If you have experienced success as a veggie…

[Florence4170]

What do you eat on a normal day?a
I snack all the time.🙈. I rarely eat full meals but snack all day every day. I just don’t seem to be able to stop. So if I were to try the injections, I have no idea what my eating would look like. I’m worried that it would not work for me as I eat little in volume - just high calorie snacks all day every bloody day.

I was largely veggie/vegan for 10 years before starting mounjaro. I was always hungry and snacked all the time.

After starting, almost immediately, I started getting strong cravings for things I hadn't eaten for years. Chicken, fish, beef, eggs, cheese, pretty much everything!

It’s perhaps a bit harder than it is for those who eat meat, but perfectly doable. You’ve got to remember that you ideally need to change your habits to really win at this, so you step away from constantly snacking to having proper balanced meals.

Im veggie. I typically eat berries with Greek yogurt and pumpkin/sunflower/chia seeds for breakfast. Then perhaps cottage cheese on seeded toast for lunch or a homemade veggie soup with feta crumbled in it. For evening meals I often have a salad and add feta, halloumi or mozzarella to it. Sometimes I add lentils for more protein. Sometimes I add a baked potato or a couple of new potatoes. Or I have a little whole meal pasta and make a ratatouille sauce (onions, chopped toms, courgettes, leeks and mushrooms) with a little cheese crumbled on top, or a veggie curry (I use the same ratatouille but add a tin of chick peas and curry powder) with brown rice, or a three bean and lentil chilli. Getting enough protein is the tough thing. Omelettes are great too.
I initially went with Voy, who are quite expensive, but had great back up, and their AI chatbot was fabulous for finding recipes for me.
Ive been going a year. Initially I lost quite quickly, but the last six months have been slow. However I’m nearly five stones down and looking and feeling so much better. It’s worth a try. But you really do need a plan for how you’re going to do it.

I am strict lacto-ovo vegetarian and have been for all my adult life, from being a young teen. I have been absolutely fine on Mounjaro, been on it for 2 years now. I have not had any cravings for meat or anything like that.

I used to eat all the time, that was part of why I ended up morbidly obese. There is no reason to think that Mounjaro (or Wegovy) wouldn’t work for you because you graze all the time. Your appetite will be reduced and you will feel fuller quicker and stay full for longer. That means you would lose interest in snacking, so you could then plan 3 meals a day, or 6 smaller meals if you prefer.

If you’re lucky.
I haven’t had much in the way of appetite reduction or feeling full. I can still snack all day easily and eat huge portions. So I’m having to really plan what type of thing I’m eating.
But I haven’t craved meat either!

@RockinCara I was describing the intended effects of Mounjaro/Wegovy as there’s no reason to think that it wouldn’t work for the OP. You don’t need to be lucky as the majority of people who take weight loss injections get the intended effects, even if takes a while to get to the dose level that works for them. It’s only around 1 in 10 who it never really works for.

And I’m just saying that it might not happen. It does for most people, but not all, and just to be aware of that. And as someone who would kill to feel appetite suppression and not have food noise, I think you are lucky if you have it. But quite a few of us don’t.

Thanks, all. I won’t have cravings for meat, I’ve been a veggie since I was little. I am worried about being in the 10% of people it doesn’t work for. I think that’s why I haven’t tried it yet - if I try it and it doesn’t work I would be devastated. I haven’t got lpads to lose but not losing anything would be very hard indeed.

With me, it took quite a while to realise it didn’t- I ate expecting to feel
full and get side effects, so I did lose a lot. Just after awhile I started eating larger portions and discovered that I didn’t have a “too full” experience and I still wanted snacks. But I’ve changed my habits and have an apple instead of chocolate or crisps, and I eat huge portions of veg alongside smaller portions of pasta than I would have had previously - and it works. I’m 5 stones down in a year. Yes I’d love to have suppression and only be able to eat small portions, but it’s not the end of the world..

I am a lifelong veggie and have done well on it, i eat opposite to you though, was in the habit of 18:6 fasting when i started MJ so i continued. I eat 2 meals a day, lunch will often be half a pack of ramen with lots of veg, 2 quorn fillets. Dinner is what I make the family but i just have a very small amount of the carbs and lots of veg. eg tofu katsu curry, chilli and rice, lentil spaghetti bolognaise, tofu tacos.

some ideas if you are a snacker, to keep my protein up for lunch away from home I have had protein yoghurts, babybel lights, quorn cocktail sausages along with cucumbers, cherry tomatoes etc.

Hope that helps being veggie shouldn’t stop your success. You might have to start meal planning though and experimenting in the kitchen.

Been veggie since teens and was also a constant snacker. Still am sometimes, I just try to make healthier choices.

Like a pp I often have Greek yoghurt with berries and seeds/nut for breakfast. Lunch I find the hardest to get protein in - it's often soup or cheese & crackers (ryvita, sliced avocado, apple, cottage cheese & sweet chilli sauce is a favourite at the moment).

Mini babybel light are 42 cals and 5g protein each, they are my protein boosts if I've not had enough and a really useful snack.

Nakd do protein bars which are 7g protein & 7g fibre and are my new alternative to chocolate bars when I'm craving something sweet.

Edamame (soya beans) are amazing snack food, I buy them frozen, defrost & add to dishes or have a small bowl as a snack with a sprinkle of salt.

I don't always have dinner if I've had a snacky afternoon, or only a small portion. Just my usual veggie dinners really, but I use less carbs and more pulses these days. Lentil lasagne, bean casserole & veggie sausages, chilli, warm salad with lots of veg & feta, halloumi kebabs, tofu noodle bowls, that sort of thing.

No-one can tell you how well WLI will work for you, but being veggie or not won't really make a difference. Having the mindset to eat well, get active where you can and don't kick yourself if you have a bad day (we all have them)!

I’m a veggie and I worked perfectly for me. However, I made an effort to change the way I ate then the Mounjaro just provided the willpower I needed to stick to things. I’m in maintenance now having lost 3.5 stone and I eat quite a lot because I’m training for a marathon but here’s what I ate yesterday.

pre gym snack: slice of sourdough with jam
Breakfast: porridge with pear, chia seeds, cocoa powder and ginger made with almond milk
Mid morning snack: Greek yog with apple, apricot and berries, tablespoon homemade granola, tablespoon non UPF muesli
Lunch: left over tofu risotto with edemame beans
snack: apple
dinner: couscous with roast veg and feta
snack: small bowl popcorn, 2
squares dark choc

As I say I’m now in maintenance and burn a lot of cals through exercise - when I was losing weight I would just have had the one Greek yog based breakfast along with lunch, dinner and the evening snack. I’m taking 1.25mg at the moment and actually have to make myself eat earlier in the day so I can exercise. There’s a good chance your desire to snack will vastly decrease on the drugs so you will need to be quite intentional in the way you eat.