20st lady with £4,800 takeaway behavior unrecognisable after dropping half her fats

She used to eat a Full English for breakfast, down a litre of Coke, have takeaway most nights then take a large chocolate bar to bed

A woman who ate so many chocolate bars in bed that she ballooned to 20 stone has halved her bodyweight -and says people don’t even recognise her in the street. Tracey Mummery started her weight loss journey in May 2025 after struggling with her weight since she was a teen.

Tipping the scales at 20st at her heaviest, 5ft 6ins Tracey says she ‘always felt like the bigger friend’. The 41-year-old says she used to gorge herself on full English breakfasts, crisps, baguettes, sweets and a litre of full-fat Coke every day.

Tracey was eating up to £100-worth of takeaways per week, which she would order up to five nights per week – and would even take a large chocolate bar up to bed with her. After struggling with her weight for more than two decades, Tracey decided to start using Mounjaro after ordering the skinny jab from an online pharmacy.

Tracey has now halved her bodyweight to 10st, slimming down from a dress size 24 to a slinky size 8. And the retail supervisor claims she now looks so different that people don’t recognise her in the street and will often give her a ‘double take’.

Tracey, from Medway, Kent, said: “I get a lot of comments from people saying that I look amazing, that they can’t believe how well I look and that they need to come to the gym with me. I bump into people in the street and they don’t recognise me because I look that different, sometimes it’s hard to get my head around.

“It’s happened a few times where someone has done a double take like ‘do I know you or do I not?’ It’s usually people that I don’t see that often – like people I used to go to school with, I’ve bumped into them and they’ve said they didn’t recognise me for a minute.

“It’s a massive compliment that they think I look so different that they don’t recognise me. It can be quite overwhelming.”

Prior to her weight loss, Tracey says she would spend up to £4,800 per year on fast food deliveries. Tracey said: “I used to have between four and five takeaways per week because I couldn’t be bothered to cook dinner.

“I was spending £80-£100 per week on takeaways. When I was thinking about going on Mounjaro the thing that was putting me off was the money but I worked out the amount of money that I was spending on the food shop, or takeaways I could spend that on Mounjaro.”

Tracey says she even used to take a large 350g of chocolate up to bed with her. Tracey said: “At night time going up to bed I would have a big bar of chocolate, I could quite happily take one of them out of the cupboard and eat that up in bed.

“I would do that a couple of times per week, my relationship with food was bad, I don’t do any of that now, I don’t take anything to bed with me anymore.”

Tracey has now shed a 10st but says she has been left ‘infuriated’ by comments suggesting that the skinny jab is the ‘lazy way’ to lose weight – and says she has worked hard for her slinkier frame through a combination of diet and exercise.

Tracey said: “I hear it all the time that Mounjaro is the lazy way to lose weight and it frustrates me so much. Especially on social media you hear that when you’re taking skinny jabs like Mounjaro that it’s cheating and it infuriates me so much.

“I didn’t rely on Mounjaro completely; it was a tool. I worked really hard – I was calorie counting, tracking my macros, going to the gym, going out on walks. I’ve worked really, really hard – you don’t just jab Mounjaro once a week and then the weight melts away. I’m quite passionate to defending it [Mounjaro].”

Tracey says she never thought she would be able to squeeze into a dress size 8, and now feels confident to show off her body in tight-fitting gym clothes. Tracey said: “I never thought it would be possible for me to be a size 8, I always felt like the bigger one in the friendship group.

“Now I’m just able to go into a shop and buy clothes whereas I used to have to order them online. The clothes I wear now are completely different to what I used to wear, I used to be in hoodies and leggings all the time, now I mainly wear gym clothes, my style has completely changed.”

Tracey, who stopped using Mounjaro in March, is now urging other women who are thinking about embarking on their weight loss journey to ‘go for it’. Tracey said: “If you’re thinking about starting your weight loss journey just do it and don’t sit on the fence.

“That’s the one thing that I regret – how long I was sitting on the fence about doing it. Remember every journey is different, not one person’s is the same as someone else’s. And keep taking before and afters and take photos and videos of your progression – when I look back, I actually can’t believe the difference.”