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Today in Focus

What happens when you stop weight loss jabs?

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Science editor Ian Sample talks through the dilemma facing more than a million people in the UK as the cost of the jabs jumps. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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Thank you. I've always been a curvy girl.

0:59.6

My whole life I've been a curvy girl.

1:01.4

And I kind of settled on the fact that that was just the card I was dealt.

1:04.6

And didn't matter how much I worked out, I would always be a bit bigger.

1:08.5

This is Amy Young.

1:10.2

She's a 38-year-old career coach who lives in Kent.

1:13.4

She didn't actually mind being overweight.

1:16.3

So I've always been obnoxiously body-confident.

1:20.3

I'll be really honest about that.

1:22.0

And I kind of have to be in my line of work as well

1:24.1

because I talk about this all the time with people.

1:26.4

As her life got busier,

1:28.1

her weight crept up. I'd stopped exercising. I'd fallen out of love with that and it had had other

1:34.7

kind of effects on my life as I got more stressed. I got bigger, suffered burnout, all kinds of stuff.

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