Just popping up because I have stopped taking the MJ now and figured it might be relevant to update on how it's going now I am "going it alone" so to speak.
It was pretty hard work the first week I was off it - I felt pretty excessively hungry. But that makes sense, I have been eating few enough calories to lose weight for 4 months, it's not a surprise my body will be in a grump.
That has calmed down now - I think I'm 4 weeks post final dose now.
I still definitely can't eat as much as I could before but I'm definitely eating more than I was on MJ. I'm hoping to keep it that way.
My weight has plateaued - it's fluctuating up and down by a couple of pounds, possibly a tiny downwards trend but nothing you'd conclude was statistically significant if you did a scientific analysis. That's okay by me.
The food noise is back but I am making better choices than I was pre-MJ. I am accepting that if I want to be able to go out for dinner at the weekends that means I have to try and eat only two meals at least a couple of days a week. I set myself a load of rules, both before and then extended them while on MJ, re not buying crisps/bought puddings/bought cake etc etc and I am sticking to those but it is harder than it was, by some margin.
I think it will be okay overall - I'm in a massively stressful period at work, working stupid hours - exactly the type of situation that would have seen me massively overeat before but I have stuck at it and plateaued.
Aware that was an exceptionally.long post but thought it might be helpful for anyone getting to the point they wanted to come off.