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.

I had a healthy diet before as well, mostly home cooked foods, rarely any junk or fast food. But on mj, I do not want to eat any sweets, any fatty fried foods, have also gone off bread and alcohol. Lots of salads, vegetables, lean protein.

There are many people who get their self esteem from feeling like they are better, more virtuous, more disciplined than fatties.

They are everywhere on Mumsnet more open than in real life.

I get what your saying, I've been from one extreme to the other but always battled with keeping a healthy weight since being a child, and I have to work blooming hard at it! Even more so now I'm nearly 40 and had a baby..... it's so unfair I'm still battling and others are taking a jab with quick results. But then again is suppose it's the same difference as those who are blessed with being able to eat as they like and not put weight on just by looking at a cake

LolaLouise, it's so strange. I don't doubt what you say at all. Those people have severe hang-ups of their own, no exception. So many of us struggle with weight - losing it, maintaining it - it's endless. The people who feel superior are delusional, there's nothing for them to be superior about because not only do they have hang-ups about their own food/weight, they have a nasty streak to go with it.

Your second paragraph made me sad but I totally accord with it. I was so bullied in secondary school that I wanted nothing more than to be 'invisible'. To this day I don't enjoy or appreciate comments on my appearance (which is distinctly average at best). I get it. I longed to be an adult because I thought that people stopped making personal comments then. How wrong I was...

Sometimes that's true, often it's not. I qualify for them, I am numerically obese - but I don't look it. Overweight certainly, but not obese. So for me, and many other people, it IS aesthetic.

People get very puritanical about how it's 'all about the health' - it very often isn't. People want, and always have wanted, to be thin. And it's bloody hard work without the drugs, so that's why many many many people get them.

I wouldn’’t lose weight on 1200 calories. I am eating a 70 cal bar in the morning and a salad bowl for lunch with a small portion of veggie meal in the evening. No snacks or treats. I’ve lost 4 kgs in just under 4 weeks.

You’re not wrong but if you went to the Kings Rd today & filmed you’d not see a representative sample of the average population in either looks or weight either. Smoking was common back then too & it kept weight down.

Mounjaro and wegovy are not injected into the vein, so don't cause track marks. Possibly your colleague is abusing drugs, but it is also possible that she is ill and needing blood tests and intravenous injections.

Weightloss jabs don’t cause track marks! You inject into fat.

The theory that food noise is the same thing as greed: do the jabs stop people being greedy then? Isn't that a bit of a personality change, if so? I still love food when I'm on the jabs, I could still enjoy eating unhealthy foods, but I don't do it. If the jabs stop someone being greedy, what is greed and what are the jabs doing to it?

Smoking was common back then too & it kept weight down.
Trying not to be rude, there is still plenty of people who smoke, a lot of them are very fat, so i won't necessarily believe it was smoking alone keeping them slim.

Food noise is obsessive thinking, obsessively thinking about any substance is addiction, addiction recovery requires daily distraction methods.

Also much safer than the jabs.

I lost 6 stone through low carbing/Mediterranean 'diet', ate good sized portions of delicious food and never had to worry about unpleasant side effects.

Absolutely so many of us have that ‘Amanda’ acquaintance that says ‘Oh don’t get TOO thin!’ Ask how much you weigh & goal & say that’s unrealistic for the likes of you as they way that anount!

*weigh

I would say this as someone who lost a significant amount on the jabs several years ago in late forties now turned 50 and menopause weight is a problem even on the maintenance dose. So basically I have put some weight on - not too much but I find that even on a low calorie intake I do not loose weight due I believe to perimenopause. I think I am trying to say is leave the jabs until you really need them. Size 12 is still slim. At 40 (and I wish I had known this) more important to build muscle.

Fat people are all greedy. Got it.

In the 90s a LOT of my female friends smoked to kill their appetites. And it worked.

@Arrivals4lucky no, that's not what I said. I'm asking the people who think that way what effect they believe the jabs have on "greed".

True in wealthy pockets of London too, many overweight rather than obese on drugs, & maintaining via micro dose & careful supervision. Periodic comprehensive blood tests important.

Yes I get what you are saying.

I wanted a quick fix. Clearly not happening. But Fast 800 is quick and sustainable so I will go back to that. It’s just that’s it’s initially more uncomfortable.

Same OP.

I think one thing some people don’t realise is that they become less effective at reducing your appetite. Not to say they stop working but the effects are not as extreme.

A lot of ‘greed’ is hormonally driven I think and about some having more of an appetite. Gluttony ‘punished’ too on jab as you’ll get very sick if you overdo it. You regulate as time goes on. Greed perhaps is a bit of a myth re: food?

The results of clinical trials aren't usually described as "just an overblown moan".

People on WLI tend to lose muscle (and bone) as well as fat, and when they go off the injections, they tend to regain 3/4 or more of the weight lost, and that is all fat, not regained muscle.

My husband is the same. He is still vomiting every weekend when he takes it (and sometimes during the week) but doc is adamant he stick with it.