May 11 2025, 02:40 PM, updated 8 months ago
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WeightWatchers set me up to fail' - Why diet industry is losing to jabs like Ozempic
Symone has been using weight loss injections for nearly a year. She says they have done what the diet industry could never do for her - free her from a life controlled by food.
From a very young age, the 34-year-old could not switch off the constant noise in her head. When would her next meal come? What would it be? Would there be enough for her?
"The food noise was just so loud, it could be unbearable," she says. "I have tried every single diet going - I've done Atkins, eating clean, SlimFast, Slimming World, meal-replacement shakes - you name it - I've done it and none have them worked for me."
Several years ago, weighing 16st (102kg), she was one of the many millions who signed up to WeightWatchers, downloading the app and meticulously following its points plan, scanning in everything she ate and staying within her daily points budget.
But after a few weeks, Symone says she started to feel like she was being set up to fail.
"How could I lose weight long term if I had to follow this mad points system? Food is not measured in points - it's measured in calories, fat, macro nutrients.
The only thing that has ever worked in her quest to lose weight, she says, is weight loss injection Mounjaro, which she started using nearly a year ago.
"I was at my heaviest, just over 21 stone, and the doctor told me I was pre-diabetic. I knew something had to change - I've got two children who depend on me too."
"I couldn't believe that I had control over food. For the first time, I wasn't panicking about when I would next eat."
Weight loss jabs work by mimicking a hormone called glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), which suppresses people's appetites and makes them feel full.
Symone has now lost 4st 7lb (26kg) and is losing weight gradually, documenting her experiences on social media.
"I don't want a quick fix," she says, "I'm using weight loss injections to give me the control I never had."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e6pxg125wo
Symone has been using weight loss injections for nearly a year. She says they have done what the diet industry could never do for her - free her from a life controlled by food.
From a very young age, the 34-year-old could not switch off the constant noise in her head. When would her next meal come? What would it be? Would there be enough for her?
"The food noise was just so loud, it could be unbearable," she says. "I have tried every single diet going - I've done Atkins, eating clean, SlimFast, Slimming World, meal-replacement shakes - you name it - I've done it and none have them worked for me."
Several years ago, weighing 16st (102kg), she was one of the many millions who signed up to WeightWatchers, downloading the app and meticulously following its points plan, scanning in everything she ate and staying within her daily points budget.
But after a few weeks, Symone says she started to feel like she was being set up to fail.
"How could I lose weight long term if I had to follow this mad points system? Food is not measured in points - it's measured in calories, fat, macro nutrients.
The only thing that has ever worked in her quest to lose weight, she says, is weight loss injection Mounjaro, which she started using nearly a year ago.
"I was at my heaviest, just over 21 stone, and the doctor told me I was pre-diabetic. I knew something had to change - I've got two children who depend on me too."
"I couldn't believe that I had control over food. For the first time, I wasn't panicking about when I would next eat."
Weight loss jabs work by mimicking a hormone called glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), which suppresses people's appetites and makes them feel full.
Symone has now lost 4st 7lb (26kg) and is losing weight gradually, documenting her experiences on social media.
"I don't want a quick fix," she says, "I'm using weight loss injections to give me the control I never had."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e6pxg125wo
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