‘NHS rejected my plea for weight loss jabs – now I pay for them myself and have lost nine stone’

Good on the fella. I’ve dropped 4.5st on it and now in the healthy range (even though BMI is a bullshit metric)

Mounjaro should be freely available, because the extra years of healthy living compounded with the drop in obesity related complications that plague the NHS would generate LOADS more tax and reduce the NHS bill

If the NHS really put pressure on Eli Lily they could reduce the cost to a few ££ per dose.. and with the potential for tablet form rather than injection pens that could come down to pennies.

Happy to debate anyone that thinks I or this man have “cheated” in any way 🙂

The main issue, especially for the NHS, is that weight loss isn’t permanent

You’ll regain the weight without a lot of effort and lifestyle modifications. Lifestyle modifications that will make you lose weight without the drug too.

Losing weight reduces metabolic syndrome risks for heart disease etc. This is great, but you need to keep using the drug to maintain the weight loss.

No country can afford to start paying for lifelong (new,expensive drugs) treatment for close to a majority of the population.

New GLP1s are coming to market all the time and have promising research, but obesity has social, economic, genetic, medical causes and they do nothing at all to address these.

Great! Glad you could afford to get them privately. I’d love a face-lift, but I’m savin up for it.

I’ve just lost 4st on the jab. Paid for myself at quite high cost. Coming off I reduced dose down and noticed my habits around food had changed. Im using a nutritionalist through life insurance to help change how I eat now whilst I stop taking the jab.

Also with reduced weight it was more pleasant going to the gym. I feel overall more confident.

The hard part will be not falling back into the habit of having large dinners in the evening. A lot of my issue was just unnecessary comfort eating. I’d look forward to my tea and pile the food up.

It’ll Probably be difficult at Christmas too but it’s something I’ll work on it’s a lot easier to just say no to having that chocolate! It really changed my outlook on food and calorie intake. Absolutely worth every penny I’ve spent.

It’s a similar feeling to when I quit smoking. I gave up quite a few times but it was only with vapes arriving on the scene I managed to change habits around smoking, working on how I dealt with stress and not falling back into bad habits. I’m now completely smoke/vape free. I’m a healthy weight and feel good.

Taking the jab for weight loss doesn’t just starve you into thinness it gives you the space to see your bad habits and hopefully then change them. My entire attitude to food and exercise has changed now because of it

One great thing from these drugs is that it has provided fuel for the fire of energy expenditure argument for weight loss.

The “nothing works” camp are suddenly flocking to these drugs because they work.

Why do they work?

Because they suppress appetite and thus result in you eating less which results in a calorie deficit… Shocker.

Also just to add: not hearing about the healthy eating being expensive argument so much anymore now that people are paying £100-200/month to self-fund these drugs.

People using or planning on taking these drugs need to reflect in on themselves as to what happens when they stop taking it, because your same relationship with lifestyle and diet will be the same when you stop as before you started.

Where’s he getting 2.5mg of MJ from for £100? Cheapest I’ve found it is £185!

NHS is anarchic and snobby with weight loss. Despite weight loss jabs potentially saving millions (if not billions) in health related illness, depression, anxiety etc – you’ll have GPs sneering at the idea you’re ‘cheating’ to get slimmer.