All my historically fat friends have gone thin this year

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Okay maybe not ALL of them, but a few friends/acquaintances who have been very big for years and years, tried everything but could never shift the slightest bit of weight, have all had dramatic transformations and shed many stones over the past year. It’s just becoming expected now whenever I see another formerly large acquaintance or relative pop up on my feed with a super slim selfie.

I (rightly or wrongly) suspect it’s got to be WLIs or similar? Although all are adamant it’s a strict diet only. Just to add there is NOTHING wrong with jabs at all, and I’m aware it’s absolutely none of my business, and I sound mean but I wouldn’t actually discuss this in RL. It just got me thinking that being overweight might be obsolete in a few years?

Anyone else noticing this trend with people they know?

It doesn't matter what it was developed for, it matters what it's licenced for. Ozempic isn't licensed for obesity, Mounjaro is. Using it for weight loss is a legitimate, licenced use. You might want to get your own facts straight.

People eh 🙄

Fair enough. But it’s interesting though - if you’d lost a lot of weight by taking up marathon running or doing 5:2 or doing Paleo or whatever, I’m going to hazard a guess that you’d probably tell people if they asked.

I just don’t understand the shame about it?! If you’ve lost weight and you feel good then I’m happy for you, however you’ve done it.

5% of the adult population are on them; one in twenty people.
So yes, I agreee with you. I am starting to feel fat and wrinkly compared to my WLI, botoxed friends!

@Rosscameasdoody why does it matter that Mounjaro was initially developed as a T2 diabetes treatment? Weight loss always one of the intended additional effects, and it has been tested in clinical trials specifically for weight loss. It has been approved for weight loss on its own. Many medications are extended to treat additional conditions, that’s very usual.

If someone in the NHS is telling you that the shortage of medication for your DH is down to treating obesity privately, they are wrong and mistaken about that. NHS supplies are ring fenced, cost is nothing to do with private demand.

Have you read this thread? And seen the judgement aimed at people who take WLI? That’s why people don’t tell people.

How please?

i know Loads of people that I’ve suddenly lost loads of weight of course it’s the jabs I don’t understand why they don’t just say? Everyone knows anyway!

I also know people who are already slim using wli and they look gaunt and unwell.

You are side stepping the point that I, and several others, have made.

I am perfectly prepared to accept that Mounjaro was developed for diabetes- you say that and im sure a quick Google would prove you right. However, I don't feel the need to check as I have no reason to doubt you.

The point you are not responding to is this: Mounjaro is licenced for weight loss by the MHRA. This demonstrates that obesity is considered a disease requiring treatment. In the same way that diabetes is a disease requiring treatment. Hence, there is nothing morally wrong in people with obesity seeking prescription of a medication licenced to treat their medical condition and it is unkind and unfair of you to continue to blame such people for denying diabetics the right to the treatment that the MHRA seem suitable for their medical conditions.

Obesity is a "genuine medical reason" for using Mounjaro. It's licenced for weight loss. Give it a rest will you.

I've lost 3.5 stones this year and not with WLIs. It's been diet and strength training for me but it's taken a whole year and I've stuck to it faithfully all year after I finally got sick of my shit by the end of 2024. Other people I know who've lost weight over the year are mixed - some WLIs, some diet and exercise.

Maybe the introduction of WLIs has given people a kick up the arse. For my self I was keen to not take them but if I hadn't been able to make a difference to my weight without them this year, I would've been open to giving them a try.

It is going to be so interesting to see how this revolution will play out in the coming years. I heard today that M&S have developed a range of meals for people on the jabs who don’t want to eat much. They are smaller portions with all the nutrients that the jabbers might otherwise miss out on. I am Hoping this kind of thing will be of benefit to those of us not on jabs because the food industry makes it so difficult to lose weight.

if all the morbidly obese people stop eating food companies are going to lose a lot of business.

I wonder what the government would do if all the confectioners, fast food takeaways and bakeries went bust?

Massively cut down on sugar intake. Concentrated on protein plus fruit and veg. The resulting lack of blood sugar spikes made it easier to avoid snacking.
I also got a puppy (not a method I’d really recommend 😁) and spent a lot of time walking. Focussed on being generally more active.
Oh and ditched booze!

@Midnights68 I’m not ashamed, hopefully nothing I’ve said indicated that. If I’d lost the 11st that I have by marathon running, or Paleo then I might mention it if someone asked because neither of those things are a personal medical or health decisions. I did C25K alongside and will talk about that, again because it isn’t a medical thing. And people that know me, know that I’m running when I haven’t done so for years.

So my DH’s diabetic consultant is wrong ? We were advised that the price of Mounjaro has doubled in recent months and the fact that people are buying up supplies has fed into NHS provision. This was confirmed by the pharmacy supplying his Mounjaro - they are having difficulty sourcing it and supply varies according to area.

I’d agree with you if the people I know were taking it because they are genuinely obese. They’re not.

Are you always this judgemental about the ways in which people choose to spend their money?

How do you know their BMI?
I lost weight without WLI but people would have said that I wasn’t obese at a size 12-14. I was, my BMI was 31.

Well, luckily, the WHO and the MHRA appear to have based their definition of obesity as a disease on a larger sample than 'some people you know'.

For what it's worth, I had a BMI of 43 when I started Mounjaro. If we are going for anecdotal evidence, I do not know a single person in real life on Mounjaro who didn't start with an obese BMI. Some people clearly obtain it fraudulently. But they are a drop in the ocean of genuinely obese people so desperate to improve their health abd lives that they are prepared pay close on £300 per month to do so.

Wow congratulations!

That may well be the case but that doesn't mean nobody taking it is obese. If people are lying to get a private prescription be annoyed with them, not the genuinely obese people for many of whom this is a life saving (or at least life changing) medication.

Anecdote is not the plural of data. Just leaving that there.

The people I know on the injections (including thin people) are pretty open about it!

I'm quite envious if I'm honest - would love to lose a few pounds without much effort but am in the healthy BMI category

(that said, the people I know have ALL gone too far, look gaunt and grey and are obsessed with not putting the weight on again, so they keep taking the drugs).

Makes me happy that people finally have a workable solution to being obese.
I’m on them, following 40 years of yo-yo misery. MJ makes my body and brain work as they should and I’m hugely grateful for them, for me and for others who’ve suffered!