Colleagues all dissing Mounjaro

[KateERxx]

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?

I've been taking Mounjaro since January. People take it for different reasons, everyone will be having their own journey, why they started it and where they want it to take them. Here's mine. I am now at a healthy bmi and close to the weight I was 25 years ago when I was first prescribed a med which very commonly leads to weight gain. That put on about a stone. Subsequently I have also been on another med which have led to a gain of 3 plus more stone over 15 years. I take a high dose of this. This particular med impacts on hunger, your metabolism and blood sugars. I was always hungry, all the time, eating was a compulsion, eating unhelpful things was a compulsion. I have boiled an egg in the middle of the night as it was the only thing to eat in the house and had no recall of this, only the shell which i found in the morning. I would lose half a stone through an unpleasant and all consuming period of dieting and it would go back on again. I have felt uncomfortable for years, almost like I am in the wrong body. Mounjaro has reversed the issues with the medication, it has had a huge impact psychologically as well as physically. I am mindful that when my Mounjaro journey ends I will still be on this other drug. I am using my time on it to completely overhaul what I eat and get used to it and to exercise. I am finding exercise so much easier to do with the weight off. The aim is for these to be embedded as a daily norm. I am also grateful that I have been able to reduce the risk of obesity related disease, things were getting close there. I have had side effects but I'm taking it to counter a really big one from another med so that feels OK, on balance. I feel like I've been given this chance for a more normal and less upsetting life. Living with obesity takes its toll in so many ways. However you are tackling it the very best of luck. I hope we'll all feel better for it!

IRL nobody know talks about WLI. I feel they are a lot bigger (no pun) on MJ than they are in the real world.

Perhaps, but every single person - and I DO mean every single person - that I have encountered in the last year who has noticed my weight loss has immediately asked if I am taking the injections. It’s really rude and makes me feel defensive, so I usually lie and say no. After all, it’s no one’s business what medications I’ve taken.

Or for more people than you think it's, Diabetes, PCOS, trauma, thyroid, other endocrine things going on.
Unhitch your Judgy pants, their cutting off the blood supply to your thinking skills.

Far too simplistic.

I can tell that you have never had any medical conditions that cause unwanted weight gain/loss. I also highly doubt that you have had to take medication that causes weight gain.

I’m not on WLI’s but I regularly have this discussion with a very overweight friend who is dead set against them! She reels out loads of stuff she has seen on TikTok so it must be true😜 and can’t understand why anyone would take them! I can’t understand why she wouldn’t take them! If I hadn’t been successful with this last ditch diet attempt, I would have taken the WLI’s in a heartbeat. I was just under the qualifying BMI at my starting weight.

I’ve lost 2 stone and a few pounds intermittent fasting. I don’t really speak about my weight loss so I do have a feeling some colleagues think I’m on WLI’s! It’s my own fault for not speaking about it but it’s such a weird thing to chat with colleagues about, being on a diet!

Why lie though? Perhaps they are trying to lose weight themselves, and are considering weight loss injections themselves, so want to ask about your experience.

It is rude. Unless it it someone I am close to with whom I have previously discussed my weight, I wouldn't want anyone commenting on it and asking about possible medication. It is not my job to be a public service advisor on weight loss.

Totally agree with this. My body, my choices, which I don't have to share with anyone else.

I’m pretty sure my builder wasn’t asking because he fancied using it.

if I chose to protect my privacy and not expose myself to judgment it’s my choice. Occasionally, if I trust the person asking, I do share - but i’m under no obligation to share with everybody.