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?!

I thought that I didn't have a reduction in food noise, until it started to wear off at the end of the week and I realised how much louder the food noise was with less MJ. Moved up to 5mg now and I don't have any food noise at all for the whole week (but also 36 hours of awful nausea).

If it helps, I think today has been a bit better. I have this mental thought process over food, that starts on a Monday. I start the week with a healthy meal plan and I survive for about 3 days and then Wednesday/Thursday time I start to plan some kind of elaborate feast with wine on Friday. Typically instead of Friday it will then move itself to Thursday and then because I’d planned to do Friday all along, I just eat more on a Friday too. ‘I’ll start again next week - definitely’. No matter how many times I promise myself that ‘next week will be different’, it just never is.

These thoughts are triggered by stress at work, surviving a difficult meeting or maybe because it’s sunny outside or maybe because it’s raining. I can always find a reason for a ‘treat night’ which inevitably turns into 3 treat nights.

So all of that to say, today I’ve had two stressful meetings AND it’s sunny outside and not once did I think about consoling myself with food. In fact, whizzing to Greggs up the road to get one of their lovely baguettes after I’d had a difficult conversation with a colleague, actually felt like a ‘foreign thought’. I didn’t mull it over, I just quickly whooshed it away and went and ate a very tasty salad I’d brought with me. This is unheard of with me - once the thought is in my head, I’m in the car and there’s no stopping me.

I’ve still been hungry a bit but I defo noticed how I didn’t react in the way I would have done this time last week.

There’s Hope!!

I am exactly the same as you, once something is in my head. I’ll suddenly think I NEED a Toffee Crisp and I’ll go and buy 4 and eat them all! 🙈

Thats great that you’re not feeling so controlled by food. Isn’t it such a relief! It’s definitely giving me the space I need to think about what I’m eating. Phew!

How are you getting on @Stars12?

Today I realised this drug is actually working! I was at a work buffet lunch and there wasn’t much in the way of healthy choices so I grabbed a cheese and tomato sandwich. It was the first time all week that I’d eaten something as fatty as cheese. Within 10 minutes of eating it I felt nauseous and thankfully was able to find some peppermint tea to calm it down. For the rest of the day, it felt like a lump sat in my stomach - such a strange experience. It finally feels better so I’ve just had some salmon and veggies for tea and I think I’ve learned my lesson.

Incidentally prior to this I was doing WW at home (not successfully I might add!) and I paid a reduced price if I signed up for 12 months. Turns out they have a weight loss injections mode in the app and it’s helping me massively. Instead of tracking calories, you track protein and fibre. I just hit my 100g goal for the day.

I still feel hungry in between meals but I haven’t thought once about a ‘treat night’ and I know I won’t be having one. I haven’t skipped that in YEARS. It’s slowly working. Be interesting to see what the next 2.5 mg does.

That’s good news! And great that the app is keeping you in control. I’m the same, I’m hungry between meals but I’m not bingeing. My meals are also much smaller in portion size. I’ll take my 3rd 2.5 tomorrow and then need to decide whether to re-order the same dose or go up to 5mg…

It clearly is working for you OP, don’t rush it. You said there’s no reduction in food noise but then acknowledged that you aren’t eating things you’d normally eat. That’s suppression. Don’t rush to the next stage unless you really have to.

There is still a lot of willpower involved. I could definitely still eat a Macdonalds if it was put infront of me! I also still crave chocolate. I guess I was hoping that type of food noise would disappear- where I just didn’t want it. I think suppression for me is that I don’t feel starving hungry in the same way as before. So when I’m hungry now, I have time to make a decision about food rather than thinking f* it, and eating a whole packet of biscuits!

That’s how I feel it @Stars12the hunger is there but unlike before when that meant standing in front of the fridge and just eating anything that came to hand till it eased, or buying a pack of cream cakes and eating them in the car before setting off home, now I think ‘hmm I feel hungry, well dinners in an hour I can wait’ and I can. I set the thought aside, ignore the hungry feeling and do something else for a hour then enjoy my dinner which I have pre-planned to fit my calorie allowance and give me a range of vegetables.

I’d go up a dose op, it might just take you over the line in terms of the noise. Sounds like you are doing well though!!

I think this is a much realistic way of losing

Can I ask what dose you are currently taking?
I’ve just done my 3rd 2.5. I’m considering ordering the 5mg pen but then taking 3.75 which I have seen people do. Wondering if that’s all I’ll need to help with the noise. I don’t want go to 5 and end up with side effects 🤔

First time around I had suppression straight away , recently restarted and it’s taken til 7.5 to start to feel suppression now

I’m I think 36 weeks in and on 10mg now. I was on 5mg for 20weeks.

ive never had that ‘I just can’t eat’ feeling a few others have talked about. What I have experienced and what seems to be the most common reaction on the threads I’m on, is the ability to make better decisions about what I eat and delay eating. I don’t feel starving hungry all the time it’s just “normal” hunger. From day 1 and all throughout I have the capability to eat as much as I want to and have never felt ill from eating, but more importantly I have the ability to say ‘you know I think that’s enough I’ll stop now” and not dwell on it.

Yes, that’s how I feel. I used to feel so hungry I’d feel light headed and shaky! Then I would start eating and just wouldn’t stop. I haven’t felt like that at all since taking MJ so I definitely think I’m right to be on it. It’s refreshing to be able to eat a normal sized meal and feel satisfied like normal people 😂

I’ve still lost no weight and have finished my last dose of 5mg. I’m very disappointed too. I’m going to have to start calorie counting which I really don’t want to do 🤣

I must admit I noticed a huge difference even at 2.5. I was amazed as all my food noise was gone. PP hit nail on the head in that it’s just given me the ability to make better choices. I do still get hungry but it isn’t so bad I make bad decisions. To me it’s a miracle drug. Lost just over 3.5stone so far and only stone and a half to go. I’m actually anxious about coming off it when I hit my goal. I have used this time to change my habits and have been eating healthy foods as opposed to just less calorific food so fingers crossed.

How is everyone getting on? Thought I would update this thread incase anyone looking needs a positive boost! I have just finished 4 weeks on my first pen. After the initial disappointment, it all clicked into place and so far I’ve lost 21lbs! I have, what I feel, is the ideal suppression as I still feel hunger but continue to make good choices. Excited for the next 4 weeks! 🙂

You've lost 21lbs in 4 weeks of 2.5mg?!? That is absolutely incredible - well done!!

You're going to have to ask MNHQ to edit your thread title 😁

Thank you! I am thrilled. It’s certainly still requiring effort but I feel totally in control around food for, probably, the first time ever.
Such a relief!

Well done, go you!!! 😁👊