Mounjaro & co: what is your plan for when you have to stop with the injections?

[Takemebacktospain]

Please explain to me the point of weight loss injections as if I am a 6 year old. I get that in many cases it helps people being obese or very overweight achieve a healthier body/weight and therefore a better health. That’s great. What I don’t get is, what is the plan long term? Surely you cannot be pn medication for the rest of your life? Or is that the plan? I genuinely am very ignorant about all this so would like to understand how it all works. It seems to me that a lot of people are abusing of it and juat choose this as an easy fix instead of working towards better life habits in the long term.

Like you are a 6 year old?

They are medicines for grown ups whose bodies are not working right because they have an illness or disease. For some it makes them better, for others they need to keep taking them for longer, or even forever to stay well. It is all quite boring really, where did you hear about them and is there anything else you want to know?

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Enjoy being the size I was 20 years ago. Remember it’s been a year and I don’t need crap food if I’m bored.
And not stress because if my weight goes up WLI work brilliantly

Titrate down, gradually increase calories to maintenance (1700/1800 calories). I kept to this amount easily before I lost weight, but found it hard to eat less than that, and it wasn't little enough to actually lose weight, whereas it should be ok for maintenance at goal weight. Also my stomach is smaller and I don't need as many calories.

I wonder if it's the cost that makes some people assume others won't be able to stay on them for life? Obviously there's been a lot of publicity about the increase recently.

Also MN does a nice line in posters who can't understand how they see some people around them able to afford a holidays, days out, tweakments, car loans or whatever in a COL crisis, because for some reason they think that means nobody has any disposable income at all.

My explaination to a 6 year old would be:

I take medication to improve my health and life.

I’m at maintenance and will stay on the drugs long term on a maintenance dose, they are approved for this, and plenty like me. I want the health benefits the drugs bring and I don’t wish to live my life struggling with feeling deprived, and obsessed with the scales, I am slim, and I will stay slim and healthy with the mediation supporting me,

But it is an EASY FIX pp, and fatties like us must be made to SUFFER

Are you extremely petite and inactive / low muscle mass after losing the excess weight? 1350 is so low

What I would say to a six-year-old: what’s it got to do with you.

I don't take any weight loss medication but I'll be on multiple meds for life. Are they a concern for you or just Mounjaro, OP?

@Lighttodark ,at menopause, my metabolism just went nope, I have to eat very very little to lose weight, and not much more to maintain, having been able to lose weight fairly easily before, the sudden weight gain is alarming. Many menopausal women are finding this drug a brilliant tool, because you just can't eat very many calories, I'm not going back to dumpy frumpy me, so I'll stay on it for now, and eat very little, albeit very nutritious food. I'm a normal height, and eat about 1000 cals a day, usually less,ive more or less lost the 4 stone I wanted to, I'll then eat a few more calories like @Zempy ,but that's the reality of it, I take supplements and strength train and walk for miles with the dog too. Oh and micro dose.

I’m very interested in the preliminary results that show it has protective effects against Alzheimer’s. All the women in my family get Alzheimer’s. If a permanent low dose stages that off sign me up.

As @Levitatingdown explained, life hasn’t always been like this!! I used to eat chocolate and crisps and maintained a healthy weight.

Since menopause my metabolism shut up shop. I see a consultant endocrinologist who is very supportive of my MJ use, although I didn’t get NHS prescription. My cholesterol levels were 8.75 and are now 3.4.

Quite.

She’s already done a thread about how she’s too thick to read a book so maybe she thinks she sounds sincere.

Because of the thickness.

Yes I think for some it’s the money but also in part in think its a desire for people to come off and regain, rooted in envy or resentment, I see so many of these posts, surely you can’t stay on forever.

Yeah. Yeah I can. and I will.

Wow. Your comment is quite telling about the person hiding behind the keyboard, so incredibly rude.

I am genuinely curious, which is why I started this post but from what I gather this seems to be a touchy topic for many of you.

Why are you curious?

well but you need those meds for health reasons. My point was mainly around those who choose to me on meds forever just to lose a bit of weight, it seems like a silly risk to me tbh

Are you genuinely so ignorant that you don’t understand the serious health implications of obesity?

Or are you just trying to wind people up because your own life is lacking?

@Takemebacktospain im assuming you didn’t actually read the medical journals then. Shame. Rather than be lazy and ask for opinions from others. Do your research and learn. You have a lot to learn reading your posts. If you’ve got lots of weight to lose as I think you do, you’ll find informing yourself accurately is beneficial.

You don't understand that obesity is linked to health and yet you think you're qualified to have this discussion?

@Calamitousness I don’t have lots of weight to lose. I was only 5kg overweight and I have managed to tackle it slowly with small adjustments to my diet and lifestyle. I have zero desire to inject myself with a medicine if not for a real medical reason. Each to their own though.

my current "plan" is that when im at my goal weight, i will space out my injections longer, and gradually reduce the dosage hopefully and try and maintain my weight that way.
If I have to stop them, then ill see how it goes, and hope that the fact ive done it gradually and kept to a low dose of mj the whole time anyway, makes it easier to maintain.
No guarantees though,

But I wasn’t talking about those who are actually obese, was I? I was asking mainly in relation to those who are only a few kg overweight and feel the need to use meds