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

[Plind]

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!

Oh my goodness me too! Honestly
i was terrified, I had no fitness, I didn’t know what I was doing and I was very self conscious of doing it wrong in the gym and having people laugh at me.

What I did was I went to several gyms and I found the right one for me, one that’s quiet, isn’t full of teenagers (pure gym etc tended to have a lot of the young weight lifters lounging round the equipment) and had a PT I liked. I joined up, had 1 PT session to get me started with a training plan, then I did that for 4 weeks and saw him again to correct form, change my programme if needed etc. and I just did that for 12 months. Then I didn’t need him anymore. Also the gym culture I was so scared of and intimidated by wasn’t scary at all! I ended up with several men and women helping me when I got started and encouraging me and correcting when needed. I had no he about weights and I really needed all the help I was given.

Yep I fully agree!

Thank you! How long roughly did it take you to see any difference in the way you looked? I did weight machines for months and nothing changed and it’s so hard to keep going when you don’t feel or see any benefit but I’m wondering if free weights might be better

“A mummy makeover”

Cringe.

In my experience it make weight loss very easy

I might have to put up with feeling sick, constipated, feeling tired as not eaten enough but you start to manage this and its far better than the alternative of starving myself pretending I am happy on a low carb diet or that I love to eat clean food all the time

I do not why people want to be martyrs about using the jabs and I do not care if people think I am cheating, I know I have taken the easy option and have no shame in that

Isn’t this a no sh*t Sherlock moment?

of course it’s easier to lose weight with the jabs - or why are people using the jabs?

I have never had this. I struggled a bit in the early days to eat but I never moved up the doses and a year later I can eat loads. I didn’t like feeling the suppression and lack of hunger at all.

If someone is going days without eating and having to force food down they either need to take less WLI or stop it completely.

Yep, definitely jealous 😂
Green isn't your colour @Plind

My thoughts exactly, considering she said they’re not within her budget but she would likely take them if she could afford it.

Totally agree, it's been piss easy to lose weight on mounjaro, I wish I could have been on them all the previous years I was a fatty, I've got to maintain it now though, that's the hard bit, I'd be on it for life if money was no object.

I agree with you OP. As someone who has had weight loss surgery previously and still struggled with the mentality of food and went on to regain by eating the wrong foods and not making the correct lifestyle changes. Mounjaro has been a life changer and I wish it existed earlier. All food noise disappears, my cravings vanish and I have no urge to eat after I inject for about 5-6 days then I feel it wearing off as I will start to consciously think about food again, one jab and it’s all gone again. When I’m on the jabs, I can easily go all day before realising I haven’t eaten yet. I’m the lightest I’ve ever been, healthiest I’ve ever been and it’s all down to the jabs as I didn’t achieve this weight even with 80% of my stomach removed and I’m now reducing to come off permanently after Christmas.
I do however think everyone is different and although some of us find it easy, others don’t have the same effects. I have a friend on it who gets fuller quickly when eating, however will just as quickly get hungry again so without careful meal planning filling herself up with water in between meals could easily consume just as many calories and have little to no weight loss

Yes, losing weight is easier on MJ. That’s why me and thousands of other people like me with health conditions which make weight loss difficult use the injections. For me, it’s been a game changer. I don’t get what the point of this post is though? It’s not a competition and why should those of us on wli’s say or ‘admit’ anything to make you feel better. This attitude of we (on wli’s) are somehow having it easy makes me cross. Losing weight isn’t easy whichever method one chooses. Glad you’ve lost weight, but as a pp said that colour green definitely doesn’t suit you.

People lose weight in different ways. Some is natural, some is jab assisted/enhanced and some is through trauma,🤷‍♀️

I lost nearly 7 stone, in under two years, after DH died - I had stress vomiting and have never got back to normal with my appetite. Not recommended. 🤷‍♀️

But, shedding weight is good, however you do it. 👍

WTAF? You DO have to put in the work. Exercising, for one thing (why do so many people think you don't have to exercise when you're on MJ?) and retraining your tastebuds/eating patterns so the weight doesn't go back on when you come off them. Plus, although the MJ stops you being able/inclined to 'shovel large amounts of unhealthy food in your gob' as you so charmingly put it, it doesn't completely remove food noise, self-discipline is still needed.

You simply do not know what you are talking about, OP. MJ makes losing weight easier while you are on it, yes, otherwise people wouldn't spend a blooming fortune on it. But without exercise and dietary changes, for many of us the weight would just go straight back on.

I think you need to stop looking at it as black and white. Some people can lose weight easily without WLIs, some can lose weight but find it difficult without WLIs, some people, for whatever reason whether you think it is valid or not, will never lose weight sustainably without WLIs (and a million different combinations)

There will be some people who found it easy to lose weight on WLIs and some who still have to as you say "put in the work". Some may find it difficult when they come to the long term maintenance part of their weight loss if they haven't "put in the work".

Using your use of the word "naturally" and as we are on a parenting forum - think of it like giving birth. Some people can do it naturally and some people need/want medical support. It doesn't make one person "better" than the other.

Regardless of all that, anyone who is trying to improve their health, whichever way works for them should be congratulated. We are not, or at least shouldn't be, in competition with each other for how hard it is and these posts making it that way are frankly getting boring.

You've not tried WL jabs so have asked people who have what its like. They've then shared their experience. If you think you know better than them what it's like why did you ask?

I think a combination of free weights and machines work well. Have you been doing progressive overload with them? Are you noticing you can lift heavier?

I didn’t start seeing real muscle changes until I increased my calories out of the weight loss zone, into the maintenance plus zone and upped my protein and started taking creatine, but that also coincided with me being leaner so you could see muscle definition, if I hadn’t lost the fat on top the only indicator I would be getting is that I’m physically stronger and upping my weights, which is what I mostly noticed for the first year in terms of muscle growth. In terms of weight loss it was really done in the kitchen and with walking.

Weight loss jabs are fairly new.. I wonder what long term effects they have over time. (Like people who say the covid jabs cause death ect..)
Also, what happens when you have to come off them, you’ll feel ravenous again and pile the weight back on. It won’t be a long term fix. Daily calorie deficit will be better for your health.

The mechanism by which you lose weight with WLI is by a daily calorie deficit.

Do it naturally then…

Just try them and see if it helps. It's just medicine. Use it or don't but there's no point getting judgemental about what other people say or do or how easy they find it to lose weight.

I think your view is too simplistic OP and doesn't recognise that work absolutely has to done even with WL jabs. It might not be in the initial stages for losing weight but it has to be done somewhere or in the maintenance stage otherwise it all just piles back on.

Part of the point of the jabs is to switch off the food noise in order to give time and space to address it which is needed alongside.

I don't take WL jabs BTW also lost 3 stone "the original way" won't call it the harder as all lifestyle and weight loss ways are hard just in different ways!
I certainly don't fancy the side effects that comes with WL jabs!

But @Plind, do you not see that’s 99% of YOUR issue. YOURS. Not everyone else’s.
Everyone’s on their own journey. You’re not a WL hero or working harder than people using WLIs, sorry to inform you. No point getting annoyed with people using them.

It’s a hell if a lot easier to eat less when they’re is no food noise. I’ve lost over a stone and am pretty much maintaining now and I never think about food. Zero will power required so I think you’re right to feel very proud of yourself OP.

Most people don’t feel ravenous. Fat people aren’t devouring food all the time. In fact, I think a lot of very overweight people become so because they restrict food or try to then succumb and massively overeat. That’s what I did most of last year. Kept starting diets then bingeing and ultimately ended up gaining weight.