Serious hobby athlete and weightloss injections

[Greedybugger]

Hello,
Any serious hobby athletes/ fitness fanatics who are using WLI?
I’ve started using Tirzepatide, I don’t need it for weightloss or for medical reasons but I want to quiet the food noise. I’ve lost 2kg but I think it’s muscles and I want to keep my hard earned muscles!
I eat around 500kcal less a day than I used to but still lots of protein and I do weights. Maybe it’s too much of a deficit? How do I keep my muscles??
I take training quite seriously but don’t have a race or a competition as a goal now. I do Hyrox type training and weightlifting.

What is the difference in me taking it if my BMI is 23 when starting and others taking it for life if their BMI has gone below 25 while taking it?
If it’s dangerous then people would have to stop taking it when their BMI gets below 27 but they are not, they’re told they can stay on it for life even if they are of a healthy BMI.

Not a scientist but as I understand, those people can keep taking it as they have the disease of obesity.
I have thyroid disease. I need to keep taking pills for life even if my hormone level is now normal. This does not mean it would be safe for someone with a normal hormone levels to start with the same medication.

@Greedybugger: A person with a starting BMI >30 is obese, with various associated healthcare conditions. They take the GLP1 to treat their clinical condition of obesity. All drugs have some risk, and prescribing guidelines are designed to weigh up the risk of the drugs against the risks of the condition that they treat. That’s why some people with a BMI of 27-29 and certain associated health conditions also qualify: those comorbidities increase the risk of remaining overweight and tip the risk assessment balance in favour of the drug.

A person who reaches BMI <25 with GLP1 from a much higher weight has a history of obesity and it is appropriate for them to continue that course of treatment until they have reached a healthy weight. In the same way, a person with dangerously high cholesterol might remain on statins even once their LDL levels have reached a healthy point, because their history means that they are at risk.

The fact that you need this explaining to you means that you don’t fully understand the drug that you have fraudulently accessed. What you describe is certainly disordered, and I genuinely believe that you may have an eating disorder. Please, stop taking the Mounjaro and seek some help. The charity Beat will listen without judgement and help you.

It's different because it's a treatment for obesity

obesity is a condition that damages the body beyond just excess fat. It's not 'cured' immediately by losing weight. To recover from obesity research suggests that you need to maintain weight loss for a period of time and the effect of obesity is to make it extremely hard to do that, which is why people usually gain weight back. It's not because they 'haven't learnt healthy habits' it's because the body is trying to return to the obese state.

Maintaining weight loss at a healthy BMI using medication for a person recovering from obesity is completely different to someone using the medication to lose weight for aesthetic purposes when they are a healthy weight to start with. It's missing medication, pure and simple. You're doing the same thing as someone who lies about pain to take opiates to get high.

I don’t think there is a difference.

Either way BMI is an awful indicator, my BMI is high as I have muscle from lifting. i have obtained mournjarno totally legally - my BMI is over 27, and I and 2 health conditions - high cholesterol and pcos.

I will say that whenever I have done a “cut” I’ve always lost some muscle, I think it’s inevitable. To answer the original question - don’t go under 1,200 calories a day, eat at least 120g of protein and lift heavy.