Anyone on Mounjaro at lower BMI?

[CrazyGoatLady]

My first post - joined here for the Mounjaro threads!

I've just ordered my first pen. I didn't know if it would be approved as my BMI is just on 30. I have lost some through exercising/diet, but only managed 5lb since February! I'm prediabetic. My GP was useless, just kept telling me to lose weight and shoving the NHS healthy eating guidelines at me.

Weight loss has always been slow and painful for me, especially now I'm in perimenopause, also have a tendency to emotionally eat and probably have larger portions than I should. I have ADHD and that doesn't help. Calorie counting doesn't work - I feel deprived and am more likely to binge when doing it than not. What I need is to change my relationship with food and I'm hoping for the Mounjaro to help with that. I'm 5'5", currently 12 stone 10lb, GP says my ideal weight would be around 10 to 10.5 stone but for my body type I think 11 is more realistic, I do strength training and have a high % of muscle so getting down to the lower end of the BMI range probably isn't realistic for me. Obviously would also like to not have the prediabetes and worries about that getting worse.

Anyone here in a similar boat, with a stone or two to lose/using it to help with prediabetes?

@Shouldntbutdo come and have a look at the maintenance threads. You will see that it is not the case that as soon as you stop you regain.

It stands to reason that you regain surely? You have low will-power before, the injections mean you don’t need will/power, you stop the injections and you again have no will-power. Plus, you think you are now a healthy weight and so why not eat the cake? All I was saying is, the drugs have to be long term 🤷‍♀️

I don’t necessarily think that is true. I always maintained pretty well, just gained a stone for each child and a stone during a very stressful period of my life. When I was younger I could cut back and lose weight, but I have realised that to lose now I have to eat around 1000 calories a day, which is hard on will
power alone. I could manage to maintain on 1500-1800 calories a day. I don’t think its just down to will power. That is quite judgemental and simplistic .

I am not judging at all. Far from it. Just explaining why it’s not for me. I’ve decided to embrace the middle-aged spread 🤣

Apparently not. Those of us living it seem to provide plenty of evidence to the contrary.

@MargoLivebetter good for you.

My BMI is 29 but I don’t have any other conditions so struggling to get a prescription for Mankato even though I’m convinced it could help me be healthier. Has anyone experienced this? I see quite a few here have BMIs lower than me so I’m feeling confused about the criteria.

I'm think most people with a BMI under 30 (or under 27 if they have an additional medical prob that qualifies them for mj between 27 and 30) have just fudged their weight a bit on the online forms. Theres a lot of that happening and I don't think providers can realistically stop it from happening. Even with the need for videos and photos, there isn't much difference between how a person of BMI 29 and BMI 30 look, and even those with significantly lower BMIs can push their belly out or get themselves a double chin or two in the right pose, or in some other way by-pass the photo/video criteria.