Not loosing much weight

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I am taking Mounjaro...

I dont eat alot ( I KNOW i should- just lost my mojo a bit)

Funnily though I have not lost alot of weight despite eating way less than <1000kcals some days

Why is that???

I know that I need to do better I have just been feeling a bit uninspired but I have got a nice mealplan sorted now.

I just wondered WHY? X

This isn't a real thing

You’re not eating in a calorie deficit if you’re not losing weight.

Calculate what calories and protein you need to lose weight on the free James smith academy calculator. Then log every single thing, oil, drinks, sauces, the lot on my fitness pal.

Why haven't you gone up the doses?

And no, famine mode is not a thing, as is obvious if you see people who are in a famine 🙈

But if you aren't losing weight this is the wrong advice! Who told you this?

Agree and I think I definitely need to track my calories more closely. But if I was overeating in the first place, shouldn't Mounjaro be helping me reduce my eating levels? I am just surprised that it has had zero impact.

How on earth are you obese if your TDEE is 1000 calories a day?!

I mean it's not, your TDEE cannot be that low unless you're 3 foot tall, 75 years old and bed bound, so something is very wrong in your calculations

I barely lost anything on 2.5mg and 5mg but that's because it didn't really have an effect and I think was struggling to even stay under 2000 calories!

I'm 5'2 and my starting BMI was 32 so I was at the smaller end of the mounjaro user scale. I do not believe people are not losing weight eating 1000 calories a day, you're lying to yourself.

7.5mg and 10mg have started to have more and more of an effect so stick with it but be honest about your calorie intake.

Yes, but you’re not even on a full dose, you’re on the starter dose to help your body get used to it before the first dose at 5mg.

and yes of course you’re overeating, and signifantly, like all of us, you have to have been to become obese. Fat doesn’t grow out of nothing, it has to be due to excess cals going in.

you need to track your cals. To maintain at obese, you’re likely eating two to 3 times as much as you think.

@mjcosy pre-MJ were you steadily gaining weight? And now are you staying stable or slowly losing?

If you are no longer gaining weight then it is having an effect but the result is neutral rather than positive.

You do still need to follow a 'diet plan' with MJ, in that you need to understand how many calories you should be eating and how many you are eating. You need to be in a deficit to lose weight, increasing activity will give you a bigger threshold but will also make you hungrier so it's important to track as accurately as you can and to make choices that maximise nutrition and minimise empty calories.