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Anonymous wrote:If someone wanted to lose vanity weight can they get a glp1?

I am 155 and 5’7”. I used to weight 125 when I got married 15 years ago. 3 kids and life got in the way. Now I am 42 and probably in perimenopause. I would love to lose 15+ pounds. Can I get a doctor to subscribe a glp1? Can I just go online and get it myself?

You’re a normal weight. For your long term health at your age you need to focus on gaining strength and maintaining your mobility. Taking a GLP1 risks losing muscle and other side effects. The worst thing you can do in perimenopause is lose a lot of muscle and set yourself up to be frail when you’re elderly.

Being frail is not a risk if you're not losing too much weight. None of the people I know on GLP1s look frail and they all exercise more than ever. It's a lot easier to gain strength and be mobile when you are at a good weight. I find running a lot easier now that my BMI is lower. Nobody looking at me would see me as "frail" with a 22 BMI, which is op's goal if she wants to lose 15.

OP is not currently overweight. Her current weight is not an obstacle to being active or exercising. GLP1s have the well known side effect of muscle loss. Sadly, it gets harder and harder to gain muscle in peri and menopause. Lost muscle now increases your risk of losing mobility, breaking bones, and frailty in old age. There’s no health and longevity upside to losing weight if you’re already of normal weight and health in middle age, and well documented risks.

Stop spreading this misinformation. GLP1 don't have the "well known side effect of muscle loss." ANY weight loss will result in muscle loss, whether on a GLP1 or not. The GLP1 isn't especially relevant for this. If you lose weight, it will always be some ratio of muscle loss to fat loss. Doing heavy lifting while losing the weight shifts the ratio so you lose more fat and less muscle. Not doing the strength training means you'll lose more muscle.

If OP goes on a GLP but also does weightlifting, then the muscle loss won't be a concern. If OP does not go on a GLP and loses weight through dieting without doing the lifting, then OP will lose a lot of muscle mass. The key here is the weightlifting, not the GLP.

“ CR studies show a trade-off in weight loss composition. While around 60% of weight loss comes from fat mass, approximately 30% comes from lean mass. This proportion fluctuates based on factors such as sex, age and the severity of calorie restriction (more severe CR leads to greater muscle loss), and dietary composition.”

You can mitigate the loss of muscle by losing weight slowly and lifting weights, but most people don’t. The worst case scenario is to lose weight, muscle and fat, go off the medicine, then regain the weight, except regaining it as all fat. Certainly, some people can go off a GLP1 and keep the weight off, but most don’t.

People’s experiences vary, but you shouldn’t go into taking a serious medicine for vanity assuming that you will have the best case scenario: minimal side effects, weight training and optimizing diet to avoid muscle loss, and maintaining the weight loss after going off the meds.

I also can’t imaging risking my marriage to lose vanity weight. Lying to your spouse about something this significant is an enormous breach of trust.

Sorry OP. I have taken and benefited from GLP1 and I wouldn't do it for vanity. They can have nasty GI side effects and are super expensive.

Hiding it from your spouse is crazy. Also if your kids are 12 and less than 12 and already worried about being fat, you're kind of screwing up there.

Hiding it from the spouse is weird.

I don’t understand people lying to their spouse or kids about taking GLP1s. What is going in with your relationships? That is insane.

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Anonymous wrote:Op - Is there any way I can hide this from my husband? He would be SOOOO mad if I took them. If I don't go through my insurance he would never know right?

I hide mine in a baking soda box in the fridge and he thinks Brello is a furniture store.

Omg baking soda box is ingenious!!!!!! My dh is our usual cook so I couldn’t figure out where to stash vials in the fridge. He’d never look in a baking soda box though. I’m the only one who bakes too.

+1 I also hide it because I don't want the kids asking questions or seeing needles. For me it's not just vanity, it's prediabetes.
I don't want to get into all that with them. I just make sure they see me doing sports, working out and eating balanced meals. DH could not care less.

Anonymous wrote:I think it's kind of weird not to tell your husband what meds you're on.

Who cares if he doesn't "agree" with it? It's your body and your health.

It is weird. But, I’ve learned to pick my battles.

I think it's kind of weird not to tell your husband what meds you're on.

Who cares if he doesn't "agree" with it? It's your body and your health.

Anonymous wrote:I'm on the over the counter pill. Down from 115 to 105. But I'm only 5'1.

No, not over the counter. Sorry. Just the prescription from my doctor.

I'm on the over the counter pill. Down from 115 to 105. But I'm only 5'1.

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Anonymous wrote:Op - One of my hesitancies is being a good example for my children (who are girls). They are already worried about "being fat" and gaining weight, especially my oldest, who coincidentally is the smallest and slimmest of my children. Oldest DD is almost 12 and is only 78 pounds and as slim as you can get. But she is constantly bombarded with images and talk about being thin and not getting fat, etc. I wonder what message I am sending her if she finds out I am taking medication to lose weight. Do I tell her I am doing it to be healthy? How do you frame it so you aren't saying "I am doing this because I don't want to be fat".

I think I’m a better role model for my daughter’s now. I don’t restrict food groups. I have ice cream with them. If they have the same hunger issues I have, once they are adults I would support them also taking the meds.

OP - got it. I don't restrict food because I am constantly trying to get my oldest to actually gain weight (she was under weight for a while and the ped made us do weight checks). I do want them to have a healthy relationship with food and exercise.

If your children end up having the similar issues as you but younger will you support them taking the meds under 18? How does that work? My kids are totally different shaped. One is super small, one is larger and one is HUGE (but he is a boy). I worry about my middle daughter who is way larger than her older sister and wondering if she will need to use GLP1s.

I think if my kids really struggled, we’re very much overweight, and we’re very bothered by it, then I would support it for a teen. But I wouldn’t support it for a healthy teen, maybe slightly overweight who just wanted to be smaller. Maybe that’s hypocritical. It’s complicated. I’m hoping they won’t have the massive body image issues I grew up with bc dieting won’t be drilled into them from a young age. We are now in an era where dieting may become obsolete bc you can just take the meds to reach your desired/heathy size.

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Anonymous wrote:Op - Is there any way I can hide this from my husband? He would be SOOOO mad if I took them. If I don't go through my insurance he would never know right?

I hide mine in a baking soda box in the fridge and he thinks Brello is a furniture store.

Omg baking soda box is ingenious!!!!!! My dh is our usual cook so I couldn’t figure out where to stash vials in the fridge. He’d never look in a baking soda box though. I’m the only one who bakes too.

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t describe that as vanity weight. Vanity weight would be trying to go from 135 to 125

Go lift 30 pounds of weights. That’s a lot of weight you’ve put on over the years.

OP's BMI is 24.3. That's in the healthy zone. I don't understand comments like this.

Anonymous wrote:Op - Is there any way I can hide this from my husband? He would be SOOOO mad if I took them. If I don't go through my insurance he would never know right?

I hide mine in a baking soda box in the fridge and he thinks Brello is a furniture store.

Of course let your husband know, but don't tell your kids.