I started on mounjaro a couple of weeks ago. I ca literally see the weight melting off me…cheekbones and collar bones emerging, hands and feet have lost their puffiness. I am calorie counting but I am not hungry at all. I can just eat my allocated meal and get on with my day.
For my entire life I have been chubby. Even as a five year old I wasn’t allowed school milk and was taken to ‘fat clinic’ as my mom called it. The only time I have been truly slim was in my teens when I starved myself until I regularly fainted for a year. I have managed to get down to a size 14 in my 20s but since children I have been between a size 16 and 20 depending on dieting and flare ups of ulcerative colitis which required steroids. I had accepted sadly I was just a bigger person. I resisted mounjaro for ages because I really just didn’t believe it wasn’t too good to be true. But after lots of research, I have taken the plunge. And I really believe that this is the answer. After years of on off dieting, fanatical exercise and knawing hunger/constant battling…it was chemical all the time. All the years of self loathing and wondering what I was doing wrong…and a simple drug can make me slim. Alongside healthy eating and exercise of course. It feels surreal. But it is also messing with my mind and making me ineffably sad about how long and how harshly I have punished myself for not being slim. Has anyone else had this weird mix of emotions? I am 46 and I feel like my whole sense of self is shifting. I’ve always been the funny one to deflect from my size.