Husband Gets Mounjaro, Wife Gets Cold Pizza Therapy
Jon scored a prescription for Mounjaro—because managing his A1C and dodging diabetes > dieting drama. He needed to drop 35 pounds; his wife faced a 65-pound Everest with lifelong food baggage, including a childhood where her mom bounced off to a pricey North Carolina fat farm. Despite a history full of grapefruits, grappling with carbs, and snack-time sibling warfare over Twinkies, Jon nudged her gently with 'Think about it, we could do it together,' and she decided no injectable miracle could outduel decades of pizza panic attacks. Still, they both lost double-digit weight (Jon 45, wife 22) thanks to more fish, fewer desserts, and Jon’s motivational texts sounding like a chef with a crush. Real love means letting your wife yell at you over pizza then still pretending dessert is negotiable.
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When your husband goes full Mounjaro MVP and you stick to pizza because your food trauma’s older than TikTok, that’s what couples therapy might’ve missed. Also yes, Twinkie arm wrestling is apparently a family sport.
Sure, Jon’s losing weight taking a magic needle, but the wife’s been battling a lifelong food soap opera featuring absentee moms and Twinkie tilefights. Eat healthy? She says, 'Try telling me that when fudge ripple calls my name.'
This couple’s weight loss plan involves Mounjaro for him and a never-ending saga of ‘don’t tell me what to eat’ for her. It’s like a rom-com script if rom-coms were about carbs and life-long emotional trauma baked in grease.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 9/14/2025 | Author: Julie Charnet
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