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.

You can still be obese at a size 14/16.

It works on BMI not clothes size. I was obese wearing a size 14 as I am 5ft 3 and weighed over 12st.

You sound like me !! Always been slim but just really struggling and need to be around 1200 to maintain and 800 -1000 to lose… could do with losing 2 stone..
it’s just so hard and I’m also tempted x

You don't inject WLI into your veins so track marks are not going to be Mounjaro.

That's a shame 😕 I'm on 15mg now but it didn't work for me until 10mg. I would ( and did) give it six months. I'm 5 stone down now.

not true. subcut injections are stomach, back of arms, or outer thighs.

I would guess heroin. You wouldn't see amy marks from a weightloss injection

Honestly, these threads always remind me a little of the benefit bashing threads. If you want the jabs so desperately then sure, get them fraudulently and hope you don't suffer any significant side effects from a drug which is not aimed at you. Alternatively you could pile the weight on until you actually qualify. In the same way that benefit bashers could commit fraud or quit work for the life they covet so much. Petty mean mindedness either way imo.

It's not vanity when it's used as intended, to treat obesity which has otherwise serious implications on people's health.

It is vanity when used as the OP is suggesting.

I am also someone who had been slim all my life up until around a year and a half ago. I hated the middle age weight. I’m 5’7 and went from size 10 to a large size 12 bordering on 14 and it didn’t suit me. I am now on MJ and I’m so much happier. I’m back to size 10 after using for 2 months. I have remained on the minimum dose, have no side effects that I know of and exercise more as I feel more nimble. I’ve only told my husband. If you have the right connections you can get the prescription from a private doctor which I do. I have zero regrets.

Silly

Hi all,
My last post now.
I wanted to mention the ED which I suffered from in teens and twenties and thankfully left me after my final pregnancy aged 29. I wanted to explain that I have constant food noise. I am so proud that in 12 years I have eaten healthy and exercised and not starved or purged.However the new pressure of seeing everyone around me become slim is clear affecting me and I feel like everyone is getting slimmer and I’m getting fatter!!! So I think this is my whole thing - why am I jealous that everyone’s getting slimmer ! AIBU?
I appreciate my body will change as I get older I just feel frumpy and as I’ve said several times it is hard now watching my close friends / family walking around like runner beans ! It’s hard not to join in! I am sure it will get to a point in a few years where these drugs are safer and used long term and much cheaper and they will be part of every day life for many.
Thank you all.
Have a great Sunday x

When it gives preferential outcomes, yes.

Also, OP isn't talking about health conditions, she's talking about using it for aesthetics - which is what most people are using it for if they weren't prescribed it by a GP.

OP, you need help for your eating disorder and hate of your body. As do the posters with a BMI of 20 who want to take MJ.
Kindly, menopause is going to be very tough if you chase the chimera of youth.

That's why I said its different for everyone. Best to go on a TDEE calculator. Im in the UK, 5ft 10 and 55. You cant generalise that the majority are shorter than 5ft 5!

Very few people are prescribed it by a GP. Most qualifying patients need to pay to get it privately.

Quite. Aesthetics.

They are prescribed when you buy them online. You have to provide certain medical information, evidence of your weight etc and a doctor reviews your order before it is issued to you. It’s not a case of just clicking a button and getting them like you are ordering a new dress!

I’m nearly 50, and I’m afraid it only gets harder to stay slim the older you get.
I was also an effortless size 8/10 until mid 30’s, now its a real slog to stay a 12/14.
I’d try the jabs and get it under control while it’s only 10kg to lose not 20kg!

Your colleague has clearly not kept to guidelines and has no common sense if they are losing weight that quickly. And track marks? Most people inject in places others can't see unless maybe in a bikini so unless you work as a lifeguard I find that comment strange.

I am not talking about losing weight. I don't want to lose weight, I would look and feel awful and it would not be healthy at all. I am talking about having the distance to food so you don't get hungry. If I'm hungry I'm like a child and just have to eat, I can't wait. My DH is sick of it because if we go to a restaurant at 8 I will be wining like a kid who's hungry because I'm used to eating around 6:30 with the kids whereas he eats really late (southern European). So if I could just eat when I want to without getting hangry I would very much like that.

I also would like to find a system to avoid going to the loo (like automatic cleansing) but that's for another thread I suppose 😄

I think Mounjaro is great so people can lose weight but also just not being hungry for us others who get really cranky. The only thing I don't like about it is the injections 😨 but maybe they will invent a pill soon.

That’s heroin!

I wouldn’t recommend.

Or it may be that they are seriously ill.

Definitely not weight loss injections.

The thing that puts me off these jags, apart from the cost, is what happens when you come off them? Or do you stay on a low dose for life? Im presuming the food noise comes back if you come off them and you need to diet in the usual way?

There's a lot of posts written on various forums about weight loss jabs and hand on heart, being someone that has lost and got to a comfortable weight previously by tracking my foods but now very over weight at the moment I say good luck to those taking them, the beauty of choice.

For me injections aren't the way to go though as I have a not so good approach to foods as in it's quicker to open a bar of chocolate or packet of crisps than it is to peel an orange or cut an apple into slices to make it look half appetising, so I need to focus more on that side of things again in order to make not necessarily good food choices as there are no good or bad foods, but those that are more nutritious and filling, more a change of mindset really.

I think you are being a little unreasonable @Sundayslump but also your feelings are very understandable.

Was sorry to hear about your previous ED and honestly, you are better off staying away from weight loss drugs in your situation & trying to love yourself as you are. You're not fat I bet you look lovely.

I’m obese at a size 12. 2.5 stone overweight pushes me into the obese category. I have lost 10 pounds so far on Mounjaro since the middle of January.