To be annoyed at people thinking I’ve use weight loss jabs

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Long story short I’ve just had baby and lost 3 stone in 3 months, weights dropped off through breast feeding / barely getting time to eat 3 meals a day / walking toddler to nursery and back on a buggy board which is uphill one way everyday (heavyyy)
Because of this hype about weight loss jabs lately, I’ve had several people now ask and accuse me of using them. To the point people think I’m lying by saying it’s fine if you have please don’t feel embarrassed you look amazing. It’s really peeing me off now, I don’t know why it’s grinding my gears so much. I’d never go near them and really don’t agree with them personally so maybe that’s why. But it feels the more I say how much I dislike them, people think I’m covering up a secret. I even got called a secret jabber by a friend. Anyone else go through similar ?

Of course you're allowed to be annoyed that people think you're lying. Some new mums lose weight quickly post baby and thinking it must be due to weight loss injections is weird imo. Especially when your breast feeding, why on earth would you use them. Ignore.

Why ‘accuse’? Would you accuse someone who has PND of taking anti depressants? Fucking hope not!
Or, if you refuse to see obesity as an illness, would you accuse someone who is addicted to nicotine of using patches, or someone addicted to heroine of using methodone? Genuine questions, maybe will help you understand why you’re so personally offended by something like that?

I don’t know why it’s grinding my gears so much. I’d never go near them and really don’t agree with them personally so maybe that’s why

Answered your own question, so why the thread?

I've recently lost a significant amount of weight and get asked the same thing, by mums I've never spoken to before at school, neighbours I didn't know existed etc.

I tell them the truth.

It is because of the jabs. But not because I actually took them.

I swore to myself the very day I overate my calories I would order them.

I hate needles and feeling nauseous so didn't really want to, but I also needed to lose a couple of stone for my health. And when I threatened myself I knew I meant it 🤣

Are their other medications you don’t agree with? Statins? Antidepressants? ADHD treatments? People really are getting their knickers in a twist about a life changing/life saving drug.

I think OP is getting a hard time here. She didn’t slate WLIs, but was annoyed at people refusing to believe she wasn’t taking them.

People insinuating that you’re a liar is intensely annoying. I can understand why it pissed her off.

tell them you did it the old fashioned way and are on meth!

well done on the WeightLoss. In fairness anything you’ve done, people who are on injections would be doing too. You’ve lost baby weight - as many of us on here have - me included.
You’ve not hit a nerve, I think people are hitting yours but you’re being disingenuous about it. I would just say that you can’t take them with BF, and are luckily saving money.
In point of fact they’ve got credible evidence of the injections having amazing affects on other things such as life expectancy and Alzheimer’s so it maybe one day a or more people will be microdosing them. Including you OP (or you’ll be jealous) I certainly would be!

I’ve lost a little under 6 stone, the initial 4 stone I lost very quickly. People often presume that I’ve used injections but I just tell them I did it through calorie counting and didn’t have any intervention. I don’t get offended, I have nothing against the jabs as family members use them. If don’t believe me then that’s their issue not mine 🤷🏼‍♀️. Many people ask for some hints and tips. However someone loses weight it’s still an incredible feat. Surgery and jabs are just as hard work and bring their own challenges to the table. I wouldn’t have been able to afford either of them but I wouldn’t have turned either down if they had been offered.

I’m incredibly proud of myself and I would still feel the same way if I’d had surgery or jabs. Any way you lose is hard work and dedication. Medical intervention in weight loss isn’t a magic fix. You don’t jab yourself and the weight melts away. You don’t have surgery and find yourself suddenly slim.

Why an earth would anyone look down on someone for having diabetes?! What a silly comment to make!

Really? Illegal, highly addictive and destructive opioid vs clinically tested, prescription only medicine. Are you an anti-vaxxer too?

💯 agree with this.
I may have believed otherwise if I hadn't of watched DH struggling with WLI.

I'm slim and assumed they were a quick fix.

DH has thrown in the towel, between the hunger, stomach upset and dedication, he is not in the right place for it now.

He thought it would be magical, inject, no hunger, lose weight, it takes work, commitment, discomfort and dedication.

Best of luck with your journey.

I have lost 3 stone with the help of Mounjaro and I do think it’s rude to ask people if they’ve used the jabs. It’s really no one else’s business. I decided when I started using it that I wasn’t going to tell anyone in my life apart from my mum, and I’ve stuck to that, even when someone I don’t know very well asked me outright if I had.

OP you are getting a hard time here because you sound a bit judgemental about them.

To be fair to op, there was a lot of bad press and warnings about the jabs, and many celebrities speaking up about the misuse and dangers of WLI - its not surprising that some people have developed a bad view of them and wouldn't want to be associated with taking them. I'm not surprised she'd be insulted if someone openly assumed she was taking them whilst breastfeeding.

Why don't you agree with them op? You sound judgemental about drugs that are really helpful to lots of people

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i threaten myself with stuff too!

(not the jabs as im definitely not going to use them no matter how much I threaten myself 🤣🤣)

glad it worked for you!!

Saying you don’t agree with them and how outraged you are at being accused of using them implies a disdain for people who do use them. So you are unreasonable for that as they are not a get out of fat free card - side effects are horrible and you still have to eat well and take exercise etc.

To the point people think I’m lying by saying it’s fine if you have please don’t feel embarrassed you look amazing.

That’s awful. I’d say ‘You’re right, there’s nothing embarrassing about weight loss jabs, which is why if I did use them, I would say it. But you repeatedly asking makes me think you think people should be embarrassed by using them’

So what’s so wrong about using a medication to deal with a life threatening condition like obesity ? Do you feel the same about people using blood pressure medication for high BP ? For Insulin for Diabetes and Thyroxine for an underactive thyroid ? All equal life threatening conditions that can end in premature death ? Obesity can lead to cancer , heart failure, stroke .. so why the downer on MJ that has taken me from life threatening obesity to health and an active life ?

Post baby at 37, I got down to my skinny 25 years old size... until each feed I cut out I put on a kilo. 😣

Don't assume you will keep the BF effect unfortunately.

I’ve lost weight, and kept it off with keto and running over the course of the last couple of years. Of course people think it’s WLI, sometimes people ask. My thought, whatever works. And that is what I say. If they want me to bore them with eating plans and exercise plans, I will.

I have had a couple of people look disappointed because they are feeling defeated and want it to be something they currently feel able to do.

Talking about people ‘accusing’ you of using WLI is just silly. Have a word with yourself.

I think op is getting a tough time here. Being accused of lying isn't pleasant.

The "you will pile it back on comments" are nasty. Just no need.

I wasn’t slagging people off who take them. I’ve been over weight for a long time , 4 years since having my first dc , we’re talking 16 stone at 5’9 so carried it well but still in the obese BMI range. You always hear eat less move more and low and behold I ate less and moved more and weight dropped off. I don’t believe you need 3 meals a day, I’ve been perfectly fine and kept it off now for a month without ‘trying’ it’s just become a part of my daily life. I was never showing off in my post I was just trying to get across the point that I didn’t go out of my way or deliberately lose it fast. To be be fair is don’t know much about the jabs.

When the clinical evidence of people achieving weight loss that takes them from Obese to healthy is less than 1%.. and if that tiny minority, 80/90% put it all back in and more .. after 5 years.

whilst with WLI 40-60% achieve the same outcome with 87% maintaining that at 3 years… if they continue on a maintenance dose .. (like me) . Then you don’t need to be either a rocket scientist or a statistician to tell you which method has the better outcome.

MJ is a miraculous drug and I am thankful every day it was invented. (Not knew btw - been around for 5 years- and just as people get side effects from paracetamol/aspirin/bp meds etc.. not everyone gets them .

• A May 2025 NEJM trial reported SAEs in 4.8% of tirzepatide users vs 4.1% overall; rates were similar across treatment and control arm

The scare lingering in some of these threads is just not backed up by the peer reviewed research.

To be be fair is don’t know much about the jabs.

If you don't know much about them why do you not agree with them? Maybe learn a bit about them before deciding they're a bad thing.

Meow!! How catty can you get!