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

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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 do wonder of those that take it - how many have a prescription?

That's not how WLI work!! That kind of appetite suppression, IF it happens, is short term and it's by no means universal!

Biased as I'm on them and they've changed my life and made me do much healthier and happier. But just wanted to correct a couple if posts that mentioned not needing them at a size 14 or not being obese if you only have a few stone to lose. I was size 14, and 12st11 which was roughly about 4 stone over my perfect pre baby weight of 8 st10 but that made me clinically obese with a very high bmi. You don't need to be a size 20 to be obese. Granted I'm short at 5'3 but even at 11 stone 7 I was in the obese band.

You can only do what's right for you and based on medical advice but if you can afford them and you dr agrees it would be more benefit than risk then go for it. I've never been happier.

If the appetite suppression is short term how will it work for the people who intend to take it for life on low maintenance doses?

I’m not starving myself. I’m eating 1200 calories a day. WW and SW are both shit as you can still eat bad food as long as you stay within your prescribed limits. On Mounjaro I have no desire to eat bad food. I have had one cookie and one piece of cake in six weeks - to be polite as they were put on my desk by colleagues celebrating birthdays! I didn’t finish the cake and put it in the bin when no one was looking!

I don’t have rapid weight loss. I have lost 11 pounds in 6 weeks, so completely within the realms of a healthy weight loss. The difference for me is that last year is took me SIX MONTHS to lose 7 pounds. You have no idea how demoralising that is until you have experienced it yourself.

My actual diet hasn’t changed drastically. I have been on a low fat diet for 14 years since I had my gallbladder out as high fat foods give me nausea and diarrhoea. I rarely eat bread as it irritates my IBS. Since starting Mounjaro my bowel habits are much improved and I have had no IBS symptoms.

When i was a kid there used to be diet pills advertised in the back pages of colour supplements that came with the Sunday papers. Ive often wondered that if social media and Instagram had existed back then that these pills would have been as widely used as the weight loss injections are now.

@I8toys "I do wonder of those that take it - how many have a prescription?" Do you mean the people on the WLI support threads? All of them, I'd say.

Everyone that buys it from a regulated pharmacy has a prescription. Some people may be buying it on the black market like any other drug but they will be in the minority.

No, that kind of EXTREME appetite suppression, the kind pp is referring to that makes people unable to eat properly, is very short term and doesn't happen to most people. Obviously the drugs reduce your appetite. But personally today I've eaten a piece of sourdough toast with marmite for breakfast, stir fried tofu and mushrooms with rice noodles for lunch and a big salad for dinner with a corn on the cob, half an avocado and a stuffed vine leaf for dinner. 3 healthy meals, well within my calorie allowance which is 1600, and no snacks or sweet food. This is normal for me and most people who take WLI. If people can't eat that's wrong and not how the drug is supposed to work.

Everyone that is buying from a reputable pharmacy will have a prescription. My prescription is on my NHS app and the letter to my GP is on file. The questionnaire is read, the evidence is examined, further questions or video calls if necessary then the prescription is issued and sent if the prescriber approved.

The only people who are taking it without a prescription are not getting it through a reputable source. The people who lie to get it will have a prescription.

Wow, youve solved the obesity crisis, congratulations. You could write a diet book….”Don’t buy the Biscuits”. If only all the fatties had thought of that! 😆

You don't totally lose your appetite or starve yourself on Mounjaro. Why would you think that? You might get appetite suppression or you might not (plenty of people don't). You definitely still feel hunger at times.

What it does do is partially mute 'food noise' and 'food cravings' so you then can make sensible, measured decisions over what you eat and how much.

I'm afraid it really is that mundane.

I use them and they have changed my life. I had a BMI of 36 which crept up after kids and various traumatic and stressful life events. I’d wrestled with diets for years, I would struggle to lose a stone, fall off the wagon, put on two etc etc.

For all the people on here saying ‘just don’t buy the biscuits’, ‘exercise self control’, I can now. I know how it feels now to have a skinny person mindset. I still fancy a biscuit now and then, sometimes I have one (just one), other times I can resist. I don’t mindlessly graze anymore. Oprah Winfrey said something similar in an interview recently.

I’m not tempted by crappy processed or fatty food, I have cut back on booze substantially as I just don’t fancy it. I prioritise protein and strength work outs. I still eat out, I’m just healthier.

My painful joints are better, my skin is better, my puffy ankles have gone. I’ve lost 3 stone and have just over 3 stone to go. I’m still obese right now, but the lightest I’ve been in 8 years. My dad died of heart failure due to being massively overweight, he was in a state for years, massively bloated from water retention, ulcerated legs, unable to clean himself, I don’t want that, it was a horrible way to go.

However, I think all the skinny people who use the drugs as an extra help isn’t great because it leads to people being really anti the jabs, when in reality they are changing the lives of people like me. For people with disordered eating who are already this then it can lead to weakened bones etc. But I’m not trying to drop a pesky stone, I need to drop over 6!

Depends what time ppl get home. Not everyone works next door to where they live. Poster said to eat by 8pm remember? Supermarkets round here dont close till 8/9pm

You know who i mostly see coming out with the eat earlier rhetoric
CELEBS!!!! who would then moan like fuck if their minions pissed off home early to follow that advice.

This. People who are not food obsessed really don't get it. All the 'advice' on this thread, how the fatties should eat less cake and take a brisk walk instead of this horrible, unknown substance, so helpful.

Everyone obtaining Mounjaro from online pharmacies must firstly be prescribed it, so they will all have a prescription.

My GP is now aware that I'm on MJ, as is my Advanced Nurse Practioner, as is my Oncologist, as is my Breast Surgeon, as is my Breast Cancer Nurse and even my lovely Botox lady (who is also a fully qualified GP). They all know.

Not one of these very highly qualified medical professionals have expressed any concerns, whatsoever, over my using Mounjaro. Not one. In fact, I've only had positive feedback from them.

So, the fact that 'Wendy' on the Internet (who in all likelihood didn't even pass GCSE Biology) has 'concerns' really doesn't carry a lot of weight......

Track marks?! Ffs 🤦🏻‍♀️ 😂

You can’t drop from an 18 to a 6 that quickly, even on the jab. I’ve gone from 17st ish to 12st 2 (dress size 16/18 to a largish 12) in 5 months and that’s considered very fast. I’m way off hitting a size 6/8.

Yawn - resorting to insults again rather than just making your points politely as nearly everyone else on this thread has managed to do.

Nah, since the diabetes clinic was able to prescribe mounjaro last September I've become deaf to their seductive cries.

@Weepixie thanks for that makes me feel better. I've not come across anyone else who is also slowly losing. It's so annoying and disheartening watching videos of people who have only been on it a couple of weeks a lost loads!

I try to avoid it now. But I also like punishing myself and watching videos of other people on them lol.

You’d defrost a burger or cook some rice to satisfy a craving?

No, sorry, I don’t understand that.

If you’re that hungry between meals then maybe you need to look at what you’re eating and how it might be spiking your blood sugar.

No, you really don't understand........

That's OK, you're lucky.

Why is it insulting to state that I heed the opinions of well qualified medical professionals over the opinion of someone with no medical/science qualifications whatsoever? Surely, that's just common sense?

Well a lot of people who are obese are going to be pre diabetic and their blood sugar will be all over the place regardless of what they eat.

One of the first things mounjaro (which is also a diabetes medication) is going to do for them is to even out their blood sugar levels, causing them to feel less ravenous and they will then lose weight decreasing their risk of diabetes.....