To think all these weight loss jabs are a bad move?

[Pineconecollector]

I’ve seen so many people recently saying they’re on Mounjaro - someone wrote on Facebook that they were struggling to eat anything at all, hadn't eaten for over 48 hours. Just zero desire to eat anything. Surely that can’t be healthy?

I also know of someone who has lied to an only e pharmacy to get the jab, because her BMI would be considered too low to be prescribed it. She’s wanting to get down to a size 6.

This is what bothers me.

@EvangelicalAboutButteredToast no. It is NOT.

Please stop pretending this is about kids. It's not. People just reach for any reason to try and pretend they're bad.

The ‘so what’ is that every young girl particularly wants to be perfect. Perfect hair, perfect skin, perfect teeth and now the pharma companies have given them all the ability to be model thin. What could go wrong.

Yes, it's that easy to ensure teenage girls (in particular) don't have self-esteem issues around their bodies.

is if just weight loss injections you’re concerned about , or all drugs that people abuse? Just curious..,☺️

YABU.

The benefits outweigh the risks.

@AnonymousBleep it is that easy to ensure your teenaged daughter doesn't illegally obtain drugs.

@EvangelicalAboutButteredToast I'd be more concerned about the things they can legally get from beauticians like Botox, fillers, cheap plastic surgery in Turkey and so on. All things that have pretty much no actual medical usage and are wholly cosmetic.

Even the level of defensiveness on this thread is fascinating. Like a bunch of addicts viciously fighting for their right to keep consuming their drug.

Teenagers are that stupid/desperate to look good to their mates, yes. Which is really worrying from a parenting perspective.

My personal view, having read a post from someone who has taken them, lost weigh and then stopped them and the old problems came straight back - it's a bad idea.

My view is that there is generally no easy way with things - you can't bury things, eat them away, drink them away, sweep them under the carpet - they come back if not dealt with properly. Injecting away this problem is not really solving it, sadly.

To stop myself from putting on weight, I manage what I eat and I exercise, and that's it. There is no short cut.

Or a group of women who have been demonised for their entire lives for being overweight, who are now finally seeing results and a change in their lives, and being told "oh but think of the children!!!"

Your kid, your problem. My health, my problem.

All these teens with 200 quid a month to spend on drugs.,

These drugs are changing the health landscape rapidly. I think longer term they have the ability to help teens and people struggling with self image. Being slim (right now) carries a social premium - because it's not something everyone has. Like expensive iphones and rich parents.

If everyone is slim, weight is less of an issue. There's not much social value to having the same thing everyone else has.

Not only that but they come with other benefits. They have also recently been licensed for use to lower heart attack risks, even in people at healthy weights. It looks like they also reduce dementia risk and more tests are ongoing. It looks like they may be useful for treating addictions (drink, drugs, gambling). Tests ongoing. It looks like they help with some chronic pain conditions, such a fibromyelgia.

I think we're going to see drugs of this type used more and more to treat a range of issues but also to lower risk of those issues developing.

Every single thread on this subject descends into vicious attacks on anyone who has anything even vaguely critical to say about the drugs.

Ah, not at all biased are you?

It's a reaction to the constant hyperbolic, irrational and misinformed criticism, that's all. It's a headline grabber because it stokes panic and fear in people who don't have any idea about the actual use of these injections. Hence the tabloid headlines and daytime TV items about the most salacious and terrifying stories that can be found.

@AnonymousBleep no, it turns into an attack on those taking them.

Being really fat is very bad for you.(I’m not thin) These drugs might in fact make life better for young people, not worse.

I just stopped eating processed food. I manage my weight doing that and fasting.

fasting has proved beneficial over and over.

Fasting is excellent isn't it.

Mounjaro has probably saved my life, I've lost over 2 stone, reversed my fatty liver, lowered my very High blood pressure, taken pressure off my arthritic joints, has helped improve my poor lung function as I'm now able to exercise.

My hospital consultant has said weight loss medications are saving lives and taking pressure off the NHS in terms of obesity issues.

There are kids buying cheap steroids and botox on the black market. So, yeah.

I only lose weight by eating under 1000 calories a day, but I see people on weight loss posts accusing people of having eating disorders if they eat this little.

Yet posters think that eating even less while using these jabs is different (I know someone on them and they struggle to eat so eat very little).

I have no issue with the jabs btw, they sound great from what I’ve heard, it’s just interesting that people who use willpower are bashed for restricting the amount they eat.

@something2say

"My personal view, having read a post from someone who has taken them, lost weigh and then stopped them and the old problems came straight back - it's a bad idea."

This is a risk for all weight loss approaches. Do you consider all other approaches to be a bad idea too? I'd rather be a healthy weight with the issue of maintenance to address rather than remain at a morbidly obese weight.

I have raised 3 teenagers, and none of mine were stupid enough to inject something illegally obtained. Be that weight loss injections or heroin. One of my children struggles with PCOS, and has weight issues herself, she would probably be a candidate for these injections, to assist with the insulin resistance that comes hand in hand with PCOS and allow her to be healthier. But she will be educated on how to obtain them legally, and we have an open enough relationship she will be able to talk to me regarding it. Once she is old enough, maybe its something i will support her in. In the mean time she eats healthily, we go to the gym together, but her weight is still an issue.