Why does everyone say they love being fat until they get their hands on skinny jabs?

[Holmints]

I’m seeing this so much on social media. People screaming from the rooftops how they love their bodies. Hate comments come and they combat them with body positivity, I admired them so much.

Lately though, the very people who were oh-so-body-positive are popping back up five stone lighter. Some comment on it and some don’t, as if they’re waiting for people to ask. Hang on a minute, I thought you loved your big body? Did you love being fat or not?

Most people don't lose weight all that quickly - that seems to happen with people who are morbidly obese to start with. In those cases the rapid weight loss is still probably safer than continuing to be morbidly obese. Weight loss injections are very far from instant gratification, and who is the medical professional who doesn't recommend them? Lots of doctors are still prejudiced against modern/effective ways of losing weight because they are living in the 90s and recommend slimming clubs and low fat diets to people. Unless your medical professional is a specialist in obesity treatments I'm not sure why their recommendation is any more valid than the millions of medical professionals in the UK alone who both prescribe and use WLI.

Sorry, who don’t recommend them? My gp is fully supportive.

Just say you’re jealous about people losing weight when you're still overweight. I’d have way more respect for you if you did.

My GP said she wasn’t trained in prescribing them so couldn’t make any recommendations, but when I was last in she was massively impressed with all the improvements in my health indicators.

What makes you think everyone is losing weight 'so quickly'? Obviously I can't speak for everyone on them but I'm averaging 1.6 lbs loss a week, so in the middle of the recommended 1-2lbs a week. From the threads I'm on here most people are losing at a similar rate. Most people are pretty well informed about the risks of losing too quickly - gall stones, hair loss, malnutrition etc - and so trying to avoid that .
The difference I/ we are finding with Mounjaro is that that progress is steady rather than falling off the tracks after a few months.
If you ever wanted to try them but to lose at a slower pace then nothing would be stopping you, you'd just need to make sure you were at a suitable calorie deficit. The key would probably be to stay on the lowest dose and if suppression was high, to prioritise higher calorie foods.

Its her thoughts!! You cant force people into having the same mindset as you.

I’m a medical professional, have done my research (actual medical research and evryfin) and I take them. I’m not starving myself- I had melon, cottage cheese and ham for breakfast, caponata with canillini beans and a yoghurt at lunch, and a Greek salad with olive oil and feta and a pitta for tea.

I’m losing about 1.5 lbs a week.

Brownbear, you said earlier in the thread that you thought people taking WLI were just attention seeking, so why do you keep posting on a thread that has weight loss injections in the thread title??

Yeah, this poster had made her feelings clear when she asked me what, exactly, I had to feel proud about relating to my WLI weight loss. Her thoughts are shit.

Ok I didn't read that bit!

It’s fine to not want to use WLI. No one is ever going to force you. What I don’t, and will never understand is why some people have such great problems with other people using them. How does it affect you?

It’s jealousy because they aren’t able to change something about themselves they don’t like so don’t want anyone else to, either.

Absolutely agree

My experience of WW was that bigger weight losses = bigger praise and it was so toxic

I could always lose but not maintain without WLI, however the loss was a very jagged graph, think 4lbs down, 2lbs up, 3lbs down, 1.5lbs up. Big losses then rebounds.

On WLIs I managed a steady straight downwards line of 1-2lbs a week, never more. Until I go on maintenance, and then it's the straight-ish line with no more than 2lbs variation either way, for months on end, which I never, ever managed off WLIs.

There IS instant relief on WLIs, suddenly feeling how other people think everyone feels, is a huge revelation. But when it comes to weight loss or maintenance, it's still tracking, changing habits, all the same stuff, just without the odds stacked against you for a change

I'm a positive fat person on jabs.

I didn't love being fat...I dont think anyone does. But I accepted it and refused to hide away or be ashamed of my size.

Didn't mean I didn't want to be slimmer and healthier, but I was also postitive about how I looked.

I'm not as generous as you

I think it's uglier

I think it's because it shows up the ugly way they view fat people. Admitting that it isn't a level playing field, and WLIs level it for many, would mean reassessing their own bias.

Their faux concern for the health of obese people is blown out of the bloody water now that those fat people are getting healthy!

I would do love it if @Brownbearwhitebear would come and engage with the posters quoting her and say "oh, I didn't know that, I just hear about people losing 5 stone in a couple of months..now I might change my view." I never actually see anyone in these threads engage with people giving quite substantial anecdotal evidence to the contrary of their view and acknowledging they were wrong.

@Brownbearwhitebear

Sorry but losing so much weight so quickly doesn’t sound any healthier

Losing weight rapidly over a long period is not healthy. Some, especially those who are severely or morbidly obese lose quickly especially in the first couple of months, which is ok and it slows down over time. You can, to a certain extent, control your WLI dose to keep the losses at a healthy rate over a longer term. One of the benefits is they help to keep you losing over a longer term.

to me than being overweight (which I am) in the first place.

If you are "only" overweight the medication is not for you. It is for people who are considered obese (unless you also have weight related health related conditions)

I’ve always understood you have a better chance of maintaining if you lose slowly.

I have lost so many times in my life, mostly slowly, rarely got to a healthy BMI level and it never stayed off. I hope I will be able to maintain this time after maintaining on the medication for at least a year, then try coming off.

The jabs feel like instant gratification which is pretty much what most people want these days and that doesn’t sit right with me.

I have been on the medication for 14 months now and probably another 6-8 months to get to a healthy BMI, wont say that is instant

I wish it did because I’d love to be 5 stone lighter in 6 months

But you thought it was unhealthy and didn't want that? Many people are working hard at this and have a long journey ahead to lose those stones and change, even save their lives. Not everyone is approaching this as you see in the social media headlines.

but I’ve been told by a medical professional that they don’t recommend them 🤷🏻‍♀️

Even though someone is a medical professional it doesn't mean this is within their area of expertise. Wait until you hit peri menopause and are faced with Drs telling you they don't recommend HRT 🙄 Some medical professionals opinions are just that, uninformed opinions. Unless they do not recommend for you and your personal circumstances, this doesn't mean they are not suitable for others.

They think everyone on WLIs are losing weight too fast and getting ozempic face because the people in their lives who are using them sensibly and healthily know better than to confide in them that they're using the jab alongside their lifestyle changes!

And they don't think those of us who are happy to stop and maintain at a healthy midsize could possibly be on them as we don't fit their narrative of WLI users.

They only see the WLI abusers. The rest of us are just liars who will either balloon back up again, or go too far and skeletal, any moment now, and they can't wait!

Having lost 3.5 stone on Mounjaro I look fucking amazing 😁, and my face looks great. The muscle that I always had under my fat (I weight train 3 times a week, and did the same when I was fat) is now visible.
I didn’t tell anyone bar my DH that I was taking it though, so they don’t know that my glow up is down to WLI!

I have never spoken to anyone who says they love being fat. Silly title.

"get their hands on...." Is yet F ING MORE silly teenagers language

We clinically qualify
Get a prescription
Our GP is automatically informed of every dose even if we pay through a private provider
It goes on our NHS medical record for all our care providers to see

But sure, say we are "getting our hands on them" like we're kids outside of corner shops getting older kids to get us booze and vapes

🤬

personally I hated my bigger body but I never spoke about it as it’s boring and uncomfortable for other people so I never mentioned it. I have taken MJ and now a year later I’m 5 and a half stone down and am much happier in my slimmer body. I also don’t talk about it or mention it as it’s boring and makes others uncomfortable. Your body, your choice.

I have lost 7 stones, not with injections although I definitely would have done if they'd been as popular and available when I lost the weight.

I follow some plus size influencers on insta still, they are gorgeous and seem to have happy lives but I can't help but think they can't lose weight even if they wanted to because they are making a huge amount of money from being very overweight. If they lost that weight they would lose their platform and their brand deals which come off the back of being fat.

Yes I’ve thought this too. There’s one in particular I follow and I genuinely believe she wants to use WLI but doesn’t want to alienate her following (and provoke reactions like this OP!)

She sounds ridiculous!

Ridiculous.

It seems to bother people that fat people had the same will power and information as them all along, they just genuinely did have it easier as their GLP-1 wasn't outta whack!

This is so true!