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12 Months on Mounjaro- I'm Done
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Our summary
Dr Emma Anders marks 12 months on Mounjaro and says her own weight loss phase is finished. She explains that the bigger win for her is mental freedom from food rules, constant body checking and weighing. She describes a dinner with friends where she realised she did not know her total loss, because the batteries in her scale had run out weeks earlier and she had not replaced them. She says she follows no food rules, eats mindfully and is no longer thinking about dieting.
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What else the video covers
She says she takes 2.5 mg of Mounjaro, the dose she has used throughout, and plans to stay on it long term to keep the health benefits she has covered in earlier videos, including help with her acne rosacea. She names cost and access as the only downsides, since it is not available to her through the NHS. She says she does not worry about long-term risks compared with the health problems she had before. She rules out microdosing and using pens past their expiry, and she criticises people who change their dosing based on internet advice once they grow confident or bored as the novelty fades.
In the last section she shares professional news. She says she gave an interview for a BBC documentary on GLP-1s and received approval from the UK medical regulator for her own online consultation clinic, which opens on Monday 20 October. She says the clinic offers one-to-one consultations rather than medication, with a partnered Manchester pharmacy available. She has also returned to part-time NHS work. She adds that her situation could change if side effects or other problems appear, and she says she would share that too.
Our summary of what is said, in our words. Doses, results and prices are the speaker’s, not advice.
Takeaways
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- 0:30 She says common maintenance advice centres on regular weigh-ins and accountability, but her own aim is freedom from obsessing over food and body size.
- 1:31 She describes realising at a dinner with friends that she no longer knew her total weight loss, had no food rules and was not trying to lose weight.
- 4:34 She says she stays on 2.5 mg of Mounjaro long term for the health benefits, and names cost and access as the main downside.
- 5:35 She explains why she will not microdose or use expired pens, citing the lack of studies and wanting to protect her ability to keep taking the drug.
- 6:36 She says people who have been on GLP-1s longer often start tweaking their doses, and she suggests adjusting lifestyle instead.
- 8:38 She announces her online weight management clinic, approved by the UK regulator and opening on 20 October, plus her part-time return to NHS work.
Key moments
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What the video says
As stated in the video, not checked by us. Doses and results are the speaker’s, not advice.
- Medication
- Mounjaro
- Doses mentioned
- 2.5 mg
- Point in the journey
- Year 1
- Who is speaking
- Clinician (Dr Emma Anders)
Questions this video answers
What dose of Mounjaro does Dr Emma Anders take after 12 months?
She says she takes 2.5 mg, the same dose she has used throughout her weight loss. She says she gets the maximum benefit at that dose with no side effects, and plans to stay on it long term.
Does Dr Emma Anders recommend microdosing Mounjaro?
She says she will not microdose, because a reduced dose has not been studied and tested, and she values health over saving money. She also says she would not use a pen past its expiry, as there are no studies on that. She presents this as her own view.
Why do people change their GLP-1 dose after several months, according to this video?
She says people grow more confident with the medication and start tweaking their dosing based on what they see online. She also says the novelty and dopamine of the early months fades, so some feel they are not progressing even when they still are.
What is Dr Emma Anders' new clinic?
She says it is an online remote clinic offering one-to-one consultations on weight management and GLP-1s, approved by the UK medical regulator. She says it opens on Monday 20 October and does not itself supply medication, though she has partnered with a pharmacy in Manchester.
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About Dr Emma Anders
Clinician, 68.7K subscribers. 12 of their videos are in GLP-1 TV, 1.5M views between them, mostly on Mounjaro, Ozempic, Wegovy.
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