I don’t understand the fake hand wringing worry of people who say “I worry that they’ll need them for life” or “what happens if they stop”. Like any diet for any size person, if you stop it and eat crap, you’ll get fat again over time. That applies to any weight loss or exercise plan. This is no different, and it’s not the point anyway.
medications for all sorts of illnesses are withheld from certain groups- usually due to cost. There is brilliant dementia medication available in USA but not here as NICE deemed it too expensive & we are unable to provide the infrastructure to monitor people. Cancer treatments, even for children, can be vetoed because of cost. So I appreciate the cost of the jabs is problematic if we allowed everyone in the UK with 1 stone or more to lose to access them.
C sections 15-20 years ago used to have a stigma attached that the woman cheated or didn’t have a normal birth. That’s gotten better but there are still some people who think you shouldn’t get to choose one for XYZ reasons, but reasons ABC are ok. This is nonsense & it isn’t a cheat to have a c section. It’s far from it.
If someone wants to take the jabs to lose weight- 8 stone, 2 stone- what difference does it make to anyone else? Why is it cheating? Why is everyone worrying about them? Why don’t we worry about people taking statins for years? Or worry about other medications that are preventing future ill health like anxiety and depression medication? What if people stop taking those medications- will their illness come back… yes, probably, over time. Are they cheating because they’re not sitting with a therapist for a year and working out their issues? Or are they taking the meds because they’re can’t find/ don’t have access to a therapist and don’t have the certainty that we have a good enough mental health service to actually help them? In these cases aren’t anxiety / depression meds a better/ quicker/ safe enough option?
If you lose shed loads of weight you’ll have baggy skin and lose your muscle if you haven’t strength trained regularly. If you take adhd meds you probably won’t sleep well and need something for that. If you take dementia meds you can feel very sick each morning. If you have statins you are at an increased risk of dementia. If you take sertraline you might get headaches & it might not decrease anxiety.
Nothing is perfect.
So I wish everyone who wants them very well & im glad there is something to prevent ill health in the future due to obesity, insulin resistance, inflammation, and all the other things the GLP-1s might help.
I don’t take them, I don’t need them, I don’t knowingly know anyone who does take them.