What happens when people stop the injections?

[IndigoBluey]

Just this really, when you reach your desired weight following the course of weight loss injections, do you stop taking the injections whilst sticking to a much healthier way of eating? I’m genuinely curious as to how it works in the long term. A friend of mine had stomach surgery a few years ago to shrink her stomach and very rapidly went from 18 to 9 stone, but then put a lot of weight back on gradually, to then start on WL injections. I suppose my question is when you know you are finished with needed the injections?

Is that Really worse for you than staying fat?

This!

Brilliant!

I was on mj and slowly put weight back on when I stoppped 9 months ago. I’ve put about a kg a month on. But due to work etc I’m a lot less active now too. I have just restarted on wegovy due to cost. I need the food silence and the aversion to alcohol.

Some very insightful responses. To those questioning my curiosity, I can’t really explain anymore than I have done already. I’m genuinely curious as to the long term, sustainable goal. I know how hard weight loss is and that my journey is nowhere near as hard as many of you.

Give it a rest now. You are using multiple threads to stoke a fire that you are trying to start. I hope no one on this thread is gleeful or delighted about weight loss and subsequent gain. It sounds like a main focal point of yours.

I’m using multiple threads, am I?

Do link me to one.

Really, go and find one.

I had to stop due to a health concern. I did six months on MJ, hoped/expected to have the option of taking it for maintenance. It’s been nearly 9 months since my last jab. I have put in a couple of kg, although that jumped up shortly after I started HRT and I think it’s related. I have to be very careful about what I eat and I’m at the gym 5 times a week. It’s hard work. I would love to have the option to go back on them, the food noise is miserable, but being healthier than I was does help me not to always succumb.

Reading with interest.

My journeys been brilliant to be honest, I feel so much better on the drugs, as Said bmi 20 now, staying on a maintenance dose, been about 7 months, my days aren’t hard, they would be if I came off, I’d be feeling deprived, watching the scales, but on a maintenance dose, no it’s honestly great.

It's quite a difficult one about what the science says... All the science about stopping / not stopping / maintaining / regaining that I have seen are people on prescribed medication, following (obviously as part of a controlled trial) a contolled regime.

I've not seen any actual science about the vast number of people who are paying for private prescriptions (the £££ has got to be a different motivation for maintaining the weight loss). There are some excellent support threads on here, either specifically about maintenance or as part of the 'cohort' who started with you. Many of them are really uplifting - people sharing diet, food menus, exercise regimes. It's a self generated support network that was not available to any of the people on the published trials that I have seen. Many anecdotal (and self-reported) posts of being able to maintain successfully.

And reading some of those threads, I defy any scientist to create a valid study. People's choices are so varied. Reducing gradually, coming off cold turkey, spreading out doses over longer periods, staying on a low dose, taking it intermittently (one month on / 2 months off).

I guess ultimately the proof will be in the published statistics about the levels of obestity.

Diet, Dopamine and Drugs by a former head of the FDA goes into the science and it's fascinating. Really worth a read.

@andforthefirsttimeinforever. You asked me to post your other threads, I searched and have tried to post your responses (as requested by you, but surely you know what you posted?) as you can see they have been deleted. You will have received a direct message, which describes your abhorrent conduct. Do better.

Thags a post, not a thread.

Sorry, do you only want people to reply once? I know my first reply was deleted. I was sarcastic in it is why; what I said was that this board is full of stories of friends who lost weight and then gained it, and the palpable delight from their ‘friends’ is obvious.

You claim this isn’t you, OK then. I still haven’t been posting on multiple threads about this.

‘Abhorrent conduct’ is absolute hyperbole. How do you describe things that are actually abhorrent?

I do think there’s an element of a wind up here. I posted a sarky response; MN deleted it, fair enough. That’s somehow now abhorrent content across multiple threads? 😂

@3flyingducksarrive I agree, it’s a fascinating read and really delves into the science around obesity, citing many experts and studies.

@OopOop if you are unsure of the meaning of the word, you should pick up a dictionary. No point asking others as to how it is interpreted

@3flyingducksarrivethis looks incredibly insightful, thanks for sharing, I plan to read it this weekend

@TheRealGoose. I’m so happy for you and glad that your journey is going so well. Well done and keep up the positive attitude!

What does reduced inflammation look/feel like? I read and see it a lot on social media but not sure what this is in reality.

I know the meaning of the word, that’s why I made the comment I did.

For me, it was for several years I couldn’t do a sitting kneel, ie where you kneel down and rest your backside on the back of your heels. As my ankles didn’t bend back, and my ankles were also stiff in the mornings and didn’t work properly, within a couple of weeks of starting the drugs, I could do a sitting kneel and also no more morning stiffness in my ankles, I am sure there is more, just that’s what was visible as such to me.

See this isn’t about weight then is it? How do we deal with inflammation once we come off?

You have to decide if you want to come off mj and the how to support your health through food and lifestyle. There are various anti inflammation diets etc you could adopt to help.

i am coming round to the idea that I may titrate down as low as possible but stay on mj for the foreseeable so long as money permits.