Can you get weight loss injections if you're not very overweight?

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Just wonder how it works. I'm a stone heavier than I'd like to be, but still within the normal weight BMI. I've tried diets but nothing seems to shift things now I'm over 50.

It's be good to be able to have some help and would love to try the injections. Any advice?

OP have you tried the Fast 800 Keto? It sounds extreme but your body gets used to it pretty quickly and it's v effective. I lost 24lbs on it last year (did it for 12 weeks), maintained since then and now doing another round of Fast 800 Keto to try lose the last 18lbs

There was an article in the Times recently where a fashion journalist had managed to get a "microdosing" prescription from a private doctor to "turn off the food noise" in her head and said that worked well for her. I'm thinking of trying this as I'm sick of it (BMI the top end of normal) and I'd love to lose another 4kg or so.

its BMI of 30 or BMI of 27 with medical conditions

if you are unsure dont worry you have to fill in a medical questionnaire which will ask about that sort of thing

I understand your frustration OP. Some posters talk of being on the injections ‘for life’ to maintain their new healthy weight yet those with just a little bit to lose don’t get the help even if they are happy to pay. And the injections DO help. Yes you have to watch your calories etc but that’s much easier to do when you don’t have food noise.

I put on a bit of weight a couple of years ago and wrote a post on here moaning about my endlessly stocked work biscuit/cake table and got a lot of abuse about ‘controlling myself’ as if I was a pig in a trough because I found it difficult to resist the treats (a contributing factor to my weight gain) I’ve had to change jobs (to one where I’m less tired/stressed), reduce my working week to 4 days and massively up my exercise to achieve what friends have managed through an injection!

@DrFosterWentToGloucester23 I find this idea fascinating. You're annoyed because you're not obese. Shouldn't you be pleased about that?

I'm finding lots of people on mounjaro like to preach like this it's so frustrating.

I'm on my third pen and it's kicking in very slowly. When people who are getting appetite suppression tell people who aren't getting it yet that they actually need to be in a calorie deficit dontcha know it makes me roll my eyes so hard.

Keto get's rid of the "food noise" too...just saying.

I am of the ethnicity that may be able to get it, but I am still not going to take it.

Am about half a stone overweight, and post menopause, so very hard to shift. But I doubt the benefits will outweigh the risks.

Your envious?

I find it baffling that people are considering taking medication prescribed for obesity, when they aren't obese, and in a way that hasn't even been medically trialed for obesity.
I was morbidly obese when I started taking it and still had to weigh up the risks carefully, even though my weight had reached a point is was affecting my health and predicted lifespan.
It is an incredibly effective tool for helping with obesity but there have been several 'might just the jabs to lose a few pounds' posts this month and they are concerning.

This.

i don’t necessarily want to lose weight, although I could do with losing slightly over a stone to get me to a normal BMI.

what I need is something to take away the food noise. The constant thinking about food, what I can have, what I can’t have. Constantly calculating calories and knowing I’m over but still thinking about food and calculating if I have this, or that, I can skip dinner, or just have cereal.

being able to bin the scales and stop having my days dictated by the numbers. Knowing I’m at a healthy weight and being able to eat normally without finding myself even heavier with more to lose.

it’s that I need it for. It would be life changing.

Yes that’s what it does, for all of us on them,and yes it is life changing. Will it ever be available for those not obese. Yet to be seen if the uk will permit this. But I’m sure you can find someine who will prescribe.

I am - I'm envious of this part: Some posters talk of being on the injections ‘for life’ to maintain their new healthy weight. I understand the rationale perfectly well, but the basic fact is that women with a lower BMI than mine are able to use the injections while I am not. I think it's natural to be envious.

I don't find it baffling at all, if mostly women people (who are struggling to lose weight) can see it is effective and looks like an easy way to lose weight, why would they not be attracted to it?

Fair enough, the difference you’re omitting though is they started obese and can use them as it is critical they don’t regain and the risk of that and even worse problems are huge.

you aren’t thinking of why we can keep using them, the risks to our health. Just how you can stop wanting the biscuits.

I’m saying it takes a LOT of effort for me to maintain a healthy weight now I’m in my 40s. I think my post makes that clear.

And if you fail you can get the jabs.

I dont have food noise. So even if I got it in the future it wouldnt help, right? I have diabetes in the family though.

I "stop wanting the biscuits" by smoking.

Are you envious of that? No? Thought not!

Why is a competition? Women who are a bit overweight are allowed to want to to be slim and healthy. I see on these threads that morbidly obese women seek almost angry with women who are just a few stone overweight and seem to believe that they should lose that weight with “willpower”. But if that was the case, everyone could a loose a couple of stone that way and then keep going, and there would be no need for weight loss medication at all!

@DrFosterWentToGloucester23 which is great for you, you don't have the health risks and issues that someone who is obese has. I still don't see the rationale for wanting to take prescription medication that you don't need or qualify for, regardless of whether or not it would make it easier for you to maintain a healthy weight.

No. I’m saying I empathise with the OP. Having a healthy BMI and being a weight you feel happy at are quite different. For my height, I can be 12 stone and still have a healthy BMI but I prefer being between 10.7 and 11 stone (the middle of the range)

There are lots of people who manage to get into the ‘healthy BMI’ range using injections but post about wanting to lose a little bit more/another half a stone. Why should those of us who are within the healthy BMI range not be allowed to express the same sentiment?

I don’t. I’m just empathising with the OP. I can see the appeal of having a bit of help to shift a stubborn stone.

You can express it, but wanting to use an obesity treatment to achieve a weight preference within the healthy weight range is clearly not reasonable. I also think it's clearly very different to someone who has lost weight from being obese, and is concerned with maintenance.

It hasn't been approved for cosmetic use because it has potentially deadly side effects. The reason people who are morbidly obese are approved to use it is because morbid obesity has a greater potential to be fatal.

You can get it, if you want it, it's fairly easy, but you'd be risking your life for the sake of 14 extra lbs which could be lost pretty quickly by following a calorie deficit.