To expect more than 0.5 pound weight loss?

I don't think anyone is trying to imply that.
I would class myself as not at all dim and pretty clued up on calories etc. But I made mistakes along the way. I had a long stall and was in denial for some time before I admitted I must be eating too much.
Sometimes it is simply that your online TDEE calc is not right. Mine wasn't.
At the end of the day, if you eat fewer calories than you need you will lose weight.

@Zov you have to be obese (or overweight with a weight related health condition) to start taking WLI. You then continue to take the WLI until you are a healthy weight, and then if you want, you can continue to take Mounjaro to maintain your weight. So, the OP would have been obese when she started.

Your actual weight is probably 11,3 but you gained some water for some reason which is making the scales show a heavier weight.
If you're in a calorie deficit you WILL lose fat. It's that simple.

Weight loss is more complex than just cutting calories. Insulin plays a massive role as it blocks fat burning and will cause your metabolic rate to crash instead.

5 ft 7 is tall-ish IMO. (For a woman.) I know quite a few women who are around that height who weigh roughly the same as you @Epicentre And they look fine/not overweight.

It could be that you don't need to lose much weight. If any... That's why you have only lost half a pound...

Why are you using weight loss injections though, when you're only 11 and a half stone? (And 5 ft 7, so not particularly overweight..)

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I’m short. If I ate 1200kcal per day I’d gain weight.

I eat 800kcal a day and maintain my weight at this. To hoard off the comments: I also work full time, have 2 DC (both exclusively breastfed), a full head of hair and a regular period.

I'm short and old, and put on if I eat over 1200.

Please stop using the term ‘starvation mode’. It’s largely a myth used to exaggerate metabolic adaptation. Exercise helps to stave this off.

Eating a little more/ adding in a small portion of "treat" carbs for a day or two would usually help me get past a stall.

I don't know if the theory about increasing calories temporarily so your body gets out of starvation mode has been debunked, but it worked for me. I'd maybe have a small slice of pizza, a bun with my burger (indulgent!), a small packet of crisps, or a couple of biscuits with my cup of tea.

I agree that weighing weekly likely isn't showing your full progress and fluctuations. I weighed daily before my morning shower. If I weighed later in the day, I would be at least 3lb heavier.

Towards the end of my WL journey, I would lose a lb, then go back up and down that lb several times over a week or two before that loss bedded in. Then a couple of weeks later, another lb finally lost, but again with the up and down before it settled.

Are you ok with posting pre MJ diet and post?

I've lost two stone overall and my body stalled its weightloss for three months. It happens - I decided to change things up, so I've increased my protein and got my dose increased to 7.5 from 5mg. Hopefully as the supression has been stronger, the weightloss will start again.

You're the same size and weight as me and I lose weight in a similar pattern on around the same intake but no WLD. Im 52 and its definitely harder to lose. But neither of us is very over weight so the losses would be smaller

Try alternating 1,200 calorie days with 1,000 or 900 ones. On 15mg of MJ you should have good enough suppression for it.

I sympathise OP. The only way I lost weight is by VLCD for a limited period of time and intermittent fasting when eating normal food. Have a look at Jason Fung’s books around insulin resistance - they made sense to me.

Are you using my fitness pal or another app to count your calories and weighing/measuring your food? So entering everything you eat?

The up side is that you have maintained your weight just about at the top end of healthy for 6 weeks, which is a win surely. 1200 calories would seem to be about a 500cal deficit for someone of your height and weight, so you should see some weight loss eventually even if it's slower than you'd like.

I don't think you've mentioned exercise? If you are able to exercise, you could try adding in some additional strength exercise and maybe some more cardio.

Sometimes I have shaken up a plateau by doing OMAD for a week, or IF of various lengths.

You need to weigh every day so you can see the natural fluctuations of your cycle

This. I was weighing myself twice a day (when I woke up and before bed) when I was tracking my weight. Weighing myself once a week would have been totally meaningless, and instead of looking at my specific weight, I set a goal of weight banding I wanted to be in (I started at weighing in anywhere between 130-135 lb across a week. I knew therefore that I could set a 5lb band for my target weight, and aimed for 120-125lb. Now I fluctuate mostly between 121-122lb when I weigh myself intermittently but won’t count it as weight loss unless I see 119lb on the scales, and won’t worry about taking action on my weight creeping up until it gets to 125lb).

I've never seen anyone assume everyone is too 'dim' to count them correctly.

I've only ever seen people being asked if they're sure.

And sometimes it turns out they're not counting them correctly.

So you are now a normal BMI (just), it is possible that the upper end of the normal range is YOUR normal, and this is you done, or at least not loosing much very quickly any longer. There is nothing wrong with being a BMI of 24.

I’m sure it happens but it is quite insulting to assume everyone is too dim to count their calories accurately.

No I'm not an idiot who vastly overeats more calories than I think I'm eating. (This seems to get trotted out a lot on MN).

You don't have to be an idiot to not realise exactly how many calories you're eating/drinking.