@LizzyEm you’ve wandered into a WLI support thread to stir, not to support.
The idea that people on Mounjaro just need “more willpower” or “less junk” is out of date.
These meds don’t work because they “replicate low carb.” They act on GLP-1 and GIP hormone pathways in the brain and gut, changing the way hunger and reward signals are processed. That’s why people describe the food noise disappearing and why diet alone, however “clean,” never achieved the same effect.
Obesity isn’t just “eating too much”; it’s a chronic, relapsing metabolic condition and recognised as such by the WHO.
Once someone has been obese, their body actively fights to regain weight through changes in appetite hormones, metabolism and brain chemistry. That’s not a willpower issue, it’s physiology.
For many of us staying on a low maintenance dose is reasonable. It’s treating an ongoing condition and improving mental health, not some moral failing needing a lecture.
Maybe read up on it a bit more, without the bias, before parachuting into support threads to educate people, many of whom already know a lot more about this than you do, and understand it through personal experience. No links, because we all know how to google.........