Only one in wedding party not on injections

[Snowdrops17]

So I will be part of a wedding party next year and the bride and other bridesmaids are all on weight loss injections , I'm 3 months post Partum and even if I wanted to can't afford the injections. I'm really hoping I can lose the weight I feel sick at the thought of being the "fat" one . I can't work out yet as I have a very fussy baby who is constantly tired and will only nap on me I'm living for when she is a bit bigger so I can have some me time back. I've done keto before with success so debating if I should give it another go I realistically need to lose 40/50 pounds in a year . Any advice very welcome

errr losing weight quickly doesn’t mean waiting a year. Op could wait until her baby was 12 months, then still lose the weight too quickly and have it cause problems or lose the weight in an unhealthy way.

Again, there is no proof that waiting until a year after you have a baby is better. For recovery, weight loss or the loss of skin elasticity.

Theres nothing magic about waiting a year to start losing weight. Which is what you said.

You made it up, then claimed it was commonly known. There is nothing magic about waiting until 12 months post partum to lose weight. It’s something you made up.

It seems like the weightloss board is frequented by some ‘superior’ posters who want overweight people to know that they hate and judge them. The fuck is that about?

Give it up FFS you just look silly now

We are clearly talking at cross purposes. Whether that’s intentional or not I have no idea but I don’t really care anymore. I don’t think there’s much gain to be made from this convo by anyone.

Hi OP. I just wanted to add my PP experience.

We got married 7 months to the day after giving birth to DD. I put on 50lbs with pregnancy and lost 52lbs in 5 months. Some was the baby, some was water, I didn't breastfeed. I did weight watchers (online) strictly from 2weeks after I gave birth and was fitted for my wedding dress gradually as the weight came off.

It wasn't hard. It was just miles of pram pushing and some determination. Plus I joined the council leisure centre which had a creche and did two classes a week.

Even if injections had been invented I wouldn't have done it.

I've just checked my My Fitness Pal to see the numbers for my weight loss after I had DD. Don't know if this is helpful, but the "nine months on, nine months off" adage seemed to apply.

Immediately postpartum I was 12st 5lb and I was down to 8st 12 within 9 months. That was all through running and walking with the buggy and a bit of exercise videos at home. I've maintained that weight loss several years later (she's now seven).

I lost 2st in the first three months, and the remaining stone and a half over the next six.

@Snowdrops17 , congratulations on the birth of your baby

40lb is perfectly doable between now and the wedding. Funny enough it was a wedding that spurred me to lose and a wedding thats spurred my friend to lose ( for both it was our sons so we knew we were going to be in the official photos and wanted to look our best )

I lost 25lb in 5 months , my friend 45lb in a year , both of us menopausal. Ive maintained for a year now, friend is still wanting/needing to lose more

Both of us upped the steps. I was already a lazy walker, so I just made sure I walked daily and at a pace to make me puff, she hadn't walked the length of herself in years but she got out there and started with 1/2 a mile and can now easily do 5k and we both watch what we eat without calorie counting. For her, which having children it was the sweets and biscuits etc that shes had to knock on the head, for me its been bread. Other then that we eat "normally" but its doing stuff like baking/grilling rather than frying, reducing the high calorie foods and filling up on veggies and fruit. And cutting out the takeaways. Still enjoy a Chinese - about every 6 weeks or so , pizza just isnt worth the fat content so make my own using a tortilla and toppings that are generally healthier and I really do enjoy a skinny burger from Lidl sandwiched between two flat mushrooms and I already can cook a mean Indian curry, just now I cook it without the ghee/butter/oil/cream

Its achievable without feeling like you "cant have" On average Id say I lost a pound a week - some weeks more, sometimes I didnt lose but I never let the weeks I didnt lose stop me, just kept on going and its off and staying off

Can’t believe that 4 young, presumably women (unless late/second marriage) are all on weight loss injections.

They're fantastic for MO people and diabetics (though not with some quite extreme consequences in some case) but that some people with just a couple of stones to lose are accessing them is getting beyond mad.

That's an interesting point about them being quite young.
I thought that injections were recommended for people who have tried and failed at all the other less invasive methods of weight control. Someone in their early/mid 20s has only been a fully grown adult for a few years.

@CharlotteBog we aren't in our 20's but our late 30's and at least 2 are under the care of an endocrinologist.

Why would you assume that younger people wouldn't be obese? The injections are recommended for anyone who is obese. Whether they are 18 or 58 is irrelevant.

No, I know that younger people can be obese, what I meant is that I thought injections were something to use after other methods of weight loss have been tried, rather than a first port of call.
I would argue that someone in their early 20s hasn't had time enough to give more conventional weight loss methods a chance. And don't people need to be on injections for life?

OP has explained that the wedding party are not in their early 20s, so it's a moot point for this thread, but its update among younger people should be looked at I think.

I thought injections were something to use after other methods of weight loss have been tried, rather than a first port of call.

Why did you think that though? It's a medication licenced to treat a condition. Why do people have to try other methods first? And to be obese in your 20s rarely happens quickly, most people will have been overweight for a long time to be obese at a young age.

Whether people need to be on injections for life is by no means settled. It's a means to lose weight, if people return to previous habits they will gain weight, but that's no more or less likely to happen after using GLP1s than any other method of weight loss.

I'm with you on this one. I didn't realise it was such a big thing. I'd like to know how people keep the weight off once you stop? I mean - do they get guidance on healthy eating whilst taking the jabs? Are you starving your body of essential nutritions? I have so many questions (and worries for young kids). And to us who exercise to keep fit (healthy) - do you feel cheated as someone else takes a jab to get slim (assuming they can't actually exercise?)

@ThatMakesSense how does anyone on any weight loss plan keep the weight off once they stop?

I'm sure you'd be amazed that after being prescribed a weight loss medication by a private doctor, people do actually get guidance on healthy eating! Anyone on a calorie controlled diet runs the risk of not getting a nutritionally adequate diet, guidance is available to help with that.

Exercise is not a major component in losing weight, the majority of it will come from a low calorie diet.

Why on earth would anyone who isn't obese and is happy with their weight and exercise level care two hoots about obese people using weight loss injections, let alone feel somehow "cheated"??

By the way, you don't just take a jab and magically get slim. You still need to be in a calorie deficit and maintain that for many weeks or months, in some cases longer than a year, to get to a healthy weight.

Yes you do get advice
you keep the weight off (or not) the same way you keep the weight off with any method of weightloss
no you aren't starving your body, you're just eating in a calorie deficit
why do you think people on GLP1s can't or don't exercise? Why do you think anyone who exercises should have an opinion about people who manage their obesity through medication? Why do you think they are connected in any way?

I thought this from things I have read. I stand corrected if this is not the case.

Thank you - I'm just curious, as it's not as freely available where I live. I exercise because I have high bloodpressure and don't want to end up with a brain heamorrhage like my sister - and it keeps me mentally fit too. Not to lose weight as I don't need to. And I'm curious - do weight loss jabs control high cholesterol and blood pressure? I'm not judging anyone - I know a (very skinny) friend who is on weight loss jabs and is utterly miserable with it - but I'm not judging her - adults can do whatever they want.

No Mounjaro does not act directly on high cholesterol or in high blood pressure. Neither does semaglutide as far as I'm aware. Though clearly losing weight and eating a healthier diet would impact on both of those.

I don't know how your very skinny friend is getting weight loss injections prescribed to her. No one in the UK would be able to get them if not already obese, or overweight (BMI >27) with at least one weight related health condition.

Well - she got them prescribed in the UK so I have no idea. She's a size 10, depressed, migraines and generally just miserable and anxious. She's smart - highly educated and somehow still taking the jab. She say friends just buy them online (sending photos of themselves edited to make themselves look fatter - I kid you not).

Ah right, so she's taking other people's fraudulently acquiring prescriptions from online providers. What a dangerous and silly thing to do. The online pharmacies are (rightly) beginning to tighten up their checks as otherwise they will be sanctioned by the GPhC for poor practice.