Just so worried I'm going to regain.

[Chilliiee]

Have 3 doses of my last pen left and the last few weeks it's not really been working like it was. Probably because I'm actually below my goal weight, but I've been picking at stuff like I used to. Eating bits and bobs whilst cooking. Justifying eating the last of the Xmas Chocolate etc...

I've been on MJ about 5 months and REALLY thought my eating habits had changed in that time but seems like it was all the MJ and now I'm preparing to come off it I'm already slipping back.

I've had no loss for the last 2 weeks and just feel hungry.

I'm so sad and so scared.

I can't keep taking it for financial reasons and for the last pen of 2 I've had a bit of an ache in my tummy and I'm worried about that so really don't want to take a maintenance dose just in case.

I feel so good right now but I was such a compulsive/emotional eater and MJ solved it.

I really thought I had a grip on it myself but obviously not :(

5mg. My 3rd 5mg pen

It sounds like you're panicking a bit, do you think its based in reality or just anxiety?

I wonder if you can purchase a follow on package with a bariatric provider so that you can have access to advice because standard advice about food stuffs and amounts isnt always applicable to those of us with a sleeve, we cannot eat the volume of food needed to get all our protein from plant sources so when people are banging on about getting tons of protein from lentils and beans etc, they're talking about big volumes of it which we simply cant get through. I can only eat around 3 tablespoons of food in one sitting

Unless of course its biscuits which go down one after the other after the other! Cant buy them, once the xmas food is gone no more until next xmas now.

I am panicking because this has been a 4 year journey and expensive and I don't want it to have been for nothing.

I guess I just have to give myself some time to settle into maintaining.

I've spent years trying to lose

I get that

The advice is generally though for bariatric patients, that once you are at target, its not over. Its life long, the CICO still needs to continue (there are some that dont want to or dont need to do that), the attention to detail about your protein and nutrients, taking your supplements, buying the right things, making the right choices not drifting off from small cutlery, small mouthfulls, lots of chewing and big gaps between each mouthful

I notice for myself once I start to get complacent with those things, I dont eat as well

What is CICO?

Calories in, Calories out.

Ah! Thanks

You talk as if this is entirely out of your control and you have to change this mindset. Mounjaro didn't lose weight for you. It was a tool which you used alongside all of the other things that you did. You still had to make good food choices, make sure that you ate enough to function even on very high suppression days, exercise etc etc. You did all of that and you can carry on doing it to maintain your goal weight.

I'm new to Mounǰaro and not sure of the maintenance policies but if it were possible you could try to gain the 7lbs as slowly as possible but if you do gain it then go back on the jab for a month. Hopefully you could take months to gain the 7lbs.

I came across an article this morning that suggests pistachios are a complete protein - I have googled to fact check and that seems to be the case. They could be a handy protein rich snack for you.

https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/pistachios-you-complete-us