I’m a size 8 and still on weight loss injections – I’m branded ‘ridiculous’ but I’ll never stop even though I’m only 9st

A WOMAN who's mislaid a staggering 4 chromatic connected value nonaccomplishment injections has deed backmost astatine trolls who person slammed her for continuing to usage the drug.

Charlie made the determination to commencement connected the Mounjaro injections aft "10 years" of yo-yo dieting.

And she's credited the medicine for changing her life, aft going from 13st 3lbs to 9st 2lbs.

Charlie has been sharing her Mounjaro travel connected her TikTok page, but is inactive uncovering herself targeted by trolls, who person criticised her for staying connected the injections.

However, successful a new video, Charlie - who is inactive technically considered "overweight" connected the BMI standard - explained that the cause is the crushed she's managed to suffer the weight.

"I'm a size 8, I measurement 129lbs and I instrumentality value nonaccomplishment injections," she said.

"You see, I wasn't 129 pounds erstwhile I started and I wasn't a size 8 erstwhile I started.

"Due to the information I instrumentality value nonaccomplishment medication, I deliberation it stands to crushed that I person mislaid weight.

"Shock, horror!"

In fact, Charlie - who has gone from a size 18 and BMI of 26 to a size 8 and a 25.5 BMI - insisted she reckons she'll beryllium connected Mounjaro for life, aft yet uncovering thing that works for her.

She pays £160 a period for the injections, aft going from a starting dose of 2.5mg up to 10mg, with her supplier blessed for radical to usage the cause long-term.

"I don't deliberation I'm ever going to stop," she said.

"You see, I started with a BMI of 36.

"I was a size 18 and I weighed 13st 3lbs and I was miserable.

"Absolutely miserable.

"I had yo-yo dieted for astir 10 twelvemonth - honestly, ne'er ending cycle."

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Charlie, who has gone from a size 18 and BMI of 36 to a size 8 and a 25.5 BMI, is inactive technically considered "overweight" connected the Body Mass Index scale.

For her height, she would person to get down to a BMI of 24.9 to beryllium considered a "healthy weight", according to the NHS calculator.

However, determination person been called for the wellness organisation to scrap the BMI standard completely, arsenic immoderate telephone it "outdated" for not taking people's assemblage framework oregon musculus wide scale into account.

Charlie is hoping to suffer different 10lbs to get to her last goal.

But she added: "Weight nonaccomplishment medications are close for maine and my circumstances.

"Whether they're close for you oregon your circumstances, that's up to you to decide."

Despite Charlie's video, trolls were inactive progressive successful the comments section, with 1 writing: "You don't request it anymore and it's ridiculous that you are!"

"I volition conscionable regain again," Charlie responded, adding that she "works and pays for it... it does nary harm to anyone else".

She wrote successful effect to different comment: "Diabetics enactment connected this medicine for beingness - determination is nary much information for maine than determination is them.

"They person illness and I person 1 excessively - however comes it’s acceptable for them but not for me?

"My encephalon thinks astir nutrient each day. The medicine makes that stop.

"So I tin devour steadfast and marque bully choices. Without surviving a torturous beingness of denying myself."

"So weird however value works I’m a size 10 and measurement 13 stone!" different commented.

"No 1 believes maine erstwhile I accidental however overmuch I measurement coz radical who are a batch bigger past maine are the aforesaid value arsenic me."

"Height makes a large difference," Charlie, who is 5ft tall, replied.

"I don't spot it arsenic immoderate antithetic to taking medicine for your humor pressure... you don't halt taking them due to the fact that they've worked!" idiosyncratic other said.

"You bash you honey!!"

According to the ASDA Online Doctor website, which supplies Mounjaro to paying customers, "studies into taking the highest attraction dose of Mounjaro (15mg) for 72 weeks didn’t find immoderate antagonistic semipermanent broadside effects".

However, they added "some broadside effects whitethorn origin semipermanent wellness problems if not addressed early".

If you are connected value nonaccomplishment injections and person concerns astir the semipermanent effects, it's advisable to talk to your GP.