Mounjaro with ED?

[Jawandmoan]

Does anyone know whether it is OK to use Mounjaro for weight loss if the person has binge eating disorder and previously had Anorexia? Thanks.

I previously was previously ana/mia followed by a very healthy 8 years, then gained weight - I’ve been on MJ 6 months now, I will say, it’s hard, the food noise is gone but the keeping the perfectionist at bay is not easy

Staying at lower doses has definitely helped, but I do have multiple alarms set to eat and I make sure I get 1500 calls a day

Thanks for replying @bluestoneboys.
Do you mean that it is tempting to restrict too much when you say that keeping the perfectionist at bay is not easy?
I tend to stop eating completely when I have no appetite so I’m not sure if Mounjaro is a good idea for me.

I have a history of binge eating and bulimia. I have had therapy and all kinds of treatment. I have never been in remission until starting on mouranjo. I have to be really strict and make myself eat three meals a day but I have no food noise and the joy of not having binged for over 3 months is an absolute joy. That is priceless.

i don’t know where the future will lead but I feel amazing and so hopeful

Wow, that does sound like a dream
to stop bingeing. Well done @Debtfreeme

That’s exactly it yes, but because I learned a good (too good at times) relationship with food now, even if I’m not hungry, I can think of something I like enough to push myself- I lost 30lbs in the first 6 weeks, my dr told me they’d stop the chemist prescribing if I didn’t slow it down massively - I use chequp and the support on there has been really good from the coaches too

I have a history of anorexia, bulimia and orthorexia and I think it's a really really terrible idea for anyone with that sort of background to start messing with weight loss drugs.

With that background, I need to work on accepting my body, accepting my hunger / listening to my body's natural signals.

In my experience ANYTHING I do to control my intake / weight - be it masked as a diet / health kick / UPF free / Keto etc etc WILL eventually descend into yet another period of ED in some form. It might take a few months / a year but eventually the wheels AlWAYS come off.

For me, weight loss drugs will open up a MASSIVE risk that I would lose weight and get on the restriction high that I then can't get off and I'd rapidly be dangerously underweight.

I can't take that risk so continue to work on therapy and self healing instead.

That does sound sensible for you. I think
the temptation of weight loss drugs is very dangerous for people with a propensity for EDs but it is tempting.