Who have you told you’re on WLIs?

[purpledaze24]

Just curious. I planned to keep it to myself but I keep telling people! I think cos I’m desperate to talk about it. I’ve told my mum, my sister and a close friend. The friend is planning on taking it too (despite being only just overweight) and my mum seems to think it’s extreme (my bmi was 30). How have the people you’ve told reacted?

@arcticpandas people on them are still working hard ffs. It’s not magic.

Resisting food noise with Mounjaro is nothing compared to doing it without otherwise so many people wouldn't be on it. EVERYONE loses weight with Mounjaro : no food noise, the food will take longer to be absorbed so you feel full quickly. But it's great that it exists ! Why do it the hard way when there's a short cut ? I'm all for using them but not for someone whose Bmi is under 20 like my friend. That's when it gets problematic.

Only my DH knows after being on them for three weeks, I've not lost enough to say anything to anyone. But then today I told my dentist as was having some work done. Felt quite apprehensive in case he was judgemental but instead he asked me loads of advice as he's been wanting to try them.

Dimwitted comments like this are why it’ll remain private for me. It doesn’t work for everyone, just FYI, and it certainly doesn’t cause eating disorders.

No need to be rude. Mounjaro works very well for the majority. Some might develop eating disorders why it shouldn't be prescribed to those with Bmi less than 20. Just look at Sharon Osborne, she's still on them and she definitely does not look healthy. My friend is the same. It's worrying.

I’ve told everyone, might as well have a t shirt printed saying I love Mounjaro! Has elicited lots of me too conversations and requests for info 😁😁

@arcticpandasYou’ve basically reaffirmed every person on this thread’s decision not to tell everyone. It is not an easy option and requires a complete reframing of eating habits and fitness to enable the user not to put on weight afterwards.

It is harder for some people to regulate the food noise - not everyone hears it at the same pitch. Food noise for those who have experienced significant weight gain obviously sits in the part of the brain that impacts other addictions, hence the research coming out which suggests it helps alleviate alcohol dependence.

Not everyone loses weight, and some people react very differently to it and can’t continue due to side effects.

To imply that’s the simple route is facile.

Even if you don't tell someone, they'll know. It's pretty obvious.

I don’t care, as long as they don’t try to engage me in a conversation about it. I don’t want to talk about my weight loss at all, any aspect of it, with other people outside of my immediate family.

Told my parents before I even started - but my dad lost 100lbs on it after having it prescribed for his Diabetes. He’s always been fatter than me and I didn’t want to be the fattest one in the family anymore!

My three closest friends also know - I wasn’t going to tell them but we were on a day trip to London and they started talking about it so I decided to speak up. They’ve been super supportive.

I also have one colleague who knows - she’s on it and was talking openly about it so I rang her up and now we are MJ buddies 😂

That’s not really true - quite a few people on the thread I’m on still have food noise. It’s not a miracle , it does help though.

@SaintAgatha "To imply that’s the simple route is facile."

Are you serious? All the people in the world losing weight thanks to Mounjaro. I personally know 3 people who used to be obese even since childhood ! They had tried everything but Mounjaro was the thing that really helped. So ofcourse it's the easiest way to lose weight!

My husband - and people at work. Half of my team are on it too!

I really agree with this. One of my colleagues, not a friend was going on about my weight loss lady week, none of her business !! My bmi was 30 so I don’t really look very different - yet ! She battles to be slim so I think she’s feeling not so special now in her slimness - 2 other people I work with have also lost several stone.

@arcticpandasI am serious. Success doesn’t equate to simplicity. I also stand by my earlier point: your implication that it’s the easy route is the reason why many people don’t wish to be transparent about their use of WLIs.

The members of my household know plus all my doctors. It just hasn’t come up with anyone else. A few people have commented on my weight loss, but no one has asked any questions and it doesn’t exactly come up naturally in conversation.

I imagine next time I see my sister we will talk about it.

DH and two friends (who live an 8 and 4 hour drive away and we have no mutual friends). With DH I rarely mention it (only time really is when I am expecting a pen delivery) and certainly don't discuss how much weight I've lost. I talk with one friend (she is also on it) for 1 hr+ once a fortnight, and we do discuss MJ/weightloss then. The other friend it just got mentioned in a letter (we're mainly pen pals with the occasional phone call). Honestly that is enough for me.

My [young adult] son doesn't know and he was still living at home with us for the first six months I was on it. My closest friend doesn't know, my closest local friends do not know.

Now in my second year.
I learnt a decade ago that it is best for me to tell as few people as possible that I am trying to lose weight, let alone the method. I just get so bored with the questions/diet talk and then the unsolicited advice/judgement and find it very unhelpful, even if well meaning.

My objection to people referring to it as a “short cut” is that for me it isn’t, for me it had made losing weight possible versus impossible. That’s not a short cut, because short cut implies the long route is possible.

Yes, there are people out there working really hard and losing weight, and I’m not taking anything away from them. But when I’ve done that, absolutely nothing has happened.

And yes, this is why, though I’m not secretive about it, I’m not shouting it from the rooftops either.

Oh yes, I do see what you mean: "short cut implies the longue route is possible". Very well put. Like it would be someone doing meditation and saying I take a short cut because I'm on SSRI, when in fact that's the only viable option for me to fonction. Thank you for making me see things a little bit clearer and I will mind how I talk about this in the future.

I tell everyone because I think it's great. I've lost 2 stone in 8 weeks. If other people don't like it, then that seems like it's their problem, not mine. I haven't really encountered much negativity, although one acquaintance was very sniffy about it. She reasserted her moral superiority by telling me all about her hard work at the gym, which seemed important for her to do. I'm not interested in hearing about weights and five circuit training sessions a week, so just smiled and nodded and thought about buying new clothes instead of listening to her.

I've told partner and couple of trusted friends.
My weight loss has been slowly and steady. 30lbs over 6 months and I'm at the gym 4 plus days a week so you wouldn't actually assume it was WLIs.

To me building muscle as a perimenopausal woman and not wanting to just lose the weight and be untoned is really important to me. Also i want to set new habits for life.

I've another 30lb to go so I do wonder once i start getting that weight off if people will wonder as I'll be smaller than I've been most of my adult life.

Only DH, my friend who confided to me and gave me her code (and the final push to go for it after months of back and forth!), my best friend and one other good friend. So 4 people. I won’t ever tell any of my family as I know how judgemental they would be. Except I would tell DD in future when she’s older, but as a pre-teen I don’t want her to know and of course she notices the weight loss but it’s easily explained as she’s seen how my portions and our meals have been more consistently healthy as well as my increased exercise. I will probably tell some other friends if it comes up. I live quite far from a lot of my friends as moved across the country, so they haven’t seen me to notice yet but will during summer.

Two best (female) friends, partner, GP, woman who runs the beauty parlour I go to occasionally.

Two of them (partner and one friend) originally thought you just inject yourself and then the weight drops off without dieting or exercise.

I’ve pre-empted reactions to my anticipated weight loss by mentioning to a couple of work colleagues that I’ve started lifting weights again. I don’t intend telling anyone else that I’ve been using injections. So far my weight has gone from 14stone 1lbs to 12 stone 11lbs. I’m at the start of week 7, on 5mg.

ETA as soon as I hit my goal weight I intend to buy a fancy gym membership and get back to lifting.

anyone who will listen! Had the usual mix of “it’s dangerous/it’s cheating/if you’re eating healthy anyway just do that”. I just reply - I’m happy on it thanks!

I’ve encountered lots of people also happy to say they’re on it and share tips.

There are a few acquaintances who have had some rapid and big weight loss who say they’ve just overhauled their diet but they are using the injections and not admitting it. Each to their own but I’m happy to be open about it. You find some surprising and helpful emotional connections.