Going off Mounjaro for vacation

[Anonymous]

I have done great with Mounjaro and I am now on maintenance plan. When I am in my normal routine, I have a pretty routine plan of what I eat all the time. I have worked hard to find things I like within plan.

Twice a year we go on vacation. I want to completely go off medication long enough in advance to enjoy those weeks without nausea etc.
I will get right back on plan when I get home. Has anyone done something similar? How did it go for you?

[Anonymous]

How long and what dose. I have gone 10 days between doses. I wouldn't go off for longer.

[Anonymous]

I still don’t understand why you need to be on these drugs for a lifetime. If you know what you should be eating daily to maintain, why do you still have to take the drugs? Can’t you just continue the diet yourself?

Are you diabetic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I still don’t understand why you need to be on these drugs for a lifetime. If you know what you should be eating daily to maintain, why do you still have to take the drugs? Can’t you just continue the diet yourself?

Are you diabetic?

Its really really hard to keep the food noise away. Im not on the meds and im not too overweight but i think about food all the time. I would love medication to change the way my brain is about food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I still don’t understand why you need to be on these drugs for a lifetime. If you know what you should be eating daily to maintain, why do you still have to take the drugs? Can’t you just continue the diet yourself?

Are you diabetic?

This is a very old and inaccurate mindset. Obesity is a metabolic disease: this has been demonstrated throughout at least a decade's worth of research in both human and non-human models. The majority of those living with obesity cannot just will themselves to stop being diseased.

[Anonymous]

I have gone off Wegovy and gone back on. Not for vacation, but because I was trying to do what the PP said, "just continue the diet" and maintain the loss. Spoiler: it did not work.

Anyway I've done it. You need to re-start at the lowest dose. Which may help minimize side effects? I am lucky that my side effects have been minimal. I can't imagine feeling nauseated all the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have gone off Wegovy and gone back on. Not for vacation, but because I was trying to do what the PP said, "just continue the diet" and maintain the loss. Spoiler: it did not work.

Anyway I've done it. You need to re-start at the lowest dose. Which may help minimize side effects? I am lucky that my side effects have been minimal. I can't imagine feeling nauseated all the time.

Every diet plan since the dawn of man.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I still don’t understand why you need to be on these drugs for a lifetime. If you know what you should be eating daily to maintain, why do you still have to take the drugs? Can’t you just continue the diet yourself?

Are you diabetic?

Wow, nice 1970s mentality about weight loss. Maybe read up on research.

[Anonymous]

Thanks all. I’m wondering how long I need to be off so that I enjoy food on vacation. I am at my goal weight, but still struggling with A1C, etc. that’s why I’m staying on it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks all. I’m wondering how long I need to be off so that I enjoy food on vacation. I am at my goal weight, but still struggling with A1C, etc. that’s why I’m staying on it.

My experience is with Wegovy. What I have noticed is that my appetite gradually increases after about 2 weeks. At about 3-4 weeks I am much hungier, and at about 5 weeks it's like it is completely out of my system.

There are reddit subs where you could probably get good answers about this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks all. I’m wondering how long I need to be off so that I enjoy food on vacation. I am at my goal weight, but still struggling with A1C, etc. that’s why I’m staying on it.

This is a medication for diabetes NOT weight loss. I would assume that as a diabetic you know you don't got off your meds because of vacation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks all. I’m wondering how long I need to be off so that I enjoy food on vacation. I am at my goal weight, but still struggling with A1C, etc. that’s why I’m staying on it.

This is a medication for diabetes NOT weight loss. I would assume that as a diabetic you know you don't got off your meds because of vacation.

Actually, doctor said it was perfectly fine and even positive to take short breaks to keep the drug effective. Just looking to find out how far in advance to stop. I definitely have some nausea with the med.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks all. I’m wondering how long I need to be off so that I enjoy food on vacation. I am at my goal weight, but still struggling with A1C, etc. that’s why I’m staying on it.

This is a medication for diabetes NOT weight loss. I would assume that as a diabetic you know you don't got off your meds because of vacation.

Wrong. It’s a medication for diabetes AND weight loss. Semaglutide for diabetes is called ozempic. And semaglutide for weight loss is called wegovy. It’s the same drug, just marketed for two different issues.

[Anonymous]

I have a similar question for Ozempic. Not because I want to “enjoy food” on vacation but because I don’t want to carry the meds with me. I don’t want to risk it being taken by security in the US or Europe. I’d miss 9 days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a similar question for Ozempic. Not because I want to “enjoy food” on vacation but because I don’t want to carry the meds with me. I don’t want to risk it being taken by security in the US or Europe. I’d miss 9 days.

I'd just do a dose right before you leave and right when you get back. When I had a med shortage issue awhile back, I stretched out the time between doses to 2 weeks with no problems.

But I also suspect you would be fine carrying it on. I would worry too, but realistically lots of people are on injectable meds and they have to let them through.