Dd wants to get fat loss injection

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I don't agree. She says 'everyone is taking it and it works'. She is 20 and ND. Also overweight (in the obese category just). Has social anxiety and vapes too much which makes physical exercise difficult as she's too embarrassed. There is no one for her to exercise with and she won't do it alone. She thinks the injection is the answer. Help!

Watching what and how much you stick in your mouth works better and is safer.
Not mentioning the cost.

Spoken like someone who has never struggled with their weight a day in their life

Which one are you taking

While it does help , and I'd be supporting her wanting to lose the weight. I'd be cautious she is realistic...at her age losing weight should not be hard. She needs to eat less calories...
If she can't do that, then yes the injections may help but she has to understand she still needs to get in a calorie deficit and vast amounts of people put the weight back on as soon as they stop the injection.
If she sees it as helping her overhaul her whole lifestyle, that's good choices, calories, exercise, vaping etc...then great go for it
If she thinks it's easy quick fix then she'll be sadly mistaken

That's quite right.

@GingerPirate honestly massive congratulations that you weren't born with an eating disorder, you got lucky

I think it's important you support her to use legitimate prescribed injections and not dodgy vials you can buy off beauticians illegally.

Online large retailers like Boots, Asda, Lloyds Pharmacy prescribe these treatments. It is around £200 a month, price can vary from prescriber to prescriber, and if you have a referral code.

Does she have the ability to pay for them herself? Would she be able to use the time on the injections to work out where she's going wrong with her diet and how she can maintain any weight loss after she stops using them?

Also, this idea that there's a significant risk of thyroid cancer is just plain wrong.

There's always a smug Skinny Minnie

Its been really good for me and minimal side effects. Being obese has its own risks, suppose you just weight them up

Your daughter is a grown woman. You don’t get to interfere in her health choices. Whether or not you agree with weight loss drugs is neither here nor there; your daughter isn’t a child.

Talking about her reluctance to exercise is a red herring, because the vast majority of weight loss is diet, not exercise. Of course exercise is healthy and certainly helps a bit, but she won’t go from obesity to a healthy weight simply by going to the gym a couple of times a week. She needs to address her eating as well, which is what weight loss injections should, in theory, help her with.

I understand why you’re concerned but it really isn’t any of your business. If my mum had been trying to engineer my decisions about my own body when I was in my 20s, I’d have thought she was massively overstepping, and infantilising me.

There's a big risk to being obese for a long time as well

@tobee I am using other methods to loose weight.

I lost 30kg over a year. Only mistake i made was not exercising enough so im not as toned as id like to be, but going to the gym regularly now will hopefully help.

If she is only just into obese category she may not qualify for mounjaro.

I am one of the people it didn't work for. Gave me horrific constant waves of anxiety and a pounding heart. Unfortunately I couldn't live with it.

I've lost 44lb on Morunjaro. Wish it existed years ago!

I'd encourage her to use a proper online pharmacy rather than buy it via a dodgy mate or tik tok.

Also there is no way I would be putting a healthy 19 year old on it as a first line way of losing weight. When I signed up with Voy, I was asked all the other ways I had tried to lose weight and had to send in a picture of myself to be checked by a doctor.

I think it's a useful medication for older women who have tried everything but haven't ever managed to maintain weight loss (even though it didn't work for me). It's not a first line weight loss tool for a healthy young woman. She should try slimming world or something first.

@letsjustdothis you’re talking complete rubbish. Obesity carries a far higher risk for cancer than any medication. Do you question people who take antidepressants? Or pain medication? Or contraceptives? Those meds carry risks, yet no one seems to bang on about their safety. Yet when it comes to mounjaro etc, everyone wants to chime in with incorrect facts.

In animal studies there was a tiiiiiiny risk of cancer in the thyroid. No confirmed cases in human trials. Stop spreading misinformation.

Lol. I mean most of us know all those things and yet so many people are still overweight.

That will not work. And its very patronising.

Boots are charging you £200 a week?
Which one are you using? That seems very expensive.
I saw Mounjaro at £189 from Asda pharmacy online. That was for an injection of 4 doses which lasted a month.

@VoyOySaveloy I have tried both SW and WW and both diets left me with incredibly disordered eating and toxic mindsets. They’re awful and don’t teach anything of real value once you’ve stopped following the plan. They exist to make money, they’re a business first and foremost and rely on people repeatedly coming back, and back, and back.

I’m all for weight loss injections for younger women if they’re deemed necessary!

I'm interested. What are the side effects?

Can she afford them? They are fantastic, changed my life.

What does mounjaro teach you of real value once you stop taking it?

Do you really think the injection manufacturers aren't a business first and foremost too? Only it's a lot more expensive than a slimming club

Might be controversial but if my kids struggled with their weight when adults, I'd be happy for them to take the injections. I wish this was available when I was in my 20s and struggling with my weight instead of now when I'm in my 40s and have spent my whole life battling my weight.

If your daughter is likely to go through her whole adult life struggling to lose weight, these injections will improve her quality of life so much. I'd support her for sure. Maybe do your own research into them. Mounjaro is the best one available.

Edit to add... As long as she gets it prescribed and doesn't buy it from beauticians etc. Asda, boots, superdrugs to name a few that prescribe it. There are other places too, but the ones I've mentioned you will recognise.