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?

Come on, it really IS magic! There has never been anything like it in history, it’s revolutionary. Airline companies are even talking about how much money they project they will save due to lower fuel costs because of the massive decrease in the number of obese passengers. And the large majority of people really do not have to work that hard to lose weight on it compared to diet and exercise alone. Yes you might have to muster up some motivation to go to the gym (but that doesn’t really help you lose weight anyway, just keeps you toned and prevents muscle loss). Most people do not have unbearable cravings for takeaways/crisps/cakes or feel hungry after a bit of salmon and broccoli. For most people there’s no “trying to control portion sizes”, you just naturally want to eat less and are much more easily satisfied with a smaller portion. In that sense it is magic because most people have been unable to sustain this kind of eating for more than 2 or 3 weeks. People are sustaining this for years now thanks to MJ. Saying it isn’t the easy option is just not accurate. People who do say/believe this are either ashamed of taking WLIs or are part of the small minority who it doesn’t work for.

I never even considered planes!

Saying it isn’t the easy option is just not accurate.

Oh, absolutely. It's certainly the easier option than trying to lose eight stone just by eating lettuce for a 12 month. But I have no qualms about that at all. I actually feel I deserve a helping hand. I've spent my entire life embarrassed, humiliated, mocked, uncomfortable, sad, awkward and either bloody ravenous or wracked with guilt from eating too much. I have missed out on fun activities and events. I have been unable to buy clothes in the shops. I have spent a lifetime gingerly lowering myself onto furniture (and avoiding garden furniture at all costs), along with the hundreds of other things that make being a fat person endlessly soul destroying and upsetting. I am obese for a variety of reasons, many of which have been my own fault, over many years. I do however think I have already been suitably punished for my fatness (see above) and WLI are helping me by giving me an easier way to join the ranks of 'normal' people who never have to worry about a plastic garden chair collapsing under them or whether bits of their anatomy are encroaching unpleasantly on others on public transport.

It might be seen as an 'easy option', but often the life lived before WLI has not been easy, so I couldn't really give a hairy rat's arse about other people's judgement.

Just my DH from beginning and one very good friend but that wasn't until I'd lost 2 stone. Saw a couple of other friends recently and they noticed I had lost weight and asked rather rudely whether I was on the fat jabs. Their tone said it all.

Just goes to show the daily fails opinions are making an impression on people hence the scathingly remarks.

DH, siblings, one friend I was spending a lot of time with (so would notice my distinctly limited appetite). I thought she would be a bit judgemental, but it turned out her daughter was using MJ too, so no judgement there. Anyone who resents the fact that I am getting (paying for) help with a problem can think what they like!

My mum and DH.

plus a few friends who revealed they were doing it too.

otherwise I keep it to myself.

I’ve never discussed dieting before so so doing it now either.

my GP, my adult daughter (as i was worried in the beginning i might get some horrible side effect and no one would know in A&E to consider the impact), one very close non judgey friend, any health professional i see.
i have had people ask me outright which i think is incredibly rude and i am taken aback my how brazen people can be about someone’s personal health information.
i have a stock answer i give in those circumstances which shuts them up but i shouldnt have to.
ive lost 3 stone and now need to maintain, i’m struggling to eat enough calories so i’m heading towards ‘too thin’. i’m reducing my maintenance and working hard to get more protein and calories in. otherwise i’ll not just have the nosey buggers asking but people who care about me who will be concerned.
i’ve had some recent investigations for a non related reason and the health professionals have all agreed that without the weight loss, i could have been quite unwell and i have done a positive thing for my overall health.
i feel ok to be on a lower dose for life if necessary as i know i have made a positive decision for my health and i don’t ever want to go back to where i was before.
it has just occurred to me that i’m going abroad soon to stay with friends staying in a very hot country so how i hide my syringe in the fridge is going to get me thinking about a plausible disguise plan. lovely friend i’m staying with but will blab as she just can’t help herself.

You could put the pen inside a cardboard packet of yogurts (thinking of those kids Frubes) or something similar, maybe something you can say you need to have every morning to stop other people taking them.

Can I ask, when you said you had a health problem and the doctors said you’d have been quite unwell without the weightloss, does 3 stone really make that much of a difference to your health? I’m very surprised at that. I’ve got 4 stone to lose overall and I didn’t think I was majorly at more risk of health problems because of it (bmi was only just 30) but maybe I’m wrong? I’m also fairly young so maybe that makes a difference too

@purpledaze24
frubes box is a good call!

its hard to say what the health issues were without being very identifying as they were quite rare or certainly what i was being investigated for is quite rare. it did impact my joints which loosing 3 stone definitely helped and it could have had a fatty liver implication but thats all ship shape. it was thought i might have had fatty liver disease pre MJ and loosing the weight has sorted it out and brought everything back to normal.
the relief to my joints is the big win really.

I haven't told anyone. Im a serial dieter for 35+ years and I just can't face the conversations about what I'm doing and why this one really is my last diet.

And it really is no one else's business what i put into my body. I don't want to justify my decision to people who haven't done as much research into MJ as I have and who have never known what it's like to struggle with food.

Someone upthread referred to the jabs being thought of as an "easy option". It's really not easy vomiting and having diarrhoea for 4 days out of 7. But still worth continuing for me. I need the hope that one day I'll conquer this.

Not a single soul.

I think it depends on your height quite substantially - I have lost 3 stone in total over the last 2 years, and have gone from a BMI of 34 to a BMI of 26, so that's a massive difference for me.

I would only need to gain 2st 6lb to go from not overweight to obese.

Once you are obese, losing even 5-10% of your bodyweight has measurable benefits in terms of reducing mortality.

I feels to me that some people who have never needed the support of Mounjaro, or would have benefited but gain or maintain a healthy weight without that support have a similar attitude to WLI that Republicans have to nationalised health care. 'They can't bear the thought that someone else is benefitting from something they have (currently) no use for.
I know it's not that simple but there does appear to be a related attitude... especially those who still seem to think it's clever to quote the simple mantra (eat less, move more) as though they invented it.

I have told DH, eldest DC, and my best friend (who has taken different weight loss medication herself, very successfully, and slowly convinced me to start too). Also one health professional, who knew how upset I was about my weight and then one day, sent me a podcast: an overweight woman who was interviewed about her weight and how Mounjaro was helping her. ‘What this woman describes, the constant food noise, is that what you feel too?’, she asked me. The answer, of course, was yes. That’s when I knew I should go for it. I plan to tell other doctors if/when I see them. No one else. My best friend discourages me, she got too many bad remarks when she told people. I feel like it’s not fair of me, because some of my good friends are struggling with their weight as well. I’d love to tell them this could help them too. I don’t want to out myself but where I live not a huge amount of people are on it yet. I’m dying to talk about it … and this is why I came here tonight because it’s all consuming, I can’t believe it’s working (am only on it for 6 weeks) and I would love to tell the world!!