Why are many severely overweight people not using GLP-1 treatments?

[Donteatmychips]

Just a pondering when I was on a day out yesterday. I know of course that there is an economic cost to GLP1s, but is there really really any excuse to such widespread obesity these days? I was walking around a seaside town and a National Trust property, and I would say a good half of those around were still large. I understand they are not that easily prescribed on the NHS, but I believe you can shop around and find deals from various online pharmacies. Is it just more that people don’t want to?

For full disclosure, I am on a GLP1 that I acquired elsewhere by walking into a pharmacy and just asking for it. Yes, it cost a lot of money and I know I am lucky to be in a position to have done that. I fought being on one for a long time and it’s not a magic bullet, but it does help and I’m grateful for that.

I know that modern versions of obesity are skewed, but I am talking really about people maybe 250lbs or over now, not just a stone to lose.

So what happens when the all 'large' people lose weight? Do the 'medium' people then automatically become the 'large' people and you then go after them?

I do wonder why many severely stupid people ask questions like this.

I'd imagine 100 years ago a medium person today was a large person then
Due to lifestyle and lack of junk food most people were extremely thin.

There is also a link between poverty and obesity
Food insecurity leads to unhealthy eating and obesity - Committees - UK Parliament share.google/vVJ5i47d5YQZaHKG0

It's a mystery for sure.
I mean, who doesn't have a spare few hundred a month?

Give over. Why are you pretending to be dim?

I'm overweight. Could probably afford it. I don't want to take injections for the remainder of my life to stay 'healthy' fanx. Hth.

You are wondering why fat people are not on weightloss injections, so fat people offend you that much that you have to post about them walking around disturbing your nice day ?

How do you know these people are not already on WLIs? They may already have lost weight.
One jab of mounjaro doesn’t magically turn you into a size 10.

Why are people not using a medication that costs £200 plus a month during a COL crisis when food bank use is at an all-time high?

Not a clue.

I have about £67 in my bank until payday I’m not big enough or ill enough to get it prescribed so what do you suggest I do?

”Completing the programme” really isn’t a thing.

People taking medication for health issues are used to taking them long term, including other hormone therapies like HRT.

OP I think it’s mostly money related. The low pay crisis is biting people hard. There will be others who don’t want to lose weight or who have fears about side effects. And of course those who cannot take due to other health issues or because WLI didn’t work for them.

The scientists are working hard on variants of existing WLI formulas so hopefully in time the cost will reduce and there will be options that suit more people. For example the tablet form for those who cannot face injections.

Do you think everyone should do as you do and think as you think in ALL things OP. Or just on this subject?

Fear of the side effects. I had damage caused by a gallbladder op which left me at risk of pancreatitis.

I am large since I had to take a very heavy dose of steroids for a long time. I was then switched to another medication that wrecked my liver. My body has been utterly fucked up by medication so I am pretty wary of introducing anything else.

I was skinny till I had to take steroids

“but is there really really any excuse to such widespread obesity these days?”

WTf? Why do they need an excuse?

answer me a question, why is it the people only recently normal weight form GLP1s that are the biggest arseholes to obese people?

Exactly. There is a diabetic, older lady, at work who takes them and has not lost as much weight as she'd hoped. She is still obese. Diabetes has definitely improved though, which was the original point of her taking them, and she's happier for that fact.

My sister is prescribed a free one due to obesity and diabetes. She won't take it for a whole long list of garbled reasons. You can't make people do what they don't want to.

@Donteatmychips its expensive and only just recently become available on NHS.

Also - it doesn't work for everyone. My DH is on Ozempic and lost a couple stone so he's down a clothes size or two, but this has now flatlined and he's still fat. He's not losing anything anymore. It just stopped working.

(He got it because he is diabetic)

Money
They don’t want to stop eating the foods they love
They don’t mind they are overweight
Potentially don’t think they are that overweight

OP did you never hear the phrase 'if something is too good to be true...'

The way I see it you're all walking experiments, we have no idea the long term implications of this drug, especially at population level.

No thank you. People are allowed to be fat and exist. ❤️

You don't know everyone's situation. My stepdad has been on GLP-1s for two years and hasn't lost any weight, I think he is resistant to them. He is absolutely massive too.

I also used to be anorexic and i am very worried I would misuse the drugs.

Weirdly people used to praise me for how healthy I was and compliment me on my figure when I was profoundly anorexic

Half the people you saw walking around on a random day were over 250lb? Okay...

A colleague of mine is massively overweight to the extent she can no longer walk. She’s been prescribed it and not lost any weight. For some people it doesn’t work.

then there will be a significant amount of people who can’t afford £200-£300 a month

Maybe they are using them, and have already lost four stone, but still got plenty of weight to lose.