Food Noise /Suppression - your experience?

[MarthaLou]

I’m waiting for my first pen to arrive and hoping to start my MJ journey next week.

I’m curious about the food noise and suppression side of things and whether it will have any effect on me.

Without question, I am greedy and don’t have a healthy relationship with food. It comes from being very slim until 40s and eating wherever I liked whenever I fancied it. Basically a “fat on the inside, slim on the outside” person with high visceral fat levels. But now I’m most definitely fat on the outside firmly in overweight category and borderline obese.

i can be not hungry but then eat in these situations:

Unpacking groceries - “ooh biscuits and hula hoops, delicious I’ll have some”

In supermarket - “I’ll just buy some crisps and chocolate to nibble on way home”

Walking past bakery - “oh those cakes look delicious, I’ll grab one to have with a coffee when I get home” (cake(s) then generally consumed on walk home)

I guess my question is - if I’m not even really hungry when I eat crap, is MJ likely to help?

It has helped me immensely, I was a total sugar addict but could also polish off 6 bags of skips on a bad day. Just mindless junk eating that felt out of control.

Been on MJ for 3 weeks (4th injection tomorrow) and not only has it eliminated the junk cravings, I’m also less interested in alcohol. Some days I have to make an effort to eat enough food, but nearly everything I eat is unprocessed food, focussing on protein and veg. If I eat takeaway (not often) I find it easy to have the “right” amount rather than stuff a whole pizza in because it is there.

It really has been amazing!

I'm on week 1 so too early to talk about weight loss, but the way it has switched something off in my brain is astonishing. I've had zero food noise from day 2. Zero. As a result I've had to remind myself to eat a couple of times. I'm still enjoying food, I just don't find myself reaching for it at all. Like the pp said, it's amazing.

Yes I was a crisp and cheese addict but I've barely bought them in almost 8 months now. It changes what you crave and buy in the supermarket so I go for healthier options. I had a half pack of chocolate in my cupboard since before I started and completely forgot it was there, I don't reach for it anymore. Though when it wears off or I have pmt or my period I do crave crisps but I'll have one low calorie pack rather than a few and I've no cravings for biscuits or cakes at all, not touched them in 6 months. I was prediabetic but after 10mg it's corrected my sugars so my body doesn't want them anymore. You just don't think about them either so I believe it will help you.

I’m in week 8 and on 5mg - brilliant suppression at 2.5…

now in 5mg suppression is much less weirdly but apparently this can happen - although food noise is still much less..if I do binge it’s much less than before and I don’t carry on

Thank you. This is really interesting and I’m hopeful I’ll be able to report similar.

I’m on W2 but it’s definitely made a big difference. Previously I was stuck in a weird cycle of being able to eat healthily Monday to Thursday (usually following Weight Watchers) but come Thursday (which is technically ‘almost’ the weekend, right?) I’d plan a treat meal with wine. I’d start thinking about it on Tuesday! And then on Friday my plans to get back onto WW would be derailed by the munchies from having drank wine on Thursday so I’d graze on carbs all day. I’d be ‘good’ on Saturday but then give in again on Sunday because I’d been ‘good’ on Saturday. Not surprisingly, despite all my pledges to start again ‘tomorrow’ or just get through one single week without a cheat day, it never happened. I felt utterly powerless to stop it and the ‘chatter’ was very difficult to tune out.

Sunny day? Great, let’s celebrate by sitting in the garden with a takeaway! Rainy day? Great, let’s cozy up at home with snacks and red wine. Sunday? Time for a big Sunday lunch! And on and on.

W1 of WLI and by day 2, all those thoughts had gone. I was like, ‘wait, where did they go??’ I got to Thursday and I felt nothing. No desire to fall face first into Prosecco and Doritos. Sure, I could have but there was no compulsion to do it. In the end, I did have a couple of glasses of wine but I didn’t polish off the bottle and on Friday, I was ready to jump back to it.

W2 and as the jab level has increased in my system a bit, I feel even better. I didn’t cook a roast today and I just made do with some salmon and salad. I don’t feel like I’ve missed out or anything. Average weekly
alcohol units have wavered around 25 per week (I know, I know!).
This week it’s been 6. I can’t remember the last time I did that and wasn’t craving it.

I started on 4th April and the suppression was immediate. I am normally a very greedy girl, but Mounjaro has activated my off switch. I no longer have food cravings, I don't binge, I eat smaller portions and I don't always finish what's on my plate. I can look at delicious food without wanting to dive into it face first. Sometimes I have to remind myself to eat. It's so freeing. I'm still on the lowest dose and will stay on that as it's working so well. Oh, and do you want to hear the best bit? I am just one pound away from being two stones down in under two months, and it has been effortless.