I took a weight-loss jab to get beach-body ready. After one dose I realised I'd made a terrible mistake...

EXCLUSIVE I took a weight-loss jab to get beach-body ready. After one dose I realised I'd made a terrible mistake..

. By Charlotte Griffiths Published: 02:19 BST, 14 July 2024 | Updated: 02:19 BST, 14 July 2024 e-mail View comments On a Wednesday evening a couple of weeks ago, a friend and I stifled giggles as we sat on her bed. The door was firmly shut, in case our children tried to barge in.

And what we were about to do felt as naughty and illicit as that first cigarette behind the bike sheds as schoolgirls. In front of us was my friend's Wegovy injection 'pen' – which is, alongside Ozempic, one of the self-administered weight-loss jabs that have taken the world by storm. And she was offering to share it with me so I could see for myself what it was like.

But I am not overweight – far from it. My body mass index (BMI) is 21.7, at the lower end of the 'normal' range, while my friend is slim and elegant with a glossy Instagram feed in which she looks fabulous (and thin).

So what, you might rightly ask, were the two of us doing with a prescription-only medication used to tackle severe obesity and type 2 diabetes ? In hindsight, I wonder the same thing. In fact, I can't believe I was so stupid and bitterly regret my experiment. Charlotte Griffiths tried the Wegovy injection 'pen' – which is, alongside Ozempic, one of the self-administered weight-loss jabs that have taken the world by storm But what we did is far from unusual.

We are among a growing number of middle-aged mu.