Really depressed I didn’t just go on Ozempic - only maintained for a year

But how your body looks is quite often not related to how you feel about it. It’s in your head.

Just saw you’re on 2kg weights, mate a toddler could lift that! 20kg bench press, 50kg rdls and hip thrusts, 14kg Bent over single arm rows, 35kg lat pull downs and leg extensions, 20kg back squats are more than in reach for you!

I don’t think it’s the weight that’s making you unhappy. 137lb is a healthy weight for most people.
If you want to look good naked you need to go to the gym, not take ozempic.

Be proud of what you’ve achieved. It’s a much healthier way to have lost weight AND maintained. Your friend who has lost 5 stone in 5 months is going to have a long hard journey to maintain and not need to stay on medication for life

It’s more it makes it possible. We are all different, all humans, with different minds and bodies, it’s often good to remember that. What’s possible for one person may not be for the other. For so many things in life.

I do understand what you mean. WLI take people down to sizes that just don't seem to happen through other means.

But I wonder how much of this is due to muscle loss.

While they undoubtedly have benefits to those who couldn't lose in other way, you are doing the right thing and will manage your weight and health better for it in the long term.

Everyone has body hang ups. I am 120 lbs and I still have bits I don't like and wish I could shift. We are all self critical in a way no one else will ever look at us. I bet you look brilliant, you just can't see it.

what you doing at the gym? Get pounding bootcamp classes, lifting heavier weights, stair master with 10kg in a backpack for half an hour, HIIT, fit pump, that type of thing. You’ll be a machine in no time 💪🏼 This attitude will keep you stuck, fitness and health are a lifestyle, kindly, snap out of it mate 👊🏼🙌🏼

She has done really well to lose the weight by cutting down on carbs etc. I wish I had her willpower/metabolism but I don't which is why I use Mounjaro. I am happy for me and I can also be happy for someone much more determined than I am.

I don't think it's judgy to congratulate someone for being able to lose weight the traditional way, because it is much harder than using a GLP-1. That's exactly the reason so many people are using GLP-1s because it makes doing what you're supposed to do - choose small portions of healthy foods - much much easier. If they didn't make it easier no one would be losing weight on them!

Women are supposed to have a healthy layer of fat.

There's no point in comparing yourself to other body types, because we all hold fat differently.

I have been lean before, in my youth, when I was reckless and resorted to using steroids and growth hormone without fully understanding the side effects and I liked certain bits of my body more but it made me hate other bits of my body more too.

One example was my mons pubis area. It had no fat or padding, and it made me super obsessed with it making my genitals look weird and out of proportion. It made my bum disappear.

I am now obese and I have come to accept that there's no weight I'd be happy with how my body looks, so my goal isn't looks, it is health.

I can promise you nobody looks at your body the way you do and criticises you for it. It's hard to see when you feel so self conscious but you need to practice some self love instead.

What a weird way of twisting the conversation. Have you nothing better to do?

OP have you thought that it doesn't matter what weight you get to you won't be happy so that extra stone might not fix your problem? Your at your goal weight just enjoy yourself, you need to be kind to yourself. Doing it through lifestyle is a massive achievement and I would be giving myself a pat on the back not punishing myself. You have maintained your weight included carbs which is great. How would you feel if you were not comparing yourself to your friend? Or if your friend had side effects. Dont judge yourself against other people.

If it makes you feel better, I lost three stone on Mounjaro, taking my weight down to bmi 20ish. I’ve now gained a stone back despite being still on the highest dose of the drug.

Why do you think going on ozempic would have got you to your goal weight or that you would be able to maintain it if you did?? I used GLP1 and I'm a stone off my ideal weight and I can't lose the last stone, and I'm spending £200 a month to maintain it. Your thought process is very strange.

Agreed. All the “well done for being able to lose weight normally” 🙄 More fucking judgement. People need to educate themselves - and celebrities abusing this medication is not helping 🙄

It is also true that you need to fix your head. I dunno how to do that as I’ve never succeeded!

There’s lots of photos of me where I thought I looked really shit at the time to the point of I could have cried and I look back now and I look fine, normal, good even. I would have been a lot happier over my life time if I cracked how to accept my body.

Excellent. A WLI bashing thread. Too bad about your wobbly arms.

I totally get where you are coming from, you have lost the weight all on your own but now you are plateauing there’s no help available. If you had been on mounjaro you could have continued at your current BMI

Also the inane ill-informed burbling about long term effects, the stuff has been in use for decades!

I would ignore the scales and use a tape measure. If you have been doing cardio and light weights your body composition is likely to have changes slightly- take photos, take measures, up the weights and see where you are in a few months. Seriously heavy squats and deadlifts is what helps me loose weight with boxing sprint intervals more than any cardio- and I do at least 20,000 steps a day.....

You’re a healthy weight. You could wear skimpy clothes even if you weren’t, but the fact that you are says that if you did no one would blink an eye. You’d be just another slim person wearing summer clothes. You not wanting to is an issue with your mind, not your body.

Don't ruin your one life with this shit.

Really agree with others here ditch the cardio and start lifting heavy instead it’s a game changer.
You don’t need to lose more weight just to switch some fat for muscle which you are in an ideal place to do.

You don’t need an hour of cardio 4x a week. Switch at least two of those sessions or even 3 to proper full body weight training squats, deadlifts, bench press and you will get so much better results for less effort and boredom. Pay for a PT to show you the ropes: a lot of gyms have a 6 weeks offer.

If you commit to this you’ll see lots of progress within a few months and muscle is metabolically active so it burns more calories even at rest which will mean your maintenance calories can be more/ you’ll lose weight at your current maintenance.

I started lifting heavy weights 5 or 6 years ago in my 40s and especially at the start the benefits were so noticeable vs the cardio based stuff I had been doing. I credit it with helping me manage menopause too.

You just need to enjoy your weight loss. You will never be completely happy, there will always be something. And if you cut back calories even more and lose more weight then it’s going to be harder to maintain that anyway. Just be happy that you’ve maintained that original loss, My DW lost 7 stone using wli, she came off as we were TTC, she regained 2.5stone when pregnant and we had a miscarriage, and she looks back at those pics and is so sad that she couldn’t recognise how thin she was when she was at her lowest.

...so what you need is not more dieting, or Mounjaro. You have done the hard bit, now you just need to tone up!

Look up Juice and Toya on YouTube - they have plenty of beginners routines. Or Dansique or Move with Nicole for Pilates if you prefer something more elegant 😁

Congratulations on an absolutely phenomenal achievement. You should be SO proud of yourself. Now for the next step, once you get into some kind of movement you enjoy you'll never look back!

Up the strength training! For example, if you’re doing bicep curls for 12 reps, rep 10,11 and 12 should have you pulling faces and even weird noises 🤣. Then you know it’s heavy enough.
also, do you calorie count? If your weight is staying the same, you’re in maintenance mode. You need to reduce calories only slightly and the weight will move again.