
“My god you look good”, an old friend said to me recently at a big gay party, as I stood there wearing a costume that revealed a shy-making amount of skin. “What’s your secret? Did you get hold of the real Isabella Rossellini from Death Becomes Her”. No, instead I have discovered the transformative power of weight loss jabs, a form of which are now available at several UK hospitals on the NHS for the first time.
I am now over two months weeks into Mounjaro, the weekly injectable medication that contains Tirzepatide, an active ingredient that suppresses and regulates your appetite. Ozempic is perhaps the more famous, but Mounjaro seems to be the current favourite.