Dr Emma Anders said she had tried ‘every diet out there’, before finding success with Mounjaro
05:58, 07 May 2026Updated 07:42, 07 May 2026
Emma Anders before and after weight loss(Image: Emma Anders© SWNS)
An obesity doctor who lost six stone on Mounjaro says it cured her rosacea acne and endometriosis symptoms within a matter of months.
Dr Emma Anders, 39, says she has “always” struggled with weight since childhood and tried “every diet out there” and after her weight loss journey slimmed down from a size 20 to size 8.
Despite losing weight through dieting and exercising regularly, she found she was unable to keep it off.
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Working as a private GP for the last 10 years, Emma admits she refused clinics requests to offer GLP1 appointments, but after having worked with people who had used them and seeing the results, she decided to try it herself.
Now six stone down after consistently using a 2.5mg dose of Mounjaro, Emma’s acne and stage four endometriosis symptoms have vanished and she recently ran two marathons in one week.
Emma says that being on Mounjaro cured her rosacea acne and endometriosis symptoms within a matter of months(Image: Emma Anders© SWNS)
Emma, a private GP from Wilmslow, says: “I’ve done every diet out there – Weight Watchers more times than I can count and Keto. Everything works but I can’t keep the weight off and I feel awful. I came across GLP1s working in A&E 10 years ago.
“Usually I was dealing with people who’d had complications with them and I was very critical of their efficiency and if they actually worked.
“As a private GP for the last 10 years lots of patients had discussed weight management with me and in the past I wouldn’t have brought GLP1s up as an option, but now I do. In October 2024 it got to the point where I’d never been bigger, I was exercising just as much and had done every diet out there.
“If I’m honest I was desperate and panicked. The year before I’d worked more and more with people on GLP1s, not prescribing them but seeing the change.
“People weren’t coming to me saying they were happy to be a smaller size but were healthier and had a clearer mind. I was more open minded to them and decided to try one because honestly I think my weight would have killed me and I didn’t know how to stop it”.
Dr Emma says she has always struggled with weight since childhood and tried every diet out there(Image: Emma Anders© SWNS)
Emma started the required initial dose of 2.5mg of Mounjaro, but as it was “so effective” she decided to continue the same dose as she saw “no benefit to increasing” and has continued weekly doses for the last 18 months.
“I started one day on October 12 2024 and the next day I woke up and felt like a different person,” she says. “It didn’t change my appetite in the first week but I felt really good.
“By the end of the second week my acne rosacea which I’d had for 10 years was completely gone. It came out of the blue right before I got married. For work, I remember going to look into a little child’s eye once and they backed against the wall and called me ‘pizza face’.
“It didn’t impact me but because it was acne rosacea my face would be very hot and very sore all the time. If I stopped my GLP1 my face gets very hot. The biggest effect is it makes my face less painful.
“By the end of the third week I’d eat a meal and didn’t realise I didn’t feel full. If I eat a big meal with loads of carbs and protein I feel really content, it’s life changing. I realised, ‘this is going to work’”.
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After a few months her stage four endometriosis symptoms had also subsided. She has always loved fitness and previously competed in Olympic weightlifting and was part of the England karate team, but now says she feels she can “move so much better” after her weight loss.
“I used to go to the gym before work because it gave me mental clarity and used to make my head feel clearer and felt better, but I was desperate to lose weight,” she says. “Now I wake up on Mounjaro feeling that mental clarity and do it for the sheer fun but feel the effects on my body now.
“I have never had a single side effect on a GLP1, not a single one which is unusual. I’m not fighting a body that’s not working anymore. I have stayed on the same continuous dose as I’ve received maximal benefit with no side effect and never felt the need to increase the dose as there was no benefit to be gained”.
Emma says she thinks doctors should not just be talking about the negative effects of obesity, but about how to talk to patients about “the experience of being obese how they eat why they eat and why their diets fail”.
She believe that rather than “blanket giving” everyone who is overweight a GLP1 doctors should be talking to people and targeting treatment to the underlying problem – and once that happens extend treatment to younger people too.
“I think there will be an exciting shift in medicine in the next few years where we can understand more how it’s [GLP1s] working,” she says.
“We know it decreases inflammation and has been trialled for things like long Covid and we know it helps balance hormones and are looking into treatments for PCOS but the reality is we don’t know the full extent of how they work.
“That’s good and bad. It’s positive because it transforms lives but there is the negative of what could potentially happen in the future so we have to balance that as well.”