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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am 5’2 and was at 156. My doc had no trouble giving me a script for mounjaro. She said that is the most effective and has the least side effects. I am on the lowest dose and in 10 weeks have lost 27 pounds. 24 more pounds and I will be at goal weight. I don’t know if I will need to keep taking it for life or not. We’ll see. I saw someone suggest taking it for a year after reaching goal weight and has that time to establish good habits. [/quote]

OP. I had the idea that I would take this for two months, get to my goal weight, and quit. But 12 days in...I feel absolutely transformed. My mind, that's the big thing. My days do not revolve around food and whether I'm being good or being bad, whether I've ruined the day, whether my stomach hurts because I've binged horrible junk food or whether my head hurts because I'm starving on a diet. I honestly feel so much happier, I am calmer and sunnier with my kids, I'm not hiding my body under a towel when DH walks into the bathroom. My stomach is not hanging over my pants. Even though I'm on track to reach my goal weight pretty soon, I am wondering whether I can stay on a low dose of this for the long term.

It is so freeing. As some posters alluded to on here, I definitely suffered from disordered eating and disordered thinking around food. Battled it since I was a teenager, even though I always stayed a normal weight. It has caused me so much misery. Dreading events because I'll have to wrestle with whether to eat desserts, and if I give in, not being able to eat just a little. Starving and binging regularly.

All that has disappeared. I'm able to focus on other things (even though I'm totally obsessed with this medication, and cannot stop marveling about its effect on me). I feel so optimistic about everything!

I truly feel that the impact of taking these meds long term cannot possibly be worse for me than the way I was living and eating before. So much sugar, all the time. Eating more junk food than nutritious food. Not to mention the impact of this on my mental health. And the example I was setting for my children...I always tried to hide my binging from them...but also sometimes I'd used them as an excuse to, say, go out together for giant hot fudge sundaes and crap like that.

So I don't think I'm going to completely quit, at least not for a long while. I like what you said about staying on it for a year to establish good habits. One thing I have noticed, is that I don't feel any desperation around food anymore. It's like, before, I would feel I had to eat something because I might not have the chance to eat it later...or, more like, I would plan to "start clean" the next day so I felt desperate to have one last hurrah and eat the entire tray of cookies. I have completely lost that wacked out way of thinking. I baked cookies for my kids this weekend. I ate two bites of cookie dough. When the cookies came out of the oven, I didn't have any. I didn't even really try not to...I just kind of felt ambivalent about it. That was momentous for me. To just have two bites of something and move on.

Maybe if I do that for a year with the help of these meds, I could wean off them and retain those habits and [b]that way of thinking.[/b]

I am feeling like I don't ever, EVER want to go back to how I lived before.[/quote]

It’s not a way of thinking. It’s the drug’s mechanism acting on your brain. Once you’re off the drug your food noise will return. [/quote]

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