Mick Collins, 58, who is a cheese seller in Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, said he thought he’d continue to inject once weekly instead of possibly having to take a pill every day.<\/p>\n
Collins is on a two-year NHS programme for weight loss using Mounjaro, and has gone from 17 stone down to 14 stone and four pounds. <\/p>\n
“I think pills would get annoying and I might forget to do it,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I’m fine with sticking a needle in my stomach, it doesn’t hurt and you really don’t know you’ve done it.”<\/p>\n
Collins added it was “nonsense” that some men felt embarrassed taking weight loss drugs.<\/p>\n
“Look, if the nurse tells you are in diabetes type two range and if you don’t lose the weight you might lose a finger, you lose the weight – no contest.<\/p>\n
“On top of the drugs I’ve done a lot of hard work, jogging and getting healthy. <\/p>\n
“The best moment I’ve had recently was fitting into a Harlequins [rugby] shirt I’d not been able to wear for 25 years.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mick Collins, 58, who is a cheese seller in Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, said he thought he’d continue to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[163,85,46,482],"class_list":["post-513414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}