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.

Can you just use them for say 3 months then stop?how long foes it take yo lose a stone ?

I'm tempted to try

I personally don’t because those injection could kill me with all the health problems I have and the side effects aren’t worth it.

i can understand why you feel the way you do though. Me.. im menopausal, have the belly, size 12-14 and it’s annoying but I’ve accepted the way I am now but it’s took years for me to come to that mindset

I feel like this even though I’m only a size 6/8! I am very addicted to sugary, fatty food though and have constant food noise which jab users say is lessened. I feel like if I had jabs I’d finally lose that last 5-10 pounds which makes me look skinny fat and I’ve been battling for five years or more.

Part of me believes the whole population should be prescribed the jabs, so that we can all be skinny and the playing field would be even. They would don’t that thought as there is too much money in making people fat!

The side effects aren't "intense" at all for the vast majority of people.

Im taking MJ and haven't had any side effects at all. I've lost 20lbs in 5 weeks and for the first time in my life I know il easily reach my target in a few months,

Sorry not sorry if some people are upset about that!

sampler zero effort required here. My appetite has completely vanished.

Totally agree with this - have been on a diet for about fifteen years it seems. Tracked my food, always exercised and it would take so much effort to lose weight despite eat less/move more. I have quite an athletic build but was obviously carrying a lot of weight. I went to the doctor and was diagnosed with PCOS which does explain some of the issues. Four months ago, I started Mounjaro and have lost two stone since then. Food noise has gone, cravings have gone. I still have another two stone before I am in the healthy weight category for BMI (recognising that quite a lot of that is nonsense) but jabs have been revolutionary for me. It’s not cheating, it’s medicating an issue.

Same I’ve had no side effects either and am now on 12.5 mg

Yep, no sides effects and am on 12.5mg too.

I think it will lead to a massive epidemic of sarcopenia.

Yes I think people need to be very careful x

For me food noise is constantly having thoughts about snacking. Thinking I could fancy a bag of crisps or a chocolate bar or something else unhealthy.

I've never eaten huge portions so don't feel hungry exactly all the time. Just have the urge to snack all the time. Weight loss drugs stopped that entirely so I found it easy to stick to 3 healthy meals a day. But have to say, as soon as I stopped taking them the "food noise" came back stronger then ever.

That's hunger surely?

Cravings then?

It is just a kick in the face. I couldn't get on with mounjaro. The digestive side effects were too much for me only on a 2.5mg. I couldn't leave the house and ended up taking sick leave. I have no option to work from home, so I had to stop. Just sometimes think what I would look like now if all worked out :(

So many people have issues with food (myself included) and I'd never be envious of any of them, however they achieved weight loss. They'll never be 'normal' in the sense that people who don't have to worry or think about their weight are. I envy those people, wish I was like them.

I can lose weight and maintain but it's hard, very hard. I go up a bit sometimes and down again. And repeat.

Your body sounds fit and healthy as it is.

For some it's greed. I don't say that lightly and I know I sound very judgemental, but it's true. "Food noise" seems to be a psychological thing and/or boredom, because if you eat your meal, you shouldn't need more until the next one. So it seems that wanting to eat when your head, not your gut tells you is filling a mental void IMO.

I'm one of those who wouldn't take the jabs. I don't have diabetes so I don't and hopefully won't need semaglutide medication. I feel that it is made for a health issue not vanity weight loss for those not obese but just outside of what they WANT to look like, and be like their pinup celebrities and the woman at the book club. It's OK if you are clinically obese as the medication is very helpful there, but if not, I am not in favour. It's pure vanity versus healthy eating. People say but I eat healthily and run/walk/gym every day but I cannot shift that last stone. Well how come an appetite suppressant works when your so called healthy food intake doesn't? Greed and grazing that's what. There is a big psychological element to eating I think, and some can do it fine, others can't because.....?

So before we are 60 we may be taking statins, high blood pressure meds, HRT, and so on, and THEN add on semaglutides? OK if clinically prescribed by a face to face doctor/consultant for obesity, but self prescribed for a stone or so, I don't think so.

I'm not perfect either BTW. I struggle with the belly fat. But TBH I do the best I can, stick to high protein, low carbs, have the occasional blow out and do 16/8 method regularly but not all the time. I feel life is for living and constant watching and obsessing about food and that little bit of poky fat here and there is not worth worrying about most of the time. Obesity is a different thing.

Yes. This isn’t widely known & poss the borderlines more at risk? Muscle pain, weakness in menopausal etc poss not yet being correlated? How many strength train every day on it or even x3 a week & eat enough protein?

I'm 54 and have never ever been able to control my weight. It's absolutely desperate. I'd give anything to be a size 12/14 OP. You can clearly manage your weight and don't have a problem. So lay off the criticism of people who have struggled their whole lives and are grasping anything that may help them. It's a serious disorder.

@Mightymoog What happened to the word "hungry".?
"food noise" sounds silly.
Anyway, I wouldn't be jealous; personally I think it's a medical scandal waiting to happen

Completely agree with you!

''food noise'' is a ridiculous term.

See it for what it is, basic greediness for something that tastes nice.

I could easily smash a six pack of Tunnock's tea cakes in a few hours - so don't buy them. Ditto Maltesers.

No. Hunger is a feeling that you want/ need to eat which develops a few hours after eating and intensifies the more time passes since you ate, but which dips and increases depending on hormonal levels and can be ignored if you're determined. Food noise is psychological and physical. It's partly fuelled by physical hunger but it also exists independently. It's a constant pressure of thinking about food. Either thinking about what you will eat/when you will eat it, worrying about where you will get food from, or trying to resist thinking about food. It's miserable. It makes traditional dieting very difficult and demoralising and almost impossible to maintain. Mounjaro doesn't remove hunger for most people, but it does reduce the levels, but it also removes food noise. The other day I bought a little dairy free chocolate bar in my food shop and put it away in the morning. I then forgot it was there until the evening when I found it. Before Mj I would have eaten it at 11am after thinking about it the whole time since I put it away.

still sounds like hunger/ greed to me.

I'd love to say what I want to say to you but I'd get deleted so have this

I kind of agree even though I know what people mean by it and it was nice for it to temporarily "switch off" whilst I was on Ozempic.

What annoys me is when people using weight loss drugs imply they are uniquely susceptible to "food noise" whereas I think most people have what we used to call food cravings or snack cravings. I know I always had them even when I was a size 10 but it got a lot harder to stay slim when I got older.

Just because someone is overweight doesn’t mean it’s due to muscle; it’s mainly due to excess fat. Many individuals lack muscle altogether. Over the past two decades, being overweight and obese has become normalized. Once we step back and eliminate unhealthy supermarket junk food, what will remain are those with medical complications, not the average person who consumes three times the amount of food and drink they need.

There appears to be a significant misunderstanding regarding body composition and our food supply, predominantly stemming from misconceptions propagated by the science and food industries.

I hope this latest initiative will raise awareness about the exploitation perpetuated by the food and beverage industry. In the 1970s, less than 5% of the population was classified as obese; now that figure has risen to nearly 30%. Additionally, 35% of people are considered overweight. This means that only 30% of individuals maintain a healthy weight.

Not sure what that's for.
If I have the slightest pang of hunger I can be greedy, even if I'm not properly hungry.
This stuff suppresses the appetite enough that there is no hunger/ greed.