Weight loss jabs what am I missing

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I’m probably behind on the news given young dc but I keep seeing threads and news articles on weight loss jabs. Are these becoming the norm / readily available for everyone?! Or is it just celebrities / people with severe health problems?

am I naive but surely a
nation injecting themselves can’t be good? What are the side effects? Why are we not educating people on health and healthy eating.

apologies if I am missing something or behind

There is a whole sub forum dedicated to WLI.

There is also Google.

No they are not readily available for everyone. You have to meet certain criteria and pay about £130-180 per month if you do meet that criteria.

It's not as easy as just saying educate people. Most people know HOW to eat healthily but education doesn't stop cravings, access to s**t, carb addiction, affording high quality ingredients etc etc

They are everywhere in my experience.

Why are we not educating people on health and healthy eating

people are fat, not thick.

I know about 8 people taking it.
one of which is my mother.
she has an addiction to chocolate/ biscuits etc. she’s tried everything to stop snacking.
she decided to give this a try as she’s 72 and figured she had nothing to lose.
its working. She’s lost about 2 stone so far and has no desire to snack. She can now focus on healthy eating.

I am slim and find it easy to stay this way so I can’t imagine what it’s like to struggle with weight.
if the person has tried everything else then I have no opinion on them trying it.

Is it good for a nation to have 40% obesity?

Most people who use them will have spent years trying every diet and healthy eating plan going, only for the minority will it be a first resort. Its a helping hand to assist with biological functions that help people who have struggled for reasons beyond will power; life changing. The risk balance of them against a lifetime of obesity is balanced towards the jabs.

Only avaliable on prescription (including private prescription) to people who meet the criteria, either or obese or over weight and with certain health conditions. Around 1 million people in the UK are thought to be on them.

The drugs have been around 20 years and while they have side effects they’re less risky than obesity,

What an amazingly goady, faux naive thread.

Well said

People are losing weight on them. That is good for everyone, including the NHS.

I have just read that the prices are being hiked, though. Some people won't be able to continue to afford the jabs, which is shit for them.

I don’t know anyone overweight who hasn’t tried every diet going, or who doesn’t know that eating less and moving more is the key to weight loss.

That "finding it easy" part is essentially what the jabs give people like me. The ability to look at food and consider it both rationally and critically.

I'll turn down a burger in favour of a salad these days, and not feel as though I'm missing anything.

I have three friends on them that I know of. I'm on them too. It costs me less than £100 a month at the moment. Loads of people are on them.

I am slim and find it easy to stay this way so I can’t imagine what it’s like to struggle with weight

I only feel like this with the jabs...I was on holiday recently and saw people filling up their plates at the buffet and I wondered how on earth people could bear to eat so much...prior to the jabs I was piling my plate high with no problem.

Exactly this. I always thought that everyone felt like I did about chocolate and food, and that my willpower was just poor, as I couldn’t stick to a diet and make it work. I’m over two stone down on the jabs, but the mental wellbeing has been a revelation- I’m able to make good choices, and feel a world happier. I know now that not everyone has the same ‘food noise’ It’s going to be a long process to get to where I need to be- but feel these injections make it possible.

If you can't be bothered to read the existing threads and articles you've seen, I'm not sure there's much point people engaging with you.

Me too, even when I lost weight naturally in the past, I was still obsessing over food 24-7. I thought people that chose salad or didn’t have the extra slice of cake were just being smug 🙈

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I wonder if OP was doing a head tilt as she typed the post?

I've lost over three stone in the past but I was also thinking about food every minute of every day...it was absolute torture. I spent a good number of years with a healthy BMI but again food was always on my mind. The jabs are as much for my mental health as they are for my weight loss. It's stopped the constant battle in my head.

I wonder if they might get a jab to stop people being goady. You would probably qualify for it.

It will all come out in the future that these jabs do more harm than good. Lots of girls I work with are taking them, and yes they are losing weight, but once they go up in price or there's a shortage or whatever, the weight will go straight back on. I also dread to think what long term effects these jabs are having.
For every pro there is a con. (Or cons) this has never been truer than for the pharma companies.
Just because they have been approved, this means nothing. They approve all sorts of drugs, then time tells and we have another prozac/thalidomide... there is no substitute for eating healthy and exercising.

I started MJ earlier this year. I’m almost 50 and def perimenopausal and have teens/tweens.

i decided to try MJ because my friend hosted a lunch party and no one ate anything. We thought it was either coke (but surely too early in the day?) or these jabs. She happened to walk past a pharmacy a few hours later and came out with a prescription for Ozempic.

I was blown away. At the affordability and the ease. So I looked into it. Because I don’t want to be the fat grumpy and sick granny / auntie / friend.

and so After an entire adulthood of being overweight and not having had a healthy BMI in at least 15 years I thought….. why not?!

well. It has been eye opening.
I’d never heard the phrase “food noise” before. Who knew that skinny people didn’t think about food all of the time and only ate what they needed when they needed it?!

I now have a healthy BMI and am a couple of kilos off my target weight. A weight I have not been since I was a teenager.

then I will taper down and see if I can come off Mounjaro. I hope I can. Would make life cheaper!!!! Years ago I had a gym membership. Now I have a MJ membership and am so much healthier than I ever have been.

I have taken suitcases on holiday with me which have weighed less than the weight I have lost!!!!!!!!!
(this is a common comparison on the weight loss chats at the moment).

id rather be on MJ than continue at an unhealthy weight.

and yes. I have changed what I eat and what I drink. It’s been a little odd in that respect. I wasn’t expecting that.

I eat more natural food - less processed and less of it. And I feel happy and healthy without feeling hungry!

I’ve bought new bathroom scales. Which I use every week and they sync with my phone. So I can see where I am at.

on average I’ve lost 500g a week over the time. Not an unhealthy weight loss. Slow and steady wins the race!!

I took a couple of weeks off as a “summer break” and put on 2kgs but in the grand scheme of things this was ok - I still had a healthy BMI!! Hence my wish to lose a little more to give me a bit more wiggle room.

I know several people on it in real life. I have not told many people and in fact DH doesn’t know. I was embarrassed and felt vain when I started MJ and concerned in case it didn’t work (like the majority of the weight loss programmes I’ve tried in the past!) so I did not mention it. Now too much time has passed so still haven’t!!! My little secret. Luckily I didn’t have many side effects so was not hard to keep to myself.

I think these drugs are a good thing if people who need them can access them.

im very privileged to have been able to jump thru the hoops and be able to afford MJ at the moment. However if it goes up much more in £££ then it will be out of my reach so fingers crossed I can maintain without it going forward - but this is an unknown right now.

fingers crossed!! 🤞

Lots of cons with obesity.

What research have you carried out to make these statements? Or is it just wild speculation?