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To be fed up with the barrage of weight loss drug content I am exposed to

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pinkpeonytuesday · 17/04/2026 08:27

I am on Instagram and Facebook and am constantly bombarded with weight loss drug content. I followed a great influencer who I never thought was overweight and now have seen her post she can fit into a size 8 in Zara and her life is infinitely better, I read post after post that these drugs not only made people lose weight - they cured heart disease, IBS etc etc! I see it everywhere, women are just turning into clones of each other - Botox, fillers, the same beige legging combo and now super skinny. How has this drug been allowed to be advertised so widely without any consideration to the damage this is doing to women and young girl’s mental health? Surely people are only being cured of these conditions because they’re not eating all the unhealthy stuff (which can only be a good thing) but this lifetime living in a state of malnutrition (the post I read the other day had user after user saying how they felt dizzy when they stood up) is not healthy! Even if you do exercise - you won’t be getting nutrients. Or is it all sunbeams and moonbeams and should I think about going on it to lose the last stone I want (the fact I am a size 12 and wouldn’t be allowed to go on it because my BMI is normal yet a friend used it to loose weight and now will stay on it until to maintain her size 6-8 frame seems wild. Yet I would love to be a size 8 and I wouldn’t be allowed it) the whole thing seems a joke to me. Am I unreasonable? Is it the unicorn of drugs? And if it’s that safe why can’t I go on it?

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Bleble · 21/04/2026 14:08

pinkpeonytuesday · 18/04/2026 19:30

@EatMoreChocolate44yes! It’s just weird how those on the jab get so annoyed with anyone not wanting to be bombarded with the adverts or to think we have a toxic beauty standard. Apparently the only people allowed to enraged about anything are those who have taken a jab to lose the weight! So many posters have given really helpful info and so many also on here just plain gaslighting! Xxx

I think spoke too soon, annoying I’ve started getting weight loss med ads again on Youtube after saying upthread that I no longer get them 😂 I suspect it’s to do with me watching health & fitness vlogs.

This time it’s not juniper it’s another one that I don’t care to remember the name of. I now mute them and get up and stretch or take a drink of water when they’re on.

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