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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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AiryFairyLights · 11/08/2025 23:04

betnet · 11/08/2025 22:16

You have posted this in the wrong place.

I know, I’m so sorry - I was mortified and couldn’t edit it quick enough 😂

Evaka · 11/08/2025 23:03

Where the hell are these workplaces where everyone has so little to do that they're boring on about each other's eating habits, snooping in each other's bags and obsessing over whether to spill the beans on each other's utterly mundane decisions?

Sounds like an episode of Coronation St from the 90s.

WaterGarden · 11/08/2025 23:02

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PlioTalk · 11/08/2025 23:00

If this is real, then keep your bloody beak out, you berk.

SmurfnoffIce · 11/08/2025 22:57

SomeOfTheTrouble · 11/08/2025 22:11

Nah, just can’t see any reason why someone would carry a WLI pen around with them. It’s nonsensical.

Exactly. The injection itself takes seconds. If you’ve got time to get the pen out of the fridge and pack it and the swab and needle into the bag, you’ve got time to inject. What would you gain by doing it at work?

SomeOfTheTrouble · 11/08/2025 22:57

ilovesooty · 11/08/2025 22:56

So just tell her to stop policing your food then.

The OP can’t talk! She can only type. Maybe.

ilovesooty · 11/08/2025 22:56

betnet · 11/08/2025 22:28

It is fine if she wants to keep it to herself but then she keeps boring everybody with amazing stories of her willpower. Telling us to stop having snacks while she has them herself.

So just tell her to stop policing your food then.

Mewling · 11/08/2025 22:56

So the OP has just resorted to accusing everyone of being on WLIs if they proffer a different opinion? Shame there isn’t an injection for intellect. 😅

mamabearlove · 11/08/2025 22:50

BatchCookBabe · 11/08/2025 22:48

100% this. ^ Nothing to see here. >>> 😃

Exactly hence the post I have just written 🤦‍♀️

usersame · 11/08/2025 22:50

Keep a very close eye on that Sally OP. I would not be happy until the true nature of her handbag stash is made public.

MOUNJARO AND BISCUITS I'll wager.

If this goes on much longer, call security.

THE TRUTH WILL OUT!

mamabearlove · 11/08/2025 22:49

betnet · 11/08/2025 22:28

It is fine if she wants to keep it to herself but then she keeps boring everybody with amazing stories of her willpower. Telling us to stop having snacks while she has them herself.

Taking MJ does involve a lot of willpower 🤦‍♀️Find it strange that you could see into her bag and read the tiny writing on her syringe,unless you recognised the colour of the syringe…was it familiar?

Megirlan123 · 11/08/2025 22:49

None of your business!!! Imagine being so entitled!

BatchCookBabe · 11/08/2025 22:48

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.

100% this. ^ Nothing to see here. >>> 😃

Namechange2700000 · 11/08/2025 22:47

You are the office bully.

SmurfnoffIce · 11/08/2025 22:45

I’ve taken mine to work before as well, I need to inject at 10am lol 😂

No you don’t.

SomeOfTheTrouble · 11/08/2025 22:45

betnet · 11/08/2025 22:43

You paid for it privately?

You can’t ask her to stop commenting on your diet?

We can all play this game!

betnet · 11/08/2025 22:43

usersame · 11/08/2025 22:42

I think your office sounds riveting.

You paid for it privately?

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usersame · 11/08/2025 22:42

I think your office sounds riveting.

betnet · 11/08/2025 22:40

usersame · 11/08/2025 22:40

I saw that Sally in the 'Count on Us' aisle in M&S.

I KNEW IT!

I think you are on MJ.

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usersame · 11/08/2025 22:40

I saw that Sally in the 'Count on Us' aisle in M&S.

I KNEW IT!

MsAmerica · 11/08/2025 22:38

Why should you care? It reminds me of the friend who kept badgering me as to whether my pearls were real of not.
If someone feels it necessary to lie - and this is only a co-worker, not your best friend, after all - let her lie.

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betnet · 11/08/2025 22:38

usersame · 11/08/2025 22:35

I'd take Sally to the HIgh Court over this all OP. The DISHONESTY! The biscuit shenanigans are clear evidence of shady intentions. It's a cunning plot she has going on in that office. Who knows what she might do next? Bring in low fat crisps? Ryvita? The sheer deception of it all. I reckon she is GUILTY!

Are you on MJ or Wegovy?

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Miniatureschnauzers · 11/08/2025 22:36

betnet · 11/08/2025 22:32

I wouldn't have cared if this was a damp squib. I have other threads 😂

I am not seething. This thread has been a lot funnier than I expected 😂

I don’t know much at all about AI and how mock threads are generated… but if the nonsensical nature of the responses to comments on this thread is AI generated, then I am certainly not as worried as i have been about AI taking over the world! A lot of work needed for it to sound like a real human being.

usersame · 11/08/2025 22:35

I'd take Sally to the HIgh Court over this all OP. The DISHONESTY! The biscuit shenanigans are clear evidence of shady intentions. It's a cunning plot she has going on in that office. Who knows what she might do next? Bring in low fat crisps? Ryvita? The sheer deception of it all. I reckon she is GUILTY!