Amy Tapper has revealed her plans to stay on weight loss jab Mounjaro ‘for life’. The TV star, 26, who is best known for appearing on the Channel 4 reality show Gogglebox, has lost seven stone since combining doses of the controversial drug with diet and exercise over the course of the last year.

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During an appearance on ITV’s Good Morning Britain on Thursday, Amy admitted: “That is what I’ve been advised by my doctor. Because I think a lot of the way that people look at the injection is as a quick fix.

“And it is, it’s very quick, but it’s not fixing you forever. The minute you come off of it, my body is going to start doing what it was doing before which means, yeah, I will be on it for life. We’ll look through it and we’ll see as we go along, we don’t know what can happen but I’m on the highest dose at the moment.”

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Amy joined Richard Madeley and Kate Garraway on Thursday’s edition of Good Morning Britain(Image: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)

ITV Daytime star Dr Amir Khan was listening into the conversation, and he acknowledged that Amy had a ‘compelling story’ to tell with her health journey but did insist that two years was the maximum time an individual should take the injection for in general.

He added: “That two years gives an ample time to make those changes perhaps, with movement, the sleep, the stress that all contribute to weight.”

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“In my opinion, I think that if you don’t have more than about three stone to lose, I just don’t think you need to be on it because a lot of that will be excess weight. I think people have forgotten what an old-fashioned diet and exercise is. We went through such a body positivity stage, and now it’s gone back to ‘Let’s all be stick thin again!’

“I’m not doing this for an aesthetic look or anything. I was so used to being overweight if that’s the way it was going to be, then that was the way it was going to be.

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ITV Daytime star Dr Amir Khan was listening into the conversation, and he acknowledged that Amy had a ‘compelling story’ to tell with her health journey but did insist that two years was the maximum time an individual should take the injection for in general.(Image: ITV)

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When asked about the benefits the weight loss has had on her mental health, Amy admitted that it has allowed her to stop thinking about things the way she used to and she is now in a ‘peaceful’ place within her own head.

She said: “It’s peaceful, that’s what it is. Being on a diet all my life, going out with friends, I have to look at the menu, make sure I can eat there. I don’t have to think about anything. I’m sure I’ll find something, I just don’t have to think about it and my whole head is just peaceful.”

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Amy has lost seven stone in just twelve months (Image: Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/Getty Images)

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Amy has made no secret about her weight loss method. Speaking to The Sun, she disclosed she received assistance from Mounjaro, explaining she “felt there was nothing else I could do”.

Amy shared: “I’m fitting into size 18 clothes for the first time since I was 15 or 16 – it’s hard for me to believe. It’s changed my life. I went to the theatre the other night and when I sat down, my thighs weren’t touching the person next to me, or the sides of the chairs. I had room.”

However, Amy pointed out: “I get annoyed though that some people call it the ‘lazy way out’. I don’t want people to think that I’ve sat around for the last 17 years of my life not trying to lose weight.

“I want people to know that this has been my only option to get this far.”