Anyone taken weight loss injections and regretted it?

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I feel losing weight wouid help me build my confidence and get life back on track but im
just really scared that something awful will happen. I am very close to ordering online. I need to lose around 2 stones. It just won’t shift. Please share your experiences. Thank you ☺️

When I first started Mounjaro, I did have horrible headaches and nausea for about a month. It felt like morning sickness. But that passed and as another weird side effect it has massively reduced my endometriosis pain in a way nothing ever has. It's been life changing.

Not awful, but I think I was starting to have issues, which have since righted themselves.

A blood test (for something else) showed results which indicated an issue. The GP wasn't concerned because they redid them a month later and the issue had resolved. But when I looked into it carefully, it seemed to be the beginnings of liver problems. Fortunately, I'd stopped the WLI a month before the 1st blood test and as a result, my body had gradually got better. But it made sense of the other slight side effects I was starting to have.

I think I had a lucky escape. HOWEVER, I would use them again if I needed but pay more attention to side effects as signs all was not well.

Nasty.
Anyway does it matter what people look like naked, it can all be disguised with clothes. I didn’t lose with WLI but have some loose skin, but I feel amazing in clothes and that’s what’s important.

You can lose 2stone without the jabs or pills. You just have to be in the right frame of mind and know what you're putting in your mouth

I had lost weight and was looking really good (so good my gym instructor commented on it in front of the whole gym class), when I felt like sitting on the sofa on a Saturday afternoon eating biscuits I went to the gym instead, when I got back the urge had gone. I also went for long walks at the weekend, ate properly (very little snacking, soup and a roll for lunch, proper dinner). It can be done, you just need to have the willpower.

I also put 2 stone between 45 and 47 and it does suck and I'm trying to sort myself out so I can lose it again. Perimenopause has sapped my motivation though.

Yes it is true.
Its easy to look it up and to be honest it’s just common sense.

Of course many people put on weight after dieting, that’s because they’re restricting themselves too much which they can’t keep up with.

And of course eating healthier and exercising should be done whilst taking the injections but that’s easy to do whilst on the injections as you don’t have the food noise, don’t crave sugary things and have a reduced appetite.

It’s much easier to lose weight on the injections than other diets.

The difficulty is maintaining your weight afterwards which is much more difficult to do after coming off the injections, compared to other diets, for obvious reasons.

You can stay on a long term dose but there is research that your body acclimatises to them and some people put on weight whilst on the injections still.
Thats also only possible if you can afford them, they’re in stock, the rules don’t change on who can get them or you don’t have side effects.

Hoping to stay on them long term is one thing but it’s very short sighted to believe that’s actually going to happen.

So if you’ve not got much weight to lose, it’s much easier to lose weight and keep it off in the long term, if you don’t use the injections.

Makes sense! Enjoy your new self 🩷

All this OP.

The injections suppress your appetite. Just eat less, a lot cheaper and healthier for you.

Do you not think perhaps she's tried this already? 🙄

I have lost 2 stone and 2lbs, I was going to go for another half a stone-ish but I am actually quite happy with where I am now, so just a couple of lbs to go to get me to 10 stone. I was 27 BMI with high cholesterol. It has taken five months and four injections, so quite slow progress, but I couldn't get the weight off without the medication. I don't regret it at all and I've had very minimal side effects from the beginning.

These are screenshots from a reputable pharmacy that sells them and they’ve cited research.

And these injections haven’t been around that long and so the weight gain that is seen is probably over quite a short period of time and so as time goes on, more studies are showing that more people are regaining the weight more than other diets.

I’m not against the injections at all but I think people like OP need to know the pros and cons to make an informed decision.

Some people are very pro injections and won’t hear of anything negative but that’s not helpful to the OP.

I've looked it up but I couldn't find research to back up the claims you're making here. Could you link to some please? It should be easy if there's that much out there, and you won't need to make subjective claims about common sense.

more studies are showing that more people are regaining the weight more than other diets.

But you haven't shown any comparison to other diets @cucy - there is nothing to suggest WLIs are worse for weight regain than other methods of weight loss.

And some people are very anti and won’t hear of anything else.

Thanks, but this doesn't show that the risk of weight regain is higher than with traditional weight loss methods, and indeed it admits that people won't necessarily regain all weight, let alone all of it plus more. The comparison is what's lacking here.

It does show that weight gain once stopping is a risk, but I don't think anyone suggested otherwise? There's a big difference between people being likely to regain when stopping and regain being more likely than with traditional methods.

This shows you have zero understanding of the psychology behind why most women gain weight or how the weight loss injections work. It’s not just about reducing appetite!

Appetite drives us all. The drive to stay alive and input energy is immense! The injections turn off the food noise driving consumption and that is a huge game-changer. People who say just eat less and move more do not understand the complexity of tackling obesity. I’ve lost a lot of weight through the usual efforts and then also regained it! The trick is to keep it off. We don’t know yet if that will be possible with the injections but the technology is advancing fast. Soon there will be tablets and if a daily pill can keep me a reasonable weight, not perfect, I’d take it!

But it is completely true. What’s not easy is that we don’t eat because of hunger and that’s the bit that can be impossible to control , that drive from the body whether emotional or physical, the availability of food , the joining in social side of it. But that doesn’t make what that poster said untrue.

if you watch those terribly sad American shows where people are hundreds and hundreds of pounds overweight, they are all without exception suffering from some trauma or another and food is a safe bet.

People who say “just eat less” have no idea what it’s like to be overweight or obese! If the solution was so simple then why doesn’t everyone just do that, Einstein?

No regrets I've lost 5 stone since Jan with the jabs.

There isn't lots of evidence is there? Just more of what somebody thinks. Please link that those taking MJ gain more weight after than those on traditional diets @Cucy. I get sick of reading bollocks that folks state are fact, happy to proven wrong.

Lost 50lbs in 6 months. Effortlessly, with no significant side effects. Mounjaro.

No regrets. All other attempts to control weight with exercise/diet, resulted in me actually putting on weight (and not good muscle weight - fat) because I just couldn't be consistent.

I've been on mj since March and Have lost 3 stone
I am very happy with that as I am coeliac and have an under active thyroid so loosing weight was always a huge battle and one I was too exhausted to tackle without help
But when I come off the injections, I am determined to stick to my better choices. I don't snack as much as I used to and I've started running, which has become easier with the excess weight off

I went on the cambridge diet and shifted three stone in four months with doing that and excercising. Have you tried something like that because you can do the injections, but most people I know on them have not changed their lifestyle or increased their excercise and weight has dropped off but in reality they arent any healthier. Surely the goal should be to be healthier, and the weight will drop of as a consequence. The injections are a magic pill but then what. Youll just be skinnier with the same bad habits.

I love Mounjaro. However also did well on Slimming World. Maybe try that first? I’m 50 and menopause fat doesn’t sit well with me.

Actually they will be healthier because losing weight makes a big difference to health! Yes, you could try the traditional diets but no doubt the OP already has and they don’t work as well and it really is a struggle too! That’s why people crash off them in the end. Is it so socially unacceptable for a treatment which makes you healthier to also be less of a punishment!

Based on the poster's subsequent attempt to provide evidence, no. Or if there is, she doesn't know about it. The links only showed that weight gain after coming off the injections is a risk, which pretty much everyone knows and that isn't even relevant for a lot of us who intend to remain on long term. People often tend to miss that if a person already qualifies for WLIs, there is no risk free outcome and thus it's a question of weighing up multiple pros and cons.

It's interesting that some people are so keen on the idea that they'll overstate the case. Worth thinking critically about why. Is it preconceptions, people seeing what they want to see, wishful thinking, outright dishonesty?