Secret use of Mounjaro, is it possible?

[HotCrossBunplease]

I’ve got my first Mounjaro pen arriving this week.

Have got to the point where I feel uncomfortable all the time, especially in my abdomen, and I have been advised by doctor to lose weight to reverse Fatty Liver.

I don’t really want to tell my husband that I am resorting to help form medication. I will have to say that I have decided to eat very healthily as we are def a bad influence on each other when it comes to food, weeknight wine etc so he’ll immediately notice something is up when I no longer want to dive into a cheeseboard with him.

If it works I think I might feel deceitful claiming I am doing it all via willpower. Am also worried he will think I’m ill! But I’m just embarrassed.

I’ll also need to set alarms to cook for my children as hunger won’t remind me it’s tea time!

Any thoughts on secret vs open use?

@HotCrossBunplease - I can understand not wanting to share with certain people, you don’t need to explain what is a very personal decision to anyone you don’t feel comfortable with for whatever reason. Anyway - after the first dose you don’t need to refrigerate the pen, so can store it wherever you like. I keep mine on the top shelf of my closet behind some scarves, mainly so it’s out of reach and sight of DC as I don’t want them playing with the needles. Best of luck, I hope it works for you (so far working really well for me)!

OP the appetite suppression is incredible. I have been doing MJ for 3 months. Part of the challenge for me is to make sure I eat enough nutrient rich food.

I have no Interest in eating in the evening. I don’t fancy a glass of wine. I just get bored of chewing food and stop. Have never experienced this before

Thank you…I’ll treasure this!

I think a hell of a lot of people using these drugs are not suffering from diabetes!

Sorry teacher!

Update. First pen arrived today, I told DH as I agree that it’s important for him to know what medication I am taking in case of emergency.

All fine!

Thanks….i wasn’t sure how these drugs worked.
If they stop you thinking about food maybe some sort of CBT is safer than drugs….no doubt I’ll be pilloried by mumsnetters for thinking this?

It’s a physical thing, not a psychological one.

@Gall10 I'm not going pillory you, but as the pp has said, it's a physical thing not a psychological thing. I've been amazed at the difference this medicine has made to just switch all that off. And this medicine (Mounjaro) is safe. It's been thoroughly studied and has been approved for use for weight loss.

Gall10 you could always read the thread properly, maybe...

I've tried both CBT and hypnotherapy for weightloss...neither did anything. MJ worked in about 4 hours and completely reset my thinking.

Funnily enough most overweight /obese people aren't actually idiots - despite what the media might portray.. We are capable of research and risk appraisal. Weightloss injections, contrary to popular belief, are not an easy fix for those who can't be bothered with a traditional diet approach. The reason people are flocking to them is because they work, and, statistically, traditionally diet alone doesn't.

I don’t think anyone on this board cares enough about your opinion to waste their energy pillorying you.

This really resonates with me. I absolutely LOVE food, in that I love reading recipe books, meal planning, shopping for food etc, and then of course eating it.
But I have been able to do all of this, without any lack of enjoyment, and I just make all my usual stuff and even fancy things - and I REALLY enjoy it, but just about maybe a third of it compared to previously. It's incredible. It's not as though my tastebuds have changed, it's just my appetite. I love food just as much, but just much less of it. And I actually don't eat really until dinner which is a nice meal with my family, so I have maybe a couple of grapes for breakfast, then a bit of chicken and steamed broccoli for lunch. Then dinner is with my husband and kids so I'll eat a standard family dinner, whatever that might be, but it's just about a third of what I would have usually eaten.

Funny you mention it as there’s quite a few people liked my opinion…still, as mumsnet shows, the worlds a funny old place!

I can’t be arsed!

Ah well 🤷‍♀️

That’s fine, because I can’t be arsed to take your uneducated opinion seriously, so we’re even!

@LionAndEmperor13 This! Exactly this!

Oh bore off @Gall10

Another one for not telling anyone - my husband wont get why i need to use it. He is very clueless about nutrican and is of the view that calorie counting doesnt work and you just need to cut out "carbs" and you will loose (which is what he is trying and not loosing anything)

I get that some people need to have these injections for health reasons and reading this thread it seems the appetite suppression seems to work amazingly!

What happens after though? Do you have to inject forever or do you go back to eating how you did before?
Hopefully your eating habits change.

Like any weight loss method, if you went back to eating exactly the way you did before then you’d put the weight back on, yes. If you want to keep the weight off long term (again, like any weight loss method) you have to change your lifestyle. The break from ‘food noise’ allows many people on MJ to implement better eating habits and to implement an exercise programme. Again, like any form of weight loss, the long term maintenance is down to you.

Very clearly written by someone with zero experience of this problem (I also do not have personal experience).
This is a very very common assumption about overweight/obese people and you do sound genuinely surprised that this could be driven by appetite rather than greed/lack of self control.
Imagine the whole world judging you like that your whole life.
If nothing else I hope understanding how the injections work (as an appetite suppressant) gives more understanding and compassion about some of the drivers of obesity.

But equally, if some people do end up taking the medication for life, why is that a concern of yours? People take all sorts of medication for life, to combat particular health conditions (statins, for example), so why shouldn’t people take this medication for life to combat the dangerous health condition that is obesity?

@Gall10 I have tried many many diets over my life time. The ones that worked were reducing carbs. I.e. meal replacement shakes and my last diet before Mounjaro was keto. I lost over 4st on keto in a year. However, after that year I struggled to stay keto. Carbs started to creep back into my diet and bit by bit my weight started to increase again. Then one day I was back to the weight that I started. So yes, a lot of us can slog it out and put in max effort to lose weight, but keeping it off is what most of us on weight loss drugs struggle with. Keto was unsustainable for me as I couldn't keep away from carbs forever. It's what I needed to do to keep the weight off and lose more, but I couldn't do it.

Mounjaro has made the losing weight part easier for me than doing keto. I no longer have to resist from eating bad things as I'm not interested in them anymore. Mounjaro has made that bit easy. I don't get the hunger pangs that tell me to go eat something. I no longer thing about food constantly. I can go out for a meal and make the correct choices from the menu. I can only manage about half of my meal in restaurants too. I don't need to drink anymore so mostly don't drink. Mounjaro has made these type of things easier. Without it I would be fighting internally all the time to make the correct decisions.

Obviously the after weight loss part is still the biggest problem. You can stay on Mounjaro for maintenance up to 2 years. I plan to do this and towards the end of the 2nd year I will aim to come off the drug gradually. Then will hopefully manage to keep the weight off using the new mindset I've picked up from being on the drug. Also will make sure exercise features in my maintenance plan to help keep the weight off. If I start gaining again, I'll probably go back onto mounjaro. I'm not ashamed of that.