{"id":12935,"date":"2025-07-21T12:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/12935\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:35:10","slug":"mounjaro-users-reveal-hardest-side-effect-from-taking-weight-loss-jabs-this-is-the-part-people-dont-talk-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/12935\/","title":{"rendered":"Mounjaro users reveal hardest side effect from taking weight loss jabs: ‘This is the part people don’t talk about’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone on a weight loss<\/a> jab journey will tell you ‘it’s a marathon, not a sprint’\u2014but little has been said about how boring the shlep to the finish line can be.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

When TikTokker @Swedish_Sandra<\/a> 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’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Along with a carousel of images, she wrote:\u00a0‘This phase feels quiet \u2014 not the start, not the finish, just the slow middle where everything is shifting but the big change isn\u2019t visible yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘It\u2019s easy to feel stuck or wonder if it\u2019s even working.<\/p>\n

‘But every small step, every tiny win, is progress. It\u2019s about learning to trust the process, be gentle with yourself, and keep going even when it\u2019s tough.<\/p>\n

‘For the days when you feel like you should be further along. Save this for when the in-between feels heavy\u2014and if you\u2019re up for it, how\u2019s your journey really feeling lately?’\u00a0<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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TikTokker @Swedish_Sandra was inundated with messages from other users ‘in the middle’ of their journey<\/p>\n

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Sandra is one of the thousands of people currently in the ‘middle’ of their weight loss journey<\/p>\n

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\u2019t look like the massive transformation I see on other people.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Another added: ‘The middle is hard. I\u2019ve 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.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

There were scores of similar messages from other people who had found themselves not feeling familiar with their new, evolving, bodies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

’80lbs with 40 to go, it\u2019s great but it\u2019s so odd to see my stomach now that loose skin is starting to take effect. I don\u2019t feel like my body matches me and everything I do at all ,’ said one.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Others admitted that they were finding this period ‘soul crushing’ and ‘boring’ as their final goal ‘seems so very far away’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Another said: ‘Middle is where I think we really do the work,. It\u2019s triggering, falling into negative feelings and not giving up is the hard bit.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She wrote:\u00a0 ‘I completely get that, that initial excitement has died down but you\u2019re not at goal weight yet. Sometimes it feels dull and slow. But those boring moments are the real, steady progress that doesn\u2019t always get the spotlight, even though it\u2019s what really lasts.’<\/p>\n

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The mentally draining ennui is one of many ‘unofficial’ side effects of weight loss jabs shared online.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Recently, users have been discussing hair loss<\/a>\u00a0and last year there was a swathe of jabbers claiming they now always feel cold<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mounjaro, also known as tirzepatide, will be offered to around 220,000 people over the next three years under new NHS prescribing rules.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

GPs can now prescribe the drug to patients with a BMI over 40\u2014classed as severely obese\u2014and at least four obesity-related health conditions, such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure or sleep apnoea.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n