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

I am on it. It took around 6 months to research and decide. It meant a lenghly private GP appointment to get the prescription. It's not that I can just walk into any Boots.

I am not thick, I know how to cook healthy, 6 out of 7 meals are cooked from scratch, I know that cake, chocolate and wine is not good.

But - I am also the mum of a ND teen who battled mental health problems for 5 years (thank you Covid), who had suicidal thoughts and self-ham while going through GCSE.

I am a stress eater and I know it. Under normal circumstances I am ok, I lost 3 stones 20 years ago and kept most of it off for years so I know all about diets. But our family life and a peri-menopause body meant old tricks are just not working anymore.

I will continue even if prices increase as I can see how it's working and I know it's good for me to loose the weight on the long run for the next 30 years or so.

Which is what I thought it was meant for.
Not women with a healthy bmi and a bit of a tummy, who have discovered that they can get it by lying on the Internet.

Of course…. You wouldn’t really expect anyone to take you seriously, would you?

You read the daily Mail there’s your answer for your ‘confusion’

MN return of laughing emoji!!

@Givemethesun celebs will be accessing it in the US which had totally different rules and access to medicaiton. Or other countries where they don’t have as many controls on medication. They may also be paying a private doctor in the UK lots of money to be prepared to prescribe off label for any spurious reason they can come up with. That’s a risk for that individual doctor but the money will be worth the risk for them. Or they’re getting it illegally, off a mate, or a vial of who knows what from a beautician.

Oh and OP your ‘makes it sound’….they saw you coming love!

@Givemethesun people are defensive because of the assumptions, inherent in your opening post, that if you are on them you are poorly educated about food and nutrition, lazy (see the post above where the poster feels her weight loss is more virtuous because she suffers for it)

It isn’t true. Weight gain happens for all sorts of reasons. For me, I was a thin teenager - I was very prescriptive about food and probably not all that healthy. My mum died when I was seventeen, and I had to grow up very quickly then but I didn’t have any meals or anyone really looking out for me. At university, I gained about two stone and for the next decade and a half kept gaining and losing it. It was horrible really because say I went out with friends for pizza and sometimes I’d say sod it and have the pizza and sometimes I wouldn’t but either way I’d kind of be battling myself and wouldn’t really win or lose I suppose.

Pregnancy and lockdown saw my weight rocket and I haven’t got a handle on it properly until now. My philosophy of life if I have one is to try to minimise suffering and maximise happiness so I guess that’s why I think it’s really odd when people want misery and conflict to be upon you!

That’s a shame means more diabetics, when people would’ve dealt with it themselves.

Its available on the NHS for diabetics

Everything cleared up for you now OP?

I wasn't an 'anti-vaxer'.

However I did have some doubts as to whether the vaccines were as safe as they were claimed to be by the manufacturers.

Doubts which were shared by many others.

Considering the lingering effects that some people are now suffering from, and the very fact that the NHS is running a COVID vaccine compensation scheme, you agree it's fair to say my reservations were somewhat justified?

@BlankBlankBlank14

I wasn't an 'anti-vaxer'.However I did have some doubts as to whether the vaccines were as safe as they were claimed to be by the manufacturers.Doubts which were shared by many others.Considering the lingering effects that some people are now suffering from, and the very fact that the NHS is running a COVID vaccine compensation scheme, you agree it's fair to say my reservations were somewhat justified?

It’s not interesting, it’s about as expected as anything could be.

You’re sneering at something you have no experience of and doesn’t have any effect on you. Do you start threads about all medicationss? Or just ones to help fat people?

I have my reservations about a lot of those “claimants” but you seem to also read the Daily Mail, so you’ll have a different view to me

Although a quick google provides nothing about a Covid vaccine compensation scheme, just a generic scheme.

It is, when there's supplies available.

Have you been on some kind of self imposed ban on any kind of contact with the world?

There are plenty of supplies though

puzzling comment

I most certainly do not read the Daily Mail and I don't know why you would automatically assume this just because I pointed out the existance of a legitimate NHS compensation scheme.

There no shortage of supply?

It’s your general reaction and “it will be an issue” like you know anything about the WLI that led me to believe you were the same as OP and a DM reader.

Its a generic scheme, not a Covid scheme by the way.

@BlankBlankBlank14

The very fact there is a 'generic' scheme for vaccine injuries ran by the NHS surely shows that a degree of scepticism when it comes to pharmaceautical companies is justified, no?

What’s a NHS compensation scheme got to do with mounjaro?

Can you clarify exactly what you mean in paragraph 3? What are your actual concerns and why? We can try to answer then.
As it stands its a very non meaningful bunch of words.

What are you basing this concern re supplies on?
Which reputable source do you get your information from about supplies because there are no issues?
Please stop and think before implying incorrect facts.

You said it was a Covid scheme and it isn’t!

yes their may be a risk, but most sensible people are able to risk assess. Like you did with the Covid vaccine. You do know fat people aren’t stupid, that’s not why they’re fat, so why do you think you’re more knowledgeable about the WLI than those that have researched and have found a solution to their issue.

Whats your suggestion? Many people here have said they’ve tried for years to deal with their weight, these are a real help. What do you think they should do, carry on with the issue and associated risks, when a product that’s been tested over 20 years is available? Read the posts of people who actually know and have researched maybe?

You’ve come on a forum stating “it will” cause issues, scaremongering, having done no research. What makes you think that’s right?

If you don’t want to take WLI don’t, but don’t make ridiculous statements about things you’ve not even researched.