I started Feb 2nd last year, 15 stone 6lbs, size 18/20 By end of August I was down to 11 stone 12 and renewing my wardrobe in a size 14. My goal was probably to lose another stone but instead I chose to start titrating down from 10ml over the course of my last pen.
Various reasons for this:
*Price increases although on it's own I'd have sucked this up.
*I genuinely look and feel a normal weight now. I'm in my 60s and think getting down to 10st,7lbs, the target weight for my height, would have left me looking emaciated. I reckoned 11 7 as a maximum weight, but trying to stay around 11 would be my target.
- Side effects. Knew it wouldn't be a life long thing for me as nausea, constipation and low mood were a constant. Manageable only in the short term as a means to an end though.
I titrated down gradually till the pen ran out. I took my last dose of 2.5 on November 21st and my weight was now 11 stones 3lbs.
I've been battling with my weight for 40years. There are 2 battles. The one against the food noise to get the weight off in the first place. This is why Mounjaro works..that food noise just goes .
The second battle though is by much the harder..battling against the much fiercer food noise to not put the weight back on.
I know for me, from past dieting experience ,that 16:8 and a high protein and veg, low carb, little UHPF diet was the only thing that worked to keep my weight stable so the 4 stone (only half of what I needed to lose) that I lost 8 years ago, more or less stayed off. Just couldn't lose any more but at 4 stone overweight I was healthy, active, off all medication, with a working strategy not to put it all back on as I had in the past.
The fight was getting harder though and Mounjaro gave me the chance to get that last 4 stone off and I'll always be grateful for that although with a bit of sadness that it wasn't available 40 years ago.
But that's only half the battle won and perhaps the easier part. That food noise has returned with a vengeance.. it's actually physical as well as mental now...my stomach actually rumbles! I am a stress eater and that has returned too although I am more mindful of it now though and have more control over how much stress I'm under now I'm retired.
So my advice to you. Don't just focus solely on the weight loss. Use your time on Mounjaro to embed healthy eating habits and face what caused your weight problem in the first place. Arm yourself with strategies while you're on the medication that you can use in the future to keep the weight off. There are a lot of reasons why you may not be able to rely on Mounjaro doing all the heavy lifting for ever. I compare it to Anti depressants. Life changing to get you out a hole you can't get out of yourself but it may stop working so well over time so you need to build more self help stuff for when/if that happens.
Sorry for the long post I think I'm writing it for myself too because I am finding this next stage hard... A bit scared that my body will override all my best efforts and that's why I wouldn't rule out using Mounjaro again if I needed to.