Just get mounjaro!

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The more threads I read, the more and more posters seem to respond with “just get mounjaro” for posters wanting to lose as little as 10 lbs to get within a healthy BMI. More traditional methods of weight loss appear to be out of fashion and as though you’d be foolish to do it the perceived hard way when you can just inject a drug.
I was reading a thread where a poster had a BMI of just over 25 who was told to just get WLIs. What happened to them being for those who are obese?
Is this the way things are going now? Gained a few pounds over Christmas or on holiday? Just inject and don’t worry about it!
Anybody going against the grain of weight loss injections is often accused of being jealous. It’s a bit cult like on some threads as though WLI are the only valid way to lose weight and you’d be foolish to try any other way because “diets don’t work” and just adopting a healthier diet and lifestyle is laughable; a fool’s game and you’ll end up fat again. Well, yes, if you go back to your old habits, just like any method of weight loss.

Just a bit of a rant really on this sunny Tuesday!

Exactly, a personal choice. Has absolutely nothing to do with anyone else. Yet, the majority of people shouting about it are those who aren't on it. Most of the people who are on it are minding their own business, getting on with and trying to improve their lives.

I wish I could take it but I had such terrible diarrhoea and vomiting which lasted several months. I feel so sad that I couldn't continue with it.

Thanks for that, have been using Mounjaro safely for 2 years and never thought to do any research. So grateful you have access to Google.

Here are some serious side effects of long-term use of ibuprofen:

Increased risk of heart attack, stroke, liver damage, and high blood pressure.

Source: NHS website.

I caught drug resistant TB from my stupid , stupid mother in 2014. She was never inoculated despite saying she was to everyone and not getting treated until she was sectioned. Lost 2 stone at 5' 5", ribs stick out etc. Had to leave two part time jobs and with medical services not brilliant where my mother lived returned to London. Good hospitals and medical support.
Moved in with an ex's mum who's a former nurse who cared for me when she could. Got appointments, got treatment but long struggle. Only a couple of friends helped me, and my now BF came to all the hospital & clinics, etc. He and a few of his family were determined to fatten me up. Him and my case worker got me into sheltered accommodation whilst I recoved - ex had started coming around to him mum's again. & harassing me. Took two and half years to put weight back on bruising & feeling uncomfortable under my own skin. I'm probably a stone over my pre TB weight now - mainly in my bum & thighs.

Thought of weight loss jabs where you can't put the weight back on chills be. And some of the famous people now skinny mini with sunken cheeks is off-putting for lots of people. If it's someone very overweight and the just a bit, then fair enough.

I had had enough nightmares with christian foster parents regulating everything from I ate in pre teen years. Lucky I was moved to Afro-Caribbean foster family who knew & put me onto flexible eating etc.

Do you mean you didn't read the safety information leaflet or the copious amounts of information given to you from your pharmacy? Silly you!

It's ok though because everybody here on this thread and others who don't know you or your past medical history can give their opinion which is much more important and relevant!

This is the way. I'm 5'10", BMI 25 and around 21% body fat at the moment. I'm only aware of my BMI as I was curious because it isn't very meaningful to me. I weight train 6 days a week and eat like a horse but 95% of the time I eat the right things.

As someone who is both fat and concerned with people taking these drugs with no proper medical oversight, nope. Fatphobic is a word that gets thrown around a lot to the point it's utterly meaningless.

You really don’t need to spend your time being concerned about others, although that’s very kind of you I’m sure, the global health authorities are in control, know the meds, know the safety data, and they are good, so you can stand down, maybe find something else to worry about, rather than fat people taking perfectly safe drugs legitimately prescribed to them and becoming healthy.

Thank goodness ‘TheSunjustcameout’ has given me all the information!

I'm going to be mad at the culture that tells women with a BMI of 25 that they need it to be 18 in order to be happy, rather than any weight loss mechanic.

Life is hard. Dieting is a mental battle, whatever size you are. Some people are already fighting a million mental battles. I don't think someone who has a healthy BMI should feel the need to take mounjaro. But if they do, and it's safe, it is neither my circus nor my troop of monkeys, and I'm not here for any 'but what if there are side effects we don't know about yet?' because that all sounds a bit anti-vaxxy to me. We learned from the thalidomide scandal. The drug has been tested and approved in clinical trials for weight loss, and it has been safely used by millions in the general population for decades to manage diabetes.

Not my circus.

@SapphireSeptember could you expand on what you feel "proper medical oversight" should look like?

That's your opinion. I have mine. How is there no proper medical oversight may I ask? If you're not taking them, how would you know that?

Anything that limits people getting them id guess as she can’t.

Whether you've seen evidence or not, it's there.

I think people do tend to be evangelical when they find something that works for them - with medications, diet, breaking bad habits. They want to be the person who fixed it for the OP after everything else had failed - it's a natural enough instinct.

Going on Mounjaro when you have very little weight to lose seems to me to risk spending an awful lot of money for not very much, because presumably if you need it to lose, say 10lb, you're going to need it to maintain that weight afterwards. I can quite see that if you are obese, it would be worth the money because the weight loss would be life-changing, but less than a stone to lose and you're spending thousands to look a little bit slimmer - is it really worth it?

Forums are going to become obsolete if the stock response is, it's none of my business, you do you.
And you do have an opinion as much as you might protest, otherwise you wouldn't be responding to so many posters on here.

I have a BMI over 35. My GP hasn't offered me the jabs yet and even if they did I wouldn't. I'm just waiting for the future wave of health issues to arise from it. There are already well known side effects and it worries me that so many people who don't need it are taking it. Also, people seem happy to take the stuff forever when noone knows the long term effects. It makes people look like drug addicts because they lose too much weight and a lot of that weight is muscle as well as fat. It can also lead to Osteoporosis. No thanks. I have stopped drinking and am exercising more, I would rather do it the natural way or not at all.

Huh? Of course I have an opinion, my opinion is that individual health is nobody else's business. I'm replying to a lot of comments because there's a lot of nonsense and misinformation being spouted.

I was actually originally on your side by saying, do what you feel is necessary for you between you and your health provider.

How vile, you're happily sitting waiting for people to become ill with side effects. What a very bizarre take.

Totally.

I think it depends on circumstances. A person with say a 27 BMI who's never been heavier is quite different to a person with a 27 BMI who's been obese before. Ethnicity is also a risk factor.

There seem to be quite a few of us who've lost and gained the same stone a number of times. There are points in my life after first becoming obese and before WLIs when I wouldn't have been much more than ten pounds above healthy BMI ( I'm short). Bounced between the high 20s and low 30s. But I never managed to keep it off, which statistically is the norm. I don't know if I'd have wanted WLIs any of those times had they been an option. But if I had, would've saved me the health risk of the almost inevitable return to obesity. And this is even as a white person. It's riskier for most other ethnicities.

But yeah, if that's your first time being 10lbs above 25 BMI, potentially a different calculation.

I agree with you OP, but there's no point expanding on my opinion because I'll just be shouted at 🙃

Exactly. There's huge leaps in knowledge being made in to the bacterial and viral causes of obesity as well. I suspect there's several causes, some of which impact some people more than others.

People can have an opinion on things they don’t do themselves.