To be jealous of everyone getting slim in weight loss jabs while I get fatter !

[Sundayslump]

Okay - lighthearted ? Maybe.

I’ve been lucky to grow up and be a size 10 . Had a baby at 27. Lost all the weight but my body changed. Baby 2 , again gained 4 stone but I’ve always kept the last stone. I am now 12/14 uk.

I work full time and have two children . I eat healthy for the most part and walk and exercise. When I am super strict which feels so much harder at 40 I am a size 12 but unlike in my 30s it seems so much harder to lose weight now . I feel crap in my clothes and I wish and dream of being a size 10. Call me pathetic !

My brother and his wife , twos sisters and their husbands , work colleagues and a few of my good friends who were never obese but had a few stone to lose are all taking weight loss jabs. They have all lost around 2/3/4 stone and are all now looking fab . All the women are now in size 8 jeans and I am jealous. I sound pathetic . None of these ladies were any bigger than a 14/16 to start with.

I totally understand these jabs are so life changing for so many people who need them but it seems in my life everyone has taken them and gone from a 14/16 to a size 8/6 size Uk and I can’t help but feel like if I just bloody jump on the bandwagon I will feel good, feel happy and be slim.

Now everyone around me is so slim I feel ever more aware of my size .

I want to state I exercise and do eat a healthy diet . I have just found after two babies and getting older unless I basically stick to 1200 calories a day I can’t maintain a size 12.
Ahhhhhh. Sorry for sounding so so so vain.

Actually the effects on the digestive system and hormonal system are designed to return an obese person to the state that a non obese person experiences all the time. It mimics the natural function of a metabolically healthy body.

There is no such thing as a free lunch. Ozempic is a serious medical intervention, and will have serious consequences. Malnutrition likely being one of them over the longer term.

This all sounds a bit 'pain relief medication in labour is cheating and not doing it properly' to me.
If the medication works and makes life easier, why not just use the medication?
And I say this as someone not really overweight but who has battled every single day for the last 40 years to stay that way. I'm very tempted to get the jabs just to end the war and silence the food noise.

Private GPs are giving to overweight & menopausal but with blood tests to check all ok. Most of school mums on them who were borderline in parts of wealthiest London. It’s early days of fillers/botox again.

The “many many times” people have tried is usually like the OP though. Insane 1,200 calories per day toddler diets.

The PP was responding to my story which equated to 1/2 a pound per week…sometimes less. For most people that just isn’t good enough/quick enough/ doesn’t count but it obviously adds up over months and years. They were commenting on that specifically.

The OP may be obese at a size 12 but chances are she’s not unless she is very short or carries a tonne of weight around her stomach and almost none elsewhere. She is just someone who put on a normal amount of weight after having kids and hitting middle age. She isn’t someone who struggled with obesity most of her life. She’d just like to be slimmer. In which case lifestyle changes can work for her. She isn’t a real candidate for weight loss jabs.

Yes I had to do all that too and I was obese at a size 12. There are so many morbidly obese people now in this country that it has normalised obesity. Look back at photos from the 80’s and everyone was much slimmer.

At 12st 5 I’m class 1 obese. At that weight I would be a size 14. I’m short with a small frame. Clothes sizes are not an effective way to measure obesity

OP I am very similar to you. Was slim, size 8/10 most of my life - but then 3 kids, put on a bit of weight each time, then menopause, desk job…..

I am now a size 14/16 and really want to lose weight but it’s so hard. I eat healthily.
I exercise. I go to the gym. I lift weights. I walk every day. I hardly drink alcohol anyway (as in menopause it messes with my sleep).

My main downfall is chocolate I think as I do like a bit of chocolate in the evening. I snack too much but try to snack healthily (oatcakes, apples etc)

At my weight I am sure I could get WLI prescribed privately but am worried about the health risks and side effects.
My health is good, I am fit, my blood pressure and cholesterol are good. Aside from my dress size I am happy so why risk that?

So I do understand where you are coming from.

Absolute nonsense.

Snack on protein not apples or oatcakes! Stick some cream cheese on those oatcakes or dip those apples in a small amount of peanut butter. Yes it increases the calories but it’s so much more satiating and will stop you eating more at your next meal/snack. One oatcake with a smear of cream cheese is better than 3 oatcakes because you were still hungry after the first one.

I agree. I know it probably just sounds like I am gatekeeping them as I had a BMI of 50 (now 43) but I think BMI 30 is too low. I’d only allow it to be prescribed for starting BMI of over 35 unless someone has actual weight related co morbidities.

I do that already, I put almond butter on the apples, or I buy the oatcakes with seeds in…..

I'm a little jealous too. I'll probably go.on them eventually they're just a bit expensive for me currently. My bmi is over 35 so I'm eligible from a weight perspective (size 14/16)

I'd be very worried about side effects in future.
I'm not overweight { 21.6 BMI} BUT one's body shape just does change as one gets older.

No one a 50 gets mistaken for a 25 year old.

If you can afford the jabs, and don't worry about future side effects, buy them.

😆 I'm gobsmacked at randoms posting things like this. Why?? Why do you know better than NICE and the FDA and every other organisation that is responsible for approving use of medications?

Please don't post things like this on these types of thread. Lying to get prescription medication is not something to be proud of, nor is encouraging others to do the same.
In fact I am going to report your comment as I don't feel that it should be allowed on the site, and I hope you get banned.

Simply put, most people's overweight is primarily due to diet. Even if we consider ourselves healthy, we don’t need three square meals plus snacks. We tend to eat too much.
Injections reduce the appetite created by ultra-processed foods and also block visual marketing in supermarkets.

Hopefully it will start a trend towards more slim looking frames for everyone as it was back in the 50-60-70's...

Crack on. I’m being truthful and that’s the end of it: I don’t need your approval.

Food noise is totally different from hunger and cravings and now we've been given a tool to put us on a more even keel with those who don't get it.

And what do you know? Society may hate fat people but they really hate fat people losing weight.

Also, size 12 here, BMI 33 and definitely no track marks 😂

I don’t really use the term food noise but what I understand it to mean is not the same as hunger, but the constant thinking about food and battling whether I should eat, when can I next eat, what will I eat, if I eat that what can I eat later, if I don’t eat now then when will I next eat, etc

i genuinely think that when someone ends up morbidly obese like me their whole psychology and physiology changes and there’s a huge overpowering drive to eat which also manifests in physical symptoms. The weight loss jabs stop all that constant internal monologue. I still get hungry though.

I don’t think there will be any kind of huge medical scandal, weight loss drugs are a huge money spinner for big pharma and there’s been a lot of research and development for a very long time getting drugs to market. I do think though they will continue to become more refined and improve and future generation ones will be better than what we have now.

Fair enough. I was 14.6, most of my weight was on my stomach - I needed 18 -20 to fit around my waist (or lack thereof!) rather than being an 18-20 everywhere.

@GirlAtTheDojo I have and hopefully you will get banned.

The OP has suffered with an ED in the past. Encouraging her to lie to get WLI could cause her to relapse I hope you feel really proud of that.

No of course not, it’s just my thoughts. But people are abusing the drugs, you can see it on here, which I don’t know if drug regulators foresaw either? I get it’s easy for me to say by the way, as a proper fatty who would probably always be entitled to them!

happytobemrsg my appetite has also completely disappeared. Nothing. I have to force myself to eat. And even then it's tiny portions. It's a miracle truly.