MJ- Wiping the slate clean

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DP is on MJ and is doing very well, achieving a weight loss otherwise impossible to attain without the medication (for him) and I’m wondering about the effects of this magic spell once he starts the maintenance journey.

I really believe the revelation of these drugs comes in the way they ‘wipe the slate clean’, years of food noise, indulgence and stress eating have been shifted to a point where going to the gym is no longer fighting against the weight with slow gains, he’s not dressing in oversized T-shirt’s to hide the belly or trying to get by on mushy pea curry or five thousand Muller lights.

Yes he may gain some of the weight back but the person he was before MJ took several years of not being able to control his relationship with food, he now has a tool to beat that whereas before it just seemed like an abyss of forever battling with the obesity demon. I have never seen this shift in him before, like a weight has truly been lifted (excuse the pun).

Does anyone else feel this way?

I think using this medication to cut the ties with poor choices such as fizzy drinks, crisps, cakes, takeaways and realigning a connection to healthier food groups and working on an exercise routine is key to carrying on the success, starting a new story on that clean slate.

Yes, many people feel,like this. I will stay on a low maintenance dose for ever. Knocking the edge off my appetite, removing the desire to eat crap, controlling my portions. And ensuring my body processes insulin correctly, doesn’t over produce cortisol and my blood sugars remain controlled, thus removing the possibility of regain and subsequent Ill health. As well as protecting my heart and kidneys.

for me, it is a miracle drug, that is life changing. I’m only 2kg off a healthy weight now, exercise at least 5 days a week in the gym. Have no desire to eat crap, sleep well, my appetite is controlled, the anxious jittery feeling from unmanaged blood sugar is gone, as is the fatigue and blurry vision that came with insulin resistance, and I feel healthy, fit, happy and importantly optimistic.

It truly is a miracle drug when you see how beneficial and far reaching the effects are. I think you are right about staying on a low dosage long term for the chemical balancing it does.

Huge Well done on your success so far.