Ozempic Moinjaro etc weight loss anyone else tried it?

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Recently I've decided to take slightly more radical action about my body weight. The issue is I'm way more kg than any amount of height would make "normal".

With this in mind I have just started Mounjaro injections and wondered if anyone else here was on it or similar?

I have also started what I guess you might call a video diary. So far just unboxing the pen and my 1st 24hrs.

View: https://youtu.be/Q5t-EpM6qi8


Good luck and good health to us all.
 
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I've only just noticed this post.
I was borderline diabetic and as a good friend of mine is a GP and after a long chat with him, I have been using Mounjaro since September and in that time I've dropped from 18st 2lbs to (this morning) 15st 0lbs, a pretty remarkable achievement by my standards if I may say so! although my target weight is 13st. My blood sugars are improving, my joints are no longer painful, according to my wife, I no longer snore as loudly or as often and the only downside thus far is my clothes don't fit me anymore costing me even more money :).
I have joined a gym with a few friends ( we are all on the jab btw), who like me were a bit rotund and all of us are now seeing and feeling the benefits of a new life style.
 
My wife has a few friends who have been using the various weight loss jabs. Pretty much all of them have lost weight although some of them had bad side effects. One of them became very ill.

Two of them as soon as they stopped piled a lot of weight on again.
 
Hello,
I stopped taking it after a couple of months as it was not suiting me, I was getting migraines.
None the less over 2025 I lost 20kg and plan to lose more. I find the idea overweight people may have a hormone deficiency the same way type 1 diabetes are insulin deficit I interesting.
It was easier to lose weight "on the jab" than off but I feel losing weight "naturally" is going to be better long term as it means finding new routines long term.
It turns out however I was anemic. I suspect this was a major compounding factor in getting as many migraines as I was last year.
Hopefully I'll lose another 20kg this year.
 
I see Jeremy Clarkson has been on one of them for a while after his heart attack, and has lost weight - but he is complaining about some of that weight loss being muscle wastage, which is a bad thing at a later age as you can't regain muscle easily when you are older. I've also see reports of people ending up with slack skin that needed surgically removing.
 
Yes, it does work, really kills appetite and you feel full quicker.

The 7.5 dose made me feel awful. Also noticed by quality of diet was poor - fancied comfort food ad easy stuff, no urge to make my normal stuff. But helped me lose 10% of my weight. Have a bit left, will use but probably come off
 
I don't want to sound flippant but unless someone has glandular problems wouldn't just cutting down on calorie intake do the job. ? I always put on about 5lbs during Christmas..all that xmas cake/pudding/stollen..etc. and holidays. I'm usually 11st 7- 10lbs and just stop eating chocolate, cake and lunchtime sandwich, less pasta ,just a couple of roasties re Sunday dinner etc.. if/when I get to 11st 12lbs. I won't let my weight get beyond that. I cut out bread altogether..sandwich, roll, toast. I think bread really piles on weight. I don't drink alcohol atall..just water or sometimes, iced tea and haven't had sugar since I was 10 years old. I drank a cup of tea without it one day and tasted it,rather than sweet sugar, for the first time and never went back to having sugar,Same with coffee..anything. When I have eggs/bacon/toms/mushrooms/baked beans on a Saturday morning , it's the only time I have a full breakfast like that, and I'm on a diet I don't have toast .I only have one round anyway. I'll just have soup at lunchtime as my wife said not eating all day after brekky, which is chopped fresh fruit, Greek yoghurt, porridge or low sugar muesli, until evening meal isn't good. I can get any excess weight..eg 5lbs off in about 10 days. Maybe it's about metabolisism, too. My wife said she couldn't lose weight as quickly as I do but I'm pretty stoic when I start.

Recently, I've been hearing about the Mounjaro drug a lot in LBC and Five Live phone-ins so it's obviously a very current issue. When someone is telling the host how heavy they are I my find myself saying to the radio.."just cut down your intake". You don't need to do 5 mile runs or be at the gym three times a week. Some people call in to the radio to say they've have the bariatric operation to make the stomach smaller. Yikes. What about will power ?

If anyone is going to respond to this I'd rather explanations were given about why weight is so easy to put on and so difficult to get off and that it's not so easy to 'just cut down intake"....rather than berating me. :)

I never hear the host on those phone-ins suggest cutting down intake and neither do the experts. They just discuss the merits of Moinjaro.
 
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JohnC6 said:
I don't want to sound flippant but unless someone has glandular problems wouldn't just cutting down on calorie intake do the job. ? I always put on about 5lbs during Christmas..all that xmas cake/pudding/stollen..etc. and holidays. I'm usually 11st 7- 10lbs and just stop eating chocolate, cake and lunchtime sandwich, less pasta ,just a couple of roasties re Sunday dinner etc.. if/when I get to 11st 12lbs. I won't let my weight get beyond that. I cut out bread altogether..sandwich, roll, toast. I think bread really piles on weight. I don't drink alcohol atall..just water or sometimes, iced tea and haven't had sugar since I was 10 years old. I drank a cup of tea without it one day and tasted it,rather than sweet sugar, for the first time and never went back to having sugar,Same with coffee..anything. When I have eggs/bacon/toms/mushrooms/baked beans on a Saturday morning , it's the only time I have a full breakfast like that, and I'm on a diet I don't have toast .I only have one round anyway. I'll just have soup at lunchtime as my wife said not eating all day after brekky, which is chopped fresh fruit, Greek yoghurt, porridge or low sugar muesli, until evening meal isn't good. I can get any excess weight..eg 5lbs off in about 10 days. Maybe it's about metabolisism, too. My wife said she couldn't lose weight as quickly as I do but I'm pretty stoic when I start.

Recently, I've been hearing about the Mounjaro drug a lot in LBC and Five Live phone-ins so it's obviously a very current issue. When someone is telling the host how heavy they are I my find myself saying to the radio.."just cut down your intake". You don't need to do 5 mile runs or be at the gym three times a week. Some people call in to the radio to say they've have the bariatric operation to make the stomach smaller. Yikes. What about will power ?

If anyone is going to respond to this I'd rather explanations were given about why weight is so easy to put on and so difficult to get off and that it's not so easy to 'just cut down intake"....rather than berating me. :)

I never hear the host on those phone-ins suggest cutting down intake and neither do the experts. They just discuss the merits of Moinjaro.
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I think you are right regarding bread, after cutting it out of my diet I don't feel bloated, I don't get indigestion and I'm losing weight...what's not to like about not eating it? Pasta likewise, but I do like pasta! I don't have sugar in tea, I haven't for probably 40 years, coffee on the other hand, it's either half a teaspoon or a sweetener, but I rarely drink it anyway.

A typical day for me now would be along the lines of :

Breakfast: either a boiled egg or porridge
Lunch: A small salad or soup
Diner: Chicken breast with maybe a few veggies and a low fat yoghurt after. Drinking plenty of water throughout the day and I will try to get in at least 10,000 steps in a day.

Mounjaro has been a revelation for me, my appetite is now very much subdued compared to previously, my portion sizes have greatly reduced. The only side effect I have experienced is feeling a bit of nausea but it's not to the point that it becomes unbearable.
 
mex said:
I think you are right regarding bread, after cutting it out of my diet I don't feel bloated, I don't get indigestion and I'm losing weight...what's not to like about not eating it? Pasta likewise, but I do like pasta! I don't have sugar in tea, I haven't for probably 40 years, coffee on the other hand, it's either half a teaspoon or a sweetener, but I rarely drink it anyway.

A typical day for me now would be along the lines of :

Breakfast: either a boiled egg or porridge
Lunch: A small salad or soup
Diner: Chicken breast with maybe a few veggies and a low fat yoghurt after. Drinking plenty of water throughout the day and I will try to get in at least 10,000 steps in a day.

Mounjaro has been a revelation for me, my appetite is now very much subdued compared to previously, my portion sizes have greatly reduced. The only side effect I have experienced is feeling a bit of nausea but it's not to the point that it becomes unbearable.
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That looks a very good diet to me. Very similar to mine. Is there any reason why you couldn't have taken that up prior to the Mounjaro ? It's really what I was asking in my post.

You'll have noticed that I said I haven't had alcohol for,maybe 20 years. I lived in Germany and the beer was lovely .I don't like the taste of it here. It's made with different ingredients.. The Rhine,Moselle and Alsace wines tasted lovely, Here,red wine gives me a headache...quite quickly, too and white burns my stomach like a poker ,so do spirits. I just stick to water which isn't a bad thing.

Re red wine. Headaches are common, it seems. I was once given a bottle of champaign for my birthday and I took a few sips and very quickly developed an awful headache..really bad. So bad that I've never forgotten it.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/ask-the-doctor-what-causes-red-wine-headaches
 
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That looks a very good diet to me. Very similar to mine. Is there any reason why you couldn't have taken that up prior to the Mounjaro ? It's really what I was asking in my post.

You'll have noticed that I said I haven't had alcohol for,maybe 20 years. I lived in Germany and the beer was lovely .I don't like the taste of it here. It's made with different ingredients.. The Rhine,Moselle and Alsace wines tasted lovely, Here,red wine gives me a headache...quite quickly, too and white burns my stomach like a poker ,so do spirits. I just stick to water which isn't a bad thing.

Re red wine. Headaches are common, it seems. I was once given a bottle of champaign for my birthday and I took a few sips and very quickly developed an awful headache..really bad. So bad that I've never forgotten it.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/ask-the-doctor-what-causes-red-wine-headaches
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I have tried multiple diets over the years, the worst one for me was a keto diet, cutting out carbs completely, it made me ill, very ill, to the point I thought I needed to go into hospital. Cutting out bread is a big one for me, I loved the stuff,especially home made but it's packed full of carbs ( along with a whole host of preservatives if you were to buy supermarket crap. To give you an idea, home made bread lasts 3 or 4 days max before it's not good to eat, supermarket bread last a week or maybe 2 before it's unusable). Beer I do enjoy, Guinness is my go to pint, I can't bare lagers or some bitters, some real ale s I do enjoy though. I'm not really a wine drinker, maybe a glass over Xmas but not that often otherwise, my wife really dislikes it.
 
Be careful with those injections in the long term. I was on Ozempic for almost a year and ended up with some pretty serious gallbladder complications. I even got in touch with the team at Defective Drug Site after reading about the new 2026 lawsuits related to their side effects.
 
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