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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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FurForksSake · 11/08/2025 17:55

They don’t need to be kept in the fridge once you’ve started using them, but a lot of people do.

i don’t advertise it at work, I don’t want a discussion about my weight loss medication unless I want people to know. I just try and avoid all conversation about it, but might need to say something to explain my weight loss and that might seem performative. It’s difficult to stay silent when changes have been made and you’ve dropped dress sizes. You basically can’t win.

MounjaroMounjaro · 11/08/2025 17:54

I doubt she really had it in her handbag. Why would anyone take a once-weekly syringe into work where there are busybodies like you hanging around?

Leave her alone, ffs. If you want to say something to her, tell her she looks good. If you want to talk about her, say she looks good. Stop being a bitch, in other words.

ThatCyanSheep · 11/08/2025 17:53

YouWillFindMeInTheGarden · 11/08/2025 17:50

No they arent

after first use they can be kept out.

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Can be, but it’s not best practice, especially with how hot it’s been!

SomeOfTheTrouble · 11/08/2025 17:53

steff13 · 11/08/2025 17:52

What do you mean after first use? The ones that I've seen you get a box of four pens, one for each week, and you use it and you throw it away. Using the first one doesn't negate the others needing to be refrigerated.

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Mounjaro has 4 doses in 1 pen.

SomeOfTheTrouble · 11/08/2025 17:52

YouWillFindMeInTheGarden · 11/08/2025 17:51

Mounjaro does NOT need to be kept refrigerated after your first use

It would still be odd to carry it around with you though.

steff13 · 11/08/2025 17:52

YouWillFindMeInTheGarden · 11/08/2025 17:50

No they arent

after first use they can be kept out.

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What do you mean after first use? The ones that I've seen you get a box of four pens, one for each week, and you use it and you throw it away. Using the first one doesn't negate the others needing to be refrigerated.

YouWillFindMeInTheGarden · 11/08/2025 17:51

Mounjaro does NOT need to be kept refrigerated after your first use

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No they arent

after first use they can be kept out.

Dangermoo · 11/08/2025 17:49

Looks like somebody is jealous

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socks1107 · 11/08/2025 17:48

They have to be kept refrigerated so I highly doubt it would be in her bag.

none of your business and good for her losing weight

itsgettingweird · 11/08/2025 17:48

I have a self injector pen in my bag - it’s sumatriptan.

Weight loss drugs are to be kept refrigerated and wouldn’t be carried around.

Cannongoose · 11/08/2025 17:47

EpiPen?
In things that are nobody’s business this is one of them

TaupeLemur · 11/08/2025 17:44

If that was a fat jab pen, though doubtful, what do you hope to achieve by outing her?
‘she’s says she’s been eating healthier and less! But she’s taking Mounjaro!’ Except she will have been eating less, and healthier, a lot less regardless of that pen or not.
Both things can be true.

WiddlinDiddlin · 11/08/2025 17:43

Why on earth would it be in her bag?

They need to be taken same day each week but the timing is not crucial, so no one would ever need to take it to work with them.

It needs to be refrigerated.

If she does have Ozempic or Mounjaro - theres a good chance it is for diabetes, as the NHS are very very rarely prescribing it for weight loss at the minute (I am prescribed Mounjaro for both, previously Ozempic for diabetes).

TwoWheelz · 11/08/2025 17:42

I think you should just mind your own business, she doesn’t owe anyone an explanation and if she’s too embarrassed to admit to a colleague taking weight loss injections, then it’s kinder to be quietly understanding. Maybe if you were a close trusted friend things would be different. She is certainly being partially honest as they make you skip the snack isle and have self control through less food noise.

gamerchick · 11/08/2025 17:41

I always thought they had to be kept in the fridge.

1NeedPampering · 11/08/2025 17:40

You don’t know her story. My friend’s DH has to have the jabs as he has diabetes and a heart condition. He has to lose weight faster or this could kill him even though he’s dropped quite a bit through exercise!

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TaupeLemur · 11/08/2025 17:39

VeryStressedMum · 11/08/2025 17:37

Apart from the fact it’s none of your business, it was most likely not one of those pens as they are usually kept in the fridge. People don’t tend to carry them around like it’s insulin.

It’s a once a week thing as well, so would be a bit odd if she was taking it into work… no need to. They’re kept in the fridge.
There are other reasons to have a self injecting pen thatndoes need to be carried or taken daily…

Battels · 11/08/2025 17:38

Crunchymum · 11/08/2025 17:36

Sure thing.

People bring their (expensive and more often than not refrigerated) weightloss pens to work and also happen to leave it in plain sight of the OP.

Absolutely did not happen.

And the whole office burst into cheering when the OP called her out.

ExtraOnions · 11/08/2025 17:38

Why would it be in her bag, not at home in her fridge?

WeirdyBeardyMarrowBabyLady · 11/08/2025 17:38

I think Sally lives in your mind and this is a thread to bash those on WLI…

VeryStressedMum · 11/08/2025 17:37

Apart from the fact it’s none of your business, it was most likely not one of those pens as they are usually kept in the fridge. People don’t tend to carry them around like it’s insulin.

TaupeLemur · 11/08/2025 17:37

She probably feels she has to say something because unfortunately people do notice and feel free to comment on weight loss - and gain.
I can’t stand people in the office who go on about their food, exercise, plans for losing weight etc though - it’s fucking tedious. I work with a lot of blokes and have to listen to them wittering in about their protein intake and their Strava ‘achievements’ etc … so dull!!!!