‘I’m scared to come off weight loss jabs - the thought of being fat again terrifies me’
ok.co.ukJournalist and broadcaster Carole Malone has opened up about her experience using Wegovy and has admitted that trying to keep the weight off when she comes off the weight-loss medication is something that “scares” her.
Carole, who has been on Wegovy for six months, began taking the drug after she ruptured a glute muscle, leaving her worried about her mobility.
It was then she decided to take action. “Before my injury, being overweight had depressed me, but it hadn’t debilitated me,” she says. “Then, for a month, I had to use a crutch and found myself hobbling into TV studios.That’s what made me take it.
I had a vision that I was going to hurtle into old age not being able to do anything for myself.” In six months she has gone from 14st 8lb to about 11st 3lb, though admits that the next stage of her “journey” is to keep the weight off by relying on the healthy habits she has formed. “When you get thin, you say ‘I’m never going to be fat again’.
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