Lied to get a jab now friend is angry

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I don’t understand why my friend is annoyed at me as it doesn’t effect anyone else.. part of me thinks it’s jealousy but she’s not speaking to me because I told her how I managed to lose 1.5stone.
backstory- I lied to get an online prescription by saying I was about 1.5stone heavier than I was then when I needed to send photos I just made my scales say more to match the weight I submitted. Not exactly a difficult lie but it worked and I’ve had 2pens of mounjaro 2.5 and I’m now 8.5stone. I feel great, the size I want to be and no side effects so yes I feel smug that my lie worked and I lost the weight easy.
well my friend who has been trying to lose weight too but not via jabs is furious saying I should be ashamed of myself.
surely it doesn’t effect anyone else? I paid full price so can’t be blamed for stealing from the nhs

Fair enough 🤭 I'll take it - I put on 1 and half stone so I'm definitely not that smug.

The risk profile for someone who doesn’t meet the requirements is very different to someone who does. GLP’s are very powerful drugs and sadly their abuse by so many who see them as a quick fix just adds to the discourse. The rules are there for a reason and I’m disappointed that circumnavigating them are so bloody easy.

Your smugness might not be as internal as you think.

The reason is likely that a lot of people like to think of their friends as being fundamentally honest and decent individuals. When something happens to contradict that, some people can react.

My close friends I am confident are very honest. When I find out they are not, unless it's something terrible, I just sort of phase them back a bit because I no longer trust them. If it's something terrible, I phase them and totally drop them.

Maybe she simply thought you were more honest than she now sees you as.

She is not at fault so much as shocked.

She is free to make these distinctions. You are free to do what you wish. There is no fault here really.

Jackanory.

You do realise you experience rapid weight gain upon cessation of the tablets?

Care? Don’t be daft!

you do understand how public forums work??🙄

Nevermind the weight loss, it's the fact you lied.

You will be the lovely OP to your friends and family, but the moment you can get away with lying and deceitfulness to get what you want when no ones looking, you will, that's the issue.

I'd be starting to doubt if I ever really knew you at all, and if you'd ever lied to me but have just not been caught out. I think I'd question if I could trust you again, now that you've shown what you're prepared to do to get what you want.

Smoking kills. Being a size 10 instead of a size 8 doesn't.

You wouldn't have taken them with their risks if you were a half a Silk Cut at the Christmas party and nothing else all year smoker - and if you then, along with a bunch of other one fag a year when plastered people took it started complaining of high risk side effects, such as vastly increased levels of suicidal ideation or a higher incidence of life threatening episodes when drinking alcohol, it would make it far more likely the medications are withdrawn altogether so that nobody who is actually smoking 40 a day has access to them every again.

It could be for other reasons. I put on a lot of weight during my marriage (various reasons). When my DH died the weight literally fell off of me. Stress vomiting and a complete loss of appetite.

3 years on, I’m still only half the weight I was when he died - now 8.5 stone and 5’4” tall. 🤷‍♀️

The stress vomiting is over, but my appetite has never returned to anywhere near normal.

But, I’m really tired of people assuming/asking me/telling me that I MUST have been taking MJ.

I’m not and never have. Nor have I followed a weight loss diet. Stress alone did it. 🙄

But she didn’t say she was 5ft 6?

This thread is bonkers, it really has brought out all the jealous resentful folk.

do people really beleive these are largely untested experimental drugs. The ignorance and lack of knowledge is mind blowing.

This. Unless OP is very short, it's likely that given the weights given, she is now very underweight. '
If this is the case, it's very possible friend was worried or shocked and OP prefers to describe that as angry.
There is an issue with people with eating disorder trying to get around the rules to get jabs. It's one of the reasons for the photos and the scales, but of course, as OP has done, there are tricks to make you look heavier. We don't know all the details here but I don't think cheering someone on for losing weight by lying to get prescription meds is a good idea.

She doesn’t need to be very short, she could be five foot, and of an ethnic minority,

dont Get me wrong I think it’s utter bullshit as well.

I hope the weight stays off forever and the jabs dont have any adverse affects on your health OP

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She could be 5ft 5in and that weight is a healthy BMI.

What are you using that would make her very underweight? I used the NHS guidelines.

Unless a medic is going to physically weigh everyone who wants these jabs, which would put the costs up, you’ll always have people lying about their weight, which may or not be a good thing, longer term.

But, I guess it’s a risk people are willing to take. And it’s up to them.

That's just the thing though - I too had to lie play down my poor mental health issues in order to receive the medication because I was desperate to give up smoking - I wouldn't have qualified if I had been truthful.
I'll be honest, it was quite bad , but luckily I had the witheral to tell my closest friends and my mum to talk my off the ledge should I start being erratic which I was 😖.

I for one think the friend is being unreasonable. Your body, your choice. If I was your friend, I would have said you were a bit stupid to go for injections and leave it at that. Being so angry is an over reaction

Why would most people be lying to get them? You don't think there are enough obese people around?

Unless you are fairly petite around 5ft
8.5 stone is a probably underweight which might be why your friend is angry, perhaps your friend is worried about you?

I don't have any judgement about using the jab itself.

However, at my exercise classes there are a few women who have lied to get the jab and are now walking around dangerously skinny, definitely not in a toned up, lean muscle way but in fragile way. You can see there ribs and the weight loss around there face has given them a hollow look with boney cheeks. It's actually really sad and difficult to know what to say.

It’s such an over reaction. Lied about what? We don’t even know if the OP has even discussed losing weight.

I’ve lost a stone recently. I haven’t had a conversation about it with anyone.

Why is it anyone’s business. Stop taking stuff so fucking personally, it’s not about you. Or the friend, in this case.

You feel smug because you lied to get wli to lose a bit of weight? Am I missing something? I would feel slightly embarrassed needing wli when not obese. Smugness is for those who manage to control their eating by willforce not by injecting something that makes you lose your appetite. Everyone can lose weight on wli while pure willforce and determination is for a selected few. (Not talking about obese people who obviously need medical help before anyone jumps on me- I'm talking about OP and the Sharon Osborne types).

You cared enough to comment.

“Your lying by deception and lying to your friends and family, if you want to be on WLI, own it, don’t be a liar, no one likes a liar!“

Why should anyone have to “admit” to friends or family that they are in WLI, unless they actually want to?

It’s no one else’s business fs.
Do you tell everyone what medication you’re on? Would you tell people that you were on anti-depressants, for example?

Why should the OP “own it?”

You cared enough to comment, didn’t you?

There’s reasons that they won’t prescribe at your bmi , will you be using the NHS if it all goes wrong ? Guessing you will .