EXCLUSIVE I'm an A&E nurse and refused skinny jabs because of the side effects - now people are shocked by the even 'bigger risk' I took to lose 8st
An NHS nurse who couldn't lose weight through dieting has revealed how she lost 8st without resorting to skinny jabs such as Mounjaro.
With a BMI of almost 50, at 18st and a size 28, Rhianna Berry, 26, from Grantham, knew she wouldn't be able to conceive with her long term partner, she was struggling to work, and felt she was eating herself into an early grave.
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