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Weight loss jabs what am I missing

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Givemethesun · 14/08/2025 17:00

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

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PinkArt · 15/08/2025 13:34

Platosrevenge · 15/08/2025 13:22

Personally, I think if you have health issues like hypertension, hyperlipidaemia or angina and are overweight rather than obese you should also have access to it.
I’ve got high BP, PCOS, never really overeaten but since kids I cannot loose weight despite the gym, active job and lifestyle. I’d love to loose 2 stone and am sure it would help me come off medication.

Someone/ you would meet the prescribing criteria.
The criteria are BMI of 30+ for white people or 27+ plus a weight related health condition such as angina and PCOS or BMI 27+ for other ethnicities.

MsRumpole · 15/08/2025 13:38

Yes, we know. Being fat is lazy, selfish, self-indulgent and greedy. We MUST lose weight. But we must not do that using medication that is proven to make losing weight easier, because that is also lazy, selfish, self-indulgent and greedy. ☺️

xanthomelana · 15/08/2025 14:26

chipsticksmammy · 15/08/2025 12:54

Where are you getting it from that its NOT appearing on your prescription medications list at your GPs?

Your prescriber should have told your GP, so they already know.

You shouldnt have to tell your GP anything it should be right there on your medications list.

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I’ve always ordered from Boots and you can pick holes in my post if you want but she didn’t know I was taking Mounjaro until I told her. Like I said I’d still recommend it to people despite my experience and it has been life changing for me in so many other ways so I’d have no reason to lie about anything to random strangers on the internet.

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chowmeinz · 15/08/2025 14:37

chipsticksmammy · 15/08/2025 12:54

Where are you getting it from that its NOT appearing on your prescription medications list at your GPs?

Your prescriber should have told your GP, so they already know.

You shouldnt have to tell your GP anything it should be right there on your medications list.

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I don’t even have a prescription list at my GP that I can access, aside from the repeat slip I get with my meds which definitely doesn’t show Mounjaro on it

reluctantbrit · 15/08/2025 16:22

stayathomer · 15/08/2025 08:30

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.

This is the only reason I feel sorry for people on the jabs, I wonder does it affect your enjoyment of eating- I’ll say ‘on Friday I’ll treat myself to a ‘ whatever that is, and then on my break on a Friday happily eat away. I’ve seen a lot of people on mn saying they don’t crave food, and don’t want unhealthy food etc- that sounds like hell to me. To me half the enjoyment is that you spend your week having wraps and only eating half your white bread, forgoing the fizzy drinks etc for the blow out on the weekend. Personally I think they’re equivalent to blood pressure medication and will help a lot more than negatively impact although I’ve seen two threads recently- one who is just below cut off and wants to use them after being advised not to, and the thread about a girl giving her non overweight sister some to cut her foid noise out. Both sound dangerous to me

I still can eat "unhealthy food", I just had 1/6 of a 4-people lemon tart yesterday as it's my DD's A-level results day.
I have steak and roast potatoes tomorrow. I had spaghetti with meatballs and tomato sauce last weekend.

Compared to my previous diets, it's a lot more about normal food and smaller portions than salads with no dressing and low calorie food counting and still being hungry and feeling crap.

I still plan to eat out and have a nice meal incl. a glass of wine or coffee and dessert.

The difference is - I don't think about buying a chocolate bar every time I am at a supermarket or am tempted to eat a biscuit or two just because they are in the cupboard.

I never really fancy the "take away on Friday night" or so, that was never a treat for me.

InWalksBarberalla · 16/08/2025 00:44

Iamfree · 15/08/2025 13:30

OP, I see you don’t follow the news. As many have said they have been around for 20 years. “Educating about healthy eating”. Oh do STFU please. Soon all people using WLI will be thinner and healthier than you. How does that make you feel ?

Soon all people using WLI will be thinner and healthier than you. How does that make you feel ?

This kind of juvenile comment doesn't help and says more about you as a person than anything. I think weight loss medications are a positive development for both individuals and society, and in an ideal world everyone would have access what they need to be as healthy as they can be.
Your gloating comment is as harmful to the debate as the faux concern about the 'long-term side effects' and the losing way the 'right /hard way' comments.

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