Suzanne Harrington: I have been on Mounjaro for three months — here's what happened
'My appetite has been reset, while my pleasure in food has remained unaltered.' Pictures: Andrew Dunsmore
Three little words — effortless weight loss — seem to really trigger people, eliciting all kinds of opinions, reactions, and judgements. What, no suffering? Fat people have traditionally been viewed as weak, so suffering towards thinness is character building. Bypassing that suffering is, therefore, cheating.
We have long associated fatness with words like greed and laziness, so that sweating and starving provides a redemptive arc — hence the popularity of watching fat people attending boot camps. And yet here we are, ushering in a new era of effortless weight loss. Weight loss without hunger — something geneticist Tim Spector terms “the holy grail”. What’s not to like?
