Sick of people on weight loss jabs saying you still have to “put in the work” with wl jabs

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I’ve lost a fair amount of weight naturally this year. It’s been hellish as I’m fairly sure I have some sort of psychological reliance on comfort eating. I asked a couple of people I know if they recommend I go on WL jabs for the last stretch as I have lost momentum and am stagnating but could probably still do with losing another 20 pounds. They always say well “WL jabs still elan you have to put in the work. The fat doesn’t evaporate”. I’m sorry but WHAT. The injections are doing the hard bit for you. Ie stopping you from wanting to shovel large amounts of unhealthy food in your gob. It’s very annoying. I see this comment online all the time too.

I definitely do not have an issue with people on WL jabs. I would use them too but I am saving up for a mummy makeover so have chosen to save my money as a SAHM.

Very defensive comments imo!

But...you do have to put the work in. If you don't, you are wasting your money on the jags. If people don't change their lifestyles while on them they are much more likely to regain the weight, go back to being prediabetic/Type 2, etc

But I still don’t understand why it’s anyone else’s business or certainly why you would care.

WLI are essentially a form of HRT. Some people have a hormone imbalance that controls their hunger/appetite which these drugs rebalances. Other people don’t have that imbalance, or have it to a lesser extent.

For years people have felt shame for being greedy/lazy every other thing under the sun for being overweight and failing to do anything about it.

Now they are being shamed for doing something about it with people in every direction heckling that they shouldn’t.

Personally, I’ve never really struggled with periods/menopause. Barely registered- but I’m not about to tell the millions of women who have suffered that they should go without the drugs that would help them because I didn’t need them.

WLI, like HRT, also look like they can help with heart health and dementia prevention too so the ‘we don’t know the long term effects’ works both ways.

So what if they stay on them? What business is it of yours?

People are paying for these drugs themselves and, by tackling their own health issues, will save the NHS billions in the long run.

So what exactly is everyone’s problem, other than they don’t get to feel morally superior to someone else.

It bemuses me when the default assumption is that people will come off them.

Exactly. And why that’s even a consideration for people who aren’t even taking them.
Imagine a friend telling you they’d decided to take anti depressants and your first response being ‘well what’s going to happen when you come off them? You’ll just get depressed again’.

For many who are not getting them on the NHS, they can’t afford them long term

That’s for them to think about though, not some random bystander who isn’t even taking them.

OP, it irrelevant what anyone else thinks. This is all very strange thinking on your part - do you think you should have a medal for your particular style of weight-loss, or perhaps you think that you are more 'worthy' somehow? Look, nobody cares. Go on MJ if you want, nobody's stopping you. It will work, but there can be quite extreme side-effects. Nobody cares if you lose weight via MJ, WeightWatchers, or whatever. Just do what works for you and stop obsessing about other people.

They’d prefer you being a fatty forever because otherwise they lose their oddly perceived moral edge.

The irony being that a lot of slim people just don’t feel the same intense cravings that overweight people do, which is becoming obvious via GLP1s. And even if they do and somehow resist them they like to think that is something better about them.

I can only think it's jealousy because some people can't afford them. That's it really.

You absolutely do have to put the work in! Yabu

I find WLI extremely helpful and lost weight very easily. I’ve only gone up to 5mg and have been on that for about a year now. Still have suppression and try to make better food choices. But, it’s been a walk in the park for me and I’ve been lucky with very minor side effects. I think some people say it’s still hard whilst using them as they are fed up of the ‘cheating’ mentality of many.

I'm on the jabs and will fully admit I don't put any work in at all. I don't exercise. I don't count calories. I'm simply just not hungry enough to overeat.

So I did WLI and lost 2 stone. According the bodytrax machine at the gym it was all fat and I even gained muscle. I did not want to lose muscle.. otherwise it’s pointless - will just gain back fat after.

It was very hard work. I lifted weights every day. I ran 5km every day. I did Pilates every day for core. I ate 150g protein every day. I ate 30g of fibre and no processed food. I limited myself to 1,300 calories. Yes it’s true it was slightly easier to stick to the calorie limit. But everything else was exactly the same - the need to eat protein, the need to lift weight the need to move more.

I’m not sure what a “mummy make over is”. After my weight loss I’m ripped with a 6 pack.

I lost 3 stone on my own and 2 on the jabs and honestly I think it’s the other way around , it was easier to loose naturally as you don’t have the side effects that are honestly horrendous . This being said I only ever used the jabs as the natural way was no longer working and I’m by no means dying either way is easy . If it was everyone would be skinny

Yes, and many others can whilst still more do get them on the NHS. Hence there should be no default assumption. Nobody is qualified to make that assessment for the probably million plus people currently using them.

To be honest you lost me at ‘mummy makeover’ .

Why does it need to be a penance?

I think it’s a form of jealous spite. They want people to come off them so they can regain the weight.

imagine being so messed up about weight, you’d be hoping people come off so they regain, just cause you can’t get the drugs or haunting online forums making spiteful comments about them as you’re so jealous and resentful.

So I just had to google it.

Because of the “hard work” I put in using WLI, weight lifting, Pilates, cardio, and healthy high protein diet, I’m now totally ripped with a 6 pack. I don’t need any “mummy make over”. I suppose I could get breast enhancement if it was really my thing. But the stubborn fat has all gone, stomach is flat and defined etc.

TBH - looking at it another way. A mummy make over is a short cut to avoid getting lean and toned the hard way, ie in the gym. Which makes the OP a little bit of a hypocrite.

Oh god, i just googled mummy makeover as well. It’s full on plastic surgery, breast augmentation, liposuction, tummy tuck, arm lift, vaginal rejuvenation.

😱

Wow, I bet you are! Excellent job!

Would you mind saying what your starting weight was and how tall you are? Just for inspiration - I’m desperately trying in the gym! Obviously tell me to mind my own business if you don’t want to share.

Yes for a few days, then it’s back, then you have to work at will power until you get to your next weekly jabs. I was expecting a miracle cure but for context I’ve lost a stone and a half in 12 weeks. That’s not fast weight loss.

Jealousy then.

It’s all a bit unusual op. Clearly you’re a sahm with a very high disposable income, income being money you personally earn, so likely rental properties or shares etc, as you’re saving for thousands and thousands of pounds worth of plastic surgery, which is what a mommy make over is, yet you don’t want to spend a couple of hundred a month on wli, which you clearly desperately want.

i mean personally if I could afford a mommy make over,not that I’d ever even consider such a thing, and really wanted the drugs, then I’d do that also,

id recommend forgetting the plastic surgery, getting the drugs if you want them, and as your “friends” told you. Put the work in. Eat clean, eat your protein, drink 3 litres of water a day, limit alcohol, and undertake a fitness program incorporating strenght, resistance and cardio, thus ensuring you lose fat and not muscle, and then when you hit goal weight, do the work on body recomp, dropping fat, increasing muscle and it is highly unlikely you will need plastic surgery,

that’s what people mean when they say put the work in.

Very true - it’s mental gymnastics