DH and me on Mounjaro weightloss injections

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God I’m so fed up.

Usually my husband and myself diet together. We’ve done every diet under the sun and we support each other through it.

This time I decided to start mounjaro and he hasn’t. He’s not comfortable with his body what so ever and claims he’s the biggest he has ever been but won’t join me on this and doesn’t seem to be making any changes.

It feels like he’s jealous of me losing weight. He says I talk about it all the time but I don’t, he rolls his eyes when I mention anything iv lost, he never asks me how much iv lost or how am I doing. He’s not acknowledged any change in me. I tried a pair of jeans on today that I couldn’t even get up a few months ago and now I can do up! I told my daughter first and then went downstairs to tell him and all he said was “I heard you upstairs”.

iv been on it a month now and lost nearly 2 stones. Iv been unable to tell him or speak to him about how im feeling because he just says “you do talk about it a lot” I bloody don’t.

It’s really really getting me down. He’s making me feel embarrassed and ashamed for losing weight and being proud of myself. I don’t know what to do 😞

Good for you OP, can’t have been an easy decision to try it. As a self confessed gym rat the one thing I’ve said to my friends who’ve used weight loss injections is to make sure it’s fat you are losing and not muscle. This requires: a) higher levels of protein intake (ie prioritise protein at easy meal and b) lift weights ideally heavy (but have to start somewhere). Without this muscle will also be lost which will make weight gain in the future more likely.

re; husband, I’m dieting right now and my husband is bored by it. Fair enough it is boring…

They are a safe as any other modern medicine, there are known possible side effects that are balanced against their effectiveness. Doctors are prescribing them privately. Just not the NHS, yet, except in some specific circumstances.

Total rubbish, they are licensed by the MHRA in the UK. They are prescribed by doctors and dispensed by registered pharmacists.

You don't "instantly" gain the weight back when you stop taking them. Some people will regain, as with all weight loss strategies, and some won't. Many people have kept most of the weight off for a period of years,

But you're not her partner/friend. Would that make a difference if you saw a friend looking healthier?

Having lost 10 st through extremely hard graft, I then over the past 20 years put it all back on, combination of addictive personality (drug and alcohol issues in the family), a mobility limiting accident, very limiting, and giving up smoking. I've now lost that again through surgery. I sometimes can't walk, got stuck in the supermarket on Sunday, least amount of fun I've had for ages.

Am I cheating (as an acquaintance was told by her dp today) or did I do the right thing to support my future/not be a burden on the NHS in the future? I haven't had to see a doctor for obesity related reasons at any time, never even diabetic, literally went private and saw my surgeon.

The least I'd expect from my DH is a positive comment about anything I mentioned, particularly when I'm improving my health. What is his problem?

Having been almost 24st, I hear you! Are you going to stay on the injections and how much are you down? A colleague has lost 3st, she was probably not as big as me after my surgery! She looks skinny as opposed to slim and is having to balance the injections and her calorie intake to maintain now.

What do you mean by ‘properly’?

People are hospitalised by all sorts of medications all the time.

No, everybody doesn’t automatically regain the weight. And no one regains it instantly. Thats impossible.

You're talking rubbish. People go on weight loss injections when their BMI is in the obese range and then are meant to take it for as long as it takes until their BMI is in the good range. I believe the current NICE limit on most injections is two years but this will likely change or have a maintenance dose added to it soon. Similarly, people take antidepressants for anywhere from 6 months up to forever if/until their mental state improves. You don't take a weight loss jab for a week, lose a few lbs, then stop as you seem to be implying. Their use is hugely similar to how antidepressants are used.

This is nonsense and just goes to show you dont know what you're talking about

Some people do regain weight after surgery, its somewhat normal. Some people gain a bit, say about 10% or so, some people put on about 50%. Very rarely someone might put it all back on

The stomach doesnt 'stretch', the reason people put on weight is tht they eat very small amounts of highly calorific foods quite regularly.

The statistics of success from gastric surgery is much higher than other methods. So while some people do put some weight on/lots of weight on, its still the most successful form of weight loss tool.

The vast majority of the population get fat because its easy to overeat. Its a cop out to talk about 'emotional' eating for the majority (something Im a bit embarrassed to say is the case with me), its not emotional eating, its just nice and easy and enjoyable to eat too much, we are prone to greed as humans, like any animal given too much food, we even have fat pets in this country, are they eating emotionally?

Do we have more people with MH or emotional eating problems than the rest of the world? No, our society is set up to eat rubbish, too much of it, very regularly. Its that simple.

My bariatric surgeon said this was a myth but what does he know!

The stomach cant stretch back to being 100% full size but you can easily overload yourself with high calorie foods, too often, very regularly. You are essentially on a diet for life to check your intake and output, also to make sure you dont keep losing.