To be really jealous of people who can afford weight loss injections?

[Charliede1182]

It seems like everyone and their dog is taking them, I personally know several people who are on them with significant and effortless weight loss, and I feel like there is becoming more and more of a disparity between those who can afford to buy themselves a smaller appetite and those who can't.

It's not just a social or cosmetic issue, it's about health equity.

In my case I don't want to lose weight for vanity or to cater to patriarchal beauty standards, I am comfortable and confident in my appearance and keen to model body positivity to my daughter.

However I am on the combined pill (for important medical reasons not contraception) and my weight is starting to threaten my ongoing access to this.

I am very fit, walk 5-8 miles a day, some of it with a weighted vest, gym 2-3 x weekly, resistance training, cook almost everything from scratch and although I am no angel I would say my diet is about 90% healthy.

I just don't feel full with small portions, it is an apparent mismatch between appetite and metabolism which is why I would love these injections to make me less hungry.

Even if I had the willpower to just eat less, being hungry all the time isn't a good quality of life and my attitude has always been I would rather enjoy myself and be a bit heavier than society thinks I should, than be thin and miserable.

Whilst I could probably get the money together for a couple of months of treatment, this is not how these drugs work, as people's appetite just comes roaring back if they stop, and then they can end up in a worse position having lost lean mass as well, so I would only go down this road if I could afford it longer term.

Just wondering if anyone else has Ozempic envy right now??!!!

You think wrong. I eat plenty and my food bill is much the same as I buy better foods now and cook proper healthy meals from scratch. I also go for coffee most days and sometimes have cake too.

If you reduce the amount of food you eat, you spend less on food. You probably can afford to buy them.

https://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/news/2023/july/seven-techniques-to-avoid-weight-regain/#:~:text=This%20is%20true%20no%20matter,can%20even%20slow%20your%20metabolism.

Exactly.

There are examples of countries where people don’t overeat and therefore are not overweight. Japan is one example - on a recent trip i didn’t come across any obese people. Also several African countries have mainly slim populations. If you eat less calories than you burn off you WILL lose weight

But then you won’t need them. By reducing the amount of food you buy you not only lose weight but gain more money! Win win.

It is effortless though.

I'm on them and it's so fucking easy.

I don’t find meal planning, shopping, cooking etc easy. I don’t find exercise easy. I stick to it because MJ reduces the background noise slightly but while that makes it easier to stick to the healthy eating and exercise it doesn’t make those things any easier for me to do.

But losing weight on it is incredibly easy.

You'd be doing the other stuff anyway, the injections make the weight loss very very easy.

It's not that simple. People have life long complex relationships with food.

Otherwise no-one would be overweight.

I can’t do the other stuff anyway, that’s why I’m using MJ. I don’t find any of that stuff easy. MJ is helping of course because I have managed to do the stuff for over a year now but it’s not easy to do. I don’t the whole planning and shopping to make proper meals really difficult. I’m autistic and have ADHD and these things don’t come easy. MJ means I will do it long whereas before I couldn’t do it for more than a few weeks, but it’s still mentally difficult for me. Doing exercise is something o find very hard, so yess I am doing it but no not easily. There is some misconception here that MJ eliminates everyone’s difficulties, it absolutely does not. It’s helping for sure as I am still going at it but I don’t find this easy at all. It’s been a long hard slog.

I don’t have money for it because the monthly cost is most of what I save monthly however I still went on it for 4 months and that’s the best decision I made in 2024. I had already changed my lifestyle, bought lots of weights to do strength training at home as DH does too and been constant with it and some cardio on the exercise bike. However my weight loss was minimal.
I decided to get the jab in oct 2024 and only planned to use it for 4 months to see if it’ll give the weight loss a kick start. I went from a BMI of 33.1 to a BMI of 24.8 in that 4 months. Didn’t go higher than 5mg as that’s as much as I could afford.
I stopped in Feb 2025. I continued with my active lifestyle, I didn’t go back to how I used to eat, I’ve enjoyed being slim and so determined not to get back to where I was before. I initially gained a few pounds but gradually, I lost them and more weight. I’m currently a BMI of 23.4 (after some Xmas gain), happily maintaining, have more muscle than fat and I’m enjoying exercising.
Many people who lost weight and gain it back will always be more news because they’re speaking about it but there are people who are maintaining too. It’s just like every weight loss method. Obviously, some can’t maintain without it and if they can afford it, they’ll stay on it which is perfectly fine.
There are other things they can do with the money just the same as you but they’re choosing to spend it on the jab so I don’t know what point it is for you to be jealous

Oh my word! What is it you don’t understand? Obese people struggle to eat less. WLI help obese people to eat less when they would not be able to eat less without the WLI. It’s not complicated for goodness sake.

When I’m in charge no-one will be allowed to post on WLI threads until they have read Why We Eat (Too Much)

For some reason, and I’d love to understand what it is, many people are very reluctant to accept this pretty obvious fact.

Unless you have a fairly appalling and low quality diet before WLI, you are going to save a lot of money by eating less.

I'm the same OP would love to just give it a go, really tempted but just not made the leap. My BMI is only 28 so overweight rather than obese but would just love to be a size 10 or 12, not be constantly thinking about food, not always on a bloody diet, not feeling self-conscious in clothes, not hiding away on the beach etc. I probably only need to lose 2.5 stone so 5-6 months max.

I'm having one last ditch attempt at reducing calories and upping exercise otherwise I'm going to find a way of getting WLI for a couple of months.

You can eat decent sized meals and still be in a calorie deficit. You need protein and lots of veggies. So chicken, eggs all excellent to fill you up.

2500 calories is quite a lot for a woman, so if you're burning that and maintaining your weight (or increasing) you're eating at least that much, probably more.

Using something like my fitness pal, and weighing every single thing will help you recognise how many calories you are consuming and how to reduce them.

I hate to burst your bubble, but I used Mounjaro, lost 3 stone, my BMI is about 22 now but I STILL constantly think about food, am still on a 'diet' now I am off Mounjaro but I will be for life, still feel self-conscious because I have a mum tum. I've lost the weight but those elements remain.

On one hand im surprised people like.this poster, someone who is completely ignorant on the complexities of obesity exist , and yet I a!so feel disgusted that they feel compelled to.come on threads like this to tell.fat people to just eat less, there are many of them doing it, like fat people are just stupid , when it is they themselves displaying stupidity. It's always written so smugly as well

Well, how heavy are you? If you’re healthy on all indicators, and you keep fit and eat well, and you are confident and comfortable with your body, what’s the issue?

If it was so easy noone would need the injections in the first place

Well lots of obese people do have appalling, low quality diets. I certainly used to. Now I use WLI I also have a very good balanced diet but it’s by no means cheaper. I eat less calories for sure but I still eat plenty of them. I’m not one of those who chafes full suppression and eats <1000 cals a day. I east around 1600 most days, sometimes more, very occasionally less. This costs as much money as 2500/3000 calories of shite did.

OP, try these from boots. They are a small tablet you can get over the counter which expands in your stomach with water. At a fraction of the cost. It should take the edge off when trying to lose weight. Good luck!

Boots appetite control

If only there was a free way to lose weight eh?

I m cringing for you

Sorry, OP, just read your post properly and realise you have to choose between eating less of your healthy food in order to lose weight ( and feel hungry and unhappy) or be forced to stop the pill and face bad health consequences. And be unhappy.

That is hard. Well, I hope that the WLIs coming off-patent and becoming cheaper will happen soon enough to help you and others who would benefit from these drugs. They do seem like game-changers for treating obesity.

Fair enough if that’s your experience. I’m sure this is the case for some. However I think there are very many obese people (my self included) who eat (ate in my case) a very nutritious healthy diet (cooking meals from scratch, lots of veg and quality protein etc) but then eat 1) too much of it and/or 2) lots of unhealthy snacks and puddings (and booze) on top. Just things like not buying lunch and snacks when I’m out, not putting lots of cheesecake, biscuits, pastries in my weekly shop save me a lot. I still buy all the fruit, veg, dairy, fish, nuts etc etc but just not the nutritionally empty calories. I can’t be alone. There just seems to be a huge reluctance to admit (generally, not you if it doesn’t apply to you) that eating “too much” costs money, and eating less costs less.

I wish someone would do a proper study on this. But as they haven’t I would suggest to anyone, just try it for a couple of months and then work out the net cost. Of course there are some people who really can’t afford it, but there are many others who could if they chose to use the money they spend on other things (holidays, beauty treatments, gym, whatever) and the money they’d save on food.