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?

@Rosscameasdoody yes he’s wrong. The price rise being the easiest one to verify. Prices increased from September, due to Trump in the US forcing an executive order to make Eli Lilly charge Americans the same as the cheapest price in any other country. Which was the UK at the time. So, instead of lowering the US prices to the UK range, Lilly chose to raise the UK prices instead. Nothing to do with people like me getting a private prescription. Ditto with the supply. Lilly chose to prevent UK private pharmacies from reordering before the price rise in Sept. Again, not the NHS ring fenced supplies. I’d ask your consultant about those issues perhaps next time you speak to them. He seems misinformed.

I dont think he's misinformed. I think he's disingenuous.

I often wonder what a body that has very quickly lost about 10 stone would look like naked though. I've seen a few at the gym who have lost a lot of weight(by any means) and the sagging skin is so disgusting that I think I'd rather stay fat. Your arms, inner thighs, tummy, neck and face. Everywhere shows clear signs of dramatic weight loss. I guess if you didn't care about that aspect of things then at least you're healthier. It just would feel depressing to lose the weight and still hate what you see in the mirror.

Funny… I’m just happy having a healthier body for my older years. Despite my ‘haggard’ appearance 🙄

Christ, what compassion.

Luckily for you, you don’t need to worry about other people and their bodies, only your own.

People who lose a lot of weight slowly also can have sagging skin.
Personally I’d rather be healthy with a bit of loose skin than morbidly obese.

Only time they need to be accountable to you OP is if you are funding it and wanting to see value for money.

WLI’s are just another tool, but you still need to put in the work in the gym and with your diet if you want the toned shape most people are looking for. I think they are a great. They give people the head space and kick start they need. I expect we will see a massive increase in cosmetic surgery for skin removal and tummy tucks etc.

Not every thread needs to be about something thats wrong.

@inequalities

gosh - very superficial!

if you have 10 stone plus to lose, the thought of living and being healthy surely counts more than any loose skin might?

I suppose, if you are the sort of person prepared to put appearances over quality and longevity of life, like that poster, you perhaps have bigger problems to contend with than a bit of loose skin.

I think that is a real danger and those type of people will develop illness and disease due to being unnaturally underweight- similar to the health issues associated with anorexia.
it worries me on that level hugely.
I mean I am small but have the middle age meno belly ring that annoys me. I lift weights and am fit but I quite fancy having something that stops me eating. I won’t I can see the temptation.

Yes, I suppose there's a happy medium to be struck. But my point was that many people seem to just feel jealous of these people who have lost the weight and I think they are being unrealistic about how they actually look. Unless they can afford surgery they will live with the evidence of weight loss forever. That's just a fact. So in other words, if you've worked hard all your life to stay slim and healthy, please don't get bent out of shape that others didn't bother as you will still look far better naked anyway.
Everyone should just do what makes them happy and confident.

You might be more interested in what their furred up arteries looked like on the inside of their body - before and after. You might be amazed at how their dangerous visceral fat has vastly diminished. You might be glad that their risk of stroke, heart attack and diabetes has substantially reduced.

I don't care if you look at my saggy skin in disgust - that's not how I judge myself.

You don't understand the shame? Posts like these point to it, surely? There is no goodwill, no kindness.....pure judgement. You weren't strong enough to lose weight 'naturally'. You owe everyone who asks an explanation. You're taking the easy way out. Your face looks dreadful. You must be experiencing terrible side effects. You won't maintain it, it will go back on when you stop. You must have loose skin......

How about....amazing you've found something that works for you. Is there any support I can give you?

The inability to just be pleased for people is staggering.

Mmm, if the conversation has been accurately described its rather odd. I suppose there's no reason for a consultant to know anything much about supply chains though, not his area.

Age is just ONE risk factor for type 2. If it was the main driver, all older people would be diabetic!
Agreed it's not always weight driven. Some "skinny" people also have too much fat stored in or around the liver and pancreas. Just because people don't eat much doesn't mean they eat healthily.
And how do you know that these other people on the drugs don't also have mobility issues limiting their ability to exercise? They've just intervened before becoming diabetic or pre-diabetic. Good for them. Losing weight will help them be able to begin some exercise.

Former "fat friend" here. I have used WLI this year and my life is transformed. I have never been happier and feel like a weight has been lifted from me (literally) as I, for once in about 20 years, are in charge of my appetite and eating pattern. My chronic asthma has improved vastly with my reduction in weight, my IBS has improved and my mood is much better. I have been asked by "friends' if I am using weight loss injections and I just change the subject and that's usually enough to stop the conversation. It feels that suddenly people who were not overweight feel slighted by "fat" people "cheating" to be in a similar weight. If that's the case, you need to have a long hard introspective think of why you feel that way. I have used anti-depressants to make my mood similar to that of a "normal" person, is that also "cheating"? I think it will take society a long time to view WLI not as cheating but something that can help people lead a healthier life.

I meant that this is how the person would feel, not me.

I was not remotely judgemental. If you saw judgementalism that was generated in your own head. I merely pointed out that there's no way WLIs will make obesity obsolete because most people either can't afford it at all or have other priorities. If someone has the money and makes that choice then of course that's their right to do so but the idea that everyone with a BMI over 30 can afford it (that's approx 30% of the population) is "let them eat cake" level of naivety.

Before Mounjaro even existed, my oldest friend lost about 7 stone (and has kept most of it off ever since) by sheer hard work, and another friend lost... I don't know how much actual weight, but about 5 clothes sizes, by having a very unpleasant inflammatory bowel condition. Because of them, I never assume someone who's lost a lot of weight must have used Mounjaro, but I know a few who have and have been not only open but positively evangelical about it.

My hairdresser has lost loads of weight and says it is careful eating and exercise but I think far more likely its injection.

She did look good but now, to me, she looks terrible. Really haggard in the face

Well, that body is alive. Have you never noticed that there are no obese old people?

And, as a PP has said, luckily you don't have to care about those people's bodies.

There’s a mum on the school run who has lost a lot of weight recently and there were loads of whispers about her ‘obviously being on Mounjaro’. Turns out she’s got stage 4 bowel cancer.
The world would be a much better place if people kept their judgements to themselves.