Weight gain on mounjaro

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Any else experience this? I’m just starting my 4th week on 2.5mg. I lost a few pounds in my first week on it, but these are back on now. I’ve had no effects at all from the injections - good or bad. I’ve already bought the 5mg dose to start next week, but I’m starting to wonder if it’s worth the cost. I bought from a big online pharmacy so I’m assuming that I haven’t been sent a placebo or anything. But it’s really doing nothing for me, apart from costing me money! Am I alone in this?

If you get to 15mg and there is no change to your appetite than I'd agree it's not worth it. But some people don't respond until 15mg. Some people only have a minimal response.....I'd put myself in that last category.

Not sure why you’re getting so exasperated with me. I have acknowledged the info on the increased dosage maybe changing the effect and that for some people it doesn’t work at all.
At least you’ve not spent money and gained weight, which (at this stage) is what I’ve done.

I’m not exasperated, sorry if it read like that to you. I was simply explaining to you. I am not sure anyone is emotionally invested enough to get exasperated, only you would feel this. We don’t know you.

I do understand what it’s supposed to do - make you less hungry, feel fuller, eat less, stick to a diet.

But have you actually tried to stick to a diet/change your eating habits since starting MJ? It reads like you haven't, and you're eating a carb heavy 2000 calories a day yet somehow expecting MJ to work miracles.

Typical eating for the day goes like this:
breakfast - Greek yogurt, fruit, protein bar (weekends is toast)
lunch - pasta and vegetables and cheese on top/brown rice veg
snack - biscuit
dinner - cheese salad sandwich or hummus and salad wrap.
two cups of tea a day, one decaf coffee.
Diet Coke with lunch. Water in evening.

I’m really boring and I eat the same things all the time.

Thats 2000 cals. What can I cut from that? I say it’s carb heavy as I eat bread and pasta, no meat or fish.
What I had hoped MJ would do is make me eat smaller portions of things. If I have a smaller lunch, I’m more likely to snack in the afternoon or need to eat something on the way home from work as I feel faint. I thought MJ might help me crack that.
I eat my main meal at lunchtime as my commute is nearly two hours and it’s usually 8pm by the time I get home.

Every meal is refined quick release high GI carbs and then you're taking a medication designed to reduce blood sugar levels.

You need to reduce refined carbs and increase protein - beans, pulses, green veg, nuts

What I had hoped MJ would do is make me eat smaller portions of things. If I have a smaller lunch, I’m more likely to snack in the afternoon or need to eat something on the way home from work as I feel faint. I thought MJ might help me crack that.

This is fair enough, and I'm not interrogating you it's just a bit unclear from your posts whether you're expecting to feel faint if you eat a smaller lunch, or whether you do feel faint having tried a smaller lunch since starting MJ. Because the jab slows your digestion right down so the feeling faint might not happen like it would have pre-MJ.

I’m not sure I follow.
whats the connection between high GI carbs and taking meds that reduce blood sugar? Is that what makes me feel faint?
And the protein bar is nuts, the rice is brown, the bread is brown.

So what I meant was, when I’ve tried eating less before, I get faint by 6pm when I’m on my way home. I thought that MJ would help this by making me feel fuller for longer and adapting how I was managing energy release. It isn’t doing that. If I eat a smaller amount at lunch, I still feel faint on way home.

your breakfast I’d imagine has a heck of a lot of calories. Since being on about the 10mg dose I’ve stopped eating breakfast. Don’t eat until after midday and don’t feel hungry for breakfast.

My typical meals on Mounjaro are:
Banana 100 calories
Salmon Poke bowl (half) 220 calories
Grilled chicken with air fried potatoes and green veg 600 calories
Fruit to top up to about 1000 calories

I've really shifted to focusing on maximising nutrition and protein and trying to get value for my body for each calorie consumed. I'm hungry but not ravenous by dinner time and actually spend more time cooking as I'm not hangry. I use a healthy recipe box company to mix it up a bit but aim for similar calorie intake. I'm short so have a low daily allowance.

I think it’s about 400 cal
each meal about 600-800 cal
snack and drinks 200

I could not survive on 1000 calories!

I don’t know how you do that. I’d be a wreck.

There's really no need to eat so little on Mounjaro. In fact if people find they can't eat more than 1000 calories they should be reducing their dose. But yes, Mounjaro should be making it a lot easier to go longer between meals without snacking - wait and see if it works for you. If you cut out the snacks and cut the breakfast in half (lose the protein bar!) you should lose weight without trouble.

I bet the breakfast is more. The protein bar on its own is probably at least 200 calories. Do you weigh the Greek yoghurt? Is it fat free? Fruit is quite high in calories (some worse than others).

I have the protein bar because otherwise my protein intake is very low - a bit of cheese and a bit of hummus. And everyone keeps saying ‘increase your protein intake’. As a vegetarian, that’s hard.

Protein bar is 200 cals
Yogurt is 93 cals per 100g (I have two tablespoons)
fruit is strawberries and blackberries

it can’t be more than 400, can it?

I’d be so careful with mounjaro. I’ve just come off of it, as bought a house and can no longer afford it and my hunger has been insatiable the last few days. I literally sobbed myself to sleep last night with how hungry I was even though I’d have 1500 calories. I’d been having 1200 no issues on the mounjaro.

Oh lord that’s awful. Sending you 💟

I get it, I'm vegan so my diet is also carb heavy! You'd be better off with a handful of nuts, a spoonful of peanut butter or an egg rather than a processed protein bar, honestly. Protein bars have around 25g protein and 200+ calories. Two eggs is 30g protein and 150 calories as well as zero sugar and very little carbs. Do you like eggs?

Don’t really like eggs! I will tolerate a very well cooked omelette if I can eat it with mustard. Wouldn’t eat one for breakfast. Also - I eat my breakfast on the train so it needs to be portable. Hence why I go with the protein bar.

I was also going to say two boiled eggs for breakfast.

Sadly, nope! 😂

So many people appear to be expecting this drug to work at titration doses. This is not the case. If it doesn’t work for you at the maximum dose 15mg then you know you are in the minority of people it doesn’t affect.
Thinking it doesn’t work at non therapeutic doses stems from misinformation.

This is what I gather. But so much of what I’ve read online reports weight loss in the first month. I’ve gained, not lost. I bought my pen through a big online pharmacy. I contacted them to ask why I had gained weight on the 2.5mg dose and what their advice was. The response I got was ‘sorry it hasn’t worked for you. If you are gaining weight you should speak to your GP’
That doesn’t fill me with confidence that there wasn’t an expectation of loss after 4 weeks either.