After a series of diets and exercising I’ve given up as the needle of the scales only seems to waver. I think I eat healthily and not excessively and rarely eat fast foods. My only sin is drinking alcohol mainly wine which I’m sure is the root cause of my failure to reduce weight. But my main concern is diabetes any my last blood count showed that I’ve tip toed over to diabetes 2. And so enough is enough, I’m starting my course of fat jabbing on Mounjaro from Sunday (after a good piss up after the match on Saturday).
Has anybody else considered or undertaking this course of action to reduce weight?
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I'm back on it again but if I feel myself getting heavy then I cut right back and I'm soon back in a reasonable range
So to my mind it's pointless taking the jabs unless you are going to permanently change your lifestyle.
It is of course lifestyle but sometimes you need that jolt and help I would say.
It works because you simply don't want to eat. Often when you're eating a meal, you just cannot swallow another bite- so you end up throwing away a lot of food. However I did have quite severe side effects. I am now on 15 which is the highest dosage, but I found that every step in dosage had side effects. These are principally, nausea, headaches and diarrhoea (or constipation weirdly), normally 2/3 days after the jab. There were times when I really felt quite unwell for a couple of days a week, so I had to try to time when I took, the jab if something special was happening over the next few days (like Christmas day), but thankfully this seems to have stabilised now.
I now appear to have plateaued and am not losing any more weight, but I feel much more healthy and gone from 4XL to 2XL and from 52" waist to 44". Having the dog now, also means that I am doing my steps target daily which is also probably a contributory factor, and I have also given up red meat and almost all Alcohol (not that I ever drank much). I hope that my relationship with food has changed, and I am now more sensible with my diet, so while I expect that I will put weight back on when I stop, I wont be going back to over 20 stone.
alcohol for a minimum of 48 hrs at a time twice a week! If you spend some time researching the benefits of fasting you will find the benefits far out way some fat man jab.
Yes you’d lose weight I’d imagine if you don’t eat for half a week.
If you are a big fat man fasting is the best way, eat a couple of steaks with eggs for a couple of days before hand then stop eating.... Easier than it sounds but very manageable and much healthier than injecting something
As my username suggests I need to lose weight. I’ve been speaking to my GP about switching to munjaro and increasing the dose I take but a recent heart issue means they are currently monitoring me and my new meds before agreeing to do so.
I hope to be on munjaro soon and will let you know how I get on in due course. It will be interesting to see how it works long term. I’m hoping that if it works as some suggest above and you genuinely feel less hungry then it will in turn sort of force me to change my eating habits, portion size etc. Once I can change that then hopefully I can continue that way. I don’t see taking munjaro as a long term solution but if it can help me lose weight in the short term and change my habits for the better then that’ll be great.
It’s easy when you’re taking it, I thought I could carry on with small portions but that didn’t last long. I was ravenous lol
I've also heard from a couple of friends on it that it also killed any cravings they had for alcohol as well as food.
Sounds like a wonder drug to me. One thing's for sure, far more people than you realise are on it.
I lost 15 kgs in 2 months and felt like shit the whole time (all the side mentioned? I had them!). You can’t imagine how pleased I was when Forxiga was available again.
I put on about 10kgs afterwards which I have no problem with as I was able to count my ribs through the skin!
This drug sounds like it just reduces your appetite which is something that can be done naturally. It’s not easy but I think many people make it difficult for themselves by trying to do too much too soon.
Take a look at what you eat and just gradually reduce the portion sizes. You can do it really slowly and then you don’t notice so much. For example, if you have 5 slices of bread for lunch, cut it down to 4.75 slices for one month before trying 4.5 slices. If you have 200g of steak, cut a bit off to make it 180g and give the other 20g to a happy teenager (or dog). Count how many tablespoons of rice you have and decrease that by half a tablespoon each month.
Measurement and slow decreases is the key. You will start by maybe still putting on weight but you’ll be putting it on more slowly. Weigh yourself every morning and write it down. Gradually the tide will turn and you’ll be losing a little weight. Even if you only lose 100g a week, after one year you’ve lost 5kg.
Designate times in the week when you allow yourself to consume stuff like alcohol, chips, ice cream then slowly decrease these time slots.
You don’t need drugs, just planning and determination. Drugs are not the answer - what do you do when you have to stop them? Or do you take them for the rest of your life?
I have considered it but am concerned about side effects. I also see it that if you make the necessary lifestyle changes you will loses the weight naturally, not too quickly and safely. If you (I mean people in general, not you specifically) can't make the necessary lifestyle changes to lose the weight in the first place, how are you going to make them after the jabs have helped you lose the weight?
My main goal is to change my bad habits permanently - lose the weight (naturally) and keep it off. Trouble is I'm not scoring many goals, have plenty of no score draw weeks and conceding the odd goal!
I had a routine blood test a few months ago and it showed that I was pre-diabetic. The doctor gave me a choice. Jabs or going on a weight loss programme. I chose the latter.
Beats being hungry every day. Plus there is growing evidence that fasting helps insulin resistance and has other metabolic benefits.
It's hard at first though as your body has to get used to burning fat as your glycogen depletes.
In the UK, more than half of what we eat is ultra processed. We're 2nd in the world for that, only behind the US.
These products are designed to be cheap, easy to eat quickly and keep us coming back for more. Hunger is basically built into the system.
So I don't feel like it's as easy as saying: 'Well just eat healthy, change your lifestyle, etc.' because if you're on the high street and you're hungry, your options are incredibly limited. The food supply is stacked against us.
Like all 50 somethings I do have to watch my weight. I'm not too bad - about 81 kg and 5'10. A couple of years ago I was 85kg and lost 5kg mainly though fasting for a few months between 8p.m. and noon