A woman has shared a candid look at what she eats in a typical day while using Mounjaro, with meals ranging from bacon rolls and steak dinners to classic carvery-style choices.
British content creator Elizabeth Read says she has lost more than 40 pounds since starting the weight-loss injection, a medication used to help lower blood sugar levels and prescribed for people with type 2 diabetes.
Elizabeth, who has built an Instagram following of more than 8,000 people, regularly posts day-in-the-life food videos documenting the meals she eats while taking the jab.
In one recent clip, she began her morning with a Greggs bacon and egg breakfast roll, finished with brown sauce.
Explaining that she had ordered from the bakery after she “forgot to get her shopping delivered,” Elizabeth added a hash brown and a flat white to round off her breakfast.
Later in the day, her lunch consisted of a packet of prawn cocktail Skips and two chocolate biscuits before she went out to a steak restaurant with friends, where she enjoyed two glasses of wine and honey padron peppers.
For her main meal, Elizabeth chose fillet steak with chips, salad on the side and gravy. The mother, who told followers she was just “one pound away from her goal weight,” said she finished the entire plate.
Elizabeth is currently on a 7.5mg dose of Mounjaro, the brand name for tirzepatide, and has been using the weekly injection for more than 30 weeks.
British content creator Elizabeth Read has lost more than 40 pounds on the weight loss injection
A viewer asked whether she was getting Mounjaro from the NHS and whether she had type 2 diabetes.
Elizabeth responded: ‘Yes my BMI was over 30 when I started so I pay for it myself privately.’
She weighed 192 pounds at the end of June last year and is now around 151 pounds with help from the injection.
In a more recent clip, Elizabeth started her morning with two crumpets with butter and said: ‘I should probably have something more high protein if I’m honest but it’s what I fancied.’
She washed the carbs down with a latte before having a protein shake for lunch. Elizabeth then decided ‘last minute’ to go to the Toby Carvery to have a roast dinner.
‘It was so rammed for a Thursday night I couldn’t believe it, we had to wait ages for a table,’ she said. ‘When I go out I typically have a couple of glasses of wine,’ she added, before showing herself sipping on white wine.
She decided to get gammon for her carvery along with beef-dripping roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, peas, carrots, gravy, Yorkshire pudding and stuffing, although she admitted she couldn’t finish all of the meal.
On another day Elizabeth filmed herself going out for a ‘family member’s birthday’ and ordered a lamb Rogan Josh with chips, rice, poppadum, and a Peshwari naan.
Elizabeth is currently taking 7.5mg Mounjaro – which is the branded name for tirzepatide – and has been injecting it for more than 30 weeks (the steak dinner she had is pictured)
This comes as more than 80 Britons have died after using weight-loss and diabetes jabs such as Ozempic and Mounjaro.
The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency reported at least 22 fatalities linked to the medication up to the end of January. A further 60 deaths were recorded for products aimed to help with Type 2 diabetes.
Nearly 400 people also required hospital treatment since the rollout of the products over the past few years.
The National Health Service has warned patients to ‘never take an anti-obesity medicine if it has not been prescribed to you’.
Susan McGowan, a 58 year-old nurse from Lanarkshire, died from multiple organ failure, septic shock and pancreatitis after taking two low-dose injections of tirzepatide.
She took the jabs for a two-week period before her death on September 4. It is thought to be the first time the medicine has been listed as a contributing factor on a death certificate.
