett · 11/08/2025 18:48

Hate all of this food / diet carry-on in work…

The women in my office used to poke at my lunch.
“Oooh! You’re sooo healthy!” I like salad & sushi.

I never mentioned them drinking buckets of Starbucks.
Or their Egg McMuffins, chocolate, biscuits, cakes…

Let this woman talk about food & ignore her!

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betnet · 11/08/2025 18:48

Norfolklass2428 · 11/08/2025 18:39

None of your business OP.

i have lost a significant amount of weight through having weight loss surgery. My colleagues ask if I have lost weight - I say something generic and shut it down.

My colleagues are just that, they are not friends or family and I am not close enough to them to want them knowing about my difficult weight loss journey.

i am also diabetic and carry my insulin pen and an epi- pen. I would be mortified if I thought colleagues were nosing into my bag and wrongly guessing about how I am losing weight and discussing it.

I didn't go nosing in her bag. I walked past and it was on her desk wide open. I often put any post that has arrived for her on her desk.

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Caravaggiouch · 11/08/2025 18:48

Sounds like none of your business.

KhakiOrca · 11/08/2025 18:48

To be honest, if someone is going on about will power etc I would really want to out them! But I would probably mind my own business.
There's someone on my FB who has lost 10 stone in 2 yrs. I can't help but think it's from weight loss jabs.
Ive lost 4 stone in 7 yrs due to a change of eating habits and would never risk those jabs, but each to their own.

SomeOfTheTrouble · 11/08/2025 18:48

betnet · 11/08/2025 18:46

I am being told to leave her alone so I am not going to question why she is carrying it around. She might be hiding it from her family, I don't know.

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I didn’t suggest you ask her why she’s carrying them around.

myfriendsfamily · 11/08/2025 18:48

You sound jealous and obnoxious, OP!

You don’t know what the medication actually is ! I know that if I saw a random injection in someone’s bag, I wouldn’t be able to identify it! Do you take the same thing?

I’m actually struggling a little to even believe this happened.

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