Colleagues all dissing Mounjaro

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I'm now officially 2 stone down and work colleagues are starting to notice and asking what's my secret etc. I don't want to lie but also after a conversation in the office a few weeks back, I now feel I can't be honest about taking Mounjaro, so I've just said I've been strict with my calorie counting (which is also true).

I work in an open plan office and someone brought up casually into convo about how everyone is on weight loss injections now and before I knew it, it turned into a frenzied attack on anyone who takes them. Comments such as 'it's the lazy way out', 'they'll put all the weight back on again', 'they don't know what they're putting in their bodies', 'no such thing as food noise', 'they have no self control', 'people have no discipline nowadays', 'that's the easy way', you get my drift. I just sat there, with a quiet smirk on my face I have to say, as these were all the same people who had quite literally said to me not 20 minutes earlier how great I looked 😂These comments were people from all builds as well, not just 'skinny' people.

In hind sight maybe I should have spoken up at that point in time to defend it and made them all embarrassed, but I'll lose another stone and maybe then do it 😜Anyone else had this at all?

This is exactly why I haven’t told anyone I’m using them.
tbh I used to have similar views but having taken them I now see them in a completely different light.

The opposite: Maybe because I'm naturally thin people seem surprised that I am so pro Mounjaro. Awesome health benefits so a win-win if prescribed on the NHS.

Meh keep it to yourself op or fly the flag proudly. It's nobody else's business.

I am on the monj train with a friend who insists on waxing lyrical to anyone who will listen about the fact he's on the injections AND so is Touranga. I've had to ask him to pack it in.

How rude and judgemental. I would always say that I'd definitely jump at the chance to use them if I was very overweight.

You should've said 'don't knock it till you've tried it' with a wink.

There's no reason to be anti WLI unless you're somehow jealous.

Some people do spend their lives feeling like they're depriving themselves.
So maybe have never been overweight enough to be allowed the jabs. But feel kind of envious of someone that they got to indulge for many years and now have a solution to kerb their appetite?

Either way just keep doing what makes you feel happy and healthy.

I haven’t told a soul (also 2 stone down) because of the moronic comments. My weight loss isn’t hugely noticeable yet but I know when it does notice I’ll get all the usual comments from people who like the security of having a fat friend/work colleague and who won’t want that to change 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

We get it on here, too. They’ll be along soon to tell us we are going to go blind (that’s the new one at the moment on here) and they are very very very not concerned about the long term effects.

I’ve got the bingo card ready 🫡

I find it's mainly the ones who only need to lose a couple of stone or so that are the worst, like me. i had to bend the rules a bit to get it and they can't understand how I've suddenly dropped two and a half stone and they can't get it 😭, of course I feign innocence and say you just have to be strong Sandra, forgo the biscuits fgs 😆 meanwhile smug old me jabs away and am feeling the best I've ever felt in my life, in every way,joint pain gone , neck pain gone , loads more wonderful effects it's a bloody wonderful drug imo, but I keep it to myself cos there's some jealous old fuckers out there😆

I'm mortified about being on it but I'm so lucky that half of my colleague are jabbers too and are flying the flag for it!

Conversations are very supportive and it feels like we have another addition to the "fat jabs club" every week.

I haven't told work colleagues but since Covid I work from home now so don't have much interaction.
In my past I have been such a yo-yo dieter anyway that it probably isn't much of a surprise that I am in a weight loss phase.

Sorry you are having to deal with idiots.

Easy way out? Why does anything need to be difficult? I’ve got 99 problems that don’t have an easy way out, if I find an “easy” solution you can bet your life I’m going to take it, life is stressful enough!

Signed a proud MJer, 7 stone down and enjoying the benefits of this life changing medicine.

I’ve only told close family. Because of this crap tbh! I’m 6 stone down and feel the best I’ve ever felt, and yes I’ve had 30 years of the hard way so I’ll take the easy one thanks!!!

I have told two friends and that’s it. There’s too much negative judgment and I don’t want that to affect my mindset. Mounjaro is the best thing I’ve ever done.

It’s definitely inappropriate to talk in that manner about that kind of medication in a workplace. Common sense would’ve told them there’s a real possibility that at least one person and/or their partner is on WLI. It’s the kind of opinionated chat that should be reserved for your partner,
best mate or whatever.

Personally I wouldn’t take them - have lost 2.5 stone without them and just 10 pounds to go before I’m back to healthy BMI, and I’m pleased I’ve been able to fight off (most of the time) my unhealthy habits as I always thought I had no willpower when it comes to sugar.

But still, unless someone I know brings it up or asks my opinion on it, I just keep it to myself because you don’t know who you could be offending. And even then I’m quite mild in what i say about it and don’t really strongly advise people to take it or not to take it.

I was at a creative writing group meeting last year and for some reason the facilitator started going on about how bad weight loss injections were and others joined in.

I kept silent and glad I did because eventually two people spoke up and said they were on them. It was super awkward for the ones slagging it off lol

They’re jealous, fuck em (I’m on it too !!)

My reply is ‘my body, my money and none of your business’

I wish it was easy! I’m finding it much slower than I anticipated it being but it’s working - I’m just having to put more effort in! That’s ok though - it’ll be a lifetime’s work to keep it off.

I think a couple of things.

1. People should mind their own business.

2. Most people put weight back on after ANY diet. So why the WLI hating?

I tell everyone and encourage them to try it too. There’s been a couple of “buttoned up” types who have been reluctant but seen my success and then after a firm no messaged me and asked for supplier details. A man who comes to my work stands on the scales with weights to get it, he’s a little overweight. I’m the only person he’s told. I have clients tell me that someone they know has lost weight and everyone knows it’s monjaro and they’re lying to folk saying exercise and diet. I do have a many friends lying and wearing six pairs of jeans for their photos, one is six stone now. This six stone person hasn’t told her partner and seems content with him believing it’s stress caused by his children (her adult step children). She was about 9 stone before taking mounjaro. I find best being open and honest people and if they say easy way out, I’d wholeheartedly agree, it’s very easy to lose on mounjaro, otherwise I wouldn’t continue paying for it.

The types I’ve noted are nervous were often first in the queue for the Covid vaccine which I never took, and yes a few people let me know that unless I got jabbed for that they wouldn’t come to me anymore. These folk just seem want to control other people, which isn’t a nice trait.

I just hope you aren't working in the medical field with the ignorant comments you are hearing.
Do they think broken limbs should just limp away and walk it off, or work harder at curing your own heart problems and mental health problems.

It infuriates me that being overweight is treated as a moral failing. If we were on insulin injections or other equally medically valid medication, no-one would make these judgemental comments.

I have always been fit and active but I started piling on weight in my mid-20s and now at 51 reached a BMI of 40. This despite being very physically active, frequently doing 100-mile cycle rides or 500-mile walks for charity. I tried so hard for so many years to lose weight. I am a research scientist; despite much unsolicited advice over many years I actually do know how I’m supposed to lose weight. If it were possible through willpower & lifestyle changes alone I would have succeeded. I suspect many of you have had the same experience.

BUT…

12 days ago, I tried the MJ jab.

Thought, why not? I’m resigned to being fat and it probably won’t work, but let’s give it a go.

To my astonishment I have lost 4.5kg. IN TWELVE DAYS. That is pretty much ONE. POUND. LOST. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.

Fair to say, this has been a bit of a surprise.

So, ladies, what does this tell us about obesity being a medical issue vs a moral failing? The only possible conclusion we can draw from the fact that these jabs are so extraordinarily effective is that obesity is a genuine medical condition, and the jabs are a legitimate and justifiable medical treatment.

I have seen how very hard people have worked before the advent of these jabs to try to lose weight; believe me, being obese is not because of a lack of willpower or ignorance about healthy eating. The pervasive ever so suble suggestions from our slim colleagues, friends, family, that we just need a bit of willpower and maybe this nice recipe suggestion and have you tried excercise bla bla, is profoundly insulting.

So next time your judgemental colleagues bewail the evil jab and those feckless cheating fatties using it, who just need a bit of willpower really, I suggest you loudly declaim on the fecklessness of diabetics with their cheating jabs, and dramatically roll your eyes about people who take antidepressants when they just need to cheer up, and the ridiculousness of people wanting to deal with broken bones by putting limbs in casts and inconveniencing everyone around them for weeks on end, and GOODNESS, imagine demanding chemotherapy when you get cancer when all you need is a positive attitude and maybe some prayers.

Yep #1 reason not to tell people.

Just imagine them all sitting on peak of mount stupid and don't engage.

Everyone I know, including myself, is concerned about the dangers of these drugs. Nothing against the person losing weight

I see people saying they are concerned about the long term effects of WLI and I really don’t understand why. They’ve been around for ages and are well understood.

It makes no sense to me to say that you’re worried about long term effects and so is everyone you know. Just don’t take them, leave others to carry out their own risk assessments. If everyone is your circle is also unlikely to take them then if awful side effects emerge they won’t be emerging for you and yours. Nobody will be forcing medication on people who don’t want it, especially since you’ll have to pay!

I’m on WLI and doing well on them. My immediate family know and one friend. I’m not telling anyone else, I don’t tell them about my IBS medication or asthma treatment so why would I? Too many judgy people in the world and I struggle to find their opinions valuable

I am completely unashamed of it. If anyone asks how I've lost weight, I say "Mounjaro. It's the best thing that's ever happened to me. I honestly think it has saved my life". Noone has ever managed to come back with something negative after that.

I really think more people need to be honest about it to counteract the skewed opinions due to people only heating negative stuff. I've had very few side effects, lost 4.5 stone so far and can now exercise without pain.

I anssume anyone who’s steadily lost a lot of weight is using jabs now. And why not? I would if I were overweight. Isn’t it a fantastic thing that there’s an ‘easy’ way to be a healthy weight? People who object to it as ‘lazy’ are being very stupid. ‘Effective’ is a better word for it! Recent research suggests benefits to cardiovascular and kidney health too.