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

I was going to say this. All of dh family except him are obese - every time we see MIL she has a go at me that he looks ill. I finally told her he’s fine his bmi is healthy she’s just desensitised am thinking obese is normal as it’s what she sees most ! She was acting like I was starving him !

Have they publicly stated their thoughts on your weight and appearance? Seems only fair.

It depends on your BMI, if it is over 30. Otherwise you won’t be eligible unless you have other conditions

What's the 'AIBU' here?

Oh great Kelly Osbourne again... who knows what she has or hasn't taken, plus she's had a load of plastic surgery etc etc on her face. Ditto for Sharon, before she gets mentioned. Judging the results of WLI via celebrities who may or may not have taken them in the first place, but certainly have had many other plastic surgeries and lifelong weight issues is ridiculous.

Of course some people look "gaunt" if they lose weight. That is still a matter of personal opinion as to who looks "gaunt" and it is not an inevitable outcome of using WLI. I really don't understand this desire to scare people off using what is a very effective medication to treat obesity in this way.

Rapid weight loss does make you look gaunt. I guess the skin has been stretched, like when you have a baby and the skin is baggy after. My BIL did it and has aged a lot. However it can be improved with exercise and its small price for pay for huge health benefits.

Were they overweight to begin with or normal weight and so look gaunt? Either way I’m not sure what responses you expect because what is your AIBU? No YANBU to be pleased they have more energy and better health. Yes YABU to start a thread about people we’ve never met just to tell us they look gaunt

I've been on the injections and yes, I look gaunt and aged. But my blood pressure is down, I'm no longer prediabetic and my BMI is now at a healthy level.

Do I care that the neighbours think I look older? DGAF. Possibly my neighbours are obsessed with their own looks. I'm not obsessed with mine (or theirs come to that). All is good.

Kelly Osbourne sure looks gaunt.

It is ridiculous to say no-one looks gaunt after using WLI.

You don't lose collagen when losing weight. Skin elasticity depends on age, genetics and previous damage from the sun/smoking and so on.

I have lost almost 50% of my body weight. My face has totally changed, I have a jaw line, cheekbones and so on. I don't look "gaunt", just different. I appreciate that anyone used to my morbidly obese moonface with the multiple chins might think I now look "gaunt" but it's their skewed perception, not reality.

I definitely looked a bit hollow (gaunt) until my skin reattached itself all over my face and neck.

I look the picture of health now.

JFC, if someone obese loses weight, looking "gaunt" and having dull hair is entirely irrelevant and utterly stupid to point out. Hair quality can be improved, is temporary and does not affect their health.

Looking "gaunt" is your opinion, and is because you are accustomed to them looking obese, rather than them looking significantly different to other people of that weight and age. And it's also totally irrelevant to health. So what on earth is the point of starting a thread to inform people about this and to tell us that WLI are not a "golden bullet" when anyone with half a brain would never have though that in the first place....

I know what you mean by gaunt, OP, and it is a side effect of rapid weight loss. The sudden loss of fat/ collagen in areas like cheeks creates a hollow look due to the skin not having time to adapt.

These threads are tedious now. OP, you are not original. Try harder.

I thought that most people knew by now that skin only has limited 'ping back' powers so someone can be a healthy weight but have extra skin from when they were bigger which gives a slightly odd illusion, as opposed to them actually looking 'gaunt' ie underweight...
I and many other people who have lost weight have the experience of being told you look gaunt when you are very much just in a healthy BMI range... (not that I put lots of stock in BMI, but as an example...)

You said they looked like shit

was such a shock. I really see now how these WLI are no golden bullet like sometimes the media would have us believe

They have not lost 50% of their body weight in less than 4 months. It's taken me 18 months and that was with a higher than average rate of loss.

Chances are they were already losing weight before you noticed and it is only now that they have moved out of your mental category of "very fat" into "normal weight" that you have actually been able to notice the change.

If you’d like to lose about 10lbs would they work do you think? Menopausal weight that just won’t shift!

😂

Oh for goodness sake....

I guess you don't see your neighbours very often?

You know absolutely nothing about what's going on in their lives, or why or how they have both lost weight. Yet your go to take is to decide it must be WLI and to start a thread about how terrible they are. What is the motivation behind trying to scare people, particularly women, off these effective medications? The focus on their looks and particularly on the woman's looks including her hair is just so deeply unpleasant.

If you believe "the media" that any medication is a golden bullet then you are extremely foolish in the first place.

I bet they dont look gaunt at all. Just thinner than you're used to.

These threads are so depressing!

🤷‍♀️ You're the one who was criticising them.

I lost half my body weight on mounjaro. My hair thinned bit its all grown back now.
I don't look gaunt, the body adjusts.
I lost two pounds a week over a year. Best thing I ever did I don't have to take any blood pressure meds now and I'm no longer pre-diabetic.

What on earth has it got to do with you ? Let alone the wider Mumsnet audience 🙈