What I Ate Today on Mounjaro - back for round 3!

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With only a tiny bit of space left on the last thread, here’s a new one!

For accountability, inspiration and support, not judgement!

I've reached my goal weight so I've started tapering down from 10mg to 5mg and aiming to remain on 2.5mg for the rest of the year, so curious to see how my appetite is.

B: kefir with chia seeds, blueberries, 3 walnuts and a tablespoon of mixed seeds

L: a bowl of Italian wedding soup with orzo, kale and meatballs - couldn't finish it

Snack of 1 chocolate digestive with a cup of filter coffee at work

D: a souvlaki wrap with chicken, peppers, tomatoes, shredded red and white cabbage, tzatziki and a few chips inside the wrap. Managed half a portion and saved the other half for tomorrow. Sounds very similar to your dinners @Adultautismdiagnosis and @gimmemounjaro !

Week 64, day 1, 5mg, dose 3 (maintenance)
B: omelette, cucumber, tomato, rocket, small cheese pastry, cheese, bread, slice of toast and jam
L: shared a cheese and tomato toastie, salad
D: shrimp casserole, rice
S: honey and salt peanuts, an apple
Usual supplements, green tea, 3 litres of water, a beer, v&t, rose

Breakfast - cereal
Lunch - tagliatelle, tuna, peas and corn.
Dinner - protein shake, kefir.

Snack - A tim tam and a nectarine

B: decaf black coffee

S: protein bar

L: leftover chicken and potato Thai yellow curry with cauliflower rice

S: 2x squares dark choc, salted peanuts

D: pork skewer, grilled halloumi, cabbage salad, Greek salad

A hungry day

B: decaf black coffee

L: hot and sour soup with chicken, mushroom and tofu, protein yogurt with raspberries

D: half a burger in a lettuce wrap, tomato, mushrooms, sriracha mayo. A few home made chips. A couple of greengages.

Hello everyone. I've been lurking here for ages but...

Week 1, Day 1, 2.5mg

B: protein yogurt with raspberries and chia seeds

L: half a portion of Huel because it was really filling and I couldn't eat any more

S: a cream cracker

D: salmon, green beans, broccoli, sweet potato chips

2.5l water, minty green tea, spiced maple tea, sleepy tea, supplements.

Are there people who eat every little? I came to this thread to see if there are others, like me, who eat very low calories every day. But it seems there aren't.

I have a long way to go (SW 17st 11, CW 16st 1 BMI 39, GW under 10st). I also don't exercise. I teach, so while there is some walking around school, I don't do lots of steps per day.

I'm on 5mg, no side effects and only eat because I think I should, rather than because of hunger. I don’t need calories for exercise and don't get any symptoms for low calorie intake (like feeling lightheaded).

So I'm happy with what I'm consuming for now. But I can't shake the feeling it's unhealthy. Typical weekday:

• 4-6 mugs of coffee with semi skimmed milk and sweetener
• Another 4 ish mugs of decaf coffee
• I don't tend to eat until 3.30-4.30pm. I used to not eat until I got home from work 7pm ish, but found eating late affected my sleep
• I always eat the same thing - 1.5 to 2 Bell peppers, sliced, with 100g hummus (a Ramona's 500g tub and 8 sliced peppers lasts me Mon-Fri)

I get home and never want anything to eat, so that's it. I get most of my protein from milk in coffee I think. What I eat is healthy and covers all the food groups. But its just one meal, and a small meal at that.

Weekends I eat similar, but usually a meal the family. Yesterday they had steak and salad, I just had salad. Plus 3 G&Ts 🫣 and lots of coffee - coffee is my biggest vice. Today will be a roast chicken dinner, ill just have chicken and green veg.

So anyway, I'm rambling. I don't eat very much but what I do eat is healthy. I drink lots of fluids, ususlly in the form of coffee. I know I drink too much caffine. I love my coffee and find it great to have something to savour and enjoy that isn't chocolate/biscuits/cake.

I'm losing about 3lb a week, which I'm happy with.

Is there anyone else who eats only one small meal a day?

Gosh @AmberLime I’d be very wobbly on so few calories, I definitely need more than 100g hummus and a couple of peppers. But fair enough if it suits you and you feel good on it.

I suppose my main concern would be that you are nowhere near the recommended daily protein intake, and protein is important to prevent muscle loss when losing weight. Especially since you are not exercising either. Plus there is not much variety there. I would also worry about what will happen when you’ve lost the weight and want to maintain, will you keep eating the same way, is this it for the rest of your life? It’s unconventional! But completely your call and you must be saving a fortune!

I tend not to bother with breakfast and have done longer fasts in the past but on MJ I feel better on more regular meals. I am at goal now and reducing the dose with the aim of coming off MJ altogether, I may reintroduce longer fasts then.

@AmberLime how long have you been on Mounjaro? I found suppression very high in the early days and usually only had one meal and a protein shake but it's since eased off and I can manage more now.

As said above my main concern would be the lack of protein as there's only 7.7g of protein in 6x cups of coffee with semi skimmed milk, and only 8.3g in 100g of Ramonas and 1.5 peppers so way below the recommended amount but also are you taking any vitamins and supplements for nutrition to prevent hair loss etc? Gallstones would also be a concern on such a low amount of calories. For me this is about making sustainable changes for life so this way wouldn't work for me as no way could I manage on such a small amount for life.

Joining for accountability! Started in November, about 3.5 stone down, at least another 4 stone to go.

Current dose 7.5mg, this is Day 5. I am not often hungry at the moment but this is one of my less suppressed days.

B: nothing

Brunch: frittata (2 eggs, mushrooms, spinach, spring onions, garlic, olive oil) and a pack of instant noodles, chilli flavoured.

Dinner: rest of frittata and courgette/spring onions/feta fritters.

@AmberLime could you add a handful of roasted nuts or some cheese to each meal? And maybe a protein drink?

Welcome @UnimaginableWindBird!

@AmberLime how long have you been on Mounjaro? Your meals sound like how I was when I first started but I've stayed on 5mg (now working my way down dose wise as I near goal) and that level of suppression eased off.

I do fast 16:8 so normally have two meals a day and limit snacks but what you've listed is very little and may be difficult to maintain when you come off the injections. If your suppression is extremely high can you lower the dose a little?

Yesterday

Brunch - bacon, eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes and baked beans with a cup of tea

D - jacket potato, cottage cheese, mixed seeds and spring onion

Today

B - black coffee

L - cheese and onion sandwich, few potato wedges and an orange

D - chicken ramen with spring onion, baby corn and sugar snap peas

Plus a rum and pepsi max

Thanks for the input. I started on Mounjaro early July. I do take a multi vitamin every day.

It's my protein levels that most concern me. Part of me wonders if the current push to more protein is a fad. Its this media coverage that I 'should' have x amount of protein, when actually what I'm eating is healthy and I don't feel the need to add more.

I'm working more on calories in needs to be less than calories out, so don't want to 'waste' calories when I don't want/need them just because I 'should' have so many grams of protein a day.

I have been debating buying some protein powder. But it goes against my whole-food ethos of not eating processed food. I also don't want to eat the extra calories of nuts (or whatever) purely for the purpose of the media tells me to eat protein. When I make my own hummus I think protein - I add peanut butter and sprinkle seeds on top.

In terms of muscles, I'm not exercising so am not expecting to build any muscles. I used to be a long distance runner, I intend to go back to running and will shift my focus to building muscles when I'm back running. But for now, I don't want to slow my weight loss for the sake of protecting my non-existent muscle mass.

History has taught me that I'm not very good at getting the balance right when heavy exercising at the same time as cutting calories. So I am consciously taking a different approach this time - I am hoping to do all my cutting, then shift focus to muscle build. Not both at the same time.

All that waffling aside, I am also aware that I have a disordered approach to food. I therefore know I need to listen to others opinions. Up to 2019 I used to run 100km (not a typing error) a week, every week, on about 1000cal daily. That was when trying to both run more and lose weight (so i could run more).

I'm used to not eating much. When I put all the weight on (following foot injury) I stayed on OMAD but added in shit-loads of high sugar food after the meal. All I've done so far is cut out anything containing sugar or flour. The nature and timing of how I eat hasn't changed much. But I still think its probably unhealthy and I need to think about it.

@AmberLime
It might be worth finding out a little more about why protein is recommended - it’s not about building muscle, it’s about avoiding sarcopenia. If you don’t have much muscle mass it’s more important, not less. Also maybe have a look at why a varied diet is recommended for nutrition and gut health. I don’t think it’s a great idea to eat the same thing every day.

B: decaf black coffee

L: hot and sour soup with chicken, mushroom and tofu, protein yogurt with raspberries

S: apple with peanut butter, salted peanuts

D: chicken and cashew curry, sag aloo. A greengage

Today is my 14th day off the meds after my break due to side effects. I have been so so hungry this week. Jabbing tonight (back down to 2.5) and hoping to start feeling more in control again. I've also been away til now so at the mercy of hotel/convenience foods.

I'm going cold turkey on sugary snacks from tomorrow again. It sneaks in and builds up so quickly if you take your eye off the ball.

B - 1 toast with marmalade, a mini pain au chocolat, coffee and orange juice

L - chicken and beetroot salad with cous cous (m&s, yum), 2 salted caramel rice cakes, bag of crisps, Joe and the Juice multi veg/fruit drink

D - chicken nuggets, cheeseburger and chips from McDonalds

Snack - apple and peanut butter

@AmberLime that is some mega disordered eating, and definitely not sustainable long term. There are plenty of posters in this forum barely eating or doing OMAD but I've never seen so little as coffees, peppers and houmous. Please try to do some research on what your body needs.

@AmberLime I think you need to maybe speak to someone as this does sound very disordered, you shouldn't be eating less that 500 calories. Eating 8 peppers and one tub of Hummus and nothing else but coffee over 5 days sounds quite dangerous and if you were my friend or relative I'd be very concerned. We all on these injections have some food issues or we wouldn't be taking them so I mean this with no judgement at all but not wanting to waste calories on something like nuts when you're eating less than 500 calories per day is worrying.

@AmberLime you are definitely not eating nearly enough of any of the macros, lovely, not on what you've described. I actually agree with you that some influencers over exaggerate our protein requirements but even with that in mind you are not getting anything like enough. That's a starvation diet you're on which is not what MJ is for and I think it will make you very ill and weak if it isn't already. I don't know what support you have for disordered eating or have had in the past but I think maybe you could do with some help now working out what a healthy diet on MJ looks like for you.

@AmberLime and like @Fatbride I do consider myself to be a disordered eater so please don't think of what I said as judgy or dismissive because it really isn't meant to be.

I know my eating is disordered 😞I just want to lose this weight. On an anonymous forum like this i dont have to say what I 'should say'. The honest answer, that I'd be to shamed to say IRL, is that i just want to lose the lbs as quickly as possible. So since I can easily do that,iI want to. I don't find it hard managing on sub 1000 cal. Even on sub-500 when not exercising.

I'm in danger of derailing this thread, which isn't my intention. Maybe I should move this elsewhere?

I feel sure that other people must eat in a way I do. I regularly see people on the 10+ and 5+ stone threads that lise 4lb a week - that's what I'm doing (well, 3 or 4lb). I could loose that amount by more (but still low) calories plus exercising. Would that be better? My view is that exercising plus low calories messes with my brain. So I'm just doing (even lower) calories with no exercising. It's a different way of thinking, but is it really worse?

Today I have had:

• A cereal bowl of salad (lettice, leafy herbs, peas shoots, cucumber, pepper, celery, beetroot, cherry toms and a whole tin of tuna).
• Pot of coffee this morning (4 mugs) plus 2 more mugs
• I've not tracked by squash. Probably 1.5l of sugar free squash

Just made up my dinners for Mon and Tues:

• 4 peppers (2 orange, 1 red, 1 yellow).
• 2 portions of home made hummous (1 can chickpeas, some of the chickpea liquid, 1 big desert spoon peanut butter, 1/3 jar of roasted tomatoes with some of the oil it's stored in, sprinkle if sesame seeds on top - all divided between 2).

There's a chicken casserole in the slow cooker for the kids on Monday. I doubt I'll have any tho, I never feel like it when I'm home from school.

Someone mentioned varied eating - I've always been like this. I have many meals I like and cycle between them. My fave lunch is hummous tho. I vary by varying the flavour of the hoummous and to a degree what I did in it. Shop bought hummous is always a treat.

W1 D2 2.5mg

B: vanilla Huel

L: seeded rye bread, cottage cheese, tuna, avocado, kimchi, cucumber and carrot sticks.

D: tiny bit of duck confit with cannellini beans and cavolo nero, but then DH went into great detail about how a similar meal at a hotel once gave him food poisoning, and it turns out that MJ makes it easier for me to get put off food, so I ended up having a yogurt, and the duck is going to be today's lunch.

@AmberLime don't feel that you need to move your posts elsewhere if you don't want to. I think it's quite refreshing to be completely honest and I totally agree with @Fatmumslim01 that my eating is also disordered. It's why I was obese in the first place. So no judgement here.

I also agree however that I'd be very concerned if I was your friend about how little you are eating and also, being brutally honest.... what you're modelling to your children. You mention a chicken casserole for your kids. That's a healthy meal and having a small bowl of that sat at the table with them wouldn't derail or slow down your weight loss.

I actually agree with you somewhat about protein. I was having protein shakes in the beginning because I was eating very little but I try to cut out a lot of UPFs so it didn't feel right for me either. I am sure I don't get anywhere near the amount of protein that I see recommended, it's not something I track.

If you added a bowl of that chicken casserole or similar every day so you were eating lean meat and plenty of vegetables. How would that make you feel? I am positive you'd still lose weight at the same rate.

It's not about whether it's hard or not though. It's about your health. Your muscles will waste away, your bone density will deteriorate, you are much more likely to get heart problems, gallstones and nutrient deficiency.

You are eating a really dangerous diet. For a few days that's ok but for weeks at a time it's really really dangerous.

Hey @AmberLime. I have to concur with most things that have been said already. Have you looked up sarcopenia?

Her’s an AI overview from Google ‘Sarcopenia, the age-related loss of muscle mass and function, is associated with increased mortality risk and a shorter lifespan, as well as a greater proportion of years lived with disability. Studies show sarcopenia can significantly increase mortality risk and shorten survival time, especially in centenarians and geriatric patients. The combination of sarcopenia with obesity, known as sarcopenic obesity, further elevates the risk of poor survival’

In order to maintain sufficient muscle mass, we need to do resistance training, eat enough protein and supplement things like vit d.

I know you feel you just want the lbs off NOW but you are risking your future health and the likelihood of being frail as you age. You’re also giving yourself a higher possibility of gallstones, pancreatitis etc. If that doesn’t persuade you, you’re very likely to lose a load of your hair!!

Personally, I am doing this (have done this!) for my health and if waiting a few months longer to weigh a bit less helps to protect my health, to me it’s a no brainer!