to think my colleague should just admit she is on weight loss injections?

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At work we have all noticed Sally has lost a lot of weight in the past few months. She is always talking about diets and what she eats and does not eat anymore and makes a big deal about avoiding the biscuit tin in the kitchen. She keeps saying it is just willpower and cutting out snacks.

Last week I walked past her desk, her bag was open, and there was one of those weight loss injection pens in plain sight.

Now I cannot unsee it and every time she goes on about her self control it feels performative.

I am not saying she has to announce it to the whole office, but when she is preaching about anyone can do it if they just try it feels a bit dishonest.

AIBU to think she should either be upfront or just stop making a song and dance about how she has done it all naturally?

I think you should just mind your own business, she doesn’t owe anyone an explanation and if she’s too embarrassed to admit to a colleague taking weight loss injections, then it’s kinder to be quietly understanding. Maybe if you were a close trusted friend things would be different. She is certainly being partially honest as they make you skip the snack isle and have self control through less food noise.

Why on earth would it be in her bag?

They need to be taken same day each week but the timing is not crucial, so no one would ever need to take it to work with them.

It needs to be refrigerated.

If she does have Ozempic or Mounjaro - theres a good chance it is for diabetes, as the NHS are very very rarely prescribing it for weight loss at the minute (I am prescribed Mounjaro for both, previously Ozempic for diabetes).

If that was a fat jab pen, though doubtful, what do you hope to achieve by outing her?
‘she’s says she’s been eating healthier and less! But she’s taking Mounjaro!’ Except she will have been eating less, and healthier, a lot less regardless of that pen or not.
Both things can be true.

EpiPen?
In things that are nobody’s business this is one of them

I have a self injector pen in my bag - it’s sumatriptan.

Weight loss drugs are to be kept refrigerated and wouldn’t be carried around.

They have to be kept refrigerated so I highly doubt it would be in her bag.

none of your business and good for her losing weight

Looks like somebody is jealous

No they arent

after first use they can be kept out.

Mounjaro does NOT need to be kept refrigerated after your first use

What do you mean after first use? The ones that I've seen you get a box of four pens, one for each week, and you use it and you throw it away. Using the first one doesn't negate the others needing to be refrigerated.

It would still be odd to carry it around with you though.

Mounjaro has 4 doses in 1 pen.

Can be, but it’s not best practice, especially with how hot it’s been!

I doubt she really had it in her handbag. Why would anyone take a once-weekly syringe into work where there are busybodies like you hanging around?

Leave her alone, ffs. If you want to say something to her, tell her she looks good. If you want to talk about her, say she looks good. Stop being a bitch, in other words.

They don’t need to be kept in the fridge once you’ve started using them, but a lot of people do.

i don’t advertise it at work, I don’t want a discussion about my weight loss medication unless I want people to know. I just try and avoid all conversation about it, but might need to say something to explain my weight loss and that might seem performative. It’s difficult to stay silent when changes have been made and you’ve dropped dress sizes. You basically can’t win.

Maybe stop thinking this is at all any of your business? Ugh. People need to mind their own business.

It is NONE of your business. Not at all. Do not get involved.

This. It’s dishonest, and it helps others to admit it.

Once you’ve started a pen, which lasts four weeks, you keep it at room temp. Can’t imagine why your colleague would be carrying it around as it’s a once a week injection and not too time critical (not like ivf jabs!).

but at any rate…none of your business. I’m on them and only my husband knows. I’ve had to sit through numerous conversations about my weight and I deflect deflect deflect. Sometimes I speculate that I’m doing more walking or changed my breakfast choices as some people are relentless wanting to know what I’ve done. But I don’t owe them an explanation.

If she’s making a thing of it to other people (ie if she’s saying things like “you just need self control like me”) then whether she’s on WLI or not she needs to stop it.

Otherwise, who cares.

I very much doubt her weight loss injection pen is in her handbag either.

There aren’t many other medications where people feel entitled to know if someone else is taking it. Private medical information is just that. I don’t go round telling people that my improved mood is down to anti depressants.

I’m on Mounjaro and there is still willpower involved. Yes it reduces your appetite and helps you make better choices but it doesn’t stop you from eating entirely. I’m a firm believer that a persons medical information, what prescription drugs they take is no one else’s business. Should she have a right to know if you are using statins or blood pressure medication? Or if you take IBS meds? No. And you don’t have a right to know if she takes a prescription drug to manage her weight. That’s between her, her GP and the prescribing doctor.

Why are you so invested anyway? I’m pretty open about my weight loss being down to Glps but it’s really no one else’s business.