Weight loss jabs what am I missing

[Givemethesun]

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

You make a huge claim - based on what evidence?

These meds have been in use for 20+ years by millions of people.

Frankly even if they are eventually linked with a cancer, they'll have saved millions of us from millions of other obesity related cancers and diseases.

Oh look another fat bashing thread 🥱

Totally agree.

Out of the frying pan into the fire....

@FedupMum2024 it’s honestly quite impressive how many nonsense points you’ve crammed into one post.

What research have you carried out to make these statements?

Are you a scientist? Or just think you are?

Maybe they’ve learnt from Prozac and Thalidomide?

We'll see.

Only time will tell.

But you still have to eat healthy and exercise to lose weight on GPL 1s.

Not answering the questions?

Not a scientist then? Do forgive people who ignore you, won’t you.

Apparently it's dead easy to con your way onto them. I knew people who started them legit, but I now know a fair few who just want to be thinner, who are taking them. A bit like girls used to do wizz to be 90s thin when I was a teenager.

Now, maybe I'm just bitter because although I've always been slim, I'll never be celeb thin and I think that's what people seem to be going for. To get like that, I'd have to give up cake and alcohol, which i could do on jabs, but I just don't want to.

Especially whilst hoiking up
her judgy knickers at the same time..

That’s what you want to happen.

There is definitely a weird sort of moral view to weight loss that’s almost like a pilgrims progress journey of suffering. If you haven’t suffered, then you’ve done it ‘wrong’ somehow and should be punished accordingly.

It is really strange as I doubt the same head shakers would care about anti depressants, which minimise suffering, or painkillers for toothache (I mean, just don’t eat sugar and brush more, it’s that easy, right? It’s not like people have different teeth, or anything?) But where weight loss is concerned, the view for a lot of people whether they admit it or not is that overweight people should suffer for as long as possible (the same people who are anti WLIs tend to be anti any quick weight loss method) and as much as possible and when they have then rightfully paid penance at the alter of thinness they can gain entry.

It is ridiculous of course and also eye opening when we think about what’s actually going on here.

Subconsciously, a lot of people, especially women although I hate to say it, do like having a fat or at least chubby friend. And I’m including myself in that category. I’ve only become massively overweight in the last few of years but before that I kept gaining and losing the same two stone and had a friend who was massively obese who I always felt nicely svelte next to. I’m not proud of that but it’s true. Weight is always judged by those next to you; in a room of size 8s a size 12 will look hefty but in a room of size 18s the reverse is true. So if everyone else is getting smaller it puts pressure on others. I think as well greed is an unpleasant trait generally, and I am greedy, I’ll admit that. For me, I met my husband and didn’t have the same sort of ‘control’ I had when on the market and he’s into food and eating and then two pregnancies and babies and work and tiredness and I gained a lot of weight. I kept trying to lose it and getting to a point then surrendering (familiar, anyone?)

This isn’t about anyone else. Maybe my children, because I want to be healthy for them and be in photographs with them, but tis for me. It isn’t about you or your angst about my health. Thanks, but sod off

Don’t, then.

If people want to be celeb thin, they can. If you don’t want to give up cake and alcohol, don’t. It really is the most pointless post!

How much more time do you want? They’ve been in use for over twenty years?

Apparently they're hiking the prices up soon. I think if that's across the board it might be tricky for the average person.

Loads of women at work constantly talk about it. Wtf is a golden dose anyway? It's like the weight loss jab apocalypse.

why wouldn’t they be popular - it’s medicated willpower which many don’t seem to be able to develop for themselves.
I am slim - to stay slim as an adult I’ve spent years learning how to put up with feeling hungry quite a lot and say no to snacks and treats. WLI do that bit for people. 🤷‍♀️

No I'm not a scientist.

Neither do I think I'm a scientist.

Neither do you need to be a scientist to have legitimate doubts about a relatively new weight loss fad.

I haven't done any research myself. It is just my personal suspicion. The pharma industry have a proven track record of approving drugs which are then withdrawn on safety grounds.

What research have YOU done (not including manufacturer and Pharma own claims) that makes them completely safe to use for weight loss purposes, with no long term detrimental effects?

Thanks for the literally a couple of sensible and balanced replies

@incognitomummy specifically yours was helpful

a lot of defensive replies on here which is interesting

There’s not a single drug that doesn’t have potentially serious side effects including things like paracetamol you can buy over the counter. It’s weird how people only care about this one, which was developed way back in the 70s and has tons of research behind it, btw.

I would like to try them because as pp have said I comfort eat, and I think about food all the time. If something could take that craving away, I could concentrate on eating better and only eat when I need to.

I do meet the criteria but I can't afford them, sadly.

You say that as if this is what you’re hoping for? People who struggle with their weight are finally getting some help and you’re rubbing your hands together waiting for us to all get cancer in the future.

Ok your personal suspicion 🤣🤣🤣

I’ve done none, I don’t need to use them (currently) but who knows in the future.

it was when you said

It will all come out in the future that these jabs do more harm than good

it made it sound like a definite statement, not a suspicion or I think or I wonder, it was a definite “it will”

So, I think we can discount your theory and if and when I need them, I won’t be including your “suspicions” as part of my research.

out of interest, were you an anti vaxer during Covid?

I don’t what to be celeb thin I just don’t want to be obese and obsess constantly over food, waking up in the morning and thinking immediately about food then buying shit food and eating it in secret or in the car before I got home.

It actually gives me some peace and has stopped be being pre diabetic.

One of the things that is confusing me is here we are saying they’re prescribed only to certain people who really need then which I can get on board with if it is just those people , but then I open daily mail which makes it sound like every celeb is on them. So it doesn’t marry up in my head

That is totally your prerogative.

How is it interesting?