to feel uneasy about what this means long term rather than surprised by the weight regain itself?

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I’ve just read a BBC article about research into weight loss injections like Ozempic and Wegovy showing that people who stop taking them tend to regain weight quite quickly.

I’m not shocked that weight comes back. That happens after most weight loss attempts whether they involve medication or not.

These drugs are increasingly talked about as something people might take for years or even indefinitely. That raises questions for me about what happens when someone cannot afford them anymore, when supply changes, when side effects become an issue or when a person simply does not want to stay on a medication for life.

If stopping leads not just to regain but to a fairly rapid rebound, it feels less like a temporary aid and more like something that is very hard to step away from once started. That sits oddly with how casually they are sometimes discussed.

AIBU to think the real issue here is not that people regain weight after stopping, but whether we are quietly normalising a treatment that may be difficult to discontinue once begun? Or is this simply the reality of managing a chronic condition?

That research is not new though, and preserving muscle whilst losing weight is a known issue, regardless of weight loss method. You are told to exercise if you are prescribed WLI, the information is out there and given to people. It is well discussed on the support threads. The majority of people are doing what they personally can to address that.

It’s not a reason not to lose weight or not use WLI.

I think you are right to be cautious and cost is also a significant factor.

I have been on them for 20 months

So far amazing

6 stone down

I am worried that some of my family members are flagging osteoarthritis 😬😬😬

Well done on your weight loss!

As long as you are doing weight training, you will be fine. That will make up for any muscle or bone loss.

Lots of people have experienced a decrease in inflammation as an added benefit of taking GLPs and it is likely that arthritic conditions will be added to the co-morbidities that allow prescribing at a BMI of 27 in the near future. It will help people who struggle to exercise to lose weight whilst making it less painful to do so.

Why would you not be exercising if you’re trying to lose weight?
Still wondering why you started this thread.

Wash your mouth out!!!

(actually dont, I think mouthwash might cause industrial waste)

I take it you didnt use disposable nappies, no one ever seems to talk about this.

Lots of people have experienced a decrease in inflammation as an added benefit of taking GLPs

absolutely, my hip doesn’t hurt when i sleep anymore, that change together with the better sleep happened within days of starting

When my late husband was alive, he lost a huge amount of weight. Medics told me to ram him full of dairy, fat , cream cakes,and sugar. He wouldn’t eat this crap unless I did. So, I did.

In the end, he gained zilch weight and I loaded it on. 🙄

He died, my appetite collapsed, has never really returned, and I’ve lost nearly 8 stone.

I put on weight when I was eating too much, and doing to little. . I lost it all when I wasn’t. 🤷‍♀️

well clearly you personally don't need the weight loss jabs then.

It's so exciting isn't it! Really encouraging to hear about the potential benefits.

Im so sorry you lost your husband. I hope you’re doing ok.

No, cloth all the way, including for sanpro. I know, it's a conversation that should be normalised but people generally look at you as if you've got two heads.

Absolutely, people think its unthinkable.

Perhaps you could pop onto the many Trump threads and ask them that. Or that long-running Salt Path series which I think are up to thread 20...

This is a discussion forum. You are in AIBU. People want to discuss what they find interesting. They want to discuss what they want to discuss, whether that's politics or towels or weighloss methods. There is nothing peculiar or inherently bitter in wanting to discuss WLI.

As a pp pointed out, you and others who are offended by discussion that may raise some negative potentials have the choice to hide the thread from actives as soon as you see it, or to hide it once you are on it.

Well I think if things don't change soon, Trump is very likely to affect all of us, and I am guessing that the folk who are on the Salt Path thread actually watch the show?

But none of these threads would appreciate someone going on them and saying why are you still talking about this, twenty-thousand posts later, in the case of the Salt Path upset threads. And yet every time anyone starts a thread outside of the WLI board, which has thousands of threads to discuss WLI experiences on, on come the usual suspects to try to shame and disparage and mock posters from discussing whatever aspects they are interested in discussing, or whatever new research that has come to their notice.

Why are people who are seemingly allergic to any discussion and not able to restrain themselves from reacting in this hostile way, in an attempt try to shut it down, not able to simply bypass it, the way the rest of us do when we find a subject triggering? I hide many threads immediately if the topic is upsetting to me.

I understand you’re having an emotional reaction, but no one is doing what you are saying, they are either correcting misinformation, putting a wider context pointing out biases.

a discussion isn’t just an echo chamber where only those who agree can respond.

Equally, nobody on those threads would respond well to people who know absolutely bugger all wading in authoritatively. Which has happened on this thread and is a constant in WLI discussion. There's almost invariably people who have strong feelings with nothing back them up/beliefs that actually go against the evidence. If anything this thread probably contains less of that than the average lengthy WLI thread.

I don't know whether OP knows much about obesity in general. But if she does, she's chosen not to really display that in this thread. Most of her posts have been very short and not engaged with the more complex points. It's quite interesting either way.

Haha, there you go projecting again! I thought you weren't going to respond to me? And yet you keep doing it.

Correcting misinformation! What I see is a clutch of posters putting their fingers in their ears and going lalalalalala.

Because those threads are started by people who have a vested interest in the subject. From what I can see, the OP doesn't want to take WLI which is fair enough, neither do I, but feels "uneasy" about it. I don't think I have shamed, mocked or disparaged, just wondered why the Op is bothered about something that they don't want to do themselves? I am not triggered about it, haven't tried to shut the thread down, don't feel any need to defend the choices of other people, neither do I care what they choose to do if it doesn't affect me. I mean I guess my question to the OP is "why do you care?" and if you don't care then why bother starting a thread?

My take is it’s people who spend a lot of time on line, read forums like this and think everyone is on them, when in fact it’s only about ten percent of the eligible population, 90 percent not on them, based on last stats of 2.5 million on.

as they think it is much more prolific than it is, they think they are getting left behind, the last fat person standing, that everyone else is on them and they can’t get them, or think fat people can now be effortlessly slim whilst they need to work at it. So they come on these forums and show their resentment or envy, if they can’t have them they don’t want anyone to have them, other than the extreme morbidly obese,

they aren’t understanding this is a health issue, or the wider benefits to society, or they do and they don’t care, for them it’s purely about appearance and weight for them. Their own versus other people’s.

I’m so sorry to hear about your husband. Take care ❤️

Don’t worry. I’m enjoying this thread - it’s fun to counter misinformation.