To think it will be revealed WLI cause physical aging

She was so pretty before she did this to herself. It’s really sad.

Can somebody tell us what support they are getting from an online pharmacy, who knows where in the world, where they got their GLP by taking a picture of the scales with them stood on them holding the dog? I'd be really interested to know.

Do you know how long the waiting list is and how ill you have to be to get wlis on the nhs? I do. I also can compare my experience of getting long term medication on the NHS which has potentially dangerous side effects with that of getting prescriptions for wlis privately. It's far more thorough, but I appreciate that spoils your narrative that wlis are the Wild West of prescribing.

I think it happens when you lose a lot of fat too quickly.

Such a silly OP. Most people aren't using WLI to get to seriously underweight levels. WLI aren't causing ageing, the fat behind the skin makes it appear plumper. Most people using WLI will be far healthier after dropping the weight, is that not more important? And IMO most people look better and are more confident after weight loss.

@PurpleCoo if you are looking lean and defined, then you need to stop the WLI, if you haven’t already.

Have you criticise with no idea what support a GP has to give someone on GLPs? From what I've read, it's a lot. Has your pharmacist sent you to a dietician? (I have no experience of it, just what I've read)

Basically this.

It's also quite touchingly naive of that poster to think the NHS is going to do a better job at monitoring than the private prescribers are currently offering.

In this century, we have lost touch entirely with what a genuinely healthy weight looks like.

I get it on a private prescription which is entirely separate to the mhs functions it operates. Pharmacies are private businesses with nhs contracts.

Pharmacies are part of the NHS?

@Tuliptana women who carry alot of extra weight you will find look younger . They are filled out by fat when the cologne goes .
it’s only when/if they loose weight they start to age .

You are just embarrassing yourself now OP.

Quite. I think a lot of people’s mental image of ‘obesity’ is of someone very large. Whereas in BMI terms, the difference between the upper end of a healthy BMI and lower end of an obese one isn’t much more than 2 stone. At 5’2” it’s the difference between being 9.10lb and 11.10lb.

Rich unhappy people do what they have always done which is to try and buy happiness. Only all they end up with is an expensive form of misery.

It doesnt really matter if it is prescription WLI or prescription painkillers. They have the budget but no sense so they look to buy a quick fix.

The vast majority of people on WLI are using them to solve a very real problem. Where they are having to pay for it themselves they are taking as little as possible to keep the cost down.

Does it not occur to you that the medical profession MIGHT have cottoned on to this?

As opposed to some internet random being able to supersede the health experts (who hail it as revolutionary) and know something they don't? The arrogance is mad.

I agree. The term 'Ozempic Face' could just as easily be called Weight Loss Face. It's not Ozempic or other WLI specific. It's just that the huge prevalance of examples of it at the moment are largely due to the popularity of WLI.

Also agree that the women who can afford it, the women who are photographed a lot because of who they are, will have cosmetic surgery to deal with slackened facial skin and with a certain type of woman there is no such thing as 'less is more.' They will go full-on in the belief that you cannot look too thin or too taut. It's the same with implants of any sort. They opposite happens and they go large. They don't want subtle, they want extreme. It's not a look I like but it's popular among certain types.

I know KO has confirmed had bariatric surgery, i think she has denied she has taken glp 1 medication .
Facial fat loss seen in extreme rapid weight loss(for any reason) and skin laxicity does seem ageing though.
glp 1s were used for type 2 diabetes for a long time,im wondering if any studies were done on the effects with longer term use in that group?

Nobody ever died of looking a bit older, but many have died from complications of obesity.

My mum looks absolutely ancient - incredibly deep wrinkles.

Except it's caused by her lifelong eating disorder.

Agree

I lost 6 stone by dieting about 5 years ago. Got Ozempic face. No GLP1 existed then.

However, my cholesterol dropped, my blood pressure went back to normal and I reversed my pre-diabetic status.

A bit of Ozempic face / visually ageing 10 years is well worth the massive health benefits of weight loss.

And yes, I have used GLP1 since putting a little of the weight back on. Yes, I'm back to having a saggy face. My insides are healthy though! GP approved.

Pretty sure the OP is a bitter slim person that hates that they can no longer feel superior to fatties and is hoping that all us previous fatties suffer for the ease of WLI now.

Of course it would, only got to look at pictures of very overweight people from the past before WLI came along to see that, Nigel Lawson, Nicholas Soames etc spring to mind, unrecognisable once they had lost weight but much healthier for it.

To flip it around, obesity causes significant ‘unseen’ physical ageing to your internal organs, that puts you at risk of an earlier death. I think any external, cosmetic ageing is preferable to that! Plus people who’ve had extensive facial plastic surgery (and likely buccal fat removal) and then lost weight because of WLI, plus grieving, are outliers.

“Britons not deemed obese could soon use weight-loss jabs to live longer”