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I have to tuck my belly into my pants after fat jabs made me tiny but other crazy side effects will cost me £9K to fix
FINISHING an eight-mile run, Tracy Hughes walks into her bathroom and turns on the shower.
Wearing her form-fitting exercise kit, the mum-of-four has a svelte size 10 body that women half her age would be envious of.
But as Tracy, 47, peels off her leggings, she reveals a secret – her jelly belly – five pounds of loose and wobbly skin.
“I have lost seven stone in just eight months using fat jabs,” she says.
“I used to weigh 20st and now I tip the scales at just 13st.”
However, while Tracy is thrilled with her new physique, she admits her weight loss has come with plenty of unwanted side effects.
“Topping the list is my jelly belly and it has to be packed into my knickers and trousers every day,” she says.
“I have learnt no amount of exercise will make your body’s skin shrink and ping back to normal.
“Now I have five pounds of loose skin on my stomach. The top of my thighs is also covered in flabby folds despite running eight miles a day, three days a week and working out at the gym.”
But it isn’t just her loose skin that is causing an issue for Tracy.
“I’ve also seen my feet and hands shrink dramatically and I now have a turkey neck,” she adds.
“To fix these side effects, I’m planning on forking out more than £9,000 on plastic surgery, including a tummy tuck, face lift, liposuction, as well as filler and Botox.
“No one tells you about these side effects.”
Regional childcare manager Tracy is married to Ian, 50, a postman and lives in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. The pair have four daughters aged 30, 25, 21 and 14 and three grandchildren aged between three and five months old.
Growing up, Tracy was slim but after she had her first child in 1995 she saw her weight creep up.
“I went from a svelte size 12 to an uncomfortable size 20,” she admits.
“I ballooned during pregnancy and couldn’t shift the weight.
“After each child, I’d diet and exercise, but the weight never seemed to shift.
“If I did lose a few pounds, I’d pile it back on again.
“The food noise in my head was overwhelming, and I couldn’t find an eating plan that worked for me,” she says.
Over the past 25 years, Tracy tried milkshake diets, low-fat eating, calorie counting, soup diets, juicing, even the Atkins eating plan and Keto diets to lose weight.
“I managed to lose five stone on the Cambridge Diet, but I couldn’t control the food noise long enough and the weight piled back on again,” she says.
“I have been on a diet, or thinking about what diet to try next, for the past 25 years. It’s been overwhelming.”
At her biggest, Tracy was a size 20, tipping the scales at 20st and had a BMI of 45.4, making her obese and at risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
“My family and I would spend £350 a month on greasy takeaways, I loved kebabs, burgers and curries,” she says.
“But I was covered in stretch marks and hated myself and my body.”
Tracy admits her weight gain was also worsening her menopause symptoms.
“I couldn’t sleep properly or get comfortable. I was constantly turning in bed.
“My husband made me sleep in another room, complaining that I was so hot it was like sleeping next to a radiator.
“Whenever I felt down, I was stuffing my face with McDonald’s takeaways, Chinese and kebabs.”
However, last September when the couple celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary with a vow renewal and a second honeymoon in Cyprus, it was breaking point.
“I looked back at the vow renewal photos and burst into tears.
“I just sobbed. I thought I looked like a whale.
I can’t wear a bikini until I have my ‘Mounjaro plastic surgery makeover’
Tracy Hughes
“It was what I needed to make me determined to lose weight.”
That was when Tracy decided to take the advice of a friend who’d attended her vow renewal.
She recalls: “When she arrived, I almost didn’t recognise her. My pal had lost a huge amount of weight and was glowing.
“When I asked her what her secret was, she told me it was Mounjaro.
“So instead of relaxing on break in Cyprus, I ordered the weight loss jabs with a private prescription.
“The injections cost £170 a month and the month’s supply arrived before we got home from our second honeymoon.”
Tracy started taking Mounjaro in September last year and says within 24 hours she felt the food noise in her head stop for the first time in almost three decades.
“I woke up and wasn’t wanting to eat or obsessing about food,” she says.
“I went for a walk that day and signed up to a gym.”
‘I was thriving’
Tracy lost a stone in the first month on Mounjaro and then each month after that the weight continued to drop off.
“Within a month, I was back running, slowly building up the distance day by day,” she says.
“I started going to the gym and training for a half marathon, my energy levels were through the roof.
“I was thriving, exercising. I was eating smaller portions. I no longer wanted a glass of wine, and I was only craving healthy foods like lean protein and vegetables.”
However, in the last two months, Tracy admits she started noticing the unusual side effects while using the jab.
“As I lost the weight and was rapidly dropping dress sizes, I noticed my stomach was still flabby and floppy,” she says.
“It’s when I hit the five-stone weight loss mark, I realised the skin wasn’t going to ping back into shape even though I was running 24 miles a week and working out.
“Since then, the more I shrink, the more flab folds develop on my so-called ‘Ozempic jelly belly’.
“It has to be packed into my tummy control knickers.”
Tracy admits that her loose skin has put a stop to her wearing certain items of clothing.
“I can’t wear a bikini until I have my ‘Mounjaro plastic surgery makeover’,” she says.
“I will have to wear a full swimsuit with tummy control pants to keep my belly folded into place.”
Tracy is now planning on spending more than £9,000 on plastic surgery to iron out the side effects of her fat jabs.
“I know I need a tummy tuck liposuction, a breast uplift, and a thigh lift to deal with the loose skin left from the jabs,” she says.
“I tell people losing weight is only half the journey you have to start saving now for plastic surgery.”
Everything you need to know about fat jabs
Weight loss jabs are all the rage as studies and patient stories reveal they help people shed flab at almost unbelievable rates, as well as appearing to reduce the risk of serious diseases.
Wegovy – a modified version of type 2 diabetes drug Ozempic – and Mounjaro are the leading weight loss injections used in the UK.
Wegovy, real name semaglutide, has been used on the NHS for years while Mounjaro (tirzepatide) is a newer and more powerful addition to the market.
Mounjaro accounts for most private prescriptions for weight loss and is set to join Wegovy as an NHS staple this year.
How do they work?
The jabs work by suppressing your appetite, making you eat less so your body burns fat for energy instead and you lose weight.
They do this my mimicking a hormone called GLP-1, which signals to the brain when the stomach is full, so the drugs are officially called GLP-1 receptor agonists.
They slow down digestion and increase insulin production, lowering blood sugar, which is why they were first developed to treat type 2 diabetes in which patients’ sugar levels are too high.
Can I get them?
NHS prescriptions of weight loss drugs, mainly Wegovy and an older version called Saxenda (chemical name liraglutide), are controlled through specialist weight loss clinics.
Typically a patient will have to have a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher, classifying them as medically obese, and also have a weight-related health condition such as high blood pressure.
GPs generally do not prescribe the drugs for weight loss.
Private prescribers offer the jabs, most commonly Mounjaro, to anyone who is obese (BMI of 30+) or overweight (BMI 25-30) with a weight-related health risk.
Private pharmacies have been rapped for handing them out too easily and video calls or face-to-face appointments are now mandatory to check a patient is being truthful about their size and health.
Are there any risks?
Yes – side effects are common but most are relatively mild.
Around half of people taking the drug experience gut issues, including sickness, bloating, acid reflux, constipation and diarrhoea.
Dr Sarah Jarvis, GP and clinical consultant at patient.info, said: “One of the more uncommon side effects is severe acute pancreatitis, which is extremely painful and happens to one in 500 people.”
Other uncommon side effects include altered taste, kidney problems, allergic reactions, gallbladder problems and hypoglycemia.
Evidence has so far been inconclusive about whether the injections are damaging to patients’ mental health.
Figures obtained by The Sun show that, up to January 2025, 85 patient deaths in the UK were suspected to be linked to the medicines.
One side effect which shocked Tracy was just how much her feet changed on the fat jabs.
“I went to put on my work sandals a month ago and they are too big,” she explains.
“I thought I was seeing things, so I pulled out a similar pair and my feet were too small for them as well.
“The weight loss jabs caused my feet to shrink and go down a shoe size.
“In the past my old shoes were tight due to my feet swelling but to realise my feet have actually shrunk from size nine to a size seven-and-a-half is jaw dropping.”
Tracy says she has had to spend hundreds replacing all of her old shoes.
“I knew I’d be buying new clothes because I was losing weight but buying new shoes because you have gone down a shoe size is unheard of,” she says.
“I sold my old plus-size clothes on Vinted and have made £800. I was going to use that for a weekend away. Now I have had to use it for new shoes.”
Tracy has had to have all her rings resized due to her shrinking fingers too.
“My engagement ring pinged off in the shower and I thought I’d lost it,” she says.
“Now after a seven-stone weight loss my husband has bought me a new wedding ring and engagement ring, and they are an entire size smaller.
I’d rather experience the odd shrinking foot and jelly belly to be half the woman I was
Tracy Hughes
“I didn’t think the jab would mean I’d have to get new wedding rings, but it happened.”
Tracy is now experiencing turkey neck – another side effect of the jabs.
“I noticed a month ago my neck skin stretches out and my under-chin skin is floppier,” she says.
“I have added that to my list of cosmetic surgery makeovers.”
But even with the various side effects, Tracy says it was all worth it.
“I feel amazing as thin Tracy,” she says.
“I am more in control. I am addicted to Mounjaro. I don’t want to stop the jabs as I know they are helping me so much,” she says.
“I know many people would complain about these weird effects.
“For me it was a shock initially.
“But I’d rather experience the odd shrinking foot and jelly belly to be half the woman I was.”
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DES CAHILL hit out at the Munster hurling final going to a penalty shoot-out – saying “imagine the hype of a replay”.
Cork beat seven in-a-row chasing Limerick to win their first provincial title since 2018 on Saturday.
An enthralling contest between the two heavyweights ended level at 1-30 to 2-27 after Darragh Fitzgibbon’s late 65′ at the end of extra-time.
This meant penalties, with the Rebels emerging victorious after Treaty veteran Declan Hannon put the critical placed ball wide.
While enthralled by the game, RTE broadcaster Des Cahill insisted the everybody would have been better off had it gone to a replay.
He tweeted: “Does a tremendous final like this really have to be decided by penalties?
“Imagine the anticipation, the craic, and the buzz if we were looking forward to a replay!
“This is the price of the condensed season. Congrats to #Cork & #Limerick on providing a superb #MunsterFinal”
It made for an emotional and poignant occasion at the TUS Gaelic Grounds for Cork boss Pat Ryan.
Not only was it a first provincial title in seven years, but it achieved a league and Championship double, while his side are favourites to bag the All-Ireland.
And not only that, but it came just four months on from the death of his brother, Ray.
The 43-year-old tragically passed away back in February, having been part of Sarsfields teams that won county titles in 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014.
After the Rebels’ momentous victory at the TUS Gaelic Grounds, RTE broadcaster Jacqui Hurley made sure to pay tribute to him on Instagram.
She said: “Ray, I hope you are smiling down on these scenes.”
Pat Ryan is an immensely popular figure among the Leesiders, who have now done a league and provincial championship double.
This was on display when Robert Downey sent a message of love to his gaffer after Saturday’s game.
Skipper Downey said: “I don’t think he realises how much we love him.
“But on days like these, I’m going to tell him. Pat, we love you to bits.”
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Three weeks after they suffered a 16-point hammering at the hands of the same opposition, Cork scuppered Limerick’s seven-in-a-row quest following an engrossing affair at the Gaelic Grounds.
Ryan said: “We were just focused on coming up here and really going to battle with Limerick and representing the jersey, representing our people.
“The people are spending money to come up here and we didn’t give them any value for money the last day.
“I think both teams gave fierce value for money to their supporters today and to everyone.
“We have no doubt in the character of our fellas. We have no doubt in the ability that they have.
“I think everybody has said that. You have to go and prove it every time.
“I’m here three years. We thought that performance three weeks ago was gone out of this team. As I said, I genuinely take a bit of blame for that.”
Ryan’s own frustration with ref Thomas Walsh — who went off injured in extra-time — seemed apparent as he approached the Waterford official at half-time.
But the Cork chief said: “We’re all fighting tooth and nail for the calls.
“The game is so fast. Thomas is a fantastic referee. We’re fighting for calls. John Kiely is fighting for calls. That’s just the nature of it.”
Asked why he approached Walsh, Ryan responded: “Just to say he was doing a great job.”
Fabio Wardley vs Justis Huni punch stats revealed with Aussie landing almost three times more power blows before KO loss
FABIO WARDLEY snatched victory from the jaws of defeat against Justis Huni.
The 30-year-old produced a stunning tenth-round KO to retain his unbeaten tag.
Wardley went into Saturday’s bout as the overwhelming favourite to take the vacant interim WBA title.
The heavyweight star was fighting infront of his hometown crowd in Ipswich, with Huni a late replacement for Jarrell Miller.
But it was the Aussie who dominated the bout from the off at a rain-sodden Portman Road.
The punch stats reveal Huni threw 342 punches across the 10 rounds.
Wardley responded with 330 of his own – but landed just 117 to Huni’s 159.
The starkest stat came with the power punches, as Huni let rip with 114 heavy shots across the contest.
Wardley could only muster 49 of his own in response.
The Brit could only out-punch Huni in TWO rounds of the contest, noticeably tiring after a 64-punch effort in Round 3.
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Huni’s dominance had him leading comfortably with all three judges going into the 10th round.
But Wardley produced a mammoth right hand to KO the Aussie just when it mattered most.
Wardley’s win puts him in line for a shot at the winner of Oleksandr Usyk and Daniel Dubois’ unification bout next month.
Following Saturday’s win – his 18th KO victory in 19 fights – The Barista admitted it had been a close call.
He said: “I don’t profess to be any kind of Usyk or Justis Huni… someone with all the skills.
“But one thing I do know is how to win fights, dig deep, find a bit of heart, bite down on the gumshield, find a way to win.
“That’s one thing I had to do tonight.
“I should have performed better in some of the rounds.
“It’s not always the way it goes. Sometimes you just need to find a different way to win.
“So look, we pulled something out of the bag.”
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The pretty UK island with African-inspired holiday lodges – and you can spot otters and seals from your bed
A TINY island in the UK is home to holiday lodges were inspired by safari camps abroad.
WildLuing on the Scottish island of Luing was created by Jack and his wife Emily after they were inspired while living in Kenya.
WildLuing has eight self-catered glamping suites, called WildSuites, that overlook Torsa Bay where you can regularly spot seals and otters.
Something Jack and Emily said they liked about the Kenya lodges was that groups would gather for meals in a large communal space, then go back to their cabins.
Each pod is custom built and there are some where you can bring along a furry friend too.
And inside each of the lodges is a super king bed, which can be split into doubles if necessary, as well as a shower – and some even have a roll top bath.
Cleverly, all of the cabins are positioned differently so no matter which you stay in, you will get views of the bay.
Prices for the cabins start from £195 per night and each sleeps two.
Unlike most other campsites, there’s no shops or pubs, it’s all about getting back to nature.
As a result, on-site is a communal lounge and dining room.
And it’s a hit with visitors having been described as ‘bucket list material.’
The biggest place on-site is The Observatory which hosts up to 20 guests.
It has views over Torsa Bay and is completely open-plan with a kitchen, pantry, dining area and cosy living room.
You can’t actually stay overnight but it can be hired out to use for yoga retreats, cooking school, dining events, wild swimming groups, and wedding receptions, according to the website.
Around the bay is various types of wildlife, and from the private deck you’ll be able to spot otters as well as grey and common seals.
For the lucky ones, you might even see dolphins.
The Isle of Luing is one of the Slate Islands in the west of Argyll in Scotland and has a population of just 200 people.
WildLuing launched three years ago, and has received lots of positive reviews from visitors.
One wrote on Tripadvisor: “Wowsers. If you haven’t been, then this should be bucket-list material.”
Another added: “Wild Luing was simply sensational on all fronts.”
To get to the Isle of Luing, you’ll need to get a ferry from North Cuan.
Here’s the UK’s highest campsite has cosy camping pods and views of the country’s tallest mountain.
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