‘A new consumer’: how weight-loss drugs are shaking up clothes shopping

What happened

According to The Guardian’s linked source, ‘A new consumer’: how weight-loss drugs are shaking up clothes shopping, As they slim down, UK and US users of GLP-1 jabs and pills are changing their spending habits – and their wardrobes Tell us: what does the new weight-loss pill mean for you? “I’m now at a point where I’m going to buy even more clothes,” says Hayley Grice, 50, from Shropshire, who has dropped seven sizes after starting on the GLP-1 weight loss jab Mounjaro two years ago. “I’m very happy with my physique right now.” Grice, the financial director of a business she set up with her husband, tried gastric bypass surgery in 2009, but put most of the weight back on, and had been between UK dress sizes 26 and 28 (US sizes 22 and 24) all her adult life. Continue reading…

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