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Anyone taken weight loss injections and regretted it?

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itsallfoggy · 13/07/2025 18:36

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 ☺️

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Clareat2021 · 15/07/2025 07:34

Agix · 14/07/2025 06:59

You can eat less for free. You don't need to spend money on the injections or a personal trainer or any of that nonsense.

Just eat less. If the weight doesn't come off, you're eating too much.

Calorie recommendations are too high for most people, including calorie recommendations for weight loss. It's very likely you need to eat quite a bit less than you've been told to, to lose weight. Yes, even less than the doctor recommends.

All the weight loss injections do is force that really low calorie intake, by making you not want to eat. But you can do it for free.

It'll seem an unhealthily low amount of food, but it's just what the injections would make you do too. People act like to have to pay 100s per month to be "allowed" to eat so little, but you can actually do it for free. If anyone questions why you're eating so little, you just tell them you're on the injections. You don't actually have to be. Save your money and just eat much less. It'll do the exact same thing.

No, you are over simplifying a more complex issue. It stops me thinking about food all the time and struggling to feel full. Honestly wish people would stop saying just eat less. I'm 40 years old, I've been on a diet since I was 15. If just eating less worked, I wouldn't be obese at 40.

babasaclover · 15/07/2025 07:48

StMarie4me · 14/07/2025 07:14

What you need to do is accept that you need to go into a decent calorie deficit. I need to have between 1200-1600 a day to lose any weight. 1200 if I want to lost at a half decent rate! You can eat plenty of the right things for 1200 cals.

Can I ask your height and weight please? I’m 5’6 and 10 stone 4. Chatgbt says I need to eat 1270 calories to lose a lb a week. I’m not sure that’s low enough but new to the theory of calorie deficit

Looploop · 15/07/2025 09:19

As someone who has been obese most of my life until now - while also dieting and exercising - I’d say the “just eat less” brigade do not understand the first thing about what it’s like to be in my position.

I was never the “right” weight. People have judge me for that, treated me like I am stupid and have spoken down to me like I am a lesser person. I tried everything. Even on the jabs I am still an overweight BMI but I no longer stand out at large.

I lost weight from my own efforts then jabs over more than three years - around nine stone. People around me now probably don’t realise I’m still trying to lose weight as it’s been such a long time and the loss is so slow now.

Without MJ I would now be regaining weight and despairing about it. At least now I am merely a regular middle aged woman rather than chronically obese.

Roseblooms · 15/07/2025 17:42

ChocolateGanache · 15/07/2025 06:57

And they are all so defensive about it just now. Give it a couple of years. There will be law suits.

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How so? Law suits for what exactly?

RoseAlone · 15/07/2025 17:54

Hearingelem · 14/07/2025 07:45

I watched a Trisha Paytas podcast and one of the people working on it said they had to have their pancreas removed after using the injections they got really ill.

No they didn't 😂

BraveStarr · 15/07/2025 18:25

No regrets whatsoever. Best thing I’ve ever done. Using the injections alongside changing my lifestyle long-term has helped me to get my health back. The injections are expensive, but worth every penny as far as I’m concerned. I’ve been using the injections for 6 months and no major side effects.

Disturbia81 · 15/07/2025 19:00

Hotandbotheredflower · 15/07/2025 06:55

I struggle with the responses of just eat less it’s not that hard. If that was the case then we wouldn’t have over weight people 🥴

Exactly. Such a weird braindead comment.

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