Starting Mounjaro this week! Any tips?

[purplepie1]

Well after researching Mounjaro earlier this year and being told by my GP to go on it, I have bought it.

I did cancel a previous order as I was worried about the side effects by my GP said not to worry and it will benefit me.

I'm excited but also a little nervous.

I'm looking for tips on diet and what foods you found that increased side effects and were best to avoid.

thanks

I had some nausea at the start but it was manageable. Also a bit of constipation. I lost about three stone with no real effort just a reduced appetite and a lot less food noise.

I took no supplements or anything like that.

Good luck!

My main tip that is nothing to do with diet and foods is to read the paper leaflets that come with the pen, and consult them first if you have any questions.

Side effects for me were connected to things that I found hard to digest and therefore caused gastric upset. That’s quite specific to me though. Other than that, the general advice I would give is just to pay attention to how you feel when you eat. In the early days I found that I would suddenly get the “totally full couldn’t even contemplate another tiny mouthful” and it was important to notice that and stop eating. If I pushed and ate more, I would then feel uncomfortably full for ages.

There’s also the obvious stuff like prioritise protein and veg when you’re eating and minimise the carbs especially processed UPF type ones.

More protein
More water
Don't go up in dose every month, wait until you've plateaued at least three weeks
Don't feel like you have to go up by the full 2.5 when you do go up a dose, find out how to adjust your dose to suit you
Don't expect that you can lose the wight, stop the MJ and be "cured". Obesity is a chronic illness and I expect to stay on some sort of dose for life, like I would medicine for blood pressure or whatever.

Also, well done for choosing you. My only regret is not starting sooner!

Stay Hydrated
Prioritise protein
expect to feel tired, nauseous, headachy and have some constipation this is perfectly normal in my experience.
stay on the lowest dose until you aren’t losing weight for about 3/4 weeks.
avoid fatty rich foods
try to eat slower and eat less to see how your stomach feels. Good luck.

I had no bad side effects at all. But I had little to no appetite, so I’d say make what you do eat as nutrient rich as you can. And I took a multivitamin and mineral supplement.

It’s not a quick fix so if you’re actually obese and not simply wanting to drop a couple of stones, then be prepared that you’ll probably have to stay on some form of glp-1’s for life. Hopefully, your GP will have already explained that to you?

Eat clean on jab day so simple plain foods. Focus on protein and fibre and nothing fatty. If I eat fatty or very spicy foods, I get horrible side effects!!

Great advice. Have you seen the UK GLP1 research results? https://mbk.life/pages/experts. It is right at the bottom. Spot on about protein and fibre, plus various other missing nutrients.

Thanks for all the advise.

I started last Friday and didn’t expect it to kick in until the next day. On Friday night I had a Chinese and only ate half portion of boiled rice and about a third of the main dish. The main dish wasn’t a sugary sauce and the meat wasn’t battered. I felt full very quickly and this stayed with me all night to the next morning. As PP said to eat clean on the first day, this now makes sense. Saturday I was with family so couldn’t plan meals but ate a much smaller portion than normal and avoided sweet treats. I drank water most of the day and only had one cup of tea.

my sleep was poor on Friday night but better on Saturday night.

i had a slight headache on the first two days that felt similar to a hangover. I upped my water and it went away.

I have lost 1.5 lbs already and this could be due to the Mounjaro but also I was watching what I ate during the week.

i have noticed that even though I am eating less I am not getting the usual feeling of low blood sugar that I usually get when dieting. This has stopped me dieting in the past as I have had reduce calories to a lower level to lose any weight.

Keep a few packs of dextrose (glucose) tabs handy. You can get in most supermarkets and of course Amazon, knocks it right on the head.