Just seen my neighbours…. They must have shed 50% of their body weight!!

[ThatZippyFinch]

I’m guessing WLI
I imagine they’ve massively improved their health and energy levels in so many ways
but…

he looked a little gaunt
and she looked so gaunt it was unreal. Also her hair…. Well her hair had been her crowning glory but it looked so lacklustre

It was such a shock. I really see now how these WLI are no golden bullet like sometimes the media would have us believe.

It's so bloody rude to slag your neighbours off for doing something to try and improve their health.

Yes, you can look "gaunt" when you lose a lot of weight, particularly as you get older, as fat tends to pad wrinkles out. But what you look like isn't the issue. Imagine dying of obesity related heart disease - but at least you didn't look gaunt!

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In fact, why on earth would you even come on here and make this thread? Who do you think you are?

Tbf to the OP it is quite shocking when you see someone who has lost a lot of weight and doesnt look well on it.
Its a change we still often associate with things like illness and bereavement.
I know its a trope that when you get older, if you diet you have to make a choice of "face or body" but its also a bit of a truism. I am of that age and have friends who have very definitely passed through the barrier of sacrificing face for body.
Its absolutely their choice, may not be the case for everyone and I'm not judging which way people choose, but I do think its self deception to think that it doesnt happen.

OP, sorry your getting a hard time but you must know that no one’s allowed to bad talk weight loss injections on MN 😉?

I agree with you BTW, I know a few people who have used them (lost weight fast) and look bloody awful, but I guess it’s none of my business and luckily I have never been obese and have no need for such drastic weight loss. Hopefully they feel more healthy….even if they don’t look it.

Any weight loss can cause hair loss, it's not specific to WLIs.

And I'm really finding that 'gaunt' is subjective. The only people I've seen looking gaunt are celebrities on Ozempic. Ordinary people taking Mounjaro look like ordinary people look with weight loss - smaller, thinner, often healthier.

The equivalent of rushing to the phone to tell your mum about your curtain twitching. What a life.

No wonder your neighbours have avoided you since September.

No, you can't be prescribed obesity medication if you're not obese. It is frustrating it's hard to lose weight though, I agree.

It's expensive and you have to stay on it or there's there's almost certainty you'd regain it all.

Maybe try intermittent fasting?

I guess this OP just shows how much people judge by appearances and how vain many people are.

I am a normal weight but if I was obese and then thin I'd be delighted and not care remotely what my hair looked like.

I do think people become used to the size people are for a while and it seems shocking once they are thinner. I was a BMI of 28 for a while, am now BMI 24 so fairly near top end of BMI and a stone+ over what I was a few years ago. People have commented that I'm wasting away (I'm definitely not, body fat % is still a good 10% over the top end of what it should be). I have only had positive comments so far re my face luckily. I am 46 and lost over 2 stone since 1st November. My beauty therapist (does my eyebrows but also does botox etc) said to me this week how good my skin was looking and that I must have been losing weight the right way (good diet and weight lifiting).

I did ask her honestly if there were some treatments she'd recommend and she said that she didnt as I was looking really healthy. She gave me some options for if I need it down the line as I was worried my neck might get more wrinkly and she said maybe skin boosters if I feel I need to. At the end of the day I'd rather be a healthy weight and have a bit of botox if need be to make my face look better. Not being overweight is life changing for so many people.

I would imagine that many people who have known me for years but not seen me recently would say the same about me. I have been obese since primary school there are very few people alive who have ever seen me as anything but a very fat person with a BMI up to the high-40s and classed as morbidly obese.

In the last 18 months thanks to Mounjaro and a diabetes diagnosis I have lost 9 stone and am now a healthy BMi, I’m 5ft 8, BMI of 21/22 depending on the day and a size 10/12 -S/M clothing depending on the manufacturer.

Im not gaunt, but I am less than half the size I was and dramatically thinner so may be perceived as gaunt to those who have only known me as fat.

I’m willing to believe you have the gauntest neighbours in the world but as you have no idea what medication they’ve taken if any the other speculation seems pointless.

I can't believe it's her. Not the weight loss, her whole face. I truly can't see a trace of the original her in there. It's like she's had a head transplant.

Skin and tissue need time to adapt, which is why steady weight loss is far better. Rapid weight loss can be pretty catastrophic for your skin appearance.

So it's not the jabs themselves, it's the speed of weight loss that occurs on them. 'Ozempic face', as it has become known, is a real phenomenon.

Gosh, what a shocker, losing weight very quickly has side effects.

I frankly, do not care, I need to lose weight, I need to not have to take a whopping dose of insulin multiple times a day to eat a healthy diet, WLI do that for me.

I could not give a flying fuck if my hair thins (it has a bit but I had super thick hair to start with, its not lost its lustre, its down to my arse and still shiny and healthy looking) or my face looks gaunt (it doesn't yet I've a way to go) - I care that my knackered heart has less strain on it and I fit in my bloody wheelchair.

Thats buccal fat pad removal rather than general weight loss.

but - looked gaunt and hair lost shine
not the golden bullet the media sometimes have us believe

Any extremely quick and dramatic weight loss, achieved by any means, is likely to result in telogen effluvium and gaunt appearance (as the fat layer disappears quicker than the skin can adapt), not exclusive to WLI.

This.

I've never tried WLI, as you'd see if you met me, but years ago I lost weight for a family wedding. At my goal weight I was still over a stone heavier than I'd been ten years earlier. That was admittedly technically underweight, but nobody ever remarked upon my size back then. However, once new people started seeing me at a smaller size than they were used to, they would tell me not to lose any more as I was getting 'too thin'. I absolutely wasn't, at a size 10 rather than a 12-14.

It's not even a judgement or jealousy, or at least not always. My very skinny DS thought his aunt looked haggard when she lost weight. I would be happy to trade the size of my arse for a bit of gauntness.

I've been told I look gaunt. I'm still 1.5-2 stone overweight. People just overreact.

It's probably not. Rapid weight loss shrinks the fat pads that support your facial structure, resulting in saggy skin.

And why would you think we care about your neighbours’ weight? Why do you care? Or are you trying to fuel a pile on to those fatties who dare try to tackle their issues with the help of medication? Get a life.

And why would you think we care about your neighbours’ weight? Why do you care? Or are you trying to fuel a pile on to those fatties who dare try to tackle their issues with the help of medication? Get a life.

And why would you think we care about your neighbours’ weight? Why do you care? Or are you trying to fuel a pile on to those fatties who dare try to tackle their issues with the help of medication? Get a life.

Good luck to the neighbours.
Well done them doing something about their weight.

We all know losing weight is easier said than
done, if it was easy nobody would be fat. We all know its not healthy to be obese.

So if the neighbours have found something that works for them - fantastic 👏 go celebrate 🥳

Op please don't criticise them for doing whatever they can to get healthy.