to think taking weight loss injections/tablets is an easy cop out?

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I am seriously considering going ahead with this. I am nearly pre diabetic stage and the heaviest i’ve been in my whole.
It started to affect me health wise so i know i really do need to lose weight but can’t help feeling one should be able to do it without medication as then how am i going to be able to maintain it if i need help getting there??

Needing help losing is different to maintaining. Losing a lot can feel completely unachievable, maintaining all your hard work should give you the motivation to stay there.

Losing weight is the easy part. It's keeping it off that's brutal 😭

Very inflammatory title!

Some people are wired differently than others. Do what suits you? It’s like saying people having Caesarians have copped out.

Don't they say now that obesity is 80 per cent medical?

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Well go on then, do it without medication?

Do they??

maintaining all your hard work should give you the motivation to stay there.

If only it were that simple. But really, it depends on the extent to which your relationship with food is fucked.

If you believe this, then don't bother taking them.

In a similar note, people who are depressed should just snap out of it, not rely on pesky antidepressants

In fact, all medical intervention should be banned. You should just manage without! Our ancestors did just fine...oh, wait

I’ve only been on them for five weeks but they’ve had such a profound impact on me that I intend on taking them for life.

What’s stopping you doing it without the jab? Can you identify your triggers? Do you exercise? Maybe focus on health rather than weight. Improve healthy habits/eating/exercise then consider.

Maybe discuss with your doctor/GP? They'd be best placed to advise on whether there's a clinical indication and whether the benefits outweigh the risks for your own situation, even if you then decide to go private. Taking medication for a health need (to reduce your risk of serious obesity-related conditions) isn't the same as taking something to fit into a size 6 bikini.

If it was so easy to do it the natural way then you would not be the heaviest you have ever weighed. Anything that helps people lose weight, get healthier and prevents premature death is a good thing.

Yeah, yeah, it’s the easy way out. Taking them makes you a terrible person, you should struggle through some weird fad diets to get healthy. It’s not worth it if you haven’t struggled enough.

Or, you know, just do whatever works best for you and your health. Don’t attach weird morals to it.

Well obviously you need to increase physical activity and rehaul your diet so that when you are maintaing you keep it off
They don't just melt the fat off you actually have to do some work.

So what if it is, people are living with side effects of being overweight and of the injections if there is something bad long term its also them who will be affected. We get one life, who says we have to live it the hard way?
There is a lot we could do ourselves but don't like driving short trips, dishwasher rather than handwashing, nicotine patches rather than pure willpower, calculator rather than learning maths. I think people who argue its a cop out are bitter and jealous. My concern personally is long term effects of the injections but that is peoples choice and gamble with their own health which they are entitled to do as adults.

I've been taking MJ since September. 50lbs down, three dress sizes, I feel wonderful. I'm sure I 'could' have lost the weight without it but I probably wouldn't as I'd have done it before now if so, or it would have been an awful and unpleasant slog and made life shit for months on end. I'm happy to 'cop out' and make life easier for myself.

Definitely not easy. I feel shit most of the week and on those days I often wonder, why am I doing this. But then I see myself in the mirror, look down at a flatter stomach and look at my before picture (Jesus!) and it feels worthwhile.

Weight loss medication is life changing for a lot of people, it's not a cop out.
For some, weight is not something they can control easily. Medical conditions, eating disorders etc are largely out of individuals control.

I have pcos, which means gaining is easy but loosing is difficult. Adding in antidepressants makes it even worse- which are needed because adhd/asd went undiagnosed until my 30s and has had a massive impact on mental health. So if weight loss injections mean I can loose the weight while controlling some of the pcos symptoms surely that's better than continuing to suffer. And none of that is unusual.

I’m openly taking Mounjaro. Best decision I’ve made in years! I’ve been an absolute chunk since I was little and I’ve lost three stone since September. I feel great. I no longer ache and it’s changed how I see food and alcohol. Best thing for me is seeing how proud my kids and my parents are of me. I laughed the other day as I walked down the corridor in school and I heard a group of kids saying “fuck me she’s dropped some
timber”. I don’t care if anyone says it’s the easy way out…. I’ve never been able to lose it other ways and this is working! Go for it.

If it wasn’t a medical issue medication wouldn’t work

Think the op woke up and chose goady. 😂

I mean who cares? If it works it works. But if you think it’s cheating then stop eating so much and go for a run?🤷🏼‍♀️

The important thing here is getting you out of pre diabetic stage. If it helps, go for it.

If you are pre diabetic and BMI over 30 definitely consider it seriously. The long term implications of having diabetes and obesity are not to be underestimated