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

Yeah, this.

no way would she keep a pen outside the fridge

and as others have said, fuck off with your judgement, and your BS about “doing it naturally”

IF she’s on the jabs, she’s eating less and therefore losing weight.

would you be so much of a prick with someone giving up smoking when using patches or gum? Or someone navigating the menopause with the help of HRT?

im sick to death of these petty minded pricks thinking they have a right to an opinion on other people’s health/wellbeing.

Then what would she do with them in the evening and at weekends when she’s not at work? Makes no sense. If you didn’t want anyone at home to know, you’d find a good hiding place. Not cart them around in the day and take them home in the evening.

She doesn't need to admit to anything and I really can't see why she'd keep an expensive injector pen in her bag at work??

My ADHD meds don't do that, but I don't go around telling other people, "Stop playing that game on your phone! You need to learn to focus better like me!" or "What do you mean you need me to repeat what I just said? Nowadays, I listen to people the first time they speak!" In fact, if someone was to ever say I seem more focussed that usual, which hasn't ever happened, I would say, "Oh yes, the ADHD meds I'm taking really help me to concentrate."

Has bugger all to do with you. She may well be doing the dieting and the injections.

Privacy so no one at home knows ?

As far as I know the injections you take once a week, so not sure why she’s be carrying it around in her bag?

YABVU
Why does she have to disclose if she is on WLI or not? And why would she be carrying the pen around when you don't take them at specified times? It is most likely some other sort of medication... which is none of your business.

I don't understand the hate for them on here. They are a tool. They are not cheating. You still have to work at your diet etc on them.

Now they are more readily available on the NHS, I know more people on them. The same people who used to moan that their GP said a lot of their health issues were down to obesity... and now they have had to go back to their GP and admit they were right and that they are indeed obese. It does not matter though, They are doing great on them and making healthy choices.

Yeah, she shiuld either admit to the injection or stop banging on about willpower and diets.

However, there is shame attached to the weightloss meds so it is likely that it is a deflection. So everytime she goes on just think to yourself that it is bs and how you're the one who knows the truth and keep it to yourself.

Yes you are correct but she may have it with her because she doesn’t want it at home if who she lives with doesn’t know ?

None of your business.

Well done!! I am so proud of you x

Are you sure she's not lost weight by eating bullshit?

I just think it’s because I’m not the massive one anymore.

I keep being gleefully told I will pile it all back on too, once I’ve finished my “diet.” I’m not on a diet. This is just how I eat now. I just woke up one day, had enough and changed my life (I might have sat on a wall hung toilet at ikea and almost pulled it off the wall 😅). People don’t believe you can just change over night.

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.

You do know you still have to diet? You sound like a bit of a creep to be honest, watching her food and looking in her bag (at the very expensive injection than has to live in the fridge)

Congratulations. Thats a huge weight loss and you should be proud (however you did it).

But others shouldn’t be deciding how you did it and disbelieving you.

It's the same with WLIs

The fluid is filled with a TEENY army armed with laser guns that zap and time travel your fat to an ice planet far away in a different time line.

You don't need to do anything else.

You just go to sleep fat and wake up skinny.

It CAN get a bit tricky when the devil comes to cash in on you selling your soul but with a bit of insider trading, it's manageable with minimal effort

Just say to her sally it’s great you have such will power and it’s obviously working for you but I am a grown up and I decide what I eat so if you don’t mind I don’t need you nagging just because you’re doing it doesn’t mean everyone else should be following you. I’m quite capable of choosing if I want to diet or not. Hopefully that will shut her up.

Yeah, if you do a degree whilst on ADHD meds or antidepressants, the pills get up at night time and write your dissertation for you like a scene from Cinderella!

Ah maybe it’s in her bag as she doesn’t want anyone at home to find it? Partner/kids/whoever she lives with

I know, thanks. I’m on it myself 🙄 many do take them at a specific day and time.

Do you expect all of your colleagues to disclose their medication to the whole office or just the fat one who's losing weight?
You do realise weight loss medication doesn't just conveniently dispose of any calories and fat you consume?! You still have to eat well and exercise, it just dulls the 'food noise' and reduces appetite so you're not constantly thinking about food.

Would you judge someone with adhd for taking medication to help them focus as they haven't done it 'naturally'?

I expect your colleague feels she needs to explain her weight loss and isn't comfortable with anyone knowing she's on medication (if she even is). There is a lot of judgment around it so people are often selective over who they confide in