@JomonotFomo I completely understand the “addicted” feeling to losing weight. The steady loss and never hitting the “stall and rise” which was the end of every other diet ever was mind blowing.
This last year using Mounjaro is the first time I’m at the weight I wanted to be. And I was so so nervous when I moved into maintenance. The first few weeks I felt like I was holding my breath.
But, I’ve held at just under 9 stone for the last five months and I can tell you for me the maintaining has been even more pleasing than the losing. I go up and down a few pounds with hormones/holiday/occasional blow out but so far I’ve come back to 8 stone 12.4lbs.
I’m still on Mounjaro taking a hugely slow route tapering down. I topped out at 6.25mg (50 from 7.5 pen) at the end of last year and ask currently on 3mg weekly. I have zero side effects. Some hunger. Eat “normally” including currently, I am aware, “too much” chocolate.
My aim is to see how low I can go and still maintain, potentially coming off if that works but I have no qualms about returning to the medication if that is what my body needs to maintain a healthy weight and to steer clear of the pre diabetes I was barrelling along to before.
The studies are a challenge. Yes there is clear evidence in Surmount-4 that if you cold turkey off Mounjaro you will gain weight. That is also exactly what the Lilly paid for trial wanted to prove.
A small independent study presented at last year’s European Obesity Conference suggested tapering was effective
Blog about tapering
There are also anecdotes from a number of folk on the maintenance threads that they are off and maintaining.
It is not black and white.
And so I’m tapering and hoping. We are all of us still in the very early days with all this. Success will be measured in a lifetime not a few months. But I don’t, and cannot think, that this will be like all the last times. Because it already isn’t.