Anonymous wrote:This medication is so weird. I have not had bad side effects, but it is very strange to have so little appetite. Just not hungry, and when I think about eating even the things I usually really like, they just seem unappealing.

I am happy about the weight loss and health benefits, but I definitely would not want to take this med continuously for years and years: it takes away the joy of food! I mean: I've never been a binge eater and have always eaten healthily, but under normal circumstance I love food. I like going to the grocery store and thinking about things to cook; I like cooking; I like eating and sharing the pleasures of a good meal with others. Now I don't have that. It's sort of like waking up one day and no longer enjoying any music.

I like the idea of reverting to the lowest effective dose and maybe alternating weeks, or even months. I don't mind some periods in which I don't have an appetite, but I actually want food to be a pleasure at least sometimes!

Between this and having to take this forever to keep the weight off, I think I'll keep working on habit change instead. Yikes.

I am taking it too. It's amazing. I was obese to start, my weight having crept up after 2 kids and the pandemic. I have lost 33 lbs since mid-August and feel AMAZING! I have had very few side effects and am hoping to lose at least another 30-40 lbs. This drug really is a game changer.

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Anonymous wrote:I would gladly take something like this forever and ever if it kept me at a healthy weight. No, scratch that, I would gladly make a deal with the devil for a healthy weight.

Call your PCP, endocrinologist, or plastic surgeon. All 3 of them have offered me the script.

What if you are not pre-diabetic? I’m just over the line into obese but my blood work is beautiful. I also struggle with constant hunger and cravings if I cut back too much in food.

I think you just need to ask your doctor...

And make sure you have insurance that covers (tricare for example does not cover it). There is the coupon, but it's really difficult for most people/pharmacies to use, and now you must be pre-diabetic.

Anonymous wrote:Are you taking the injection every day? Or once a month? Is it like fertility injections, how big is the needle?

Weekly, self-administered, and tiny needed. Slight sting but that's it.

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Anonymous wrote:I would gladly take something like this forever and ever if it kept me at a healthy weight. No, scratch that, I would gladly make a deal with the devil for a healthy weight.

Call your PCP, endocrinologist, or plastic surgeon. All 3 of them have offered me the script.

What if you are not pre-diabetic? I’m just over the line into obese but my blood work is beautiful. I also struggle with constant hunger and cravings if I cut back too much in food.

I think you just need to ask your doctor...

Are you taking the injection every day? Or once a month? Is it like fertility injections, how big is the needle?

Anonymous wrote:This medication is so weird. I have not had bad side effects, but it is very strange to have so little appetite. Just not hungry, and when I think about eating even the things I usually really like, they just seem unappealing.

I am happy about the weight loss and health benefits, but I definitely would not want to take this med continuously for years and years: it takes away the joy of food! I mean: I've never been a binge eater and have always eaten healthily, but under normal circumstance I love food. I like going to the grocery store and thinking about things to cook; I like cooking; I like eating and sharing the pleasures of a good meal with others. Now I don't have that. It's sort of like waking up one day and no longer enjoying any music.

I like the idea of reverting to the lowest effective dose and maybe alternating weeks, or even months. I don't mind some periods in which I don't have an appetite, but I actually want food to be a pleasure at least sometimes!

I actually feel the same way. I went to a very nice restaurant a few months ago while on this, and felt like I couldn't truly enjoy it or make it worth while. Sometimes it's depressing

But I've gone from 173 to 155 so far, so I know it's worth it.

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Anonymous wrote:I would gladly take something like this forever and ever if it kept me at a healthy weight. No, scratch that, I would gladly make a deal with the devil for a healthy weight.

Call your PCP, endocrinologist, or plastic surgeon. All 3 of them have offered me the script.

What if you are not pre-diabetic? I’m just over the line into obese but my blood work is beautiful. I also struggle with constant hunger and cravings if I cut back too much in food.

Anonymous wrote:This medication is so weird. I have not had bad side effects, but it is very strange to have so little appetite. Just not hungry, and when I think about eating even the things I usually really like, they just seem unappealing.

I am happy about the weight loss and health benefits, but I definitely would not want to take this med continuously for years and years: it takes away the joy of food! I mean: I've never been a binge eater and have always eaten healthily, but under normal circumstance I love food. I like going to the grocery store and thinking about things to cook; I like cooking; I like eating and sharing the pleasures of a good meal with others. Now I don't have that. It's sort of like waking up one day and no longer enjoying any music.

I like the idea of reverting to the lowest effective dose and maybe alternating weeks, or even months. I don't mind some periods in which I don't have an appetite, but I actually want food to be a pleasure at least sometimes!

This is so interesting. I haven’t taken this medication but did give up sugar and experienced the same thing. It was weird no longer craving sugar. I missed the feeling of seeing cake or cookies and thinking how delicious they are and how much I would like to eat them. I am over it now but it does take time to adjust.

Anonymous wrote:I would gladly take something like this forever and ever if it kept me at a healthy weight. No, scratch that, I would gladly make a deal with the devil for a healthy weight.

Call your PCP, endocrinologist, or plastic surgeon. All 3 of them have offered me the script.

NP—I love Wegovy and Mounjaro. Im 50 and 5’2. The weight crept up to 157 and I was going to OTF 3x/week and eating relatively healthy. I wasn’t happy at my weight but it seemed that no matter what I did, the weight did not come off.

I’ve lost 30lbs over a year. I was on Wegovy for 8 months and then I changed jobs so it was no longer covered. It took a few months to get it all worked out but I started on Mounjaro about 7 weeks ago. The 2.5mg dose didn’t do anything. The 5mg did a little bit. I start 7.5mg next week.

My goal is the same as OP—to be in the middle of the healthy BMI range. I have another 8lbs to go. What I like about these meds is that the weight loss is easy. Not in the sense that it’s a fad diet where you drop a ton of weight quickly but in the sense that I wasn’t starving. For the last year I’ve been able to eat normal weight watches type portions and the weight comes off but I’m not trying to chew my arm off because I’m so hungry. I don’t have to say no to ice cream, cake, wine etc. I found that as I was consistently losing .5 -1.5lbs per week, I didn’t get frustrated and because I wasn’t miserable, I never felt like giving up.

I would gladly take something like this forever and ever if it kept me at a healthy weight. No, scratch that, I would gladly make a deal with the devil for a healthy weight.

Anonymous wrote:But what happens when you stop taking it? Let us know.

You regain the weight. No one is marketing this as a temporary medication for permanent weight loss. Everyone should understand that to treat obesity this is a lifelong drug just as to treat diabetes it is a lifelong drug.

Anonymous wrote:But what happens when you stop taking it? Let us know.

In the studies done so far, people who went cold turkey after year on this did begin to regain the lost weight. But given the newness of this med, it's still unclear whether at some point (maybe after you've taken for two years, or four, or whatever) there really is a "metabolic reset" and after that the med will no longer be necessary. There has just not been enough time to know.

Similarly, it may be that there is some very low "maintenance dose" people can take once they achieve the primary health benefits. The idea of intermittent use is also one that may have promise: maybe people will revert back to their prior state if they stop the med, but can maintain if they take it once a month, rather than once a week, or something like that.

In other words: no one really knows.

I have also read the in the longer studies, side effects went down eventually as people adjusted to the med.

This medication is so weird. I have not had bad side effects, but it is very strange to have so little appetite. Just not hungry, and when I think about eating even the things I usually really like, they just seem unappealing.

I am happy about the weight loss and health benefits, but I definitely would not want to take this med continuously for years and years: it takes away the joy of food! I mean: I've never been a binge eater and have always eaten healthily, but under normal circumstance I love food. I like going to the grocery store and thinking about things to cook; I like cooking; I like eating and sharing the pleasures of a good meal with others. Now I don't have that. It's sort of like waking up one day and no longer enjoying any music.

I like the idea of reverting to the lowest effective dose and maybe alternating weeks, or even months. I don't mind some periods in which I don't have an appetite, but I actually want food to be a pleasure at least sometimes!