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Mounjaro users reveal hardest side effect from taking weight loss jabs: 'This is the part people don't talk about'

Mounjaro users reveal hardest side effect from taking weight loss jabs: 'This is the part people don't talk about'

Daily Mail​21-07-2025
Anyone on a weight loss jab journey will tell you 'it's a marathon, not a sprint'—but little has been said about how boring the shlep to the finish line can be.
Mounjaro success stories bookended with photos showing off a staggering transformation can be seriously motivating for some, but for others still working towards their goal weight, it seems the opposite can be true.
When TikTokker @Swedish_Sandra posted about her experience in the 'slow middle', the period of time between the before and after photos, she was inundated with responses from other jabbers who are in the same boat, and feeling just as 'meh'.
Along with a carousel of images, she wrote: 'This phase feels quiet — not the start, not the finish, just the slow middle where everything is shifting but the big change isn't visible yet.
'It's easy to feel stuck or wonder if it's even working.
'But every small step, every tiny win, is progress. It's about learning to trust the process, be gentle with yourself, and keep going even when it's tough.
'For the days when you feel like you should be further along. Save this for when the in-between feels heavy—and if you're up for it, how's your journey really feeling lately?'
Her post really resonated with other users, who left hundreds of comments about how they feel they are in a strange grey area of their jab journey, even if they have lost enormous amounts of weight.
One wrote: 'The middle is so hard, I have lost ten stone, which is a massive achievement but because I started out at 26 stone, it doesn't look like the massive transformation I see on other people.'
Another added: 'The middle is hard. I've dropped 54 lbs but I still feel and see a fat girl in the mirror. Certain body parts bother me so much more now than they did before.'
There were scores of similar messages from other people who had found themselves not feeling familiar with their new, evolving, bodies.
'80lbs with 40 to go, it's great but it's so odd to see my stomach now that loose skin is starting to take effect. I don't feel like my body matches me and everything I do at all ,' said one.
Others admitted that they were finding this period 'soul crushing' and 'boring' as their final goal 'seems so very far away'.
Another said: 'Middle is where I think we really do the work,. It's triggering, falling into negative feelings and not giving up is the hard bit.'
Sandra, who has not revealed how much weight she has lost since starting on Mounjaro around five months ago, responded in the comments, and encouraged her fellow jabbers to keep pushing on.
She wrote: 'I completely get that, that initial excitement has died down but you're not at goal weight yet. Sometimes it feels dull and slow. But those boring moments are the real, steady progress that doesn't always get the spotlight, even though it's what really lasts.'
The mentally draining ennui is one of many 'unofficial' side effects of weight loss jabs shared online.
Recently, users have been discussing hair loss and last year there was a swathe of jabbers claiming they now always feel cold.
Mounjaro, also known as tirzepatide, will be offered to around 220,000 people over the next three years under new NHS prescribing rules.
Previously the potent drug, which helps patients shed up to a fifth of their body weight in a year, was available privately and at a small number of specialist NHS weight loss clinics.
GPs can now prescribe the drug to patients with a BMI over 40—classed as severely obese—and at least four obesity-related health conditions, such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure or sleep apnoea.
Mounjaro is a GLP-1 injection, which mimics the effect of a hunger hormone that is released by the stomach in response to eating and tells the brain when it is full.
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