Size 18 and Happy - Anyone Else Not Wanting to Lose Weight?”

No, she’s a medical doctor, a GP. I’m not a doctor myself, which is why I didn’t offer a personal opinion, just passing along what she said.

Oh ok you mean these people in real life.

"I’m a size 18 and, honestly, I’m happy at this size. I don’t feel the need to lose weight, but people keep suggesting weight-loss jabs to me, which I find frustrating"

What? Have you not read the thread ? No one has told her to take wli. And it appears far from her being happy.

Why isn't OP allowed to have a go at WLIS? she is curvy but happy and ppl are being incredibly rude telling her to take WLIS even though she is happy with her size! definitely warrants a moan up IMO

Agree. And of course this is all good news for the greedy pharmaceutical companies!

I think that’s only when you’re looking at those topics to be honest. If you don’t wish to see it I’d stay away from the topics. I don’t think anyone is bashing anyone else over the head with them,

Happy for you OP. WLI have become the new thing bash us all over the head with and try to knock your self esteem

it’s inappropriate and pervasive - the constant pushing pushing pushing. Every other ad online or on podcasts.

I’m afraid I agree with this op; I think when they become affordable you will jump at going on the injections, and I’m not sure I beleive both your friends on them are so ill they are starving themselves. In fact I don’t beleive it at all. If that was the case why on earth would they go out to dinner with you. Anyone that ill on them reduces dose or stops.

80 percent of people have no side effects at all, those who do it tends to be very minor nausea that passes and most eat a clean and healthy diet , as witnessed by any thread on here and Reddit. If they can’t tolerate the drugs at all they stop. The odds of both of your friends being on it , going out to dinner with you, and sitting there starving, looking terrible, unable to eat, feeling sick and belching is low to non existent.

whuch makes me think this whole thread is simply you’re jealous of people on weight loss injections, can’t afford them and don’t wish to diet so will stay obese until such time they come down in price and you can afford. So why not just say that instead of all this, I’m so happy at a size 18, and weight loss injections are so unhealthy,

But are you ok with your size. As in happy about it. It doesn’t come across like that. As If you were you’d not be jealous and you’d not be discussing calorie restriction in front of your child.

do you mean you’re accepting your size, because you can’t afford the injections and don’t wish to diet and restrict. So you’d rather be this size than diet.

you don’t need to diet, or restrict, you can just say I don’t wish to do it and will be this size and try to be healthy as is possible. You don’t need permission for that. It’s fine to be any way we wish to be, the issue only comes in when we are not what we’d wish, and it actually makes us unhappy.

Wtf is wrong with people?! Why do they concern themselves with other people’s weight so much? Everyone’s bloody obsessed!
Glad you’re happy OP 🙌

It’s my opinion which I’m freely allowed to say

it’s lazy medicine for someone at a 27 BMI.

You're talking pure nonsense :/

The replies are far from brutal. The op has simply deviated into a discussion on how crap weight loss injections are, however unhealthy and how she can’t afford them and even talks about calorie restriction in front of her young child. This doesn’t suggest in any way someone who is happy at her size. It suggests someone deeply unhappy but feeling unable to do anything about it.

The replies are brutal to your thread OP. There's nothing wrong with feeling happy and beautiful at any size. I completely understand where you are coming from as I've been a size 16-18 for decades. Enjoying weekend drinks and delicious foods. Not one person suggested I lose weight and my DH and family loved me no matter what size I was.

I did choose to lose weight medically (for me alone) in my mid 40s as a last ditch attempt to be slim and fitter before menopause kicked in. I was squeezing into a size 20 and despite being an hourglass and whilst the curves looked fine, my health was starting to suffer. My knees were struggling and I was developing foot pain. My hips became sore in bed and the snoring was becoming an issue, I had investigations for sleep apnoea. I had become so unfit that a short walk was making me tired. It was a slow creep of weight gain and being really unfit.

So my guidance is, love yourself and enjoy your life. If your health is fine, crack on. Have a glass of wine for me 🍷

This feels like just another way to have a go at wli. It’s just constant, your “friends” experiences are very unusual if true, you just need ri look af any of the thousands of posts on here and Reddit to show that, how odd both friends are so unusual.

if you’re so happy stop talking about weight in front of your child. Or going on about it and just crack on. If you deep down want to be thinner and just can’t afford the injections and don’t wish to diet as it’s so hard then just own it.

The issue isn't necessarily your health now though, it is the fact you're more likely to develop diabetes, heart disease, dementia etc. as you reach your 50s/60s

It's about investing in your future

@Sevenwondersofthewoo yes of course it was. You can find and read the MHRA documentation and the documentation from the many clinical trials of WLI. Someone who is BMI 27 is not slightly overweight. They are in the higher overweight category, and if they also have a weight related health condition, then the prescription criteria are that they can be prescribed WLI. That has been the case since these medications were approved in the UK for weight loss.

Were they really analysed for that reason?

it was never to be used this way for someone slightly overweight. now it is like I said lazy medicine.

It's very specifically not dangerous to offer WLI at a BMI of 27 with weight related conditions. The risk/benefit analysis of that was considered in detail by the MHRA and the decision taken that the benefits outweigh the risks, and that it is definitely not dangerous.

Because it’s dangerous to say someone is needing weight loss drugs at a bmi of 27 even with conditions. That’s my point.

doctors are freely in my opinion throwing drugs at it without looking at the bigger picture. Lazy medicine comes to mind.