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<\/p>\nDr Emma Anders said she had tried ‘every diet out there’, before finding success with Mounjaro<\/p>\n
05:58, 07 May 2026Updated 07:42, 07 May 2026<\/p>\n
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Emma Anders before and after weight loss(Image: Emma Anders\u00a9 SWNS)<\/p>\n
An obesity doctor who lost six stone on Mounjaro says it cured her rosacea acne and endometriosis symptoms<\/a> within a matter of months.<\/p>\n Dr Emma Anders, 39, says she has \u201calways\u201d struggled with weight since childhood and tried \u201cevery diet out there\u201d and after her weight loss journe<\/a>y slimmed down from a size 20 to size 8.<\/p>\n Despite losing weight through dieting and exercising regularly, she found she was unable to keep it off.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to get the biggest stories straight to your inbox in our Daily Newsletter<\/strong><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Now six stone down after consistently using a 2.5mg dose of Mounjaro, Emma\u2019s acne and stage four endometriosis symptoms have vanished and she recently ran two marathons in one week.<\/p>\n Emma says that being on Mounjaro cured her rosacea acne and endometriosis symptoms within a matter of months(Image: Emma Anders\u00a9 SWNS)<\/p>\n Emma, a private GP from Wilmslow<\/a>, says: \u201cI\u2019ve done every diet out there \u2013 Weight Watchers more times than I can count and Keto. Everything works but I can\u2019t keep the weight off and I feel awful. I came across GLP1s working in A&E 10 years ago.<\/p>\n \u201cUsually I was dealing with people who\u2019d had complications with them and I was very critical of their efficiency and if they actually worked.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a private GP for the last 10 years lots of patients had discussed weight management with me and in the past I wouldn\u2019t have brought GLP1s up as an option, but now I do. In October 2024 it got to the point where I\u2019d never been bigger, I was exercising just as much and had done every diet out there.<\/p>\n \u201cIf I\u2019m honest I was desperate and panicked. The year before I\u2019d worked more and more with people on GLP1s, not prescribing them but seeing the change.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople weren\u2019t 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\u2019t know how to stop it\u201d.<\/p>\n Dr Emma says she has always struggled with weight since childhood and tried every diet out there(Image: Emma Anders\u00a9 SWNS)<\/p>\n Emma started the required initial dose of 2.5mg of Mounjaro, but as it was \u201cso effective\u201d she decided to continue the same dose as she saw \u201cno benefit to increasing\u201d and has continued weekly doses for the last 18 months.<\/p>\n \u201cI started one day on October 12 2024 and the next day I woke up and felt like a different person,\u201d she says. “It didn\u2019t change my appetite in the first week but I felt really good.<\/p>\n “By the end of the second week my acne rosacea which I\u2019d 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\u2019s eye once and they backed against the wall and called me \u2018pizza face\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cIt didn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n \u201cBy the end of the third week I\u2019d eat a meal and didn\u2019t realise I didn\u2019t feel full. If I eat a big meal with loads of carbs and protein I feel really content, it\u2019s life changing. I realised, \u2018this is going to work\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n Get MEN Premium now for just \u00a31 HERE<\/a> \u2013 or get involved in our WhatsApp group by clicking HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n 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 \u201cmove so much better\u201d after her weight loss.<\/p>\n \u201cI 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,\u201d she says. \u201cNow I wake up on Mounjaro feeling that mental clarity and do it for the sheer fun but feel the effects on my body now.<\/p>\n \u201cI have never had a single side effect on a GLP1, not a single one which is unusual. I\u2019m not fighting a body that\u2019s not working anymore. I have stayed on the same continuous dose as I\u2019ve received maximal benefit with no side effect and never felt the need to increase the dose as there was no benefit to be gained\u201d.<\/p>\n Emma says she thinks doctors should not just be talking about the negative effects of obesity, but about how to talk to patients about \u201cthe experience of being obese how they eat why they eat and why their diets fail\u201d.<\/p>\n She believe that rather than \u201cblanket giving\u201d everyone who is overweight a GLP1 doctors should be talking to people and targeting treatment to the underlying problem \u2013 and once that happens extend treatment to younger people too.<\/p>\n \u201cI think there will be an exciting shift in medicine in the next few years where we can understand more how it\u2019s [GLP1s] working,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n \u201cWe 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\u2019t know the full extent of how they work.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s good and bad. It\u2019s 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.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Emma Anders said she had tried ‘every diet out there’, before finding success with Mounjaro 05:58, 07…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[34626,105,6513,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-944358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-dieting-and-weight-loss","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-health-and-fitness","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116534749774676735","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Emma](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1_obesity-doctor-1539818.jpg\")
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