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To be fed up with the barrage of weight loss drug content I am exposed to

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pinkpeonytuesday · 17/04/2026 08:27

I am on Instagram and Facebook and am constantly bombarded with weight loss drug content. I followed a great influencer who I never thought was overweight and now have seen her post she can fit into a size 8 in Zara and her life is infinitely better, I read post after post that these drugs not only made people lose weight - they cured heart disease, IBS etc etc! I see it everywhere, women are just turning into clones of each other - Botox, fillers, the same beige legging combo and now super skinny. How has this drug been allowed to be advertised so widely without any consideration to the damage this is doing to women and young girl’s mental health? Surely people are only being cured of these conditions because they’re not eating all the unhealthy stuff (which can only be a good thing) but this lifetime living in a state of malnutrition (the post I read the other day had user after user saying how they felt dizzy when they stood up) is not healthy! Even if you do exercise - you won’t be getting nutrients. Or is it all sunbeams and moonbeams and should I think about going on it to lose the last stone I want (the fact I am a size 12 and wouldn’t be allowed to go on it because my BMI is normal yet a friend used it to loose weight and now will stay on it until to maintain her size 6-8 frame seems wild. Yet I would love to be a size 8 and I wouldn’t be allowed it) the whole thing seems a joke to me. Am I unreasonable? Is it the unicorn of drugs? And if it’s that safe why can’t I go on it?

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AlexaStopAlexaNo · 17/04/2026 08:38

Honestly you sound like someone who wants them but can’t get them.

TheGoldenOwl · 17/04/2026 08:37

very good friend of mine is a dr , and I asked him a leading question a few weeks ago

"So what do you think of all these weight loss drugs then??"

fully expecting him to launch into a rant, but he said "I think it's genius."

After i picked my jaw up from the table he explained some of them are newer and he would be less inclined to take but other more established ones have been used for years in other conditions.

I am still going to try and shed my weight without them though....

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