explain Mounjaro to me

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HIya

I have lost 5 stone through calorie defecit and my BMR means my defecit now brings my daily calories down to 1200 to lose weight
(I know the Maths is right)

I've been plateaued for a year (I'd like to lose 2 more stone) but it just won't shift (I'm 50)
I watched a weight coach talking about how low calorie will stop working as the body will adapt, but I was wondering how does Mounjaro work then?
Doesn't that just make you not want to eat as much , therefore low cal?
If I tried it for this last bit would it work?

I have been on mj since March and I have lost three stone.
Before mj I was diagnosed with an under active thyroid and coeliac. In the past 8 years I have been an on and off sahm so loneliness crept in and I ate out of boredom.
Mj has been a game changer for me, I no longer sit down with a couple of packets of crisps
I reach for more protein filled things. I am still hungry on 7.5 so I have three set meals, whereas before I'd just snack whenever. Making dinner, I'd have a snack while making it but all that has stopped

As the weight came off, running became easier. I have managed a 5k run and I am someone who hates running

I'm only 5'3 so still classed as overweight but I'm staying on 7.5 for a while longer as I've had some bad sickness some days

I think there are a tremendous number of women who have heard this 2000 approx calories a day thing and don’t realise that height/ lifestyle etc play a huge part in determining your maintenance calories. Too many of us are/were eating too many calories.

I’ve been on it just under a month and lost 10lbs so far. I still get hungry at mealtimes and still enjoy a meal out - I just no longer fill time with food or snacking and I’m fuller earlier in the meal so I eat less. Sometimes I finish a dinner at home, sometimes I don’t. I’ll have between 900 and 1,400 calories a day. Been the best decision to take it

Just to clarify, any VLC diet will support weightloss, (I'm not talking 300 a day, more like 1,000).

MJ just gives you a 'tool kit' that makes adhering to that, which creates slow steady weight and over time, builds to significant losses.

(5 stone in 10 months)

It's the same with all diets and methods of weight loss. Formerly obese people are likely to regain the weight when they stop following it, and there's no diet that the majority of formerly obese people have been shown to stick at enough to avoid weight gain. The pp is correct, WLIs are the same as traditional diets in this respect.

Worth pointing out also that 2 stone can easily be the difference between a healthy and obese BMI. You just have to be short. I assume you know that someone with a BMI of 30 may well be having their health affected already, and if not they're at risk of it?

For a menopausal quite short woman who is not massively active, it’s unlikely they would lose weight on much more than 1,200. If I am dieting I like a little flexibility at the weekend so would rather do 1,200 x 5 and 1,600 x 2 etc than have 1,300 each day.

For me, it stopped the food “noise” and constant emotional / comfort eating. The desire just went away. I didn’t think about it.

I was worried I’d stop enjoying the food I did eat but that wasn’t the case at all. I enjoyed my meals just as much. I just didn’t reach for half a packet of biscuits or a family bag of revels the minute I felt stressed.

1200 calories would have me putting on a stone a year being menopausal and short.

Honestly why can’t people just understand that everyone is different.

So you have quoted “fact” based one what you’ve seen on YouTube? This isn’t actual medical fact then, just your (wrong) opinion on something you watched online? Ok then.

The number of people who see things on YouTube and blindly believe them, is scary. Thats why we’ve so many antivaxxers. They’ve all done their research on YouTube…

Just to add, if I saw a thread asking for opinions on a medication I didn’t use, I’d not bother to open the thread, because I’d have nothing to add. I certainly wouldn’t think that anyone should hear me spout bollocks about the medication I had no experience of that I’d seen a random YouTube video about that I’d taken as gospel. People are weird.

Absolutely agree. The misinformation is wild on these type of threads let alone the rest of the internet / the daily fail. Side effect scaremongering for one. The amount of misuse of these drugs is going to mean the “side effects” are exacerbated by people who are only eating 300 calories a day and / or lying about their weight to get prescribed. Boils my piss to be quite honest! Happy Friday 🤣