A father who lost six stone in 11 months after taking Mounjaro has been criticised by trolls who say he is ‘lazy’ and ‘taking the easy way out’.
George Keywood, from London, became pre-diabetic and was struggling to walk upstairs when he began taking the weight loss drug last year.
Before turning to Mounjaro, the 31-year-old was stuck in a rut, drinking up to five cans of Coca-Cola a day and often eating a full pizza and garlic bread in the evenings.
But in August last year, he started taking the medication from a private online pharmacy that offered it to him for free, and he has since lost up to two pounds a week.
Now, six stone down, George’s sugar cravings have gone and he now only eats one main meal a day, often skipping breakfast entirely.
He said his food shop has seen ‘less overspending on junk food’ thanks to his lack of appetite and he no longer splashes out as much on taxis, as losing weight means he is able to walk longer distances again.
But the actor and content creator has received negativity online from critics who say he is ‘cheating’ by taking the medication.
George says ‘people love to judge’ his situation, after he was also lambasted online when he was heavier, with social media users saying he was ‘mismatched’ with his slim wife Sienna.
George Keywood (pictured with wife Sienna) became pre-diabetic and was struggling to walk upstairs when he began taking the weight loss drug last year (pictured before his weight loss)
Now, six stone down, George’s sugar cravings have gone and he now only eats one main meal a day, often skipping breakfast entirely (after weight loss)
The actor and content creator has received negativity online from critics who say he is ‘cheating’ by taking the medication (before weight loss)
The pair met after Sienna, 30, spotted George playing the character Craig on the TV show ‘People Just Do Nothing’, which ran on BBC Three from 2014 to 2018.
She fully supports George’s weight loss as it has allowed him to be more active and play with their five-year-old son Oliver, whereas before she was often ‘having to do everything’ herself.
George said: ‘There’s still a lot of negativity [online] with people saying I’m taking the easy way out or cheating, or, “Oh just go to the gym and be a real man”.
‘You can’t win. There’s always a reason for people to want to hate. I’m doing this for me, not them.
‘There’s been a lot of support too. I did a post on Facebook recently and all the comments were positive.
‘For me, if I were to lose another 40kg, I feel like we’d be at normal levels at that point.
‘I’ve been on it for nine months so if I can do another nine months and do the same again, I’ll have overachieved.
‘For me the maximum I want to be on it is two years. I think these changes can last longer than people think they can.
George says his food shop has seen ‘less overspending on junk food’ thanks to his lack of appetite
George’s dinner would consist of a whole pizza and garlic bread, with another Coca-Cola to wash it all down
The actor says he has experienced a lot of hate online from trolls who disapprove of him using a jab to lose weight
George says that he wants to live until 70 or 80-years-old and see his son grow up, adding: ‘You don’t see fat people in the care homes.’
Despite being overweight his ‘whole life’, the influencer says that it has never set him back or caused him any ‘significant issues’.
‘I guess I’m luckier in some respects that I never got bullied for being big,’ he added.
Prior to shedding the pounds, George would start every morning with scrambled eggs on toast with cheese, drinking a litre of milk on the side.
After snacking on crisps and chocolate, he would eat a ‘massive’ sandwich for lunch, followed by more crisps and cola.
Dinner would consist of a whole pizza and garlic bread, with another Coca-Cola to wash it all down.
Each can of full sugar cola has a whopping 35g of sugar in it – and George would drink up five cans a day. The NHS says that adults should consume no more than 30g of free sugars daily, and George was drinking 175g of sugar from his soft drinks alone.
He began taking a 2.5mg dose of Mounjaro in August 2024 and has worked his way up to the 12.5mg dose he takes now.
‘My feet used to be so swollen I couldn’t wear shoes, and now they’re completely uninflamed and completely fine now.
‘I was feeling rough with my pre-diabetes and struggling to walk upstairs too far. I thought, “it’s probably too much at this point”.
‘For about five out of the seven days you don’t think about food. It doesn’t make you unable to stomach food but it turns off the desire to want to have meals or overindulge.
‘Which is great because that’s what I used to do. I was drinking four to five cans of full fat Coca-Cola a day, and now I’m on one a week.
‘The desire for sweets has completely gone. These days I can just about stomach one meal a day.’
The father-of-one says he would eat a large BBQ chicken pizza to himself and then also have a tub of ice-cream afterwards.
Each can of full sugar Coca-Cola has a whopping 35g of sugar in it and George would drink up five cans a day (pictured after weight loss)
Sienna fully supports George’s weight loss as it has allowed him to be more active and play with their five-year-old son Oliver, whereas before she was often ‘having to do everything’ herself
George says ‘people love to judge’ his situation, after he was also lambasted online when he was heavier, with social media users saying he was ‘mismatched’ with his slim wife Sienna
His wife has also seen a ‘huge difference’ in George following his weight loss
‘With Mounjaro, I tried to eat a pizza one day and threw up half an hour after,’ he said.
His wife has also seen a ‘huge difference’ in George following his weight loss. ‘I barely ever see him eating to be honest,’ Sienna said.
‘On holidays, the difference I noticed is he can walk all day.
‘Before, we’d go on holidays and I’d be dreading it, thinking we’d have to catch an Uber everywhere.
‘Now it’s like it used to be when we first met, he can walk around all day. He’s just been happier.
‘With our son, I felt like I had to do pretty much everything because we couldn’t do very many active things.’
Sienna recalled a time before George lost weight. She was carrying their son around Peppa Pig world on their own, with her husband ‘traipsing along behind us, hating every minute’.
She added: ‘Now it feels like he does a lot more. He can take Oliver for days out. It’s like the tables have turned.
‘He’s just really motivated and I’m really proud of him. He’s made the decision to do this for his health and it’s really benefited me and my son.’
