Overview
- The 86-year-old tried the prescription weekly injection for a month and then stopped, calling it expensive and not a fit for her life.
- She says she ate roughly 200 calories a day instead of the advised intake, which she believes put her into 'starvation mode' with no pounds lost.
- Leith reported severe appetite loss and fatigue, saying she sometimes did not want to get up while on holiday.
- Her husband, John Playfair, has lost about three stone using Mounjaro, which motivated her to try the drug despite her different outcome.
- She still considers medically supervised weight-loss jabs 'worth a go' for others, as she departs The Great British Bake Off with Nigella Lawson confirmed as her replacement.