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[quote=Anonymous]Since this seems to be a hot topic I thought I would share my first hand experience with being on Mounjaro.  My perspective is of someone who what clinically obese, not someone who had vanity pounds to lose.

I started tirzepatide in July and have lost nearly 60 pounds since then.  Started at 235 with a BMI of 34.  Now my BMI is 25 which is still technically overweight but I am happy with where I am and I've stopped taking it.  
  
This drug is extremely helpful but is not a miracle.   The laws of biochemistry are still intact.  You lose weight because of a calorie deficit.  You can not be eating fast food every day and drinking high sugar beverages and drop pounds.

Tirzepatide makes you feel fuller faster.  Gets you to a place where your appetite is satisfied with one helping rather than going back for seconds.  I no longer craved salty chips or chocolate.  I could still have a glass of wine but I didn't want to have multiple glasses of wine.   
The weight-loss results from tirzepatide are similar to gastric bypass for morbidly obese patients.

Side effects - I had mild nausea, was very thirsty, and drank a ton of water and had the "sulfur-burbs" on the starting dose (2.5 mg).  These subsided after a few weeks.  Going up in dose didn't bother me.  At the end I was at 10 mg.  Others have experienced more significant side effects so YMMV.

There is a huge difference between someone who wants to lose 10 or so pounds and someone who needs to lose 50-200+ pounds.  I've lost 20 pounds before.  It's easy to get your mind around.  Just eat healthier and move around a more.   Four months later, I would hit my goal and move on.  When I faced needing to lose 50 pounds,  I just couldn't do it.  It was too overwhelming.  You can say I was weak but it is what it is.

Losing this much weight allows me to be more active.  Not having knee and back pain, makes exercising palatable.  I will never (and have never) been rail thin. I will never be an athlete.  It just isn't in my DNA and I don't enjoy it.  I don't get the high off of running like some people do.  I will do it because I know I need to but it isn't something I look forward to.

For those folks who say that people who take this drug are weak and should just use their will power, suck it.  Do you really believe that morbidly obese people haven't tried diet and exercise to lose weight? 
How many of you are on anti-depressants or anti-anxiety medications?  How many of your kids take ADHD meds?  Those are conditions that can be treated without medication.  When you get those diagnosis, doctors recommend lifestyle changes and therapy.  For some people, that works,  but for some people therapy and coping mechanisms aren't enough so they take the next step and found medicines that can help.  Worried about side effects of the drugs, sure but the side effects of carrying around 60 extra pounds for years at a time are pretty severe.  Obesity is a medical condition, not a moral failing.

For those of you who are going to ask how I got there...life happened.  I gained 60 pounds over 8 years.  I had a third baby in my 40s, post postpartum depression, my metabolism slowed, new job that was more sedentary, pandemic, juggling multiple kids with a high stress job, etc, etc.  Can other people deal with all of those things without gaining weight, sure.  Could I have dealt with these things by lifestyle choices?  Probably.  Does this make me a bad person?  Once I got there, the mountain I had to climb was too hard to get my mind around so I just gave up.

Everyone should be happy if only 10% of the people on these drugs are able to maintain weight-loss.  Obesity is a huge cost to our society and anything that can reduce that should be used.

For those who are contemplating taking these medications, I'm happy to answer any questions but I'm not going to get into a back and forth with people who judge people, especially if they haven't walked a mile in their shoes.

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