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.

God I hope one day they invent a drug like this for addiction. The "food noise" people talk about sounds similar to what people in recovery face daily. It would be incredible to be able to switch it off.

You have to send photos. So if look thin they won't be prescribed.

I feel the same as you OP. I have a real hesitation around any medication , even needed, so I’d be unlikely to seek a prescription. I’m currently dieting - down from 87kg to 81kg over twoish months and basically doing it on willpower. I’m tall but still a size 14 and just feel too heavy. I should get from “overweight” to “healthy” on my BMI in the next few weeks. There is a constant food food food food food in my head, or thinking about what to eat next, the calories of something etc. It feels like the only thing I think about. My mood is affected based on whether I had a loss that day (I can’t help but weigh myself daily, I want the data).

I am trying to keep a mindset of it being easier to start today rather than having my head in the sand and piling on more weight through unhealthy habits.

Some people have reported a reduced desire to drink alcohol (me included) while on WLI.

I'm a size 20-22 and no doubt would qualify.
But sulphur burps? Reflux? Diarrhoea? Nausea?
Erm...no ta. I can do without making my life even more joyless.

It seems to have this effect for alcohol too. Not sure if there have been proper trials though.

OP look into Fast 800 Keto. I've had alot of success on that and I find losing weight very difficult otherwise

That's very true,when I eat enough protein and stay off the sugar ,I don't have food noise.

I have 5kg to lose but I'm determined to do it without the jabs.

Look into the link between the jabs and thyroid issues - it's not worth it.

Also, everyone I know piles the weight back on + more as soon as they stop taking it.

That amazing! Perhaps there's hope in the future for more drugs of this sort. It would save tens of thousands of lives, reduce crime and prevent so much suffering. That's the trouble with addiction it's always waiting in the wings, it never properly goes away!

A few people have saod it helps with not wanting alcohol.

There've been lots of medical advances that seem too good to be true. Maybe this is just one of the many discoveries we've had with massive net benefits!

Doesn’t Fast800 mean fast and then limit yourself to 800 calories? So it does involve counting.

Depends how much you desire to be slimmer I suppose. For me the side effects were vastly outweighed by the improvement in my physical health and self esteem. I've been on WLI for 10 months and only really got side effects for the first couple.

@Sundayslump

I could have written your post

My food noise is and always has been very very loud and when I'm trying to lose it's even worse.

Something to stop that would be perfect but like you I'm nervous about the jabs plus I'm slightly under the bmi they state but only marginally but I'm still over weight.

I can stick to 1200 a day and did so last year and lost 1.5 stone still with a stone to go but lost it over Xmas and still can't get back to it.

Similar here.. pre kids was a size 8-10. Now a size 12 and was rapidly piling on the pounds so nearing a size 14.

I actually lost all the weight post kids this is more a midlife, almost 40 metabolism change. Basically now to maintain at a size 12 I have to only eat one meal a day during the week (to enable a less joyless weekend). I’m short which doesn’t help.

I have lost almost a stone since Christmas but it’s been such, such hard going when only three years ago it was easy.

I was officially obese (BMI 30) at size 16. So they would qualify for the jabs. Obese is smaller than most people think.

Where are people getting them??? I’m in ireland and it seems very strict.i would love to just lose a stone .size 14

how much are you all paying for mounjaro?

@Sundayslump I really sympathise. Several of my closest friends have lost loads of weight with Mounjaro and look and feel fantastic. I tried it and was completely floored by the side effects, so had to stop taking it. It feels very unfair!

Approx 150-180 pcm

OP all the people you know taking the jabs have had to consider and negotiate all the same concerns and worries you have. I assume they are not just blindly going into it. And they have decided to go for it. You know how to get the jabs and could easily do the same, but your risk aversion is higher. So you've decided not to go for it. It's unreasonable to be jealous because the reality is you could do the same as them, but your fear is holding you back.

If someone has lost 4 stone they probably were obese to start with.

i am on the jabs as i am morbidly obese. I do wish they’d tighten up eligibility as they are there to help with a serious medical issue, not for vanity/cosmetic weight loss.

I'm on Mounjaro. Don't be jealous of me.

Don't be jealous of the absolutely crippling issues I've had with food - of the constant internal battles I've had for 30 years over what I can or can't eat.
Don't be jealous of every meal worrying if I have x I'll need to do another half hours exercise or never allowing myself to eat without a caveat.
Don't be jealous of my binge then restrict cycle.
Don't be jealous of the mental strain I've had every day, counting everything I've eaten and feeling shame if I think I've not been good enough.

Mounjaro has taken all of the above away. I've had a couple of blips in 2 months but I've had the mental space to process why that's happened and find better ways of managing it in the future.
I'm eating really well in terms of nutrition and I'm back exercising.
I eat when I'm hungry and stop when I'm full. I have to make good decisions but because I do I've had no side effects I believe.
The number dropping on the scale is almost just a bonus.

So please don't think that for many of us it's just a quick fix to look better in a bikini.

There are 2000 people in a Facebook group who have suffered neurological side effects, mostly severe anxiety, panic attacks and in some cases suicidal ideation. Yes it's a rare side effect but it's horrible, speaking from personal experience. Then there's the much more common nausea, diarrhea etc. These are strong drugs that shouldn't be taken casually.