Secret users - how many people do you think are taking MJ

[LeanneJP]

I’m a November starter and haven’t told a soul, not even my DH. I may do at some point, I just want to see how I go for a while. I’m just wondering how many other people may be taking it that we all know in real life but have no clue. On another thread someone said her beautician said almost everyone is secretly on it! Do you really think that’s the case?

My bum and legs have lost a lot of the weight compared to the rest of me. . I am now slimmer all over than I was in my slim youth, but a very different shape.

Even now, very slim, my stomach would like to hold on to flab. I don't have a big belly, but relative to the rest of me it is. That wasn't the case years ago. Then the belly was easy to lose. I lost evenly all over.
Middle aged spread is real.!

I weight train squats etc, I walk ( on hills) , I run, I do those cross trainer steppy things when my knees are sore with running. I horse ride. But I am still a bumless wonder. Yet I am certainly doing enough to retain bum muscle.
I think it's just that your weight distribution changes with age.
Not sure how I feel about bumlessness, I feel like it's an old lady shape. But I am quite enjoying the skinny legs. I have never looked so good in skinny jeans and leggings!

Wow you do so much exercise! I feel like being bumless is quite aging 😕 when I'm in clothes you can't really see it but my bum has definitely gone flat since I entered peri-menopause. It is ridiculously flat compared to what it was. Since having kids I have a belly / spare tyre which won't shift. It seems to be the last thing I lose weight from and I have an 'apron' of fat which I really don't like at all. Also I lolled at 'bumless wonder'... I am also one of these 😅

I'm 48 and lost 2 stone and my arse still seems as present as ever but after reading this I might start doing squats to make sure it stays that way. A friend went to Africa for a month, lost a stone due to crap food and came back with no arse. She's in her 60s though. It's often what goes with ageing sadly. Better than being dead though!

I agree it’s a sign of ageing, as it is what we normally associate with older people, that square flat look. If you are exercising a lot then your hip flexors could be tight and you’re unable to get them to work with your gluts. But irrelvant of underlying cause, fundamentally it’s down to lack of muscle in that area , but yes also agree, the fat drops /weight distribution is different as we age, and your bum sags if you don’t have the muscle to hold it up .

ypu can google loads of info on line. For me I think two things are ageing, middle aged spread round the middle and a flat sagging bum. I’ve the former. And am desperately working on it, But as I’ve always exercised, the latter is fine.

we all need to do it, exercise as we lose weight, and build muscle, 😳

I do have a constant, low-level pain around my hips that is only resolved if I stretch to the side- not heard of hip flexors will google after I type this! - basically it all feels very 'tight' and is really unpleasant

@SweetSakura

News article about people getting serious side effects/hospital admissions because of weight loss injections

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14118631/NHS-alert-hospital-admissions-Ozempic.html

Love a dm article. 😂

274 in total with mainly nausea , the runs etc. for me is very reassuring, and very low, of the huge numbers taking them.

The 15 000 with adverse effects is to be expected and is of the same ilk, read any thread on here, feeling nauseas is not uncommon, or being constipated. The manufacturer says about 10-20 percent of people feel these side effects.

it’s a sensationalist article. That actually proves very safe drugs.

edit, it enables us to do the maths, so if the manufacturers say 20 percent with nausea etc, then that would indicate if 15k have felt that, then it’s likely over 200 k people now taking them in the uk. Either for weight or diabetes or both.

then if you take the 274 with hospital admission, in total, since this began, what 12 -18 months ago, then it’s what one percent of the people taking them, but with mainly things like conspitaiton, vomiting etc, and you need to allow for what people eat, and how they take them, are they fakes, taking the right doses, drinking enough, etc,

so overall very reassuring,

I think we need to add ‘daily mail articles’ to the bingo card, too.

And lack of critical thinking. 😂

274 people in about 18 months, admitted to hospital across the uk, nearly all with the runs, sickness, constipation etc. inc those who take it when they shouldn’t ie not overweight and either getting it from ahairdresser or lying to get it, those who drink excessively or undertake something else unhealthy when on it, those buying fakes, diabetics etc. 274 is a tiny number.

15k reporting adverse side effects, blimey many on here are, felt sick for a couple of days. The runs, tummy cramps, all to be expected, no big deal.

the article is simply sensationalist. And actually disproves what it is trying to say, as it actually says the drug is very safe.

but we knew that as 15 million on it in the us alone. And that’s before we take the rest of Europe. Australia , china etc into account

I am using MJ to lose 5 stone. I have been obese from childhood and can tell you I have no deep seated emotional issues. What I do have is the desire to eat constantly. If not eating, I am thinking of what I can eat. MJ has taken the food noise and desire away, it is a revelation to feel and eat as normal sized people do.
So please everyone, no more deep seated emotional problems claptrap.

Lucky you. My friend was sexually abused by a family member. She's confided in me about some of the ways it's affected her, including overeating from childhood.
But, hey, claptrap? 🤔

@Squirrellover2 it’s fine to say that it is not your experience, not ok to claim everyone else is talking claptrap.

Wow, can’t believe you used your friends sa there.