A woman who lost five stone in six months after taking Mounjaro has shared the negative effects of the rapid weight loss – including being unable to perform one very common beauty ritual.
Emilly Jane, from Liverpool, has racked up an impressive 70,000 combined followers on TikTok and Instagram after sharing details of her weight loss while onÂ
 Mounjaro.
She is pleased with her progress, and regularly posts ‘before and after’ pictures comparing herself prior to losing weight and now – after shedding more than 11 stone, or close to 70 kg.
But Emilly told her followers there are downsides to the drug that ‘no one talks about’.
In a candid video, she said: ‘I’ve lost 11 st 4 lbs and I’ve lost 5 st 2 lbs of that in 28 weeks on Mounjaro.
‘Number one is: your brain doesn’t catch up with how others are seeing you.
‘So, it’s taken my head a lot longer to accept that that’s me. I still look at pictures and think “Oh my goodness, who’s that?”‘
It’s true that people who experience rapid weight loss in a relatively short time period struggle to adjust to the social conventions of their new weight.
Emily, pictured before and after Mounjaro, has lost an astonishing 11 st 4 lbs (70 kg) overall
On top of this, looking so drastically different can create dissonance between how people perceive themselves, and how they actually look and are treated.
‘It’s very, very strange and hard to navigate,’ continued Emilly, before moving on to the next after effect.
‘I am now visible to other people,’ she said. ‘Certain types of people as well, and I don’t like it.’
Likely alluding to men who display a romantic interest in her, Emilly joked: ‘I would like an invisibility cloak back, please, which is what I had when I was bigger.
‘I don’t like it. Stop looking at me and interacting with me – I am socially awkward.’
A surprising item on Emilly’s cons list was her sudden inability to perform a very common beauty ritual – shaving her underarms.
‘I can no longer shave my armpits with ease,’ she said. ‘If you see red marks under my arms in my pictures and videos, just mind your business.’
Although it sounds unusual underarms typically become hollow or concave after weight loss, making it much harder to find a smooth surface to shave on.
Emilly (pictured) said that since taking the medication, she has found it difficult to shave her underarms that are now hollow and concaveÂ
Those who have gone from overweight to comparatively skinny have actually reported more difficulty shaving in other areas after they become bonier – like the knees and ankles.
Emilly said: ‘Having loose skin makes it really, really difficult to set a “goal” and feel “happy” at a “goal weight”. It’s a nightmare.’
She said people now comment on her weight more than they ever have in her life.
Fed up with the interference, she added: ‘Apparently, it’s up to everybody else to choose a goal for me and tell me that it’s time to stop.’
Of her new-found boniness, Emilly said: ‘Lying in the bath is no longer comfortable. There appears to be hard things that stick into the bath. I don’t like it.’
Lastly, the Mounjaro-user noted the vast amounts she spends on clothing, only to render them unwearable by shedding even more weight, and being unsure how to dress herself.
‘I still have a mental breakdown every time I get dressed because I’ve got no identity,’ she said.
‘I don’t know what to wear. I don’t know what I can and can’t wear, and it’s very confusing.
Emilly also alludes to receiving unwanted attention from men, claiming she has wants her ‘invisibility cloak back’
‘If you’re thinking about starting Mounjaro or you’re on a Mounjaro journey, make sure you assess all these things first.’
Weight loss drugs have long since been a topic of conversation, but since ‘fat jabs’ like Ozempic and Mounjaro came on the scene, talk of diet methods has been swirling online.
And although the efficacy of natural routes has been called into question, many traditionalists believe taking injections to lose weight is ‘cheating’ or ‘lazy’.
A woman who lost four stone without the help of any weight loss drugs has insisted that ‘volume eating’ is the way to go.
Ashleigh Wilson shared her full plate of lunch that included chicken flatbread with vegetables on TikTok, insisting she’d feel ‘sickly full’ after it.
But the 26-year-old from Blackpool claimed that despite the meal being large in size, it was low in calories.
The respectable volume also meant that she ‘will not be going to that snack cupboard’ later as she will not be feeling peckish.
The influencer, who once weighed 15st 8lbs, said: ‘So I’ve now lost four stone and if anybody asks me how I did that, I always talk about volume eating.
‘This whole plate is 398 calories and just over 40 grams of protein. It’s just chicken flatbread and veggies.
‘So beetroot, cucumber, tomato, onion and then some chicken breast I seasoned and chopped up and put over it. I will eat this and I will probably feel sickly full after it.
‘However, best believe I will not be going to that snack cupboard, and I’ll be fine, more than fine, until dinner time. If you want to lose weight, start with volume eating.’