Foundayo for Maintenance

[MsTinWonderland]

5½ stone off since January 2025 using Monjaro and then Wegovy after the price rises. I am now at target and using Foundayo in the hope of maintaining. As I had a break from Wegovy I had to start on the 0.8mg. Anyone had success using for maintenance? I have gained 3lb in the month I have been on it - but it is early days!!

Im similar to you in that I’ve just moved across to Foundayo (5.5) after maintaining on MJ 7.5mg for almost a year. I’m in my second week and so far so good. I have had a small uptick in weight but I think that’s pretty normal when changing medication dose or type so am confident it will settle down as long as I continue my maintenance way of eating (and exercise).

I am interested in this because my Bariatric consultant is willing to switch me to 5.5 Foundayo or I can stay on 5mg Mounjaro. So it’s the devil I know v more convenient tablets and cheaper. I’m not sure what to do

@Davros are you in the UK and getting the prescription from your bariatric consultant via the NHS? If so, then I'd definitely stay on Mounjaro if you're getting it at prescription cost.

I am in the UK and seeing an NHS consultant but I don’t qualify for NHS prescriptions

Ah ok, so if cost is a big issue then I’d rather swap to Foundayo than stop taking a GLP1 altogether, if I couldn’t afford Mounjaro. If you can manage the cost then I’d stick with Mounjaro as it’s just much more effective.

Perhaps if you’re maintaining on the lowest Mounjaro dose then it could be worth giving Foundayo a try and seeing if a higher dose of Foundayo is as effective as the lowest dose of Mounjaro.

Thanks so much for your responses, I really appreciate it. I can afford Mounjaro but I don’t like the cost at all. I’m going to think about it

It’s something I mull over quite frequently. I’m still trying to drop a few more pounds so I don’t quite feel like I am in maintenance yet. So still on 12.5mg Mounjaro at the moment. I think maybe Foundayo would be an option for me when I’m definitely at target weight and want to try to move down Mounjaro doses and then see where I am.

I’m still technically obese according to the NHS BMI measurement at about 32 but I don’t know if I want to lose much more weight or, indeed, if I will. I’m going to give Foundayo a go and see how I get on

I agree - although I can afford it Foundayo seems much more cost effective for maintenance. If I was still wanting good weight loss there is no doubt that MJ is worth the extra spend!

I’ve ordered the Foundayo and will report back. Thanks so much for all your help

I’m interested in this response. My friend’s neighbour (so I only know her by sight and occasional hello) was very big. Probably a size 24/26. She has lost loads and looks great. Is now about 15/16 stone. My friend says she was on MJ via the nhs due to multiple health problems caused by weight.
Now, she has asked her doctor to swap to maintenance on pills. The doctor was not happy. Like you, she is still obese. BMI 32 is not ‘technically obese’ it’s actually type 1 obesity as defined by the NHS and comes with all the associated health issues.
According to my friend her neighbour has got fed up of not eating. Although she also says she has not been hungry. I found this such a strange behaviour.

To lose so much, improve her health and lifestyle so drastically but to stop because she wants to feel hungry, has made me realise just what a complex disease Obesity is. I would love to know if anyone else has decided to stop before a healthy weight has been achieved. I know only of someone in my circle who has made a conscious decision not to start. Although the cost is not an issue and she is not afraid of side effects. The reason she gives is that (in her own words) she was a fat kid, fat teen, fat young mum and now fat grandmother.. and wouldn’t know ‘how’ to be slim. Afraid her entire identity would disappear.

This is an interesting issue. I don't feel bothered about losing more weight but I do NOT want to put any on. I don’t care about wanting to be hungry and I’m not worried about my relationship with food. I never had “food noise” but I’ve been on steroids for 30 years and it has ruined my metabolism as well as making me put weight on very quickly at first. Then I got lymphodoema a couple of years ago and the physiotherapist referred me to Bariatric medicine. All those years, I was often told to lose weight, told I would find it difficult due to steroids, given no help and waved away. Now I feel I’ve got enough out of it, I am much healthier, I can buy clothes I like and I am not embarrassed about being a fatty. In the last two years, other things have affected my eating habits. Sadly DH died but it had a positive effect on my food intake. He was obsessed with food, constantly buying more food than we needed, the fridge was groaning and I hate waste… I also lost a few teeth 😱 I have an autoimmune disease which can cause these problems but I’ll probably never know. Either way, it really affects my experience of eating. So overall I’m not certain I need to stay on Mounjaro to control my eating and weight. If that turns out not to be the case, I won’t hesitate to go back to the Bariatric Consultant for a review. Sorry this was so long!

Thank you for that reply OP. I Think You and I were both in the same boat. I too put on a huge amount of weight by a steroids Specifically huge doses of prednisone for ITP..they don’t make you fat but they do make you hungry.. then I made myself fat. I too was sent to bariatric Services and had a gastric sleeve. That took me from 21 Stone to 15 Stone. Then the miracle of Mojarro arrived and now I am a size 8/10 and back where I began. However, the constant yo-yo dieting over the years to try and shift the weight caused insulin resistance so I have resigned myself to being on this wonderdrug for the rest of my life as I absolutely bloody love being thin. I am really interested in the psychology of weight, weight loss and peoples motivation so I really appreciate your reply.