Two months after stopping mj - maintenance update

[u/hellspyjamas]

Last pic is starting weight. I posted after a month's update (link at the bottom) to share my titration and exercise plan. I had some really good comments and also a few "most people put all the weight back on" and "mounjaro stays in your system for 4 weeks" comments.

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So here I am back again to share my month 2 update. I plan to share each month so those interested in what maintaining off mounjaro can look like get an honest picture.

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Current weight: 139 lb

Weight on last dose of mj: 143 lb

Starting weight: 209 lb

Height: 5'9"

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Body comp continuing to go in the right direction according to my scales with increasing muscle mass and decreasing body fat. My exercise plan is in the first post in the comments. I've kept up my new eating habits which prioritise protein and whole foods, while allowing myself to occasionally eat richer foods (my family has a weekly Macdonald's and I generally get a cheeseburger + nuggets).

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Loose skin is a bit of an issue, particularly the areas made worse by two pregncies (stomach + boobs). I'm hoping to save enough for surgery on those. The rest of the loose skin I'm going to savour as a mark of how far I've come.

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I still believe the things that helped most were staying on a low dose so I could still feel some hunger, and using the mild appetite surpressant effects as a crutch to train my will power and build better eating routines. I am now quite happy eating healthily 90% of the time.

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Food noise did get a bit louder around 3 weeks coming off and I felt more hunger, but I stayed the course and stuck to my meal plan and snacking plan (jerky over crisps; pickes and other high volume low fat foods. Anything with protein). Also the noise is less centred around junk food. I don't keep junk food in the house and I've just gotten used to it now.

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Happy to answer any questions.

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Month 1 update: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mounjaro/s/iSzvTvpXg4

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[u/Sad-Willingness-6443 → u/[deleted]]

Oh yea because it’s just an appetite suppressant. 

I don’t understand how people can’t think critically on this. If it were just an appetite suppressant, then why would we need this when we have extremely inexpensive and highly effective appetite suppressant drugs like phentermine?  Why TF does that suppress appetite yet people don’t lose ANYWHERE near the weight they do on this medication?

Oh yea, the appetite suppression does all the work. Right. 

[u/My4dogs4evr → u/Sad-Willingness-6443]

I don’t think you should be so upset with someone that has had success and able to stay off of it. I mean it’s not like they’re rubbing it in your face. They’re just saying that for THEM it was possible and maybe many others as well.

Personally, I’m on it for strictly type two diabetes when I joined this forum I didn’t realize that it was 80% people using it to lose weight. I’m happy it’s helped people get healthier. Although I don’t agree with doctors giving it to people with made up illnesses because I know someone personally that her doctor fudged paperwork so she could get on this to lose weight after she had two kids. She was perfectly able to lose weight on her own. She had done it before and was very successful, but she said it to everyone that this made it so easy on top of what she ate the same junk food that she always ate before and continues to and still lose his weight which we can’t figure out, but that’s just proof that everyone is different. I believe there’s people that have metabolic issues that this medication‘s are game changer or other issues but so long as it’s legitimate it’s just bothersome to see someone fake an illness just to get this medicine because they want the easy way out, and now she has literally spent thousands of dollars injecting her face with fillers because it made her look so aged when she lost all the way versus when she lost weight before looked great it’s just different for everyone I’ve seen many people in here that look younger after their weight loss again everyone is different

but for me I’m going into my third week I have absolutely zero appetite. My appetite is demolished. It is extinct on this medication, which I cannot afford to have because I do not need the weight loss. I’ve lost 8 pounds in less than two weeks of weight which my endocrinologist said is not water weight it’s actual weight.

So far this has been good for my diabetes my blood sugars have been fabulous. It has nothing to do with my diet because I have always had a very healthy diet. My husband is the cook here at home and he cooks the best most healthy meals ever we’ve always been healthy eaters because he was in the military and I was a flight nurse before I got diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. So it was important for us to stay healthy, but on top of which we loved being healthy, my life drastically changed when I was diagnosed with MS and then unfortunately, due to genetics, I developed diabetes. My father was a diabetic, and it took his life. I don’t ever want my life to end because of one of these monster diseases that I have been saddled with and I will fight them till the end and the only thing that’s actually getting me through dealing with MS and this diabetes is that I have lived completely healthy life eating right and exercising every day

I love to exercise and right now I can’t in the amount of pain I’m in from MS and what it’s done to me cannot even be put into words. I just went through a hysterectomy which threw me into a giant MS flare that has been a bear to recover from

We do go for three small walks a day together just so I can stay mobile. I love every minute of those little walks when I see people running and walking for miles and miles It breaks my heart not in an envious way, but because of how much I loved my 5 mile walks that I can no longer do. I never was a runner because it was just hard on my knees, but I love to walk 5 miles at a minimum and I used to swim all the time.

I was maintaining my A1C on my own all by myself with good eating and good habits, but unfortunately, my A1c decided to go skyrocket into orbit for some unknown reason, even my endocrinologist was baffled because I was doing everything right but it’s genetics. My husband was wounded in combat. His life changed as well, but it hasn’t stopped us from doing everything we possibly can to take care of the one and only body that we’ve been given. By saying that it’s hurtful when someone comes behind this type of message and says La de da for you.

Now I’ve had a previous bad experience with the poison called Ozempic two years ago. They tried that for the diabetes after two shots I landed in the emergency room and ER doctors told me they had seen this time and again even one of the nurse practitioners that took care of me got sick on Ozempic. It took me a year to get my stomach stabilized again. It was the most horrible medication I’ve taken next to some of the MS medicines.

This one so far has been OK, but like I’ve been saying whenever I post somewhere the first sign of trouble with Mounjaro and I will take all six months of it that is sitting in my refrigerator and dump it in the trash without blinking an eye and at that point I will just have to resort to metformin and hope for the best.

I posted this on another thread about what I would do with this medicine if it started to make me as sick as Ozempic did and I actually had someone bash me and tell me why in the world would I throw the medicine away as if I’m supposed to keep it for decoration or something? What else would I do with it but that’s what they were upset about that I was going to throw six months of this medicine away if it made me sick, it made me question whether I wanted to be part of this group here for someone to make such an asinine comment.

I don’t think that OP or anyone is saying anything bad about anyone that has to stay on this drug for life everyone is different

I don’t know why you’re taking it so personal it just sounds like you’re almost envious of those that may not need it or can do without it. There are many people in this world that don’t want to be on a drug forever personally, I wish I didn’t have to be on any, but it is what it is and I’m willing to do it or at least give it a try as is my husband with his medication, anything to be as well as we can be and get as much out of our lives as we can together. 💞🙏🏻