I’m 67 but I look the same as I did in my twenties… thanks to a controversial weight loss jab trick, no one can believe I’m a grandmother

She’s three years away from her seventieth birthday, but Bobbi Parker-Hall believes she could pass as a woman in her twenties – thanks to microdosing weight loss medication. 

The 67-year-old grandmother, from Oregon, US, regularly bats away accusations that she has had plastic surgery to turn back the clock, and instead puts her svelte silhouette down to regular gym trips… and daily stabs of a GLP-1 pen. 

She said: ‘Some people ask what surgery I’ve had and others assume it’s good Botox, fillers, or genetics.

‘But the truth isn’t glamorous. I’m not chasing skinny; I’m protecting my metabolism, muscle and long-term health. That’s why I microdose.’ 

Microdosing was originally used to describe taking tiny amounts of psychedelics to treat mental health conditions, but can now also refer to counting clicks on pre-filled GLP-1 pens to deliver less than the prescribed dose. 

Weight loss jabs are a class of drugs known as GLP-1 receptor agonists, which work by mimicking the hormone GLP-1 to regulate blood sugar levels and suppress appetite.

Some users claim using less than the prescribed dose – or even breaking the pens open – allows them to keep shedding the weight without unwanted side-effects such as nausea and vomiting. 

Experts have strongly warned against microdosing weight loss jabs, claiming the trend is unsafe, unregulated and potentially life-threatening. 

Professor Alex Miras, an endocrinologist at Ulster University previously said: ‘People are risking serious side effects from overdosing, as well as the potential for life–threatening infection. We cannot endorse it.

‘Not only is it a contamination a risk, but it also reduces the effectiveness of the medication.’

Another issue with microdosing is that the pens can malfunction when people count clicks instead of using them properly. 

And, as they expire after six weeks, once opened, they’re no longer sterile, which can introduce bacteria.

Last year, a Lancet editorial warned: ‘The practice of micro-dosing drugs is not new – but there is no evidence that it works for obesity.’

However, not everyone is microdosing for a trimmer figure – some are playing a long game.  

In longevity circles, many users microdose as part of a broader anti-aging regime, claiming that it helps them shift stubborn fat whilst maintaining muscle long into their 60s. 

And that’s Ms Parker-Hall’s motivation, too. 

When she was younger and desperate to stave-off the tell-tale signs of aging, Ms Parker-Hall remembers doing everything she could to be thin, leaving her feeling utterly exhausted. 

But when she started experiencing symptoms of the perimenopause – when a woman’s oestrogen and progesterone levels start to fall until their periods stop – soon after she turned 50, she knew something had to change. 

She said: ‘I realised ageing doesn’t ruin women – but neglect does. 

‘I glowed up because I finally started working with my body instead of against it. But for some reasons, a strong and lean woman after 60 feels suspicious to people.’ 

Though she doesn’t pretend she hasn’t had any help. 

Instead of ‘chasing thinness’, the pensioner began lifting weights and eating to fuel muscle growth and recovery – working with a nutritionist to better understand the changes her body was going through. 

She then started microdosing her weight loss medication, in a way that felt ‘less like dieting and more like stability’, she said.

‘That stubborn lower belly bloat that wouldn’t budge – no matter how clean I ate or how hard I trained – finally started to melt away.  

‘Now, my cravings are calm, my weight is steady and food no longer runs the show. 

‘Rapid weight loss without strength training also causes Ozempic face or butt. I don’t have either. In fact, it’s completely changed the game for me.’ 

The glamorous grandmother, whose mantra is ‘I refuse to disappear’, has previously opened up about how she is embracing the aging process.  

She also believes that she has become ‘more attractive and healthy after menopause.’ 

Her new lifestyle has also opened up avenues in her personal life, unlocking the key to daily orgasms and ‘better than ever’ sex with her husband, Dean.