[Cherie]

Weight-loss jabs on NHS may be rolled out ‘in high streets and shopping centres’

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/oth...d=BingNewsSerp

wait for the Poll

Personally I would rather stick pins in my eyes than stick a needle in my stomach but each to their own

[Cherie]

I know quiet few people who use these, one has been prescribed by her GP for managing Type 2 diabetes, my issue here is I don't see any change in her eating habits she just eats less crap, has not increased her exercise and will eventually have to come off it

The second one is slimming into a wedding dress and buying it herself, she intends to give it up once the wedding is done and dusted

and the third is just losing weight for the sake of it again buying it herself online so no supervision has lost 4 stone, but now apparently has an issue with loose skin and is considering going to Turkey to have the excess skin sorted

[Vicky.]

I tried mounjaro but only lost a pound a month so stopped it. Too expensive for such little loss

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

I tried mounjaro but only lost a pound a month so stopped it. Too expensive for such little loss

Did you have any side affects Vicky?

[Vicky.]

No side effects no

[Livia]

My friend has lost 3 stone since January on Mounjaro. Her eating habits changed drastically, she doesn't have the appetite she used to have so now chooses really healthy food, although still has chocolate and ice cream, but in moderation. The more weight she loses the more energy she has and her dress size has dropped from a 22 to 16. She's so much happier. Of course, she's paid for it herself, the NHS refused her even though she has a terrifying family history of strokes and heart disease. It's not really a needle, more like an epipen.

[BBXX]

I'm not in a position to need one, so my answer is based on if I was but I guess my outlook might be different if I did need to shift a large amount of weight. My answer was no.

Mainly because I think it would be so easy to take the injection and lose weight and not change the habits that got you there in the first place. Yes it suppressed appetite, but if you have a poor diet and don't exercise and you don't adjust these accordingly because you're losing weight purely by eating less, you'll just pile it back on as soon as you stop.

I think losing weight 'naturally' forces you do make the above changes more and therefore is more sustainable long term and so for that reason, my answer would be no, however that's just because I know my mentality and so everyones will be different - some people (like Cheries friend) will also adjust diet but many don't.

In the extreme cases of someone being morbidly obese, I think therapy around their relationship with food and education on nutrition is a better resource than a jab to put a plaster over the actual issue, which is likely mental.

[Zizu]

[Mystic Mock]

No way.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

No way.

Way


She made a career about being proud of who she was ( a plus size)

Now a few injections later she’s deleting any / every online photo showing her previous body shape

[Redway]

I would if I needed to.

Originally Posted by Zizu

Do you think maybe one day you can leave random young women out of conversations about people’s bodies? It’s not just young, pretty girls who take Ozempic/Mounjaro.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Redway

I would if I needed to.



Do you think maybe one day you can leave random young women out of conversations about women’s bodies? It’s not just young, pretty girls who take Ozempic/Mounjaro.

Nobody is citing ‘young pretty girls’ far from it given the existing examples - only Ariana comes close to fitting your claim and even she isn’t a girl given she’s nearly 33 years old



Can’t think of one high profile male example as opposed to dozens of females .

Remember women in the world of media are under more pressure to be slim / slender due to the well publicised notion that ‘cameras put 10lbs on ‘

[rusticgal]

I would consider it but probably wouldn’t have it….i don’t have a huge appetite at all…but I’m a ‘picker’ and that’s not always good

[MTVN]

It is amazing to see the transformation in people who have been fat their whole lives and are now at a normal weight. Presumably they tried and failed multiple times to lose weight the natural way before resorting to the jabs so I wouldn't judge anyone for going down that route. Obviously it's much better to lose it through healthy eating and exercising but let's not pretend that is easy when a lot of people have such little spare time in the day

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Way


She made a career about being proud of who she was ( a plus size)

Now a few injections later she’s deleting any / every online photo showing her previous body shape

I meant no way as in I wouldn't take the jabs.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

I meant no way as in I wouldn't take the jabs.

Ahhh

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Nobody is citing ‘young pretty girls’ far from it given the existing examples - only Ariana comes close to fitting your claim and even she isn’t a girl given she’s nearly 33 years old



Can’t think of one high profile male example as opposed to dozens of females .

Remember women in the world of media are under more pressure to be slim / slender due to the well publicised notion that ‘cameras put 10lbs on ‘

I just don’t think you’re as genuinely concerned about these women as you say you are. Besides, while there are more highly-publicised cases in the media that involve females, Ozempic-use certainly isn’t rare in men in normal, non-celebrity life. That’s just the bit that reaches Hollywood. For the rest of us, both men and women can consciously benefit from Ozempic in about the same proportion. It doesn’t need to be pointed to in pictures. That’s not really necessary for what we’re talking about. I’ll say that much.

[Zizu]

Well thankfully nobody takes your concerns about my concerns , seriously …

The main thing is that I know that my concerns are genuine … I would imagine the vast majority would agree


I’m a seriously nice person and that’s a fact



.. I only have issues with a couple of people in here and the toxicity is from their side …

Also your claims that the use is equally split between the sexes is predictably incorrect

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Women are significantly more likely to use these drugs than men, with studies showing that in certain demographics, women account for over 75% of users ..

Oh and ..

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Redway

I just don’t think you’re as genuinely concerned about these women as you say you are. Besides, while there are more highly-publicised cases in the media that involve females, Ozempic-use certainly isn’t rare in men in normal, non-celebrity life. That’s just the bit that reaches Hollywood. For the rest of us, both men and women can consciously benefit from Ozempic in about the same proportion. It doesn’t need to be pointed to in pictures. That’s not really necessary for what we’re talking about. I’ll say that much.

The simple but hard truth is we as a society associate being under weight as being ill or having health problems

And being overweight is seen as just that

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Well thankfully nobody takes your concerns about my concerns , seriously …

The main thing is that I know that my concerns are genuine … I would imagine the vast majority would agree


I’m a seriously nice person and that’s a fact



.. I only have issues with a couple of people in here and the toxicity is from their side …

Also your claims that the use is equally split between the sexes is predictably incorrect

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Women are significantly more likely to use these drugs than men, with studies showing that in certain demographics, women account for over 75% of users ..

Oh and ..

No-one said anything about you not being a fundamentally nice person. But whether you are or you aren’t is of no use or interest to me either way. I don’t have that kind of investment with you, so naturally I don’t care. There’s no toxicity in not caring, either. I just don’t think you’re as concerned as you claim to be, and maybe that’s not even conscious. But the vast majority of your posts about women’s bodies do happen to be objectifying at best, and a bit unsettling as a fixation. It looks like this thread was just another opportunity for you to compare women’s bodies against your standard of body-ideals, which means slamming Ozempic as a whole and refusing to acknowledge the benefits of it when it’s used for the right reasons in the process.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

The simple but hard truth is we as a society associate being under weight as being ill or having health problems

And being overweight is seen as just that

Well, yeah. Neither extreme is particularly healthy. I’m not denying that part.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Redway

It looks like this thread was just another opportunity for you to compare women’s bodies against your standard of body-ideals, which means slamming Ozempic as a whole and refusing to acknowledge the benefits of it when it’s used for the right reasons in the process.

Well that’s just YOUR quite ridiculous deduction/ assertion which is obviously flawed ..

I have always liked and praised Ariana Grande and her music so it saddens me greatly to see her rapid demise health wise .

Remember I lived through the same thing with Karen Carpenter who died at just 32 .. actually not looking quite as bad as Ariana is currently also aged 32