Mounjaro disappointment :(

[Stars12]

I am 5 days into Mounjaro and feeling a bit disappointed! I AM STARVING! I did lots of reading and talking with other people on it before making the decision to start. Everyone I know has had appetite suppression almost immediately, no food noise, even D&V! I have had no change at all! I am literally relying on willpower alone and still want to eat everything! I’ve even checked the pen to make sure it actually went in 🤦🏽‍♀️. Please can anyone reassure me that this has been the same for them?!

Thank you! I just wanted to hear similar experiences to mine instead of “30 mins after 2.5 I couldn’t eat a thing for a week!” which is what everyone I know seems to have had. I’ll keep going….

@Stars12defo keep going! It’s so easy to get disappointed, every time I stood on the scales the last 4 weeks I kept getting more deflated, my sister managed to lose 2 stone on 2.5!! But it works different ways for different people, which I suppose why it’s called a loading dose!

I understand, I’m 10 months in now been on the full dose for 4 months and lost two stone (have about 4.5 more to lose)
My friend is five months in and has lost a stone a month. It’s galling but I’m trying to trust the process.

Don't worry - first month I weighed in, I only lost three pounds, but that was barely the start of things to come. It doesn't start working instantly - the low dose just gets your body used to the medication. I'm on 2.5 and I've lost over half a stone now in two months.

I didn’t really get suppression until 5mg. And don’t lost that much till 7.5mg. 2.5mg isn’t therapeutic. It’s just getting your body introduced to it.

just start getting into a habit of focusing on protein and green veg and drinking lots of water.

8 months on I’ve lost 4.5 stone

My first dose of 2.5 did nothing but I was so terrified of side effects that I ate really well and had my biggest lose. After my swcond dose it started to kick in.

Keep going OP, think of the long game.

I’m week 6 of Mounjaro on 5mg no difference! I’m tracking everything 1400 1stone 4 off until weekend! Birthday had at weekend did not go mad put 2 lb on 2 days later nothing off
what can I do thought wud be quicker & more
HELP PLEASE

1 stone 4 is brilliant in 6 weeks.

To me, that's the sweet spot, suppression-wise. Mine was far too strong at one point on 5 and eating anything felt like a struggle. Forcing down a bit of chicken is no fun!
Thankfully it's now more like the level you describe - the snacking or nibbling urge has gone away but eating a sensible sized meal feels comfortable.

Give it time. I didn’t get a lot till 10 tbh

10mths later and almost 6s off and getting near to healthy bmi

2.5 IS NOT A THERAPEUTIC DOSE

A good point has been raised on this thread and that’s what ‘suppression’ looks like.

like you I heard lots of stories about basically being completely unable to eat, and it has never hit me like that. For me it makes my ability to control my hunger more manageable. Before I would obsess, if someone offered me a slice of cake for example and I said no then that would replay for me, I’d regret saying no, I’d think about whether I could change my mind if I had a planned to have a smaller dinner, I’d get hungrier and hungrier, my mouth would water, my belly would rumble and I’d think about it non-stop till I ate the cake or I’d get something else. I was constantly hungry and planning the next thing I would eat.

With MJ I still feel hungry, I could eat several plates at a buffet, I can look at the cake and think yum, but if I say no, or decide I can wait till dinner or think that I’ve had enough then I just make that decision and put it out of my mind and move on.

Right now I’m hungry, I can feel my belly rumbling and smell the taco meet DH is cooking in the kitchen, but I’m not grabbing a babybel to see me through till it’s cooked, because I know I’ll be fed soon and I can wait till then and think about something else until that time.

I definitely understand the obsessing over food. It’s an addiction. I’m definitely hungry, but I am able to ignore it to a certain degree and think about what I will eat next. Something struck me earlier…there was a half eaten Easter egg on the side that the kids had been eating. I wrapped it up and put it back in the cupboard as I was tidying up. It occurred to me that I didn’t just put the whole lot in my mouth which is 100% what I would’ve done before. And it wasn’t a debate in my head to put it back, I just did it. So maybe some of that ‘noise’ is reducing.

Op with respect calm down 😂 you are five days into a long journey and only on the lowest starting dose. Give it time to build up into your system.

You’ve not ‘done research’. Read the original paper.

Wow! It’s amazing stuff.

Why would anyone want to lose a stone a month for 5 months? The loose skin and hair and muscle loss would be awful.

You expected to lose more than 18lbs in 6 weeks? Why??

I was exactly the same. 7.5mg is working well but only for about 3-4 days then it wears off. I'll probably stick with this dose next month though. You need to just be patient and keep going up the doses until you find the dose that works for you. 2.5mg was like injecting water for me but the good thing is I've had next to no side effects even on 7.5mg.

This is absolute gibberish.

FGS proof read posts before posting them.

1 stone 4 in SIX WEEKS???

Christ, how much were you hoping for?

I know, I lost 3 stone in 6 months and was ecstatic with that!

Hi OP.
I've lost 4 stone in 100 days and MJ is the best thug I've ever done. But I would say, I had to have a really good understanding of my own body, and my brain's weaknesses. It took willpower and a complete overhaul of my lifestyle and commitment to doing better... The MJ just took away the constant food noise (hate that phrase.)
I panicked like you when I lost nothing in week one - then it happened and I started losing quickly, eating less and feeling great.

I know people who felt nothing until they got to 7.5 or even 10.