Do people lie to get the jabs?

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It’s taken me several years to lose three stone. All my own effort. Got down to 11 stone 4, about half a stone more to drop me below 11 stone and I’d be pretty happy. But it’s such hard work and if I slip off a very rigid diet for a few days the pounds start piling back on. What with holiday and then struggling to get back on the wagon I gained a stone. I feel vile and bloated but am struggling to get back in the diet mindset and even if I do it will be such hard work to try to fight my way back and then try to lose that final half a stone.
So I thought sod it, I’ll look at the jabs. Did the online assessment. Have a BMI of 27.5 and osteoarthritis but it said they can’t prescribe. Not sure why. So now I’m wondering if people tell porkies about their weight and / or health conditions to get the jabs prescribed online?

I started with Shemed and PCOS was one of their “co-morbidities” with a BMI of 27. It wasn’t the only online pharmacy that had PCOS as a co-morbidity.

They (shemed) did a blood test and it turned out my total cholesterol was very slightly elevated (5.1) (LDL also slightly raised) and that was another one of their “co-morbidities”.

I have since left Shemed as it became too expensive to one of the maintenance pharmacies. I moved with a BMI of 25 and found a maintainance pharmacy; they asked for a photo and I sent them the cholesterol blood test result as well.

She said so herself in countless interviews: She's talked openly about her use of Ozempic and how she says that it has screwed up her metabolism and made her too thin. So it seems that unlike a lot of other celebrities, she is more than happy to discuss her weight loss issues, discussing her ED and also having been fitted previously with a gastric band. How do I know this? Because she has talked about it publicly, more than once.

She hasn’t talked about it for a long time, as said, Sharon is 72, clearly has health issues she doesn’t wish to discuss publicly. People really need to stop rolling her out.

That's a real shame. I would speak to the prescriber and find out why specifically. They are advertising they start from 27.

I was recently approved by Chequp with BMI 27.5 and citing PCOS and high cholesterol. They didn't request evidence of either (although both are perfectly true), just the standard full body photo check.

Revealing she was tired of her weight "going up and down", she told Ben Shephard and Kate Garraway on ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “I was just fed up of going back and forth with my weight, constantly like this. And I just thought, I’ve tried everything – everything I’ve tried. And so, I thought well, might as well try it (Ozempic) and I did.”

I don't think anyone is 'rolling her out' if she is going on Good Morning Britain to talk about Ozempic. Was she held hostage at knife point driven to the TV studio and forced to talk about it on camera to be broadcast to millions? No. If she didn't want to discuss it, she could have done a Nicole Kidman and claimed that she was 'completely natural' and that she had nothing in her face (botox, fillers), etc. She could have said something vague and non committal like, 'I'm thin now because of my new diet.' blah, blah, blah.

Sharon Osbourne is not shy of being upfront and very candid!

Short story. Yes. Loads of already thin Chelsea mums are on it to drop down from a 12/10 to an 8/6 because you really just don't have to try anymore or exercise. You can eat whatever you want because food becomes completely unappealing once you've had a fair amount. There are online pharmacies (reputable ones) where you can totally lie. Even with supposed photo verification. It isn't a full body shot. I know it would violate T&Cs to tell you which ones unfortunately. I think many plan to stay on it for rest of their loves because why wouldn't you?

Um are you refering to her interview nearly six years ago?

seriously??

Six years? Try 10 months ago. Clearly you've not been keeping up because Sharon Osbourne's been back on Good Morning Britain talking about her Ozempic use less than a year...

Do keep up! Although I'm sure she'll be back!

29% of Brits are obese… that being BMI of 30 or above. That’s 20million people eligible for the drug without lying.

Even aside from the online pharmacies, it costs more but there are plenty of private doctors who will prescribe “out of licence”.

thats Not quite right, you do have to try, and you can’t eat what you want. I’m afraid your “shor story” shows a fundamental lack of understanding of the drugs. It reads like a regurgitation of one of the mad mail pieces.

Exactly. They make it easier to stick to a deficit. That’s all. Takes away the need for willpower to fight the hunger, the cravings etc.

in terms of “eat what you want”… for those who want to be thin, it’s easier to stick to the diet.

I suppose it depends on your own experience. On 7.5, I can't take more than a few bites of anything so I'll order a double cheeseburger or a pasta or a cheesecake because I know I'll eat so little of it. They do work differently for everyone though. The majority of people I know have completely gone off alcohol with them as unappealing vs I found I wanted to drink significantly more on them because I no longer got any pleasure from food, sex (inability to orgasm from 2.5mg), or exercise. I have also become a rather compulsive shopper vs hating shopping before but I think that's down to loving my body.

I did OP
pM me if you like
the fact that swung it for me is that people can stay on it when they reach a healthy BMI, so clearly it is considered safe enough and effective in this bracket.

@YellowElephant5that’s a good point re alcohol. We have different reasons as to why we put on weight - for me, being short and post menopausal means it’s too easy to take in more calories than I need. For some people though, alcohol will be a significant source of extra calories. Drinking less will lead to weight loss in previously regular drinkers. Even in people whose diets might otherwise be considered healthy.

I used to not drink or drink very rarely but I would live for desserts, pizza, pasta, burgers etc so for me the swap has made it feel like I didn't have to try with food. I understand that's maybe an oversimplification the way I said it above. I'm also applying this to the higher doses. On 2.5mg yes was still calorie counting and exercising. Now if I go out to a dinner, I'll have a few bites of my main that I do enjoy and nurse two small glasses of wine with absolutely zero interest in dessert over a 3 hour dinner and feel perfectly happy and contented. I don't get hungry at all during the day usually so I just schedule when to eat healthy food or I'll forget to eat at all. No more desire for afternoon coffee and a cake etc. It has shifted the preferences around alcohol in that I'd now rather go out for drinks than a meal but I'm not going crazy.

And re: sex side effects before that scares people off. I'm having other symptoms of perimenopause and not particularly attracted to my partner. I was never a very sexual person at all. More of a have to than want to my whole life so I'm not completely sure it's the jabs causing that issue. Reddit etc does mention it as a known one.