A man who was spending nearly £100-a-month buying junk food from his work vending machine has lost a whopping 50kg after taking Mounjaro.

Lewis Bowes, 35, had always wanted to lose weight but parenting four children meant his own health took a backseat.

Previously, he would consume between three and four thousand calories a day - often eating large wraps with chips and snacking on bags of crisps.

Because he worked a night shift, Lewis would often use the vending machine to buy chocolate and crisps - to the point where he was spending nearly £100 a month.

Eventually, Lewis - who weighed 20st 6lbs at his heaviest - decided enough was enough and began taking Mounjaro jabs in November 2024 after seeing them on TikTok.

He started on 2.5mg, eventually progressing up to 7.5mg, which he stayed on for 12 weeks.

Lewis quickly began to see a change and credits the jabs with being able to "put food to the back of your mind."

Combined with a change of diet and active daily steps, in just over a year Lewis has lost a staggering 7st 12lbs and now weighs just 12st 8lbs.

Lewis, a former foundry worker, in between jobs, from Todmorden, West Yorks., said: "I was spending £20 a week at a vending machine, so I ended up disabling Apple Pay on my phone to stop it."

"It's difficult to describe, but Mounjaro puts food thoughts to the back of your brain. "

"You're always considerate of when you're going to eat, but I just don't even think of that anymore, and now I'm trying to taper down off the Mounjaro as I don't want to keep taking it for the rest of my life."

"I'm now taking half doses of the full dose and don't feel the suppression as much as I was. "

"I'm still finding that now it's completely ingrained and I don't think about food anymore really."

Lewis had always wanted to lose weight, but knew if he did, he wanted it to be a considerable amount.

He said: "I've got four kids, and everything just centred around them and work. "

"You have to find a routine that keeps everyone busy."

"It's always a lot more difficult to concentrate on your own health when in a busy household."

"I've been overweight all my life, and it became even less of a priority to fix myself."

"I was massively overweight, and I had that much to lose, and I thought it would never happen. "

"I'd seen Mounjaro on social media, and people were posting about it. "

"I was quite dubious about it, but then you start coming round to the idea. "

"If I was going to lose weight, I wanted to lose a lot, otherwise there was no point. "

"I thought that the only way to do that was to have some surgery, so when I saw people started taking Mounjaro, I heard it had fewer side effects, and people were getting good results."

"It's worked out really well."

"I didn't suffer from side effects, and I never felt nauseous as such, but you can feel it working and I could see why some people could get nauseous or confuse it with that."

He swapped crisps and oven-cooked chips for apples, protein shakes and healthier chicken wraps.

And when he orders a takeaway for the family, it's now costing £25 instead of £40.

Once he'd lost enough weight, Lewis turned his focus to exercise and now runs regularly.

He said: "I didn't exercise at first - I had a very active job on my feet all day, and I probably did between 10 and 12,000 steps a day."

"It's not that I didn't know what I was doing, more that I didn't know if I could do it."

"I wanted to try and get my diet right, and then when I start losing a good amount of weight, then I can start thinking about exercise."

"In January 2025, I started walking to work, and I really enjoyed it, and my step count went up to 16,000 a day."

"Once I'd lost enough, I started running in April, and it's been very enjoyable."

"I'm not bothered about what I weigh now, and I'm quite happy between 12 and 14 stone. "

"Now I'm concentrating on training and taking a bigger deep dive into nutrition."