When did the 'concerned' comments start for you?

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Am part way through my MJ Journey, having been a February Starter. Now don't get me wrong, i have lost a lot of weight (over 100lb) so far, so am looking very different to how i started - but i am by no means wasting away, looking dangerously thin or frail . In fact i have just dipped into a 25.7 bmi so just into a healthy weight for my height bracket.

Has anyone else had comments like this, that seem a bit ott ?
I get i look different, but am still 10 stone, so i don't think i would draw a look in a crowd, but over the past couple of weeks i seem to have had these comments and it is starting to grate a little bit - not one of these people commented when i was knocking on the door of 18 stone.

Do you think that with quite quick weight loss it takes a while to settle into your new size if that makes sense, or is it just people being a bit knobbish?

I just need to clarify, i completely messed my calculations up in my earlier post (hopping from one phone screen to another), I've averaged 1.5lb per week since the initial rapid loss. I thought my original number didn't seem quite right. Obviously still okay but I'd prefer to be averaging 1lb a week or slightly less, will review my current dose/ rate of loss after Christmas. I'm already microdosing anyway (1.875mg), it definitely helps with the cost too though!

With all the evidence pointing towards long term maintenance on mounjaro there really is no need for rapid loss beyond the initial bit of losing enough to take immediate strain off the heart and joints. I figure if I'm on it for life then it makes no odds if i lose 5st in 5 months or 5 years.

The only advantage to losing rapidly is Instagram 'before and after' reveals.

What’s the point of posting your opinion when it is clearly based on heresay and an astonishing level of ignorance of the facts?

Maybe now that you’ve read some more replies, you might like to go away and read up about the long term health benefits of WLI?

Why are you answering questions on something you know nothing about. Who does that. 😂😂😂

The cost of WLI is a huge factor here, people are paying through the nose for it so want to see results ASAP.

I've kept my costs manageable by counting clicks (Wegovy) to stay on a smaller dose, and balance out with a lot less spent on food an alcohol. But it's a real stretch for a lot of people so they try to get on, lose a heap and get off as quickly as they can.

2lb a week every week is safe weight loss, and if you’re on them you know full well for every single pen you order you need to submit your weight, and if you lose too fast pharmacies reach out, and if you don’t lose weight they do the same.

honestly all this wanting parental control. It’s the same people who I guess want to call the police over everything, report their neighbours and tell teacher.

the drugs are safe. It’s clearly evidenced by the millions and millions on them globally. I’m sorry your weight loss is slow and it’s making you sore.

But is it? The only data that says that predates weightloss injections, we need new evidence, taking into account the sustain nature of weightloss that wli enable.

For most of the past several thousand years rapid weight loss has meant someone is dangerously ill. It’s hard not to think that still.

There are some subjects that just seem to inspire people to do that. Women's surnames is another one on here that draws the unknowing like a moth to a flame. It's very curious.

I had drinks yesterday with a friend who has gone too far. She looked very thin but also much much older. I'm on the meds so it's nothing against slim people at all and there is no element of jealousy which I know is often trotted out on these threads. I didn't say anything because that would be rude.

That can happen facially but it generally tightens up, and settles down when weight stabilises.. Too thin is subjective and can also be down to how you dress. I’ve noticed when I wear more close fitting clothes I look fit and toned, but if I wear something much baggier I can look thin, it’s really about dressing for your shape, just like when you’re fat.

Of course but there are also lots and lots of examples of people taking it way too far. Kelly Osborne for example. There was a point at which she looked lovely and slim after dramatic weight loss. Now she looks skeletal.

The problem is that people continue to take the meds even once they are down to a healthy weight.

There is very little guidance available on when to start titrating down for maintenance or cessation.

I'm still BMI 28, so a way off yet, but should i start titrating the dose down as soon as i hit 25, or when i hit my target weight, but what should my target weight even be, my BMI in my late 20s was 21.5-22 before my endocrine problems started but now I'm 44 and perimenopausel, so should it be higher than that?), maybe it should be lower as i no longer eat sugar now on mounjaro and let's face it as a society we have lost touch with what a processed sugar free human looks like.

I think the vagueness with regards to maintenance and target weights is a problem, but hopefully evidence and guidance on this will come with time. The lack of guidance is presumably an even bigger problem for those with any degree of body dysmorphia.

I'm in a similar situation and age to you. I'm going up to 10 for next injection as been on 7.5 since July. I'm going to carry on until I get to the weight I want then start titrating down and see what happens.

Now that’s interesting, as my view is if we had always seen Kelly thay weight, as many many are, particularly celebs, she wouldn’t look skeletal, it’s the difference I think is the issue here. If she’d always been that weight people would just say she’s slim and not think twice, but as she looks so different, people think she looks skeletal. I think it’s a great example where a woman has a weight which is very common, especially in the celeb world, but folks think she looks skeletal as the difference is stark.

I don't think so. Purple hair picture she looks slim and great. Second picture she looks ill.

I saw that interview, and i
tjink she does look too thin and unwell.

It’s just angle and how she’s caught, and her hair pulled back. It’s odd as no one was posting pics of her fat saying look how fat Kelly is she looks really unwell. And the reality is she was likely unwell fat. But not at current weight.

This has caught my attention now.

if someone was posting pictures of an overweight celeb, and making comments like look how fat she’s got, she looks unwell, she must have high cholesterol or blood pressures] etc, there would be an outcry of fat shaming.

but if someone posts an image of a slim woman and says look she looks unwell and skeletal, it’s deemed as acceptable to shame her under the guise of faux concern, just that faux concern isn’t acceptable if she’s fat.

body shaming isn’t acceptable at either end of the spectrum, posting pics of women and stating they look fat or thin isn’t ok, inviting others to pile in and do the same.

but as slimness is seen as a prize, it’s still somehow seen as acceptable to shame women for their size,

it is not.

She is notably thinner than she was when she first lost a dramatic amount of weight. It isn't just lighting and make up. I personally think she now looks ill and has gone too far and has probably lost sight of what is a healthy weight. It's the same as women who have too much surgery and end up with extreme lips or cheeks etc. You are perfectly entitled to your own opinion but you don't get to police the options of others.

but if someone posts an image of a slim woman and says look she looks unwell and skeletal, it’s deemed as acceptable to shame her under the guise of faux concern, just that faux concern isn’t acceptable if she’s fat.

That concern is acceptable if she's fat. It isn't faux concern it is genuine concern for their health. I'm fatter than I should be. It isn't healthy.

I think you misunderstood, I was clearly not talking about concern for our own weight, I was I thought very obviously refering to posting a pic of a fat woman and proclaiming concern for her health and how unacceptable it would be,

Maybe we could just not analyse the body of a woman in the public eye?

I find it odd that it could be suggested that it would have been ok to publicly discuss whether or not Kelly Osbourne had high BP, high cholesterol, was unwell when she was fatter than deemed appropriate. That it would have been absolutely fine to do so, instead of, or as well as, just ripping her appearance apart which is what happened at the time. It wouldn't have been "concern" it would have been to get attention, sell stories, click bait, and all the rest.

Picking on an individual, who hasn't disclosed their entire medical history, and then using them as an example of what is right or wrong seems foolhardy. This particular woman has had very many challenges throughout her life, including early fame, drug addiction, rehab, bariatric surgery, plastic surgery, complicated pregnancies, being a pregnant woman and new mother whilst in the public eye....

Nothing to do with the original question which is why do people at the top end of the healthy weight range sometimes get "concerned" comments from others.

Absolutely, you said what I was trying to say much more eloquently. It’s just not ok. We see so many comments on here it’s rude to comment on someone’s weight, or how it’s the difference that’s the issue, with all the silly comments folks get, yet some posters think it’s absolutely acceptable to post a woman’s image and then make comments on her weight,

Not to mention that her father has just recently died, and the recent image is taken from her talking about an honour he posthumously received. I hope no one is critical of my weight or body in the wake of a bereavement.

To be fair my neck is a saggy mess after losing 5 stone, I'm off for a private face and neck lift in Lithuania in May. It's booked.
I'll just have to live with it until then, however it does mightily piss me off when people comment on this like it matters, what matters is I've lost 5 stone, slashed my risk of diabetes and cancer and my arthritic knees are not nearly as painful as they were - I can now get out and exercise and keep the weight off.
And then I get....well I hope you don't think it's ok to have correction surgery on the NHS when they make a mess of your face.
Well I won't be, I've taken out expensive insurance against that, I've checked out my surgeon thoroughly and he was trained in the best plastics and burns unit in France.
The Karen who said that to me is fatter than I ever was and is already costing the NHS thousands with her diabetes and high blood pressure medication.
I'm just so sick of all the negativity when I've spent thousands on private GLP -1 medications over a year in order NOT to cost the NHS a fortune and I am teetotal and don't smoke.