Fat Jabs to unleash divorce boom

I don’t read the torygraph but someone posted it on LinkedIn -

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/04/05/fat-jabs-to-unleash-divorce-boom/

https://www.healthandme.com/health-wellness/can-weight-loss-jabs-surge-divorce-rates-what-experts-are-saying-article-154008485

What do we think married fatties of the board?

Is the weight loss with jabs so rapid that people end up with lots of flapping loose skin that then needs to be removed?

Not really a candidate for the jabs, but everything I see and hear around me suggests "better the devil you know"...

I assumed it was as a result husbands divorcing their hitherto buxom wives when they turned into stick insects.

“It’s not that losing a large amount of weight is ending healthy marriages. It’s probably more than for the person losing weight and feeling better about themselves; it may be empowering them to leave an unhealthy relationship,

Sounds like yet another great thing about GLP-1

Husband and I went on the fat jabs at the same time and are now both thin and better looking. Fortunately we are also both too old/knackered to look elsewhere.

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I had a chat with a doc at work asking what he thought about the jabs and he did raise increased risk of pancreatitis as a side effect.

"Is the weight loss with jabs so rapid that people end up with lots of flapping loose skin that then needs to be removed?"

I think that is more to do with your age and size. As you age your skin loses the elasticity to snap back to a more svelte shape. If you are mega overweight you are going to get loose skin however you lose the weight.

Only those embracing these wonder drugs so keenly could fail to grasp the possibility of such side effects.

i dont need to lose weight but the evidence seems to be adding up that the plus sides of taking a lowish dose as we get older are far bigger than the downsides.

I think the risk of losing muscle mass is a huge issue as you age.

That is just to do with what you eat minkie- this drug doesnt on its own cause you to lose muscle mass. Eat normally (which you can do on a low dose) and you will be fine. It seems to impart other benefits unrelated to weight loss.

I lost an average of a pound a week over about 18 months so avoided loose skin as body had time to adapt

The huge benefits of these jabs far outweigh the low risk

Assumed this was only needed if you are very overweight but seems everyone is at it

i wonder if a tin of sardines will do the same thing. My experience is you don't want to eat for about 5 hours afterwards

That is about 5.5 stone Queenie. You did well to avoid lose skin with that level of weight loss.

I definitely don't have five stone to lose so think I'll stick as I am. Think I might managed not to stare completely slack jawed when someone I'd only just met told me he'd lost 37 kilos thanks to a jab.