Is anyone else not trying to completely silence the food noise?

[CesarSoubreyon]

Sorry autocorrect fail- since should read silence!

This might sound strange, but is anyone else not keen to eradicate the food noise altogether?

I see lots of posts about people moving to a higher dose as soon as the food noise starts to come back, but I'm keen to use Mounjaro just to take the edge off rather than get rid of it.

I don't want to stay on Mounjaro long term or 'maintain' on it for a few reasons, cost mainly but also not really knowing the health implications of being on it long term.

I'm on 2.5mg and it does take the edge off but it also gives me the space to question my feelings of hunger when they do come back. I get hungry in the evenings and I have been looking at why- anxiety and boredom etc, and what I can do rather than eat.

So rather than move to the 5mg I think I will stay on the lower dose and accept and deal with the cravings as they come and go and work to get into better habits.

Wondering if anyone else is using this sort of approach rather than just going higher and higher in dosage?

For me food noise is the obsessive/compulsive side of eating. Thoughts about food constantly invading my mind at inappropriate times and having no off switch, probably driven by blood sugar or hormone fluctuations which is what MJ works on.

I still have hunger at appropriate times with my ongoing low dose of MJ which for me is not "food noise".

MJ currently doesn't stop me feeling hungry, but the "food noise" compulsion is gone and the feeling of fullness when I do have meals stops me over indulging.

If/when the obsessive "food noise" returns and it is unmanageable I will increase my dose. Hopefully everyone educates themselves on this medication, then each individual needs to decide for themselves what is unmanageable for them.

Me!

I started 28/06 on 2.5mg and I am still on 2.5mg now. In that time I had 2 weeks of no injections as I was unwell with an infection and as MJ makes me slightly fatigued I didn't want to add that into also feeling unwell.

In the time since I started I have gone from 13st 6lb to 12st 4lb.

As much as it's not dropping off in chunks like some posters, I eat quite a mild calorie deficit (300 below maintenance) so I wouldn't expect it to be coming off in huge amounts.

The first week on MJ I had barely any appetite at all, hardly managing to eat 1000-1200 calories a day. I don't want to risk feeling like that again if I move to a higher dose. It wasn't able to sustain my body and I felt unwell.

I aim for 1500 calories a day to aim to lose 1.5lbs a week and I don't want to drop much lower than that as like you, I do not want to use MJ to maintain.

The 2.5mg takes away the desire to snack as I generally am satisfied from my main meal. I generally have 3 good meals and a couple of small snacks ie a baby bel, banana or berries if I feel hunger.

My main reason for not wanting to have too few calories, is that when I get to a weight I am happy to maintain, I will have to very gradually up them over weeks/months to find my maintenance calories. The more calories I have now, the less of a shock it will be to my body when I start increasing them.

Even though I have only been on MJ since the end of June 24, I started calorie counting Aug 21, 3 years ago and have just hit a total loss of 103lbs/7st 5lbs. So it's been a very slow and steady journey for me as it is, MJ is 100% helping with the last chunk and I wish I had known about it earlier.

There is a poster on here who has used 2.5mg for her whole journey and her posts have been an inspiration. I can't think where i saw the posts but worth having a look if you can.

Yes, me too.
I'm happy to have the odd hunger pang and thoughts about unhealthy food occasionally as I want to learn to control this myself for the long term.
I'm certainly not scared to feel hungry at times and don't want to rush up through the doses.
If I'm not going to put this all back on again I need to know it's okay to feel hungry at times and learn how to deal with not reaching for snacks automatically.

"Food noise" isn't about feeling hungry to me, not at all. It's about the pretty much constant internal dialogue about what I want to eat, what I should eat, what I have eaten, what I shouldn't eat, obsessive thoughts about snacking because I'm bored and stressed and so on. I really appreciate the effect that Mounjaro has had on switching all that off, it's a genuine relief after decades of feeling caught up in it and unable to stop. I don't think it's something that I need to have going on. So far, I'm finding that having some mental silence on food is enabling me to feel hungry at appropriate times and eat something healthy to address the hunger, without any obsessive thoughts around what I'm eating.