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Why are some people so angry about people lying to get MJ?

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Roxietrees · 16/06/2025 17:04

The only conclusion I can come to is pure jealousy. They don’t want overweight people (with bmi 25-29) getting slim, they want to be the only ones who get to be slim and hot. Less competition that way.
I’ve seen some ridiculous statements on here, one to someone with a bmi of 29.8 who lied to get it - someone said they were “unbelievably stupid and irresponsible” and “putting their life at risk”….how can they possibly be putting their life at risk anymore than someone with a bmi of 30?! Cos being 0.2 lighter suddenly makes the medication dangerous 🤣
Should people with a bmi of 28 binge eat to put on enough weight to make them eligible? Isn’t that far more dangerous?
If the meds really were that dangerous to slimmer people there is no way you’d be able to get them by submitting a few photos and self-reporting your weight online.
I actually do meet the criteria but I have plenty of friends on it who don’t and I have zero judgement. Some of them have been overweight their whole lives and are unable to shift that 2-3 stone. Why should they have to stay overweight when an obese person can easily get down to a bmi of 19 with injections? I suspect that if you weren’t allowed to use them after your bmi got down to 30 all the righteous, judgmental people on them would start fudging their own numbers on the scales.
It just feels like a bit of an attitude amongst some people of “this is our thing and we don’t want you to have it”….disguised as concern about the health impacts…which is so obviously bullshit. Why aren’t the same people ranting about how easy it is for alcoholics to get alcohol? Or why aren’t they focusing on young anorexic people obtaining MJ (which is happening and is genuinely concerning)? It’s just so obviously jealousy. They’ll be available to people with bmi 25+ soon anyway

OP posts:
SomethingFun · 17/06/2025 13:23

Wli aren’t a magic wand and you can’t eat more calories than you burn and lose weight on them, you just feel less hungry and food orientated so it’s easier to stick to your weight loss regime.

I feel like people want obese people to suffer, like they don’t deserve to use something that will help them achieve a healthy weight, presumably because they’re ‘fat and lazy’. I really dislike the mentality some people have that if something was hard for them then it should be hard for everyone else too and anything else is unfair. It must be a miserable way to live.

ymemanresu · 17/06/2025 20:39

Namechangetheyarewatching · 16/06/2025 18:17

I have a BMI of 21 and have been subscribed again.

I started off at 19 stone, now 9 stone 7lbs

wow that’s amazing, well done.

Bigfatsunandclouds · 17/06/2025 20:43

I think they should be available for anyone in the overweight or obese categories and I think it will happen. Why are we waiting for people to become obese before treating it?

Disturbia81 · 18/06/2025 07:34

Women are terrible to each other. Criticise if others have jabs, cosmetic enhancements, age gracefully, use formula, have c sections, are too fat, are too thin, wear certain things etc etc. We have enough to cope with from men without pulling apart each others choices that don’t negatively affect anyone else.
Just let people take the jabs in peace and have some happiness (and I say this as non user)

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