‘The pressure to get your old body back is immense’: the new mothers driven to weight-loss jabs

<p>The NHS warns against using GLP-1s while breastfeeding – for the baby’s sake as well as the mother’s. But how much does that count when they’re so readily available and there’s so much pressure to ‘bounce back’?</p><p>Lydia* first started thinking about weight-loss drugs during pregnancy. “Everyone was talking about them and the advertisements were everywhere,” she says, as her baby son naps upstairs. “I remember thinking: ‘That’s how I’ll lose weight for my wedding next year.’”</p><p>When Lydia explains that most of her life before pregnancy was spent in a welter of yo-yo dieting and body dissatisfaction, I say to her that I think most of us can relate. Her pregnancy, however, brought a level of body acceptance and contentment that the 33-year-old from Wales had never had before.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/23/the-thought-of-not-being-thin-for-my-wedding-makes-me-want-to-die-the-new-mothers-driven-to-weight-loss-jabs">Continue reading...</a>