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.

I am so bemused by you and the ops question. I see it so often. I cannot get my head round people who ask it, are you genuinely asking if you inject this drug if it means you stop and you will be slim forever? That the drug works forever?

or do you feel it magically melts fat and you don’t need to diet, then if you stop weight magically appears on your body again? Do you post asking this question on every diet forum, slimming world, low carb etc, what happens when you stop?

I genuinely believed it was completely obvious, that if you eat more cals than you burn you gain weight, but apparently not. People seem to not understand this and think the medication is some sort of weird magic that melts fat and if you stop the weight just magically appears all over your body.

its just so odd,

You’re showing your ignorance around obesity.
People on mounjaro are very often not on it “just to lose a bit of weight” but because without it you’re very likely to remain obese and suffer from all the other conditions that come along with it. Obesity is a chronic condition and those with it should have access to the medications that help to manage it, just like any other medical condition.

My body does not produce enough of the GLP1 hormone that regulates blood sugar and appetite. Therefore I take this synthetic version to increase my levels to "normal" - it's levelling the field to give me the same ability to maintain my weight as other people without this deficiency.

Much in the same way I take synthetic estrogen and progesterone to offset the fact that my body does not produce enough of them naturally to allow me to be well.

I’m not sure what you think the risk is?

However, I don't take MJ ‘just’ to lose weight. I take it for the vast health benefits losing weight provides me. I already have gone from barely able to walk with a stick to being part way through couch to 5 k. I have lowered my blood pressure, my inflammation, increased my focus, lost a lot of my anxiety. I’m living my life now, not struggling though. I have reversed my type 2 diabetes and I have lost over 6 stone. The weight loss, which I was unable to sustain before MJ, had been the catalyst for all of this.

So, what risk do you think is not worth it? Because as a sensible, grown adult I feel like I weighes them up against each other quite well before changing my life. Had I not taken the plunge with MJ I would still be sinking, quite literally, into that depression on my sofa.

I often wonder why so many people are against those of us who have struggled no longer struggling. interested to hear why. And also OP, why are you concerned about my risk of taking MJ but you were never here being concerned about my risk of obesity related health problems before?

The OP seems strangely unconcerned about obesity for someone so risk conscious. Not sure if they live under a rock and haven’t heard about how dangerous it is, or maybe they’re too dim to understand, or they think they know better than research scientists and doctors. They don’t seem bothered about the risks of losing weight through other means either, how odd.

I have just started WLI. I don’t have a long term plan but it is proving very successful so far at allowing me to eat a healthy diet without thinking constantly about food.

i took anti-depressants for 12 months some years ago which helped me get back on an even keel. It I had needed them ‘for the rest of my life’ I would have taken them. An easy fix for not being able
to get out of bed.

I also take HRT which may more not be long term. Another ‘easy fix’ for not being utterly exhausted.

MJ is also being explored for it’s benefits for ADHD and/or other addictions. Why do you need things to be acceptable only if people suffer?

Why do you keep taking about Asian people?

Well yes. At 5’ , 10 stone would be pretty overweight

Because prescribers use different BMI points to define obesity for different races because of the way they typically carry fat vs muscle.

BMI 30 is the start of obesity for white women.

BMI 27 is the start of obesity for black and South Asian women.

This means black and SA women can access WLI at lower weights than white women. This is medical process in the UK not something I’ve made up. I was using the point to demonstrate to the OP - who insists that women a few kg over weight are using jabs illegally - that some women a few kg overweight are able to access WLI legally as they’re considered obese.

And yet you start a thread, having already formed opinions you don’t sound like you will move on, out of ‘curiosity’

what exactly were you hoping to achieve out of this thread?