I’ve finished Mounjaro - weekly update to report on what happens when you finish!

[NearingendofMJ]

I started taking MJ at the beginning of April. I’ve been a slow loser, and have lost 2 stone in the time I’ve been on MJ.

My starting weight was 84kg and I am now 71.5, I am 5’7.

I took my last injection last Sunday, so just over a week ago and it was around 6mg (counting clicks on a 12.5mg pen)

I have definitely noticed hunger today. However I am able to deal with that at the moment by reminding myself I had lunch an hour ago etc so I do not need to eat.

I think everyone on these meds worries what may happen when you stop. It’s like any diet, if there isn’t a lifestyle change, you will regain all the weight.

I thought I’d start a thread for some real life experience of what will happen - I’m aware I’ll still have MJ in my system for the next couple of weeks, but will be a good experiment to see if the hunger becomes unbearable or manageable with my new found knowledge of better food groups to eat!

Having been on MJ for 6 months I’m fairly sure I am able to make better choices now - famous last words 😂

I’m absolutely sticking to the plan, I’m confident I’ll be able to maintain.

Im going to take a break from this thread now - hope you all have a great week and I’ll update after another week

I could have written this. I stopped Mounjaro last Wed. Also have been on it since April & lost 2st 8lb. I was on 7.5mg when I finished. I've also felt my appetite over the last few days. Im monitoring my intake on My Fitness Pal & sticking to 1600 cals a day to maintain. Thats my plan anyway...

@NearingendofMJ I am not far from the end of my journey and I for one absolutely want to hear how you are getting by on and possibly gain insight into how I can manage when I am in the same position. For those of us who genuinely want to learn from other's experiences please do keep posting and stay positive and focused on you. No one else matters after all and if others like me learn some things that may help us then isn't that what this forum is for?

i fully support you OP. i’m also planning to stop MJ after i reach my target weight which still 3 stone away.
before MJ i was 13st and want to go to 9st or10st. May i ask how much your before and after weight?. What is your last MJ dosage?. How long you have been stop MJ and how do you feel?

@NearingendofMJ I don't think anyone wants you to fail. Keep on doing what you are doing.

No one w was you to anyone else to fail

As I said be lovely if you updated this thread in 6mths so May 2025 and a year so November 2025

Hopefully most will be nearer their end if not before so this can only be a positive thread

Exactly! No one wants you to fail. Everyone who's taken MJ wants to believe it's possible to succeed at maintenance, it would be very odd to wish failure on someone. I think people have just wanted to share that there will be different challenges going forward, not the same challenge for everyone. I really hope you succeed, and I hope I do too, however I do it.

The discussion of willpower is interesting. It is complicated, however, by the way UPFs and snack foods have been designed to overcome normal satiety and compell you to continue eating even though you are full. The science around this is really frightening: there is evidence (see Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosher) that your normal reward systems get altered over time by the consumption of UPFs. What I am saying is if someone who is or has been obese, cannot lose or maintain their weight loss, it is not just lack of willpower, there are much bigger forces at work.

I actually wish people would just piss off and leave this thread alone. Why come onto a thread like this just to be a pain in the arse and tell the OP she's wrong for her opinions.

Honestly there are so many people that are BEGGING for people to put all the weight back on after coming off jabs - that's includes people who are using them. It's like people are insecure and feel the need to justify their own decisions. NOBODY CARES. Use MJ for the rest of your life if you want to but don't shit on those who feel they can do life without it.

Honestly there are so many people that are BEGGING for people to put all the weight back on after coming off jabs - that's includes people who are using them.

... said literally nobody on this thread

Thanks for this thread OP. I’m similar to you, started at BMI 29 and am now at BMI 24.5 and planning on stopping soon.

The fact this thread has become so emotive just highlights the extremely difficult relationship we all have with food, weight loss and the diet industry. We’ve all been brainwashed with messages from all sides for so long it’s hard to know what to think or what the best approach is.

Wishing you the best of luck with your maintenance journey. I too plan to maintain without using MJ and am already worried I won’t be able to do it. I just LOVE food. I’m looking forward to being less exhausted though so can hopefully up my exercise.

Then why come on a tread about maintaining after coming off MJ and hit the OP with alll the reasons she won't be able to do it. Plenty other places to spout that drivel.

Nobody has said OP won’t be able to manage it, they’ve just outlined some factual contradictions to points made.

I think one of the issues here is that I admit I don’t consider someone in the OPs position of not being terribly overweight in the first place and has previously maintained being slim for some time, to be the same as someone who has struggled with obesity their whole life and been unable to put the brakes on and stop things getting to a point where their health and whole life has been affected,

I think those are two categories of people and I admit it has riled me a bit that the OP doesn’t seem to be making that distinction. I’m sure they do really, but of course everyone would love to be able to maintain without medication but some of us know ourselves and are realistic.

For those of you weaning off MJ. Surely the answer is to adopt a low carb diet which has the same effect on your blood sugar? It honestly suppresses your appetite, probably not to the same extent but will definitely help prevent gain?

I think in theory that’s a good idea, and before MJ was the only thing that really helped me,
it’s just very hard to maintain for a long time because of the binge and restrict cycle, that’s what I found anyway And it led to weight yo yo ing as I fell off the wagon, and when I did it would be big time as my body had missed carbs

This works for me and I can do it successfully for a period of time, then one of life’s inconveniences comes knocking and I get a takeaway on the way back from kids swimming.. before I know it I’m 3 weeks into a binge purge cycle. Our obsegenic food environment can be really challenging.

Came across this Instagram post yesterday while reading this thread, and I both think it interesting and logical.

Sadly, I am in the 'always struggled with weight, genetic predisposition' camp.

What you call “drivel” (because it’s a different point of view to your own) is the collective wisdom of lots of people who have struggled with their weight for decades, backed by the latest scientific thinking…

You are getting extremely agitated about it - I’m not sure why. Nobody has suggested they want the OP to fail, other than you and the OP 🙄 In fact many people have said things like “it’s complicated, it’s nuanced, have you seen these studies?” and commented what an interesting area it all is. Because we’re all in similar boats, and we’d all love to maintain for years with no medication. Nobody here is relishing that not being the case - but we are also not naive enough to think long term weight loss is solved with a few posts about being mindful.

I think that Instagram post linked above is helpful here. Saying what I was trying to say really - that there are different categories of MJ/Ozempic users and the answers about maintenance will be different for them.

Many of us here will have spent years locked in the endless cycle of low carb eating followed by falling off it. It’s a bit naive to think we’ve all just jumped to WLM without trying these ways of eating - for decades.

The net result for many is disordered eating, losing and regaining weight, and ending up being frightened to eat a banana.

I’m personally sick of it. I’ve read countless books including Gary Taubes’ weighty tome, and now I aspire to a more balanced but lower carb diet where I can eat moderately and focus on fresh protein rich food, but without feeling like I need to count macros or obsess about anything. Like a person with healthy weight who’s never struggled does. And like I do on Mounjaro.

No one is saying it’s not complicated, I’m clearly not in that special group so this thread probably won’t be of any help to you as (without anyone knowing anything about my medical history) I am weightlosstypical or whatever the phrase would be.

Id ask that if anyone wants to discuss the differences between ‘normal’ people gaining weight/maintaining and ‘different people’ doing the same, then they do this on a different thread and this thread is meant to advise people on a journey that happens for someone choosing to stop taking GLP1. No one is saying anyone else has to do that, or the reasons why they can’t, but I have, and I want to help others who also want to stop.

I felt like absolute crap last night, telling myself that I will fail as it’s been argued so much on here things like ‘that fine for while you still have MJ in your system’ which is so negligible now it wouldn’t be noticeable, or ‘that’s fine for 3-6 month but after that when your self motivation goes it’ll be different’
I looked in the mirror and felt disgusted with myself as I thought I’d already put on weight because I believe what’s being said. I haven’t, I weighed this morning and have lost half a pound.

But this is affecting me mentally now, so please, take this discussion elsewhere because this thread is to document a journey off of MJ. If you don’t want to read that, please don’t contribute, and please, do not discuss my failure or otherwise.

Take that elsewhere.

@NearingendofMJ please ignore! You will not fail. You know the facts because you earlier corrected someone who misrepresented a study. Concentrate on your own success and health.

@FergusSingsTheBIues do you mean low simple carbs or low fibre? You are not clear. If you mean the latter you are way behind the times.

@FlappingMadly

i said “low carb” - not sure where you got low fibre from