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Would love to hear any Mounjaro success stories

54 replies

Jinxy1979 · 18/10/2024 20:09

Hi everyone.. I’m sure this has been asked before but I’m interested in success stories with mounjaro… starting weight, end weight, total loss, time to goal, did you exercise etc … would love anyone’s success stories :-)

OP posts:
LostGhost · 18/10/2024 20:44

I started in July at 19 stone 8, i'm now 16 stone 3 with another 5 stone to go. It's working really well for me.

I walk about 5 miles a day, gym 2-3 times a week, reformer pilates class 4-5 times a week and swim 1-2 times if i get time.

olympicsrock · 20/10/2024 07:56

I started MJ in April at 15 stone 10. I’m 46 years old and had been getting heavier steadily for 5 years.
6 months down the line I have lost 3 stone and 4 lb. I’ve used no more than 5mg and have kept the cost and side effects at bay that way, just steadily losing 1-2 lb per week.
I’m going to keep going for another 6 weeks with the aim of getting to 12 stone.

I love able to fit into my old clothes that I loved and looking so much smarter .

I haven’t really done much exercise over the last 6 months so I’m looking to maintain my weight with healthy eating and more exercise when I reach the final goal.

YourTwinklyDeer · 20/10/2024 08:03

I’m curious if the above posters would have lost that weight with diet and exercise without Mounjaro, what is the benefit to taking Mounjaro alongside?

ItsAlrightDarling · 20/10/2024 08:14

I started in May at 13 stone. I hit my goal weight last week of 9 stone 11. I lost a steady 1-2lbs a week, only side effects were minimal gastric discomfort/nausea when I went up a dose. I never went higher than 7.5mg. I walk the dog for an hour a day and do a couple of strength training classes a week.
@YourTwinklyDeer I have tried multiple times to lose the weight without MJ. I have always been successful for a few weeks, but then the intense gnawing hunger and constant food noise in my head has meant I have fallen off the wagon. People say you just need willpower to lose weight, but actually there’s no ‘just’ about it… most people struggle to use willpower consistently, and eating fewer calories than your body needs to maintain its weight is actually very hard. MJ has taken away that intense hunger and meant that I’m not constantly thinking about food. In turn, that means I’ve been able to focus on eating nutritiously, exercising and counting calories.
I do have mild PCOS/insulin resistance, which may have affected things for me.
I am now reducing my dose as I’m at goal weight and am back down to 2.5mg, with a view to stopping completely when I’ve finished this pen. In total I’ve spent just under £1k, and it has been completely worth it for me. I feel a million times healthier.

hughiedoesntfight · 20/10/2024 08:17

I started early September. I have lost 24lb. I did start at over 20 stone so I expect the weight loss to slow down as I lose weight.

At the moment my exercise is walking. Walking the dog. Walking on the walking pad at home and so on. I am prioritising protein and fibre in my diet. Which i tried to before for my PCOS. But then my PCOS also comes with intense cravings and extreme exhaustion, which ended up with me reaching for the carbs to get through the day.

MJ has helped my PCOS and adhd brain noise. I have the energy to walk As I lose weight I expect my PCOS symptoms to lessen as the weight has made them worse. I used to manage my adhd really well with exercise so looking forward to getting back to that. And in turn the excise helps my PCOS.

NCfor24 · 20/10/2024 08:25

Started in March. Lost 50lbs. After many years of being obese and countless diets I am now a healthy weight and some may consider me slim.
Additionally my hormones feel balanced and I feel genuinely well.
Could I have done it without Mounjaro? No. I have tried repeatedly. I have lived with overeating, undereating, guilt and shame, and an unhealthy relationship with food for my entire adult life pretty much. Mounjaro has killed the cravings and emotional and physical need to eat, which has allowed me to make sensible choices around food and to stop eating when I am full.
I am around half a stone away from having to maintain the loss. I expect to remain on Mounjaro for at least another 6 months if not long term as there is emerging research that it can help prevent dementia and that is a fair certainty in my future that I will avoid if I can.
For me Mounjaro is life changing. I can share before and after photos but I can't put into words how significant the mental shift has been and the impact on leveling and stabilising my mood. It has been so much more than a weight loss drug.

Xiaoxiong · 20/10/2024 08:26

Started end July, have lost just over 10kg so 23lbs. Have another 25 to go. You still have to diet and exercise though, the jab won't work alone.

@YourTwinklyDeer I've never managed to lose anything more than about 5-8lbs before with diet and exercise alone, that's usually the point that I've given up as it's taken so many weeks and I've been so miserable and bored and hungry for the duration that I just can't maintain it and it's been unsustainable. I've been dieting in one form or another my entire life and this is the only thing that has ever worked.

CameronStrike · 20/10/2024 08:26

YourTwinklyDeer · 20/10/2024 08:03

I’m curious if the above posters would have lost that weight with diet and exercise without Mounjaro, what is the benefit to taking Mounjaro alongside?

Because mounjaro makes it effortless. Losing weight just happens, it's not a struggle. If we could lose weight without it we would already have done so!

ItsAlrightDarling · 20/10/2024 08:30

CameronStrike · 20/10/2024 08:26

Because mounjaro makes it effortless. Losing weight just happens, it's not a struggle. If we could lose weight without it we would already have done so!

Just on this… I wouldn’t say it’s been ‘effortless’ for me. I’ve put a lot of effort into calorie counting and making sure I’m getting adequate nutrition into those reduced calories, and also on exercising to make sure I lose fat rather than muscle mass. The difference for me has been that I’ve had the head space to do those things because I haven’t been dealing with the constant hunger and food obsession that I’ve had on previous diet attempts.

olympicsrock · 20/10/2024 08:33

YourTwinklyDeer · 20/10/2024 08:03

I’m curious if the above posters would have lost that weight with diet and exercise without Mounjaro, what is the benefit to taking Mounjaro alongside?

I was trying to eat healthily and was exercising a bit before but just failing abysmally and stuck in a cycle of weight gain . Too uncomfortable to exercise much and constantly hungry. I had tried intermittent fasting.
I would not have been able to do this without MJ and the biggest difference has been my brain saying no thank you to more food and making me feel full so quickly .

85reasons · 20/10/2024 08:34

YourTwinklyDeer · 20/10/2024 08:03

I’m curious if the above posters would have lost that weight with diet and exercise without Mounjaro, what is the benefit to taking Mounjaro alongside?

Please be assured nobody just decides to go on a weight loss medication if they haven't already spent years trying and failing to sustainably lose weight.

It boggles my mind that anyone would think fat people would have just been sailing along happily and then thought one day "now this EASY method is here I'll give it a whirl".

Many of us have lost, regained, and lost ad infinitum over the decades. We are not naively entering into this. Many of us, having discovered for the first time what it feels like not to obsess about food constantly, are researching the possibility of long-term use of it, because we know that for us this is not going to be about the weight loss itself. It's the keeping it off - and if the hunger and food noise comes back to what it was before, we know it will feel unlikely to be maintained over the long term.

FreeFreedom · 20/10/2024 08:39

Started in August. I've lost a little over 2 stone. Mounjaro helps me stay focused and consistent with my diet and exercise so that I can see guaranteed and consistent weightloss as well as other healthy benefits. This never happened before Mounjaro. It's highly encouraging to see results without endless suffering, and motivates me to continue doing the right things.

CaptainCabinetsTrappedInCabinets · 20/10/2024 08:40

LostGhost · 18/10/2024 20:44

I started in July at 19 stone 8, i'm now 16 stone 3 with another 5 stone to go. It's working really well for me.

I walk about 5 miles a day, gym 2-3 times a week, reformer pilates class 4-5 times a week and swim 1-2 times if i get time.

Crikey when do you have time for all that?

VioletCrawleyForever · 20/10/2024 08:46

Started in August and have lost 10kg.

@YourTwinklyDeer aye good one.

InTheirSundayBest · 20/10/2024 08:50

YourTwinklyDeer · 20/10/2024 08:03

I’m curious if the above posters would have lost that weight with diet and exercise without Mounjaro, what is the benefit to taking Mounjaro alongside?

I think this speaks to a really profound misunderstanding of obesity, weight gain and diets and an embedded belief that fat people are lazy and greedy and just can't be bothered.

One of the clearest predictors of a person becoming overweight is them going on a diet. Almost everyone who diets regains the weight. Almost everyone. Once you are in a cycle of yo-yo dieting, your brain and your body begin to resist and it becomes harder and harder to lose anything at all. You have to cut your calories to unsustainable amounts and it's impossible to keep going.

I didn't get fat through greed and laziness. I went on my first diet when I was nine year old because I thought that's what girls and women had to do. I spent thirty years spending time, effort and money on dieting. I tried so hard for so so long. I paid for gym memberships and personal training, I ran until I needed surgery to correct the damage I did to my body. I tried really, really hard my whole life and I still kept failing. The intense restriction would give way to binges that got worse and worse because my body couldn't take it anymore. I kept gaining weight, losing it and gaining more and over the years that eventually took me to obesity - the worst of it triggered by a dangerous spell on a VLCD of 600 calories a day to 'lose the baby weight' which messed me up quite seriously and caused a terrible rebound when I came crashing out of it.

Mounjaro works on your hormones. It's not just appetite suppression, it changes the balance inside your body that dictates hunger and satiety and gives you a kind of peace around food that I hadn't known since being a little girl. It has enabled me to keep up with exercise and to give myself nourishing food that isn't used as am instrument of punishment or reward anymore. It's a break from the torture of striving my whole life to be thinner and only ever ending up fatter. Which I now understand is the normal cycle of dieting.

To the OP, I've lost just over two stone in three months and am exercising to build strength and muscle mass. MJ has changed my tastes, made me much less interested in carbs, I never drank a lot of alcohol but now I don't ever want a drink at all, I've been losing a steady 2lbs a week with some stalls and plateaus like any weight loss journey. It really works in a way that nothing else ever has! I do suspect that I would need to keep taking it for a very long time if not forever so that it doesn't go the same way as all my previous attempts, but that's something to work out in the future. I can only take it a day at a time right now.

Oh, it's also enabling me to access therapy- which of course I've also tried many times before. It's never helped me in the past to conquer the food issues, but now I have a calmer brain around food, I am able to engage better with it. People often insist that you have to fix the underlying emotional causes of weight gain, but that's hard to do while in the thick of it. MJ has helped me to take a step back from the battle and start to work through what got me there.

chickenpieandchips · 20/10/2024 08:57

@YourTwinklyDeer I'm assuming the majority of people who are now spending £140 a month have tried weight loss and exercise. I definitely have.
I have been on a diet for as long as I can remember. However it's the biscuits and snacks about 4pm. Then sod it for the rest of the day. Then you are unhappy and the cycle continues. Some people have willpower. They are lucky.
This takes away those biscuit cravings. Also if you have one sweet thing, it takes away the need for more. It makes you feel full, so you don't just eat because you can.
Think of food as an addiction and this helps that.

hughiedoesntfight · 20/10/2024 09:34

I wouldn’t agree it’s effortless. It might be for some. But it’s still taking alot of energy, time and effort.

I would also guess to the other commenters point that there will not be many people willing to spend the money, to lose the weight if they could do it without or haven’t tried countless times.

ItsAlrightDarling · 20/10/2024 09:41

Yeah I definitely wouldn’t have spent £140 a month on it if I hadn’t already tried countless times to lose the weight, and failed.

Doggymummar · 20/10/2024 09:48

ItsAlrightDarling · 20/10/2024 08:30

Just on this… I wouldn’t say it’s been ‘effortless’ for me. I’ve put a lot of effort into calorie counting and making sure I’m getting adequate nutrition into those reduced calories, and also on exercising to make sure I lose fat rather than muscle mass. The difference for me has been that I’ve had the head space to do those things because I haven’t been dealing with the constant hunger and food obsession that I’ve had on previous diet attempts.

Not effortless at all, I guess maybe if your reason for wright gain was overeating it might be, not sure. I gained due to menopause and have tried for about a decade to shift the weight. I have to rigidly stick to about 800 calories to lose anything and it still requires tremendous willpower. I could eat a family bar of chocolate or bag or crisps or tun of ice-cream if I wanted. I have to choose not to. 4 stone down and the same to go. But been on a plateau all this year realistically.

LostGhost · 20/10/2024 11:04

CaptainCabinetsTrappedInCabinets · 20/10/2024 08:40

Crikey when do you have time for all that?

On the days i'm in the office (hour long commute), I wake up at 4am, go to the gym in the morning and i'm on the train by 5:30am, i'll then do a pilates class in the evening and walk the dog

On the two days i'm not in the office i'll walk the dog first thing and do a swim/gym session in the evening

I compress my hours so on my day off I'll go to the gym then go for a swim or do pilates.
Both weekend days I do two classes, so essentially between Friday and Sunday i've squeezed in 4-5 classes.

I made the choice to give up my evening to exercise and then go straight to bed. I never really go out for dinner or anything, sometimes i'll see friends on the weekend but life is pretty much sleep, exercise, work repeat.

CaptainCabinetsTrappedInCabinets · 20/10/2024 11:15

LostGhost · 20/10/2024 11:04

On the days i'm in the office (hour long commute), I wake up at 4am, go to the gym in the morning and i'm on the train by 5:30am, i'll then do a pilates class in the evening and walk the dog

On the two days i'm not in the office i'll walk the dog first thing and do a swim/gym session in the evening

I compress my hours so on my day off I'll go to the gym then go for a swim or do pilates.
Both weekend days I do two classes, so essentially between Friday and Sunday i've squeezed in 4-5 classes.

I made the choice to give up my evening to exercise and then go straight to bed. I never really go out for dinner or anything, sometimes i'll see friends on the weekend but life is pretty much sleep, exercise, work repeat.

Do you not have a family, partner, children, parents you need/want to spend time with and a house to run?

I can only assume your single with grown up kids or either/or. This kinds of schedule is unachievable for many. Props to you!

ItsAlrightDarling · 20/10/2024 11:39

LostGhost · 20/10/2024 11:04

On the days i'm in the office (hour long commute), I wake up at 4am, go to the gym in the morning and i'm on the train by 5:30am, i'll then do a pilates class in the evening and walk the dog

On the two days i'm not in the office i'll walk the dog first thing and do a swim/gym session in the evening

I compress my hours so on my day off I'll go to the gym then go for a swim or do pilates.
Both weekend days I do two classes, so essentially between Friday and Sunday i've squeezed in 4-5 classes.

I made the choice to give up my evening to exercise and then go straight to bed. I never really go out for dinner or anything, sometimes i'll see friends on the weekend but life is pretty much sleep, exercise, work repeat.

That’s dedication!

000EverybodyLovesTheSunshine000 · 20/10/2024 12:41

YourTwinklyDeer · 20/10/2024 08:03

I’m curious if the above posters would have lost that weight with diet and exercise without Mounjaro, what is the benefit to taking Mounjaro alongside?

Me too

FreeFreedom · 20/10/2024 12:44

000EverybodyLovesTheSunshine000 · 20/10/2024 12:41

Me too

As the answers have already been giving, the 'simple' answer would be 'no' but the longer answer would be 'yes but only if there were no other barriers besides diet and exercise'. Mounjaro removes those other barriers so that we only have to deal with diet and exercise.

That's the difference between those whose only issue is "diet and exercise", and those whose issues are (much) more than just diet and exercise.

ItsAlrightDarling · 20/10/2024 12:54

000EverybodyLovesTheSunshine000 · 20/10/2024 12:41

Me too

Many people have already answered this above 😊