There are a lot of suspiciously slim looking people knocking about.
Friends, work colleagues, parents in school play ground etc who overnight have gone from being overweight to super slim.
I suspect most are on the ‘injections’ as the weight loss and transformation has come from nowhere and looks pretty extreme.
A friend of mine has always struggled with their weight and bounced from diet to diet with no real sustained weight loss. Always pile it back on and of course never stepped foot in a gym. But now are crazy thin and almost look unwell with it.
I am not overweight and have fortunately got a high metabolism but if I was overweight and desperate to lose weight I would use the injections too I think.
Would you? Can the weight loss be sustainable? What about the cost?
Is this just another example of people looking for the easy option. Why not smash the treadmill and eat a balanced diet?
Be interested to hear peoples opinions on this.
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Not round these parts
Food costs so much people can’t afford to eat here. Gov will take credit though I’m sure
I think a bunch of people got on those weight loss jabs. As soon as the easy option comes along most people will take it.
Being overweight is not a thing of the past.
Source: Am fat
No. I’m overweight, have been loosing on my own for the past year, naturally. Slowly as I’ve done the whole disordered eating shit before. Lots of people aren’t eligible for injections and/or can’t afford them. My BMI isn’t high enough to eligible and there’s no chance I could afford them. I see the same amount of overweight people I always have
No, there’s still plenty of overweight people.
I don’t understand these threads where someone sees like 1 or 2 examples of something and then just assumes the whole country is then like it.
It’s probably more of a class thing now since it costs a few hundred a month.
A colossal number of people are on the jabs, close relatives of mine included. In my experience though few of them will admit to using, not that it’s any of my business any road.
I was saying this last night coincidentally.
A lot of overweight people have slimmed down.. what are long term effects of these injections?
> Why not smash the treadmill and eat a balanced diet?
Because for some people, this is very difficult to do (I’m one of them)
I’m freaking STARVING most of the time. I think about food every few minutes. I feel week and can’t concentrate on anything. My stomach can physically hurt for hours until it’s fed.
I’ll eat a ‘balanced’ meal and feel fucking starving still. All i can think about is how hungry I feel.
If I overeat to the point that I no longer feel hungry, i could almost cry with happiness. Being _that_ hungry for months really is quite difficult.
With the jabs all of the advice that people give is now relevant. ‘just cut back on portion sizes’ is easy. ‘just be disciplined’ is something i can do now. ‘try intermitting fasting’ yeah its not a bad idea. ‘go for long walks’ yeah nice, i really like walking
Define overnight, because jabs won’t work fast. It could be their visits to Turkey for some liposuction or something similar. I was visiting a friend in Istanbul the other month and on the plane there were so many people going to get something done
GLP-1’s are readily available now to people with the money for it .
I don’t believe that obesity or overweight people is a thing of the past in the UK .
We don’t teach about nutrition enough , especially to people in education where it could make the biggest difference.
Cheaper products in the centre isle of shops which try to sell highly processed foods/ unhealthy foods.
I work in a supermarket and can tell you no. It’s definitely not.
Overweight people are still the biggest burden on the NHS – so if they want to take skinny jabs and reduce that, then great
Obviously not, there are still obese people.
The new medications for weight loss are safe and help many people. They helped me a lot and I’m very grateful that they exist and I’ve been able to access them.
The “why not eat healthy” – I do now with the medication (that’s still how you lose weight, even on the medication), I couldn’t get myself to do it before. If you can “just do it” – great, you don’t need medication like I did.
Absolutely not, go to any provincial town and there are chonkers everywhere.
It’s very much tied to a class thing I find. I know maybe one person on the injections but she was my lecturer and has lecturer money.
Obesity is very much still rife in less affluent areas of the UK. The cost was like £150 for 4 weeks last time I checked but I know that the pharma companies have increased the cost vastly since I looked last year.
Gyms cost money, people are depressed and stressed, don’t have time to get to the gym between childcare and work.
To qualify for weight loss meds on the NHS you need a BMI of 35+ plus at least 2 specific weight-related health issues. So it’s not readily available to everyone.
It’s definitely the easy way out and the weight loss isn’t sustainable without keeping to a healthy diet and exercise. If you’ve got money to spend on the meds, you’ve got money to spend on the gym and healthier foods.
Probably jabs. I tried them but they gave me massive anxiety (a known side-effect). I’m not obese but thanks to menopause I am a bit overweight. I fucking hate it. Yes, I do eat healthy and exercise but once those hormones other thing it’s a hundred times harder to lose weight than before. So I was pretty pissed off I couldn’t stay on the injections!
my sister is on these jabs. Didn’t need them in my opinion. But anyway, you take these jabs and get down to whatever weight you’re aiming at. Stop taking the jabs – won’t you just put the weight back on when the jabs are no longer artificially destroying your appetite? So are these people just going to stay on these jabs forever?
Right now you need to be either fat enough that the NHS thinks paying for you to have the injections is cost effective for them, or with access to enough money to afford the I injections yourself
There will be a significant number of people who are overweight but not clinically obese, and don’t have the funds to access the jabs
So no, it’s not a thing of the past at all
Although people like to take shots at the injections, the health impacts seem to be positive, not negative and doctors support that long time use is fine.
Realistically it’s not going to give people a good physique, it’ll just make them a bit slimmer. If it helps people lose weight and isn’t going to impact their health then I’m all for it.
I been working out for the last year and have lost 2 stone (never considered myself fat though as pretty much just got a beer belly as I reached my 30s, which is now gone and almost have a six pack but I’m not too fussed about that.
I’ve just realised that people may think I’m on it too.
I’d be mindful that it’s not all going to be those drugs a lot of people have gone on a health kick in general when they reach a certain age.
I have noticed a lot of people since covid have become obsessed with gym culture, going gym, eating protein… I dont know whether its just my age gorup (Im 24) but a lot of people go to the gym as a hobby and lifestyle. I know a lot f people also see it as a potential to become an influencer online from promoting gym routines and protein shakes or recipes. I know mre people who go gym / workout as a hobby than don’t.
Also the negative side of this is i have heard online (so take with a pinch of salt) that more younger groups are showing earlier signs of colon cancer from the higher intake of protein in their diets (like 250g a day) which they arent balancing out with fibre. So i wonder what the gym culture effect will have on the future as some people arent looking after their bodies properly to make gains. I know obsesity is unhealthy but i wonder if the gym culture influence will make the wider public swing the other way into unhealthy teritory.
I don’t know the numbers for people using diabetic drugs as appetite suppressants (that’s basically what it is right?)
However, I do know that they are fairly pricey and as far as I am aware, the NHS aren’t throwing them at people. The only person within my circle who has talked about them is one of my cousins who is seriously overweight. He specifically asked the GP about them but was told it was a no bueno because of his other health issues (he has bad kidney issues).
Therefore, I can’t imagine it is anywhere as significant as being anything close to making being overweight a thing of the past. I know of a lot more people taking steroids (either procured illicitly or through private medicine) in order to put on weight or fight aging.
As to the why not smash the treadmill and eat a balanced diet to lose weight well… you don’t need a treadmill, you can walk and run on any reasonably smooth surface and for weight loss, you don’t even need a well balanced diet… You just need to eat less. That is the mechanism of these drugs, they are basically appetite suppressants.
I’d use them. I grew up in a culture where we eat a lot of carbs but assume they are healthy. The ingredients are healthy, but the ratios are what screw us up. I’ve changed that habit and now eat more balanced meals, but my body doesn’t respond to these changes enough. Probably genetics. So I’ll be taking these jabs soon.
The trouble happens when they go on the jabs but then can no longer afford them
Laughing my extremely fat arse off at this. We only had a post last week saying why is the UK so fat.
A lot happens in a week on here
The jabs are sustainable if you use them to build a healthy life style such as dieting/exercise and then come off the jabs and stick to it. People who starve themselves on it will likely just go right back up once they come off them
The jabs stop you feeling hungry which I suppose makes post exercise eating and being on a defecite far easier
If Sharon Osbourne (bless her) is the poster girl for semaglutide’s long-term side effects, then frankly, pass me another doughnut. Better the spare tyre.
Uncharitable observers have already pointed out she’s veering into uncanny territory – somewhere between Dot Cotton on a bad day and Cassandra, that Doctor Who sheet of stretched leather with a lipstick addiction.
These jabs were designed for people genuinely fighting for their lives against morbid obesity and type 2 diabetes – not for some Chelsea waif who fancies shaving off an inch from her already invisible waist.
They come with a whole swag bag of side effects and ticking-time-bomb consequences, yet the Insta-thin brigade are sticking them in their thighs like they’re Aperol Spritz on tap. Newsflash.. they were never meant to be elective accessories for non-morbidly obese types chasing the size-zero spectre.
Ozempic-slim isn’t chic, it’s bleak.
all gaunt cheeks, stick limbs, and that haunted look that says “side effects included.” A brand of syringe-chic that almost makes grim 90s heroin chic look positively glowing by comparison … Ugh….
I haven’t noticed this personally, most of Britain outside the very middle class place I live it looks very noticeably podgy.
After going into town yesterday for a haircut, I would say the exact opposite and the obesity epidemic is still going strong.
You seem like you don’t understand the complexities in weight gain. Food noise is a big thing for a lot of people and makes losing weight so much harder than for people who don’t suffer with it. Busy lifestyles, work, raising children, all make it hard to find the time and energy to exercise and exercise doesn’t contribute that much to weight loss. The food industry has spent decades and millions of pounds scientifically designing calorie dense food to be as appealing, tasty and addictive as possible. Combine that with our nature to eat more than we need and store the extra, it all contributes to making losing weight and keeping it off extremely difficult. It’s great if you can but we aren’t all equally equipped and doctors educated in the subject know this.
Lots of people can’t have the jab and people can’t take it forever. So I expect we’ll see this peak in usage fall at some point, but it’s great it helps lots of people get to a healthier place to give them a chance to maintain it.
Go to any British theme park and you’ll change your mind on this.
God I wish. Hang on, I need to go and do my daily exercise, a practice I consider to be a huge waste of an hour and a half a day. Meanwhile eating healthy involves eating little enough that I am constantly disappointed by how small my meals now are.
I like food. I don’t like exercise. But I’ve recently decided I dislike being fat more. But you, Mr Thin Man, don’t get to lecture me on how easy it is to lose weight. Maintaining your weight might be easy, I don’t know. Actually losing it is so much harder.
Being overweight isnt going anywhere, this isnt the first appetite suppressant,Ephedrine has been available for years and Amphetamine for donkeys years.