By Emma Donaldson

Mounjaro has certainly given me all that I imagined.

Five stone has left me in little more than five months. My energy supply has shot up, and I use plenty of it through swimming daily.

I feel renewed and confident. Meanwhile I have been mercifully free of the reported side effects, such as nausea and constipation. My main concerns are as to whether I’m stuck with Mounjaro indefinitely - would stopping the injections invite the weight back? - and of course the cost.As a 50-something woman with a sit-down, work-from-home job and a sedentary lifestyle outside of work, I’d resigned myself to staying overweight forever. I’d been slim until my thirties, but then something changed; what it was is still a mystery to me. A fundamental change in metabolism, perhaps? Or something deeper and perhaps psychological. Whatever the cause, I expected and........

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