Mounjaro: Do you feel like this is the final weight loss journey?

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I don't know why, but there's just something about Mounjaro that makes me feel like I will never yoyo and regain again. Do you feel that way too?

I don't intend to stay on the medication long term - I have a plan for coming off it and future maintenance that I believe I can do because of the work I have done on Mounjaro.

That said - I firmly believe there are people who will need Mounjaro for life, not because they have bad habits but because their biology will never be conducive for weightloss/maintaining a lower weight without it.

Yes, I feel really positive about it (but sad about needing it). I've been overweight/obese my whole life, albeit healthy and active.

Not being starving the whole time just makes weight loss achievable! I fear that I'll be hungry and put it on again if I stop, though. I'm on a low dose and am prepared to stay on it medium-long term.

I'm only in week one but yes. I don't feel daunted by it, or scared that I'm going to 'crack' because I just don't have that drive inside me to eat how I was even last week! I do really think this is how normal people feel, and it's why so many of them crow on about 'it's simple, eat less and move more'. It's just NOT that simple for so many of us. If I'd have tried to eat this way without the jab, it would have been absolute torture by day 3. I don't look at photos of meals now and imagine myself eating them. I don't reach for crisps every three seconds because my mouth is bored.

I do wonder whether all the processing of food in the last half century has fundamentally altered the way so many people's hormones react to food. I don't know if it's even possible to project back and conduct studies into this kind of thing but if this is helping to mimic a hormone we have naturally, did it used to just work properly for the majority of people, back in the day? Or is it the rise of sugar in the last couple of centuries that did it?

MedExpress stops, either 2 years or 23.5 bmi, they are pretty much the least felexible in terms of a blanket rule for all wli rather than addressing what the patient needs and making it specific to the actual drug it seems.

Some others now offering maintenance. either in terms of a program or ongoing usage, What that looks like is a personal choice, it can be a lower dose every month that enables you to maintain without struggle or a month on and a month off, it’s up to you. As more and more people get to maintence stage a lot more will offer it, as mounjaro is approved for,life.

you need to decide your goal. And ensure you’re with a supplier who offers maintenance. I suspect my maintence will be 5mg. But we will see, I’ve still 4 bmi points to drop before I get there.

i don’t need or want to remain largely suppressed, i just want to be able to take the edge off when I hit goal. So use a certain amount of willpower, but supported by the drug to make better choices. As I know even if I maintain for a year at some point it will slowly come back on again. And that has to be avoided.