I am sure some posters are going to tell me this was always a risk. I know! Others will no doubt say about learning new habits whilst on WLI injections. It’s not that I don’t know how to eat healthily or exercise it’s just that didn’t seem to make any difference (perhaps due to me having PCOS) which is why I ended up obese. I don’t really want a lecture, just support!
More details about my MJ experience below but, as the title suggests, after 6 months off it, I am thinking I need to go back onto a lowish level so that, even if I don’t lose weight, I at least stop re-gaining weight. But it is over 6 months since I ordered and even now my BMI is only just nudging over 27. I don’t want to re-gain the rest before I can start again.
I started MJ in May 2024 with a BMI of 30. By early April 2025, I had lost 2.5st and my BMI was just above 25. It was never a magic wand for me as very rarely had much suppression but it did at least keep a lid on things and I did lose, albeit slowly. The lack of suppression did mean I kept going up the doses and, by the time I stopped, I was on 12.5ml and finding the side effects - fatigue and low level nausea - tedious. I also thought that, whilst the weight loss was good the fact I was too tired to exercise and too nauseous to eat much other than carb heavy bland food wasn’t very healthy long term.
My plan had been to titrate down but forgot to take my pen on holiday so just went cold turkey. I gained a few lbs on holiday and thought I’d be able to get rid of those by adopting healthy eating habits and exercising, somehow forgetting that I had been meaning to do that for the three years before going on MJ during which time I had continued to gain.
We’re now a few months on and I am on the cusp of having re-gained a stone, or half of what I lost. My thighs are rubbing together and I no longer fit into some of the clothes I bought earlier this year. Since the children went back to school I have been focussed on trying to lose weight but the whole point of going on WLI in the first place is that I had failed at traditional weight loss methods. Or even weight control methods. The few days I have managed to be “good” I have either been miserable or hangry (or both!) and I just can’t face months like that in an attempt to lose 3 or 4lbs.