A cautionary tale - sugar

[TheSilkWorm]

I know how Mounjaro works on blood glucose and insulin. I should have known better. But after a particularly emotionally draining week I listened to the voices in my head telling me that a sugar binge would make me feel better and be fine and not a problem because it would be minor, temporary and manageable. Well, I ate my way through a packet of millionaire shortbreads, a big bar of dark chocolate with nuts and a packet of expensive fudge over a period of about 3 days. And now I'm hungry. I feel almost as hungry as I did without Mounjaro. I am very cross with myself and cross that I didn't anticipate this would be the effect. I'm obviously back on the wagon of eating healthier and just hoping that the damage is temporary and the medication gets it all back under control again soon. Honestly I could kick myself! And obviously it didn't even make me feel better emotionally, as I didn't get the dopamine rush from a sugar high. Just made myself feel sick!

Don't do what I did kids :(

I’m surprised you managed that ! I’m on a fairly low dose and find sugary things taste bloody awful. After one sugary thing I go ‘yuk’.
Everyone is different though.
Also I don’t buy anything in I used to like so I have nothing to graze on, except Asda after eights and one of them does the job. I could push to two but then they taste like toothpaste in a brown envelope.

Yeah it wasn't very enjoyable! It also made me feel sick. So stupid!

Poor you. I don’t keep anything like that in the house. Only snacks are unsalted nuts and dried fruit or it has to be things like hummus and veg sticks. Olives are also a good savoury snack.

Yeah I deliberately went to Waitrose and bought them 😭😭
I am taking this as a lesson though, and a blessing. I can't use sugar as an emotional crutch even if I want to, and it's sooooo not worth it!

Oh dear, your blood sugar must have went haywire, no wonder you’re hungry, that’s a shame for you. It sounds very tough.

You will get back on track though, but maybe need to explore why you convinced yourself bingeing would be a good idea why you rationalised that, and proactively went and bought the items and binged, and why you kept going even when you felt sick

As that sounds like disordered eating to me, and the drugs aren’t for people with an eating disorder.

Thanks. Don't worry about that, I don't have an eating disorder! I occasionally used food as a self soothing mechanism when stressed or upset. Rarely, but sometimes, which does not an eating disorder make. My mum died 6 weeks ago and I had my grieving dad staying with me. He had just left to go to his empty house and I was distraught. I know why I did what I did, and I'm sure I'm not the only person on Mounjaro who has done something similar! We all had similar paths to obesity after all, if not the same. Arguably you can't get to obesity without having some disordered eating behaviours but that doesn't mean you have an eating disorder!

I went out with my niece to a cafe and got a "pink slice" it was a biscuit base, coconut (like a bounty bar) and pink icing on top.

From around 30 mins after I ate it and for the full night I felt just very yuck - fuzzy head and tired. I couldn't face eating anything else until the following evening, and just drank lots of water to try to flush it through. Next time we went out I stuck to small 1/3 of a slice of rocky road and that was ok. It has (mostly) convinced me what I thought, for me, was emotional sugar craving is was actually more physical.

MJ will help with the physiological side of sugar cravings, but for the emotional side if you feel full and your blood sugar is more stable it might help, but it will need you to be aware and do your part much more.

Oops!!
I'm on W2 D3 50 clicks of 5mg.

I think I made a similar mistake by eating a small portion of candy floss at a Xmas fair!!

Thinking a little shouldn't hurt!!

But, unfortunately my stomach decided to prove me wrong!... I've spent the last 2 days in bed beside the toilet!! 💩💩💩

This wasn't how I wanted to spend my last 3 days of my holiday in Egypt!!

We fly home tomorrow & can only pray the tummy settles in time for the 6 hour flight home!! 🥴😔🤦🏽‍♀️🫣

Good luck!!

I have an elderly relative who loves to share cake and coffee and I have found it makes me feel sick now but I seem Ok with a tiny bit. She is most concerned and asks if I am 'OK'. I have not told her about the injections.

That's hard isn't it? Especially when you're a person with a hearty appetite and everyone knows it!