Mounjaro not working for me

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I have been on it for 5 months and have only lost 1 and half stone.
I started at nearly 19 stone so there is a a lot of weight to lose!
I just kept thinking I just needed the higher doses then it would kick in, but I’m now on 15mg and I still feel little impact. I have 2 days where a feel a bit nauseous so off food, then after that don’t feel the effects. £300+ a month feels a lot to be losing 3lb a month.
just frustrating that everyone else seems to have amazing results.

I feel like you’re not actually reading my posts. I didn’t say I got to target on sw or ww, I said I yoyo’d on them. If I’d have got to target and maintained I wouldn’t have started MJ in the first place.

healthy eating programs/diet - tomato/tomato. As I’ve said, I struggle as I fall off the wagon due to struggling to control cravings and food noise. That is what I thought the MJ would help with. That is what most other people say it has helped them with.
I will carry on doing sw for £25 a month thank you.

I lost 2 stone coming three years ago, Ive maintained

I eat the same meals as I feed the family - lasagne, curry ,roasts etc

I dont deny myself anything other then white bread - Id swallow a whole loaf if I start

Ive never spent a penny on anything SW promote - not frylite, their snack bars or their meal range

So tell me how they arent healthy again?

When they promote cooking from scratch and portion control?

You are right, I didn't read all your posts

Do you think that I myself dont live with " food noise" ? A term I had never heard off until I came to MN, I thought everyone thought about food all day. Sure Ive gained 2lb this week because the "noise" has been so loud, only today Ive had to open the button of my jeans - and that's not going to be the case next week. And it's not going to be the case because I stick to the programme of eating healthily - 90% of the time. ( health scare at the moment, Ive been pretty emotional and white bread has been my go too )

How are you yo yo ing when on the programmes? Everyones weight will go up and down daily and weekly - but if you follow and follow 100%, even if you get a gain in a week, you will see over the months you are decreasing

Weight up and weight down happens, but sticking to the healthy as much as you can will see the rewards Im an alike, I drink like a fish, yet I can still lose and maintain and not go hungry and even have chips , cheese and curry sauce or a feck off curry when I want. I dont live on lettuce

Muller lights are 0.5 syns (which they had to do because people were eating buckets of them) and avocado is 9.

3 years, isn’t 5 years. And you might be an outlier. I’ve done it the past. And now I know a lot more about nutrition and diet culture and food.

The data shows that it doesn’t work (except for about 3% of people).

So what are you typically eating? Maybe we can help!

People join and rejoin SW all the time, and most times they regain more than they were to start with. This is in line with loads of research about diets in general. I assume that’s what she meant by yo-going

I have been on weight loss injections for a long time. ...coming up to 3 years with a break when they became unavailable for a while. I have an underactive thyroid, no gall bladder and am post menopausal. I knew early doors that it would be slowwwwww progress for me. I have gone from just over 17st to 13st 9lbs and am delighted. I have another stone or so to go. Some months I lose nothing at all but i keep plugging away. If you can afford it keep going. I have learned so much about myself during this journey that i know it isnt going back on. Mounjaro allows me to feel like naturally skinny people do around food. It levels the playing field.

I dont eat muller lites - I posted there that I dont eat anything that SW promote - today it was mug shots, and packets of rice

I do not fall for that shite

I use SW to keep to a balanced diet , protein, fibre and carbs

When I first started, I favoured carbs, naturally they are further down the list now Im target. Because appetite is smaller and getting the protein and fibre in, means less belly room ( unless I reach for white bread then I have a hollow stomach )

I do SW for the accountability and to be amongst overs who struggle around food as much as I do

I do AA for the same reason

No one knocks AA yet SW or WW gets kick to the curb
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Maybe if they stay, free of charge, the weight wouldn't pile on again?

I had the same issue/thought process after 6 weeks of mounjaro , plus it gave me nasty heartburn 4 days a week . I do think if you naturally are able to calorie count and not a constant snacker then if you are only losing a 1lb a week and paying a lot of money to do so then I personally kind of couldn’t see the point -maybe if I was 19stone and couldn’t control eating at all I might feel differently - as it is I am losing at same rate by calorie control and lots more water and being consistent about it over a very extended period - I am 2 stone 2 down in 7 months (am 63)

If you don’t feel any fuller or a reduced appetitive then it is possible you are in the minority which mounjaro doesn’t affect. I believe 15% of people in trials found no effect.
If you decide to come off it you will soon see if it was indeed doing anything.
Worst case scenario you can go back on it or otherwise wait for retatrutide to be approved as it is said to be more effective than mounjaro.

I think you're right. The most significant thing it does for me is reduce the food noise. It does come back now and again and it really reminds me how damaging it is.
Sadly, mounjaro doesn't work for everyone and you may be one of those people. I think someone already suggested trying the alternatives. This is worth a go as they are different and one of them might be what you need.

For me, I think Mounjaro does help a little but I can maintain a greater average loss by my own willpower. Over 5 months of “diy” dieting I lost almost 2 stone and found my appetite had reduced, I could no longer eat large portions and I did not yearn for unhealthy snacks. I was able to go out for a meal and enjoy something like roast chicken with a jacket potato then resist the dessert!

For the first time in years of being obese ( weighed 19 stone at my heaviest) I have a very strong motive. My son is getting married next May when I will be forced to socialise with my ex husband and the woman who he had an affair with which ended my marriage! I don’t want to wear a plus size tent dress or be unable to walk without 2 walking sticks due to knee pain. I needed to lose weight in order to have both knees replaced.

My reasons for stopping Mounjaro are two fold, mainly the side effects of severe diarrhea after each injection and also being told to stop taking it prior to my first knee replacement operation booked in December.