Just seen my neighbours…. They must have shed 50% of their body weight!!

Thats buccal fat pad removal rather than general weight loss.

Gosh, what a shocker, losing weight very quickly has side effects.

I frankly, do not care, I need to lose weight, I need to not have to take a whopping dose of insulin multiple times a day to eat a healthy diet, WLI do that for me.

I could not give a flying fuck if my hair thins (it has a bit but I had super thick hair to start with, its not lost its lustre, its down to my arse and still shiny and healthy looking) or my face looks gaunt (it doesn't yet I've a way to go) - I care that my knackered heart has less strain on it and I fit in my bloody wheelchair.

Skin and tissue need time to adapt, which is why steady weight loss is far better. Rapid weight loss can be pretty catastrophic for your skin appearance.

So it's not the jabs themselves, it's the speed of weight loss that occurs on them. 'Ozempic face', as it has become known, is a real phenomenon.

I can't believe it's her. Not the weight loss, her whole face. I truly can't see a trace of the original her in there. It's like she's had a head transplant.

I’m willing to believe you have the gauntest neighbours in the world but as you have no idea what medication they’ve taken if any the other speculation seems pointless.

I would imagine that many people who have known me for years but not seen me recently would say the same about me. I have been obese since primary school there are very few people alive who have ever seen me as anything but a very fat person with a BMI up to the high-40s and classed as morbidly obese.

In the last 18 months thanks to Mounjaro and a diabetes diagnosis I have lost 9 stone and am now a healthy BMi, I’m 5ft 8, BMI of 21/22 depending on the day and a size 10/12 -S/M clothing depending on the manufacturer.

Im not gaunt, but I am less than half the size I was and dramatically thinner so may be perceived as gaunt to those who have only known me as fat.

I do think people become used to the size people are for a while and it seems shocking once they are thinner. I was a BMI of 28 for a while, am now BMI 24 so fairly near top end of BMI and a stone+ over what I was a few years ago. People have commented that I'm wasting away (I'm definitely not, body fat % is still a good 10% over the top end of what it should be). I have only had positive comments so far re my face luckily. I am 46 and lost over 2 stone since 1st November. My beauty therapist (does my eyebrows but also does botox etc) said to me this week how good my skin was looking and that I must have been losing weight the right way (good diet and weight lifiting).

I did ask her honestly if there were some treatments she'd recommend and she said that she didnt as I was looking really healthy. She gave me some options for if I need it down the line as I was worried my neck might get more wrinkly and she said maybe skin boosters if I feel I need to. At the end of the day I'd rather be a healthy weight and have a bit of botox if need be to make my face look better. Not being overweight is life changing for so many people.

I guess this OP just shows how much people judge by appearances and how vain many people are.

I am a normal weight but if I was obese and then thin I'd be delighted and not care remotely what my hair looked like.

No, you can't be prescribed obesity medication if you're not obese. It is frustrating it's hard to lose weight though, I agree.

It's expensive and you have to stay on it or there's there's almost certainty you'd regain it all.

Maybe try intermittent fasting?

No wonder your neighbours have avoided you since September.

The equivalent of rushing to the phone to tell your mum about your curtain twitching. What a life.

Any weight loss can cause hair loss, it's not specific to WLIs.

And I'm really finding that 'gaunt' is subjective. The only people I've seen looking gaunt are celebrities on Ozempic. Ordinary people taking Mounjaro look like ordinary people look with weight loss - smaller, thinner, often healthier.

OP, sorry your getting a hard time but you must know that no one’s allowed to bad talk weight loss injections on MN 😉?

I agree with you BTW, I know a few people who have used them (lost weight fast) and look bloody awful, but I guess it’s none of my business and luckily I have never been obese and have no need for such drastic weight loss. Hopefully they feel more healthy….even if they don’t look it.

Tbf to the OP it is quite shocking when you see someone who has lost a lot of weight and doesnt look well on it.
Its a change we still often associate with things like illness and bereavement.
I know its a trope that when you get older, if you diet you have to make a choice of "face or body" but its also a bit of a truism. I am of that age and have friends who have very definitely passed through the barrier of sacrificing face for body.
Its absolutely their choice, may not be the case for everyone and I'm not judging which way people choose, but I do think its self deception to think that it doesnt happen.

It's so bloody rude to slag your neighbours off for doing something to try and improve their health.

Yes, you can look "gaunt" when you lose a lot of weight, particularly as you get older, as fat tends to pad wrinkles out. But what you look like isn't the issue. Imagine dying of obesity related heart disease - but at least you didn't look gaunt!

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In fact, why on earth would you even come on here and make this thread? Who do you think you are?

No, bmi is healthy, but top of scale. I’d just like to be 10lbs lighter - to have more energy etc. Tried dieting / more ex which all worked in 30s but post 50 diff story!

The Osbournes pop up on every single one of these threads. It's so tedious. Kelly has not ever publicly stated she has taken WLI. Sharon got Ozempic in the US at a weight where no one would be prescribed them in the UK and stayed on them until she was dangerously underweight. So this is someone who has misused a prescription obesity medication. Not a normal properly prescribed UK-based user of obesity medication to treat obesity. What has Sharon Osbourne and her abuse of medication got to do with a typical obese person who uses WLI to lose weight? Nothing at all.

When you are accustomed to someone being obese, when they are no longer, people seem to think that they look too thin. It's a perception issue not a reality in nearly all cases.

Did you not point out that a bigger problem is her acting like he's not a grown adult who can make his own decisions about what to eat or not eat, so why the fuck is she blaming you instead of taking this nonsense directly to him?!

Not the point of the thread I know but JFC.

This really isn't true of the majority of people. The people I have seen who have been that age and lost lost of weight look so much younger, the extra weight IMO ages people such a lot and makes them look middle age and frumpy

How the hell do you know that they don't look gaunt? 🙄

It’s because once you are the wrong side of 40 it really is face or figure! Fat people have less wrinkles and younger looking faces, once the weights gone particularly if it’s lost quickly, they are going to look very different if you don’t see them regularly. Not much you can do about it though unless you also go down the fillers and Botox route!

Blimey 😲

I didn't say it was an inevitable result of using WLI. But more than 15 posters told the OP she was imagining things and that her neighbours did not look gaunt!

PS: Sharon has spoken on TV about her experience of using WLI, going to far, and not being able to regain a few pounds she would like to. Have you seen a recent photo or video of Kelly? That is gauntness personified.

Weight loss CAN (and just can) become addictive - many many users of WLI use them to reach the correct healthy weight where the health benefits and looking good are perfectly balanced

others take the weight loss to another level and don’t exercise properly

without seeing them we have no idea how aged and gaunt they are it may be the OPs perspective or it maybe they have crossed that line into losing too much weight

we all seem incapable of recognising what is a healthy weight on BOTH sides of the coin

Why is it any of your business?