To think it will be revealed WLI cause physical aging

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Obviously the pictures of Kelly Osbourne are both sad and terrifying.

But a few women i know have also used this method for weight loss and their skin has lost elasticity. They look at least 10 years older. Is this side effect being under played?

The people filling this thread (and all the weightloss jab threads) with posts about how great they look and feel now and how everyone with concerns is just jealous are probably not going to be the most objective about either how others perceive them or the longer-term risks of WLI!

Indeed not! And this is why people forming health based judgements based on how they feel about the appearance of others is best avoided.

If there is one thing I wish everyone could learn from these threads, it's that your personal standards about what looks fat, noticeably overweight, chubby, thin, healthy etc are just that.

@Katey83 can you say why people like me wouldn’t be objective about the long term risks of WLI? Can you say what the risks are that people like me might be minimising or ignoring or similar? Just to note, I have not at any point mentioned jealousy or any other motivation for why people like to think that looking awful after using WLI is inevitable or common, or something to be concerned about.

yes the defensive lunacy on this thread is quite something.

But it’s an outcome. And a good one. For our mental health, very few people like being fat.

No way round it, and if I come across as defensive it’s for good reason, I look way better, more youthful fitter, stronger. I posted images above. Willing to put my money where my mouth is.

i have healthy blood pressure from very high bp , off the meds, cholesterol halved and now optimal, sleep apnea gone, and cortisol levels normal.

and yeah, I look great too, my body is fit and toned, my face firm, so no I’m not going to accept it makes us look older as a stereotype. And if that makes me defensive, so be it.

but yes, feeling more attractive is the cherry on top, and if someone wants to do it for just that reason, more power to them, mental health is importing too.

I (genuinely) wonder if the defensiveness in you and others on the WLs is because those who have spent their life being jealous of thin women cannot conceive that some of us just don't really see other women (or men) in terms of competition in that way?

I think it must be that. It's such a warped suggestion and a kind of deflection by people utterly determined not to hear different views but rather attribute it to something that actually doesn't really make sense. I mean the whole concern is how easy it IS for people who want it to get hold of it.

Sure it’s been said already but I would imagine that most of the “looking old” comments are based on an older demographic.
The menopausal women who can afford private jabs and whose skin is less elastic in the first place. It works so quickly! It’s not a terrible side effects but a normal factor.

It might blow your mind but I dont care how Im perceived by others.

I didnt use WLI but did lose a huge amoutn of weight so the point still stands, the effect is exactly the same.

Mmm, people who think WLI users are defensive often themselves become defensive quite quickly.

I actually don’t even know what ‘ozempic face’ looks like. I’m sure I have seen many people who have been on it and not known but I’ve never noticed anyone’s face looking so horrific I thought they had aids, that’s totally ridiculous.

Fast weight loss will age people, sometimes temporarily as things can readjust after a year or so. I have lost 7 stone not on wli (although I’m sure most people think that I did take it) and it wasn’t that fast it took 2 years and my face has aged because I don’t have a huge amount of weight filling it out and making the wrinkles and sagging cheeks look less wrinkled and sagging.
However as I am now 50 I had still noticed the aging when I was fat. At 48 yrs old before I started losing weight I did not look like I was 20.

At one point I lost more weight quite quickly and my weight dropped half a stone my friend said goodness you look so gaunt don’t lose more weight. Sometime after that she mentioned I was looking so much better and had put some weight on but I hadn’t put any back on. It was either she had gotten used to me looking like this or my face had adjusted to the weight loss. No idea.

Sorry but being overweight is an aging look overall especially if you’re over 40. Younger people look young even if they are overweight, if you’re older even if your face has fewer wrinkles being overweight will make people look older. Not to mention the health implications of it all.

@Calliopespa do you mean easy for people who meet the criteria to get hold of WLI legitimately, or do you mean people who should not be taking it, accessing it illegitimately?

(For the record, I am not assigning motivation and don’t have any interest in the “jealousy” angle in either direction).

Jealousy dressed up as concern.

Yes, there's probably something to that. Those with the disposable income to afford a private prescription are the majority of users, so they likely skew older. Notwithstanding that some people find it to be somewhat cost neutral, but I think those people were usually spending quite a lot on food and possibly alcohol before, which some people just can't afford to do.

So you could get a person who's been obese for say 10 years, now getting the face the healthy BMI them always would've at 50, but the change is accelerated whereas in a 50 year old who's always been BMI 25 it's happened much more slowly.

I was just thinking the same thing. That poor woman is clearly incredibly ill.

615 posts. The question posed by the OP hit a nerve somewhere.

I don’t think anyone is suggesting that, when the conversation was about Kelly the comments were th4 woman is no longer on wli, hasn’t been for some time and mentally is struggling so people should leave her alone.

the jealoosy is over other women, women they don’t even know and can’t see, being able to be slim in what is perceived in an effortless way. No one is really buying all this faux concern and the ageing thing is laughable.

It did indeed, it’s a normal anti weight loss injection thread, they is one most weeks,where posters pile in to express faux concern about Kelly, her mum, ageing, long term health risks, and the rest of th4 bingo card.

i don’t really see the point of it, everyone on them successfully is loving it, and no one is stopping due to some jealous and resentful comments on line.

if anything I’d say most are amused,

What’s the objective, I really don’t get it, do people think if they post negative things those on them will feel bad, or worry or stop taking them, as that is neve4 going to happen, we can see ourselves, we know we are healthier, and you still won’t be able to get them at the end of it,

it’s a fun and fascinating conversation, it’s utterly fascinating to see how some peiple turn themselves inside out and get all bent out of shape.

but it changes nothing, we stay on them, you stay off them, the status quo remains,

Yes. Added to which you can’t take them when pregnant or trying to conceive, again ruling out a tranche of younger women.

My skin turned to shit 3 months after my periods stopped. Weight around my middle expanded. WKI got me back to pre menopause weight in 4 months. I look older because I haven’t got decent collagen.

Interestedly both work and friends said I came across as much happier. They help with more than weight.

I don’t wish to be harsh but everyone I know who have been on them look like they’ve been to hell and back. To me it looks worse than normal weight loss. I know there’s not evidence to suggest this but even bit SIL who is only 30 and only lost 20 or so pounds looks very strange. Her skin seems to have become extremely saggy. Almost like it’s separated from her muscle/fat. I know a few people have take it and genuinely think they ALL have aged well beyond what would be normal with non-WLI fat loss. Just my observation. No offence intended whatsoever

Well you are being harsh. All I can say is that I look and feel fantastic, and I’ve had so many compliments about how great I look. I’ve got a whole new wardrobe, I’m walking tall with confidence and I’m fit and happy.

Lol.

@Laskey what do you think has happened to all of your friends/acquaintance’s skin to have that peculiar effect? And all of them? Super weird. I’ve lost 11st and that hasn’t happened to me, so it seems very strange that it would happen to someone who has only lost 20 pounds or so. And to all the other people you know who are all taking WLI.

I think you are feeling "got at" by this discussion, and I don't think there is any need for you to.

It seems to me you had genuine obesity issues that it was sensible to act to remedy, and have done so in a way that has made you healthier, not less so.

I don't think those are the people that are targeted by the misgivings.