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

So I just had to google it.

Because of the “hard work” I put in using WLI, weight lifting, Pilates, cardio, and healthy high protein diet, I’m now totally ripped with a 6 pack. I don’t need any “mummy make over”. I suppose I could get breast enhancement if it was really my thing. But the stubborn fat has all gone, stomach is flat and defined etc.

TBH - looking at it another way. A mummy make over is a short cut to avoid getting lean and toned the hard way, ie in the gym. Which makes the OP a little bit of a hypocrite.

I think it’s a form of jealous spite. They want people to come off them so they can regain the weight.

imagine being so messed up about weight, you’d be hoping people come off so they regain, just cause you can’t get the drugs or haunting online forums making spiteful comments about them as you’re so jealous and resentful.

To be honest you lost me at ‘mummy makeover’ .

Why does it need to be a penance?

Yes, and many others can whilst still more do get them on the NHS. Hence there should be no default assumption. Nobody is qualified to make that assessment for the probably million plus people currently using them.

I lost 3 stone on my own and 2 on the jabs and honestly I think it’s the other way around , it was easier to loose naturally as you don’t have the side effects that are honestly horrendous . This being said I only ever used the jabs as the natural way was no longer working and I’m by no means dying either way is easy . If it was everyone would be skinny

So I did WLI and lost 2 stone. According the bodytrax machine at the gym it was all fat and I even gained muscle. I did not want to lose muscle.. otherwise it’s pointless - will just gain back fat after.

It was very hard work. I lifted weights every day. I ran 5km every day. I did Pilates every day for core. I ate 150g protein every day. I ate 30g of fibre and no processed food. I limited myself to 1,300 calories. Yes it’s true it was slightly easier to stick to the calorie limit. But everything else was exactly the same - the need to eat protein, the need to lift weight the need to move more.

I’m not sure what a “mummy make over is”. After my weight loss I’m ripped with a 6 pack.

I'm on the jabs and will fully admit I don't put any work in at all. I don't exercise. I don't count calories. I'm simply just not hungry enough to overeat.

I find WLI extremely helpful and lost weight very easily. I’ve only gone up to 5mg and have been on that for about a year now. Still have suppression and try to make better food choices. But, it’s been a walk in the park for me and I’ve been lucky with very minor side effects. I think some people say it’s still hard whilst using them as they are fed up of the ‘cheating’ mentality of many.

You absolutely do have to put the work in! Yabu

I can only think it's jealousy because some people can't afford them. That's it really.

They’d prefer you being a fatty forever because otherwise they lose their oddly perceived moral edge.

The irony being that a lot of slim people just don’t feel the same intense cravings that overweight people do, which is becoming obvious via GLP1s. And even if they do and somehow resist them they like to think that is something better about them.

OP, it irrelevant what anyone else thinks. This is all very strange thinking on your part - do you think you should have a medal for your particular style of weight-loss, or perhaps you think that you are more 'worthy' somehow? Look, nobody cares. Go on MJ if you want, nobody's stopping you. It will work, but there can be quite extreme side-effects. Nobody cares if you lose weight via MJ, WeightWatchers, or whatever. Just do what works for you and stop obsessing about other people.

That’s for them to think about though, not some random bystander who isn’t even taking them.

For many who are not getting them on the NHS, they can’t afford them long term

Exactly. And why that’s even a consideration for people who aren’t even taking them.
Imagine a friend telling you they’d decided to take anti depressants and your first response being ‘well what’s going to happen when you come off them? You’ll just get depressed again’.

It bemuses me when the default assumption is that people will come off them.

But I still don’t understand why it’s anyone else’s business or certainly why you would care.

WLI are essentially a form of HRT. Some people have a hormone imbalance that controls their hunger/appetite which these drugs rebalances. Other people don’t have that imbalance, or have it to a lesser extent.

For years people have felt shame for being greedy/lazy every other thing under the sun for being overweight and failing to do anything about it.

Now they are being shamed for doing something about it with people in every direction heckling that they shouldn’t.

Personally, I’ve never really struggled with periods/menopause. Barely registered- but I’m not about to tell the millions of women who have suffered that they should go without the drugs that would help them because I didn’t need them.

WLI, like HRT, also look like they can help with heart health and dementia prevention too so the ‘we don’t know the long term effects’ works both ways.

So what if they stay on them? What business is it of yours?

People are paying for these drugs themselves and, by tackling their own health issues, will save the NHS billions in the long run.

So what exactly is everyone’s problem, other than they don’t get to feel morally superior to someone else.

But...you do have to put the work in. If you don't, you are wasting your money on the jags. If people don't change their lifestyles while on them they are much more likely to regain the weight, go back to being prediabetic/Type 2, etc

I think this is a major factor in being able to maintain with and without WLI as well. Starting from a ‘needed to embellish to get them’ point and staring from a ‘BMI over 50’ (myself) is very very different and I do think maintaining will be easier for people who have never been morbidly obese and suffered quite a few potentially serious health conditions as a result.

I’ve been off for 6 months and maintaining fine. I’ve decided to stop weighing myself as I’m now focusing on firming everything up and hitting the gym. I’m very good now but do have some treats but very rarely. I’m reprogrammed. To be honest I was one of the naughty ones who didn’t quite qualify so I embellished a little to get prescribed it. I was on the cusp so don’t really feel bad about that.

How long have you been off them? Are you managing to maintain?
Did you loose a bit extra to give yourself a margin for gaining a bit?

You’re right. Absolutely easy as pie for me. I didn’t want to eat, didn’t think about it until my stomach told me I need to eat something, then I ate something tiny as it’s all I could manage. I guess I’m putting the work in now I’m off them but to get here I didn’t need to

I’ll hold my hands up and say I’ve found it very easy with WLI compared to previous efforts to lose the weight.
Not really had any side effects that have made me tired or ill, much easier to not graze/snack/make 4 slices of toast as a snack.
Where I’ve had to put the work in has been around protecting muscle mass and increasing my strength overall. But yeah, I’ve personally found it pretty easy.

I'm on mounjaro but it only surpresses my eating for a couple of days, not to the point of not being able to eat or snack either, and then I feel normal levels of hunger again.

If I don't exercise and eat like a flea I don't lose.

I see others on it and the weight is just falling off them.

This is not the case for us all.

You can like that or lump it, because it's a fact.

It’s doesn’t though, you lose weight through being n a calorie deficit. Only. So you must have been burning more than you needed to maintain. Either that or you need to see a doctor for unexplained weight loss. MJ does not melt fat.