Sick of people on weight loss jabs saying you still have to “put in the work” with wl jabs

Eh? Projecting much? It's such a shame that it hasn't worked long term for them. These are my friends who were so happy about shifting the weight using the jabs, couldn't afford them anymore and are now back to square one and I really feel for them. I think the jabs with also changing eating habits/dealing with the triggers for emotional eating works long term, but seeing people pile the weight back on after spending a fortune on the jabs is really sad to see :(

So true - why is a "mummy makeover" (ew for the name) less judge worthy than WLI?

I can understand where you're coming from. You feel as though the hard work you've done is devalued because they are claiming that the work they've done is just as hard. It's obviously not. If it was then there wouldn't be so many people who have tried to lose weight for years and then managed it with WLIs. Unless they all just weren't trying before. It's true that weight loss is always hard but it's also easier with WLIs. However, in 2025, no-one knows if your weight loss was achieved with or without the help of WLIs, just like no-one knows if a baby was born with or without pain meds. YOU know how hard you worked, even if the end result is the same.

This is definitely not true for all (or even most?) people.

It definitely stops/reduces my food cravings and it does not make me feel physically ill if I eat the “wrong” things.

Do you use WLI yourself?

People are obviously very defensive about it. Obviously it does make it easier, or people would be able to do it without the jabs though. I don't see what is so offensive about acknowledging that.

I'm glad people have access to such a life-changing medication. I'm curious as to whether the UKs obesity figures have started to go down with the availability of weight loss infections now.

God i swear jabs are like a cult on here. Ofcourse its easier for people to lose weight on them, that's why people lose weight. If you weren't on them, you probably would struggle to lose weight!

I've been taking the injections for my diabetes, so getting them free from the doctors. I've lost two stone from April to September, but now I've been stuck in a rut maintaining ever since. Trying to eat as much protein as possible, but I still get the sugar cravings no matter how much my appetite is supressed. What's worse is that the GP surgery have stopped monitoring me. I had to ring up last week for a nurse appointment, and I won't see them until the 20th November now.

they've all pilled the weight back on which is such a shame this is as sincere as Tory MPs talking about poverty.

How about you give them a try ,and see for yourself how much of the work they do or do not do for you ..
Like you say you are prioritising surgery after weight loss
Why do you care what others do
Live and let live

You're judging people on WLI, just as you will be judged for your mummy makeover.

Would be nice if no one gave a fuck what others do with their bodies really.

It sounds like money is tight. Honestly, I'd buy the MJ. It will be far better for your long term health than a tummy tuck and a boob job.

I agree @Plind

I am currently LOLing at 3 people I know (1 man, 2 women - all aged 45 to 50,) who have been 5-6 stone overweight since around 20-23 y.o. Miraculously, over this past year and a half, they have dropped around 6 stone in weight, as if by magic, after 25 to 30 years of yo-yo dieting, and never losing more than 2 stone (which they always regained.)

All deny using the weight loss injections. It's laughable because it's so obvious that they have used them. They are so smug about their weight loss too. Bet they won't be so smug when they stop the jabs and the weight piles back on.

I know a few people on the jabs, some of them had to give them up when the prices went up, they've all pilled the weight back on which is such a shame. I don't think they're a long term miracle cure for all. I've been working my butt off losing weight without them, 3 stone down so far. I've been working on the emotional eating & binging, it's hard but it's a lifestyle change for me rather than a quick fix/diet.

Yeah - and people are surprised when there are negative reactions, and people die!

Yes I am angry - I have taken them for 18m and they have literally saved my life and I’ve avoided major surgery as a result. They also changed my autistic 17yo DS’s life, though we are now no longer on them having both lost in excess of 6stones each.

I am as perfectly entitled to tell ill-informed ignorant and goady ops to back off with their unjustified and judgmental opinions when they have no idea why the majority of people are using them. Afterall YOU don’t own MN either, do you?

So get the jab and stop moaning about it? Then you can join all the people on the jab in pissing off people who think they're better than those who took the jab because they did it "the hard way"

To be fair, you posted popcorn on page 3. That’s way too late for popcorn. Popcorn is only acceptable on page 1.

I was stuffing my face so missed it

That took 31 minutes to appear on a WLI thread. Must try harder next time.

I agree to an extent OP. While on MJ I just didn’t want to eat. I had no interest in food id normally love. I had no enjoyment in wine. On hols when people were having a cold beer, I stuck to water or maybe a Diet Coke. Not because I was being good, but because I just didn’t want the beer. It definitely made life more boring, but I can’t say it was hard work. I’ve upped my exercise a bit and (now off jabs) am maintaining fairly successfully, but I do have to actively tell myself I don’t need the chocolate etc when I really go fancy it.

@Plind If you’re a healthy BMI you wouldn’t qualify for WLI anyway so it’s a moot point for you surely?
People say “you still have to put the work in” because there is so much misinformation out there online that there does seem to be this misconception that it’s a like a supplement or a vitamin that you can bob on and off of and will magically melt the fat off, not that it’s a medication to treat obesity.
It does seem like you do have a bit of a problem with people being of WLIs however

They didn't suppress my appetite at all.

I came off them after a while because they didnt do anything for me

I don’t understand why you’d want to make life harder. I can understand not wanting the jabs because of concerns re health or cost but just to feel more virtuous than people who did use them is akin to insisting on paying full price when an item you want anyway is on sale 😂

My leg. I’ve tried my stomach too, but it doesn’t really make too much difference. Not everyone feels the suppression. I have lost weight though, which is why I am keeping it up.

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Tummy tuck, breast augmentation or reduction, possibly loose skin in back and thighs removed, bingo wings removed. Depends on how much you’ve lost and how much sagging skin remains. If the OP is saving for this yet she seems to have weight to lose first, can’t understand why she wouldn’t have the weight loss injections first, then save for the MM.