I didn’t lose a single pound on Mounjaro. But then dropped eight stone thanks to this ‘old fashioned’ weight loss surgery. It might no longer be popular, but here’s why it could help you lose MORE weight and cost less than fat jabs

In this new era of GLP-1 weight-loss jabs, do we really need any other medical ways to help us shed the excess pounds?

After all, it’s estimated that over 2.5 million people in the UK have already used them – and they don’t help shift just a few pounds. One study published in the journal JAMA in 2024 found that those taking tirzepatide (the active ingredient in Mounjaro) lost on average 20 per cent of their body weight within nine months.

With results like that it’s easy to think success with these jabs is guaranteed – but it isn’t.

In fact, in the

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