what did you eat/what do you eat now?

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I'm not sure if injections are for me.
I am very over weight, because I binge eat biscuits and crisps, and don't exercise.
Can I ask people what they ate prior to medication, and what they eat now please?
Is it likely to stop me wanting to eat the WHOLE packet of biscuits?
Thanks

An average day for me before mounjaro would be something like this:

B - nothing
L - Tesco meal deal, triple chicken sandwich, bag of crisps and a Pepsi max
S - couple of biscuits or slice of cake, whatever was available in the staff room!
D - huge portion of spaghetti bolognese, lots of grated cheese on top with half a garlic baguette
S - another bag of crisps, large bag of giant chocolate buttons or something similar

An average day for me now:
B - banana
L - chicken salad brought from home
D - salmon with a few new potatoes, broccoli and tomatoes

No snacks at all, I’m full enough from my meals and have gone off sugary treats.

That’s a really interesting question! I used to think I ate relatively healthily, but looking back at my old food diaries and MFP entries, I realised my portion sizes were much bigger than they are now. I’d eat well during the day but then sabotage it by craving biscuits or chocolate in the evening. I also snacked a lot between meals and often wanted a coffee and cake when out.

Since starting the medication, I’ve noticed big changes. I rarely snack now, and if I do fancy a biscuit, I can have just one rather than the whole pack (which is rare anyway). My portion sizes are much smaller, and I think more about my choices—for example, if I’ve already had coffee and cake that week, I might skip it today to balance things out.

I’ve also noticed a big difference in my energy levels. Before, I was over-exercising to compensate for poor food choices, which left me exhausted and unable to work out for ages. Now, I exercise smarter, not harder—I prioritise rest days but still get really good workouts in between. It feels much more sustainable!

I also used to pile on the cheese and have garlic bread with alot of meals. I rarely have meals with cheese now, but if I do I weigh out my portion and track it and it's plenty, can actually taste and appreciate the dish rather than eating food covered in melted cheese 🙈

It’s funny, I was just telling someone today how I can now eat just one biscuit. I could never have done that before.

I would eat not only a packet of biscuits but a whole box full. And crisps, and whatever else I could cram down my gob. Big bars of chocolate, sharing bags of Minstrels.

Now, I eat a weetabix for breakfast, a protein yoghurt for lunch, salmon and salad or maybe chicken for dinner.

Go for it, good luck!

I used to binge eat before MJ.
It got so bad that I was having planned binges (going to the supermarket / drive thru's to stock up on stuff)
However, no binges since starting 8 months ago!
The desire to binge has vanished.. but with that has come some mental health challenges as I was partly using binging as a coping mechanism.
I am under no illusion that the binging would eventually come back if I stopped the medication unless I can learn coping strategies.

@Zempy
Are you able to explain how it happens? Do you just not want any snacks? It's hard to imagine sitting down in the evening and not eating snacks.

I don't want evening snacks anymore. I have taken up sewing in the evenings to keep my hands busy though, because even though I don't want the snacks or binge I did feel like something was missing and just felt frustrated and weird in the evenings. So I took up sewing!

Yes, you literally don't want to overeat. If you force it though, you'll face the ramifications of it.

I am not hungry and don’t get that urge to go and stuff my face. I just don’t fancy it. It’s like absolute magic for me.

Have a good read of the threads, maybe the March starters would be a good one. Experiences vary, but most people are losing weight consistently without feeling deprived. I have lost over two stone since 8 Jan.

TMI -I always thought I had a super digestive system as I emptied my bowels multiple times a day. And t transpires that I was eating so much that I HAD to empty my bowels.

Breakfast - 2 (and a half if there was a crust available too) slices of thick sourdough with plenty of butter and peanut butter

Lunch - lentil soup and 2 slices of thick toast and butter, crisps

afternoon snack - cake/nuts/tea and biscuits

crisps whilst prepping dinner

dinner - huge portion of pasta, garlic bread or other nibbly side dish, cake/dessert

I forgot to add the now!

breakfast - protein yoghurt which I rarely finish

lunch - salad with tofu/ lentil soup and a pita

dinner - pasta (portion about a third of what I was having before if not less)/salad with leaves, roasted squash, and lentils/small portion of homemade veg curry with a small portion of rice

An example of my day now is:

B - Greek yoghurt, granola, blueberries (weighed out granola not the huge portion I'd have before)

L - chicken and avocado salad

Snack - Banana

D - Chicken skewer, asparagus, savoury rice

And it's easy to eat this way. I could eat this way before when 'on a diet' but it was hard, I was hungry, I was deprived, I had food noise, I had cravings.... it's been 7 months now and I feel like I'm not controlled by food. It's so freeing.

In answer to the OP's question about a packet of biscuits...in my experience of MJ so far I won't even bother opening the packet, never mind eating all of it. And I had a very sweet tooth.

I was a binger, I wouldn't be having a few biscuits, once they were open I'd not stop til they were finished. I could then easily eat a family sized galaxy bar. This would be after a massive meal, I was never full no matter what I ate. I'd pre eat before meeting friends for meals to try to avoid finishing too fast, I'd likely grab a mcdonalds after.

I could go to bed after eating all that with my stomach rumbling (with hunger, not 💩). MJ has stopped it all, I can still eat meals, I still get hungry but a normal portioned meal fills me up. I have chocolate everyday but just one bar. I don't feel mouth watering hunger constantly anymore. I no longer HAVE TO eat the cakes in work. I think this is how normal people live around food and I'm so grateful I found this medicine. I'm losing weight and feeling great.

I look at a packet of biscuits now and think eww, oily, not even that nice. Maybe if a Michelin star quality biscuit appeared in front of me I might try a bite. Would probably have to be very small and at least two star quality though. Basically the medicine gives me thin person feelings about food.

It really does sound like magic.
It's hard to believe it can make so much difference.
I'm very very tempted.
Did people check with your GP first?
Is anyone else on citalopram and HRT?

I take citalopram. No I didn't check with my GP first as the pharmacy will do any checks as long as you are honest with your consultation questions. I was actually looking at mysimba first but i was rejected due to it being contraindicated with other meds I take. So I was confident in the prescribing pharmacy.

I wasn't a binge eater. My portions are smaller and I have fewer snacks and less alcohol.

I only started at the weekend, and I was really curious about how it would feel- I have 10 stones to lose and I was very sceptical (just because that's my nature). On Saturday (last day before my 2.5 jab), I ate:
Breakfast: 2x cheese on toast
Lunch: Sandwich, crisps, biscuit, banana, yoghurt...then another sandwich (not really hungry, just looked nice and I wanted it). Then later birthday cake and a cocktail at a friend's house.
Dinner: Lasagne and garlic bread

I took the jab Saturday night after it was delivered and braced myself for some kind of 'Harry Potter getting his wand moment' 😂😂but I felt no different lol.

Sunday morning I just....didn't really feel that hungry. It still requires motivation because I could still go to a cupboard and have biscuits if I wanted to, but I don't really want to in the same way anymore. It's not a sick feeling or a 'full' feeling, I just don't really fancy it the same way. I've yo-yo dieted and thought about food or calories constantly since I was a teenager (back when I wasn't even flipping overweight!) But for the last couple of days I've not really thought about it all.

Monday I ate:
Breakfast- Skyr yogurt and a banana
Lunch: Leek and potato soup (no bread)
Dinner: Chicken breast and spinach in red pesto + natural yoghurt.
No snacks in between this time either. It's not magic, I do still need to show some willpower, but I would say it has made it much more manageable.

It really is life changing.

I used to skip breakfast and lunch and then eat constantly from the moment I got home from work. Endless snacks and nibbles, then a huge dinner (even when it was a healthy meal my portions were so huge), followed by chocolate, sweets, ice cream etc.

Now I am hungry at breakfast, lunch, and dinner but instead of being hungry for a bacon sandwich or a burger I want chicken and broccoli or poached eggs and avocado. I eat a normal sized portion at each meal and I am full and satisified. I have very little desire to snack and if I do snack it's on cottage cheese or a rice cake and I like it.

Sometimes I crave a cream cake but I can just ignore it. It's so crazy! Before I could have eaten four cream cakes in a row and still wanted four more. Then had a bar of chocolate. Now I can just go about my day and the craving just goes away. No more obsessing about it.

Last night I had a craving for Indian food. Instead of getting a takeaway I made my own seekh kebabs and naan. Served with roasted aubergines, salad and raita. It was amazing, full of flavour and protein and I was so full. It was about 700 calories for a huge portion.
From the takeaway I used to get a tandoori mixed grill, a full naan, mattar paneer, chips, and pakoras then wash it down with a litre of coke and follow it with a load of chocolate. How?! My brain can no longer comprehend eating like that.

The best thing about mounjaro for me is I don't view healthy eating as a punishment now. I don't see hunger as the enemy nor do I eat my feelings anymore and use food as a comforter. It's helping me learn healthy habits.

When I dieted before I would see eating food as payment - I would have to earn food through exercise/calories burnt. If I gave in to hunger and ate without earning it then I was a useless failure. I'd restrict so heavily I'd be miserable and then I'd hate myself for inevitable overeating/binge that would occur. Even though I'd slim down I wasn't healthy. I had no energy, brain fog, muscle wastage etc.

Now I am excited to hit my macros, to eat nutrient dense foods and nourish my body. I feel excellent. I am fuelling my brain and my body. I bounce out of bed most mornings, I don't need a nap mid-afternoon, I have energy to exercise. I have muscles!

Sorry, my comments have ended up incredibly long and making me sound bonkers I'm sure but after spending the past hour listening to 2 women trashing everyone who takes WLIs it made me see just how much mounjaro has changed my life.

Granted I've just started my journey but in preparation I've been looking at my diet for a couple of weeks now and slowly adjusting as whatever changes made need to be sustainable for several months if not years.

If you'd said I'd be eating turkey meatballs and brown pasta with veg a few months ago I'd have laughed at the suggestion but that's what we had last night and I enjoyed it.

It really has been like magic for me.

I always ate healthy meals, so they haven't fundamentally changed in type, just in size - much less now, dinner in particular is probably half the size.

Every time I wandered past the kitchen or made a cuppa (I work from home), I would eat some rubbish or other. I don't do any of that now.

I stop eating when I've had enough, or if I'm not particularly enjoying something.

You ask whether it would stop you bothering eating the packet of biscuits. For me, most days I wouldn't even bother with one biscuit, and I have the 'off switch' I always lacked, so maybe once or twice a week I will have a small treat, but that's it.

And the best part - none of this takes effort - I just eat what I feel I want/need, and then I stop.

Hi I am on Citalopram and HRT and been on MJ for 5 weeks now. I was recommended it by my GP and diabetic nurse over a year ago but the funding for it has dried up in my part of the country, so i bit the bullet and went private.in now 17lbs lower in weight than 5 weeks ago and feeling good about how in control of my eating and body I now feel. I have a long way to go as I started at 19st 1lb, but I am happy to do this and feel that its the best thing for my body currently. I am a T2 diabetic and my tiredness and general fatigue is so so much better. The Pharmacy I use has contacted my GP to tell them they have prescribed and the GP has no issues.