I filled in the bingo card today

[TourneeDuChatNoir]

I was sitting in the hairdresser's today, reading my trashy magazine while my colour was doing its thing, and the woman in the next chair was talking to her stylist about how she'd put on a bit of weight recently. But she wasn't going to use those weight loss jabs that you hear about. And then a conversation followed in which the entire WLI bingo card was marked off, and probably more.

• All you have to do is eat less and move more
• You just go onto a website and buy them, and no medically qualified person even does any checks
• People are buying them illegally just to lose a couple of pounds
• Once you stop taking them you'll just put all the weight back on
• There's been no research on them and there are probably all sorts of long-term side effects waiting to appear
• They're costing the NHS a fortune
• They should only be allowed for diabetics and people who are "very very fat and can't do exercise"

In all honesty, I knew she was talking shit and clearly knew nothing about the jabs, and it probably wouldn't have occurred to her that the woman in the next chair was using Mounjaro (because I'm not "very very fat" any more). But the level of judgement and ignorance still made me feel rubbish about myself and cemented my feeling that I'm not telling anyone about my WLIs in real life. I see there's a scaremongering documentary on C4 on Tuesday called "Skinny Jab Scandal" which won't help at all.

One friend knows I use them. That’s it. No-one else. And no-one else ever will, because of these type of opinions

Yes to all of the above.
The most vociferous opinionated people seem to be those who actually know nothing factual about GLP1 medication.

I too have have told no-one - only after witnessing an opinionated and mocking dialogue between two very close friends.

(Meanwhile after doing 15 months of reading and research I’m just quietly losing weight slowly whilst getting on with my life, chuffed at the very many health gains and seeing weekly improvements in fitness classes - astonishing given I am literally now twice the age of the other participants)

After 50 full years of dieting - this is literally the only thing that has changed my metabolism when absolutely nothing else has worked in my lifetime.

The same friends ask if I have now lost weight, and I just shrug and say “only a little, nothing much”

"They're costing the NHS a fortune" - this I find the most puzzling response of all of those. Because if you think about it for a nano-second with any kind of basic critical thinking and logic skills you would see that it couldn't possibly be true.

I think a lot of people think we're all getting them through the NHS, same as how we're depriving diabetics of them. Loose Women have twice in recent weeks, after discussing WLI, given the end bit of advice to 'talk to your GP' if you're considering them.
I sort of get it when the alarmist press articles mix up horror stories about correct usage with people getting dodgy shit from their mates. There's a lack of clarity about who can get them and how they can get them.