Magnesium for chocolate cravings

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I'm in maintenance and been on 7.5mg for 8 weeks (highest I went to was 8.5mg). I was doing fine and was going to start titrating down again, but these past 2 weeks the chocolate cravings have suddenly returned. A quick google highlighted that chocolate cravings can be linked to low magnesium and coincidentally my bog standard magnesium tablets ran out 3 weeks ago and I keep forgetting to pick more up. So I'm going to give magnesium another try before I consider increasing my dose, but just thought I'd share in case anyone else is battling chocolate cravings and also to see if anyone can recommend a decent brand as I'm happy to pay more if it does the job.

I like both the WellGard Magnesium Glycinate and SMUG Magnesium Citrate - both from Amazon.

Which one I take depends on whether MJ is making me a bit constipated. If it is, then the citrate. Otherwise the glycinate is the best absorbed by the body and doesn't act as an osmotic laxative in the same way.

But I would also say there's nothing much wrong with having a couple of squares of good high percentage cocoa dark chocolate occasionally either. I aim for around 80-90% .

I'm also in maintenance for the last 3 months, currently down to 5mg from 10.

This is really interesting. I've been on MJ over 2 years, on maintenance over a year). I started taking magnesium 3in1 a long while back to help with sleep and constipation so maybe that's why I never fancy chocolate now. Incidentally, my partner has also started to take it for nerve pain from a neck disc problem and swears it's helped like nothing else has.

I get the Nutrition Geeks stuff with a subscription from Amazon.

Thanks @GiveMeWordGames actually I have been constipated this last week or so and I've never had that up until now on mounjaro. Again I didn't link it to the magnesium - duh! Well done on your maintenance!

Thanks, you too!😀

Ooh that's interesting about the nerve pain @KrankyKumquat I'm glad it's working for him. I think some of the craving reduction must be mounjaro based too because it was the overwhelming cravings, food noise, dopamine seeking etc that led to me being the weight I was before mounjaro, and I'm pretty sure I was taking magnesium before I started on the jabs. I just obviously need both!

I take Magnesium for restless legs but it didn't affect my ability to put away a large amount of chocolate 😁 (pre MJ)

I buy these off amazon and they help with my sleep, constipation, leg cramps (i was deficient due to long term PPIs). If I forget to take for a few days I know about it.

Huge pack of 360, dose a 2 per day is 381mg of elemental magnesium which is quite high, I take 1-2 depending on how I feel so they last ages.

I haven't linked to chocolate cravings, I assumed the lost desire for chocolate was due to Mounjaro which I started around the same time.

Same @BerfyTigot 😆

Thank you @WeAllHaveWings

I just couldn't understand why the cravings have suddenly come back when I've been on 7.5mg for ages. Plus there's the constipation which again I haven't had at all since starting mounjaro over a year ago. Ideally I want to be coming down the doses not increasing them now I'm in maintenance, so I'm hoping it is all linked to the magnesium and not just a coincidence.

Those of you who take magnesium supplements, are there any brands where the tablets are not red or a similar colour and not massive?

Neither of the ones I mentioned upthread are red. They're both white. I'm not sure I've ever seen red/brown ones.

The SMUG citrate ones are slightly smaller capsules than the glycinate but still bigger than, say, a paracetamol.

I have found that the effectiveness of MJ varies massively while in maintenance. I have been maintaining since Jan. I just eat somw chocolate if i want some, but i do track calories to keep in check. I will try magnesium again, i havent been consistent with it. Hope it helps

I’ve taken magnesium for years for sleep, had no impact on my chocolate urges, if it had, I’d have been less likely ro need mounjaro,

@GiveMeWordGamesthank you. I know it sounds daft, but ARFID means I can’t eat things that are red, inc tablets. Tablets usually come in containers that you can’t see through, so it’s always a risk buying something new if you don’t know what colour they are.

Magnesium, to get a decent dose, is likely to always be fairly big capsules. They are usually white. I think there are some dissolving powders you can get but I have never tried them.

I swallow two magnesium capsules and two utrogestan (HRT) now all together in one go no problem - it is psychological thing, once I did it a few times it was no problem.