Mounjaro / Wegovy with > 5st / 30kg to lose - Alumni Maintenance Thread

[WeAllHaveWings]

Trying the new Community groups feature for a maintenance focussed thread for our Mounjaro/Wegovy with >5 stone/30kg to lose alumni 👩‍🎓

All Mounjaro/Wegovy with >5 stone/30kg to lose posters and lurkers who enjoyed the supportive weight loss thread welcome whether you have graduated to maintenance already or getting close and pondering what happens next!

I expect this thread will be much quieter than our main Mounjaro/Wegovy with >5 stone/30kg to lose thread (which has been running for almost 2 years now!) as it feels intensity drops when in maintenance, but it would be great to keep in touch with everyone now and again and how we are all getting on post-weight loss and what we find works / doesn't work.

I'll start the thread with Mumsnet maintenance posts most repeated practical maintenance advice gathered by asking CoPilot to look at the board -

🚫 Don’t stop abruptly – taper your dose and/or slowly space injections; stopping suddenly often means hunger and regain

🎯 Aim for the lowest dose that keeps food noise calm, not zero at all costs

🍽️ Expect appetite to return – hunger is normal in maintenance, not a personal failure

🔄 Don’t jump from dieting straight to “normal eating” – a slow reverse diet (adding food gradually) helps weight stay off

🍗 Keep protein‑first habits and the smaller portions you learned while losing

🏥 Check your provider supports maintenance (some stop prescribing below certain BMIs)

📏 Allow a weight “zone” (±2–5 lb) rather than chasing one exact number

🧠 Weigh less often – watch trends, not single‑day/week blips

🚶‍♀️💪 Walk regularly; add gentle strength if you can – movement supports stability and confidence

💭 Expect maintenance to feel mentally harder than loss – less scale feedback doesn’t mean you aren’t succeeding 💛

(Hope this works in the Mumsnet Community Group feature!)

Thanks for the thread @WeAllHaveWings !

I'm hoping to come off completely but am currently down to 5mg (from 10) and will stay there for a while, I think. I've hit my goal (11st 4, total loss 6 stone over the course of a year) and have gone below that a bit. Currently hovering around 11st 1. Ideally I want to be 4-5lbs below goal when I do come off completely.

Feel like I haven't got a fucking clue what I'm doing.😂

Know exactly what you mean @GiveMeWordGames thought I had a good idea what I was doing but the last 4-5 weeks are beginning to feel like I am pro actively pushing the limits and trying to tempt fate and I haven't quite worked out why yet. Am I self sabotaging as I want to get back to that exciting weight loss, chasing a goal feeling. Or has it been the introduction of more carbs bringing back bad habits.

Good news this week, end of week 18 of maintenance (week 91 of Mounjaro), last 6 weeks on 2.5mg again, I'm still maintaining around my maintenance weight......so far.

The way I approached maintenance was to "reverse diet" slowly increase calories by adding into what I was eating before (healthy protein based/lots of veg) some additional calories by having a wrap with my chicken and salad meal, or some bread to dook in my homemade lentil soup. Or a peshwari naan with my Indian takeaway 😳

But over a last few weeks I know the balance of calories in carbs is increasing - I don't track, but it is clear it doesn't feel right, and I am lax about correcting it as I don't see it on the scales yet 🙈

Hi. Just popping in from the other thread to say hi.
I have quite a few months till my target weight but would eventually like to be here - at target weight and maintaining! Seems like an impossible dream at the moment.
I will be lurking and picking up tips & tricks in preparation for the day i will happily be a 'maintainer'.

I lost 33-34 in 3.5 months with wegovy from 94kg at 163cm down to 60-61kg. I seem to fluctuate around there. I have never felt healthier and better in myself and it’s the easiest it’s ever been to keep the weight off as I changed my eating habits and exercise routine while on the jabs.

I only ever went up to 1mg of wegovy. I’m not sure if you’d lose more on a higher dose but it wasn’t necessary for me. Do you increase the dose if the hunger returns? I did get hungry but I’d manage to develop willpower whilst on the jabs so I’d be ok without them.

@dovess I have been on Mounjaro for 22 months, maintaining for 4. I was very (financially!) fortunate I never had to increase dose above 3.75mg and lost over 9st in that time and I am planning to maintain where I am now around BMI 24.6, not looking to lose more - as I am older / have quite a bit of loose skin which would probably take me closer to BMI 24.

Eating habits did dramatically change, almost from day 1, during the whole weight loss period, and thinking about it hunger is not significantly different now I have dropped to 2.5mg. The first 2-3-ish months maintaining was ok.

What has changed in the last few weeks - I am seeing, over the longer term, i think due to introducing back in more carbs to increase calories up to maintenance levels, I am starting to lose that good balance of carbs in my meals. I am getting attracted to too many carbs again. Not refined sugar though.

Maybe it is stress at work (working again today - not out enjoying the rarely seen Scottish sun ☀️today!) and not making time to meal plan / food shop order and it is just easier to throw some carbs together.

This thread is hopefully going to reignite my determination to make this stick - starting today!

Just saying Hello and I hope to be joining in about October, so keep going and I'll try to find you if there's another thread by the time I get there...! 😊

Although even with a stone to go, I kind of feel like I'm in maintenance mode a bit already - trying to embed good habits and see this as a forever thing - but am not tapering just yet, so will bugger off and will hopefully be back in a few months!

This came up on my feed. I wasn’t on the original thread but I lost 5 stone on MJ (7 in total). Maintaining on 15mg. Found slight increases in weight on last few months so back to counting to try and get a bit of control again

Hi.

Thanks for setting up this thread. I have been on the other chat, so sorry for the repetition for those who have seen me on that…

I’ve been on Mounjaro since Jan 25 and have lost 55kg - mostly in that first year, and on max dose was on 10. I’ve overhauled my diet (focussing on protein and fibre) and discovered exercise in a big way (doing it because I enjoy it rather than the food it “buys” me) and have never felt better.

Over the last month or two I’ve been trying to come to a soft stop (by that I mean I’m happy to lose a few kg more, but equally very happy where I am) by slowly decreasing the dose (now at 8.5) and increasing calories. However, my body seems to have other ideas and on a mini whoosh having lost 2kg this month.

I have no idea what I’m doing really, especially on fuelling my exercise, never having been so active before. I’m fully intending on staying on a low dose long term, but no idea what that’ll end up being.

So very keen to find a place to share maintenance ideas!

Thanks!

I had a similar idea to your soft stop @Questions1234 but did it because I am in my late 50s and didn’t want to over shoot.

I was very lucky that I lost consistently for 18 months, I never plateaued or stalled, and was still averaging 1lb a week loss. So to slow it down I started tentatively reducing (I didn’t have far to go as only got as high as 3.75mg) to 3mg when I was around BMI 27 and continued to lose, but slightly slower, until I hit BMI 25.

I started increasing calories for another 3 months before reducing to 2.5mg 6 weeks ago. Now planning to stay put until I get a handle on my carbs!

I was getting into an exercise routine, nothing major (walking and dumbbells at home) but consistent , but it has suffered with my ankle fracture/drop foot, needing HRT increased and project deadlines/different timezones or weekend working over the last 6 months. I really need to stop making excuses, prioritise and kick start it. I’m off work next week for first break from work this year and that is one of my goals (hope the Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 weather keeps up for me!)