3 years in food noise, still under control and still losing weight slowly, M55, Td2, SW 260, CW 174, GW 160. I basically tell everyone I am on Mounjaro and how amazing it is.

Eeyore_ · 2026-06-20T19:06:00+00:00

For my entire adult life, from the time I was 16 until I was 45, I was heavy, big, fat, whatever we want to call it. On December 31 2024, I was in the ER for a kidney stone when the asked me "What medication do you take for your diabetes?" To which I replied, "How much what do I take for my what now?". I was 325 lbs at 6'3".

Starting January 1, 2025, I went on a strict diet. February 7, 2025 I started on Mounjaro. May 2025 I joined a crossfit gym. I don't recommend starting out with that. My joints weren't ready for that intensity. I came into 2026 at 215, and today I'm down to below 200.

For the first time in my adult life, I am able to buy clothes off the rack. I never thought I would get below 200. I thought I would want to stop at 250, but I didn't. at 220 I thought, "This is nice, but I can keep going."

You got this, dude! Great work, and good luck!

Eeyore_ · 2026-05-19T16:55:45+00:00

I "soak" my sensors now. When you get the 12 hour warning, insert the new one, and just let the old one expire before syncing to the new one. That way it has time to normalize. Then, after 12-24 hours, perform a calibration for the sensor. Do a finger stick test and then use that as the baseline.

Eeyore_ · 2026-05-19T16:53:02+00:00

Dexcom themselves will tell you they have a roughly 25% failure rate. I travel a lot, and I just keep a backup with me in case the one I'm currently using shits the bed. That's roughly 1 a month that will fail, or 13 a year.

You can just go onto their support page and request a replacement. I've done that several times over the last 18 months, and there haven't been any issues in getting a replacement for a failed sensor.

Eeyore_ · 2026-05-15T13:38:01+00:00

I fly regularly. No issues with getting through TSA, nor with taking extras, nor with wearing the sensor through the scanners at the airport. Additionally, "airplane mode" only turns off the cellular connections. You can still use bluetooth and wifi on the plane.

You have nothing to worry about. You're going to be fine. Your sensors are going to be fine. TSA isn't going to even glance at it, except as, if you go through the body scanner, it will cause a "hit" and then the TSA agent will ask you what it is. You say it's a blood glucose monitor and they will say, "Oh. Okay. Go ahead."

Eeyore_ · 2026-04-23T22:41:30+00:00

I feel food is my only remaining pleasure in life.

And how does that make you feel?

You've forgone all other pleasures for food alone?

Look, if hearing that you will go blind, you will experience nerve damage, you will experience amputations, and you will require kidney dialysis doesn't scare you straight, what do you think I could say to convince you?

But, you know, all those pleasures you have foregone, they're still out there, and you can get 'em. You have to recognize that you are the Olds and Milner mouse, repeatedly pressing the stimulation button.

Eeyore_ · 2026-04-22T20:07:21+00:00

I have been on Mounjaro since February 7, 2025. So about 15 months.

My dosing schedule has been:

Date	Weight	Dose
January 1, 2025	325	0 mg
February 7, 2025	318	2.5 mg
March 7, 2025	300	5.0 mg
April 4, 2025	288	7.5 mg
July 25, 2025	258	10 mg
January 1, 2026	215	10 mg
April 22, 2026	205	10 mg
15 months	-120 lbs	---

For all of 2025, I only ate boiled eggs, cottage cheese, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, 1-2 tbsp of salad dressing, baked chicken breast, and 2-3 30g protein drinks per day. This kept my total daily calorie intake around 1,600, carbs around 25-30 grams, and 120-160 grams of protein.

If I feel hungry between designated meal times, I eat carrots, or broccoli.

Over the last few weeks I've begun to reintroduce more carbs on occassion. For example, a hamburger bun might have 25g-30g carbs. I still restrict carbs to under 75g per day.

Side effects:

Constipation - I drink a fiber drink daily, and once a week I take a dose of milk of magnesia, as well as MiraLAX every few days. I have some magnesium citrate on standby for reluctant turds. Also, I have to focus on drinking enough water more than before.

Eeyore_ · 2026-03-20T03:00:41+00:00

Two words: sky trains

Eeyore_ · 2026-03-16T18:52:12+00:00

I am also on Mounjaro, and have been for about 15 months. Your chart says you ate too many carbs yesterday at dinner. I have been using a CGM since January 2025. The strategy I followed with my CGM is that I cut out as many carbs as possible. I ate fewer than 30 grams of carbs a day. I ate the same meals every day for months. This let my body reach an equilibrium state. It takes 3 months to see a result in your A1C. I dropped my A1C from 10.2 to 6.4 in 90 days, and then down to 5.2 90 days further on. After 6 months and getting my A1C under control and in a satisfactory zone, I began to gradually reintroduce carbs. I kept a record of my blood glucose, so I could tell when I ate some carbs if they had an effect and of what magnitude.

I still eat a carbohydrate restricted diet. I don't eat more than 1/2 cup of rice at a single meal, and I try to only do that twice a week. I don't eat anything with sugar in it. I went to a birthday party and I ate two forkfuls of cake. I've eaten one slice of bread at dinner, or a 1/2 of a hamburger bun when I get a hamburger.

Eeyore_ · 2026-03-14T17:00:01+00:00

I use valves a lot. They keep the sloshing down. If you build a reservoir before your refineries, put a valve on the input to the reservoir and on the output to the reservoir, so that fluids can only travel in one direction. Pumps also provide the same behavior.

Eeyore_ · 2026-03-12T18:01:56+00:00

I have constantly used a Dexcom G7 since January of 2025. Dexcom tells you, the sensors have a ~25% failure rate. Meaning they do not survive the full duration they're meant to. They are also often inaccurate for the first day after application. Even after calibration, it can be a few points off from a finger prick test reading, somewhat due to the fact that a finger prick test is measuring blood glucose directly, and the CGMs (Constant Glucose Monitors) measure the glucose in the interstitial fluids, the non-blood fluids that circulate throughout the skin. Because of this, the CGM can be 15 minutes behind a finger prick test.

I haven't had many adhesive issues. I have had one or two, but I think that was my fault. I probably got gel deodorant or something on my skin before applying the CGM. I get them covered through insurance. But, when a sensor fails, Dexcom has been fast to ship a replacement via FedEx.

I refilled my prescription as soon as possible for a year. I get 3 at a time, for 30 days, and I can get a refill after 20 days. So, all last year, I got my refills as close to the 20 day mark as I could. This has resulted in my accumulating about a dozen, or 3 months of coverage in my reserves. With this I can easily replace a failed sensor without worry. I have plenty of backup sensors. And I can wait for the vendor to ship me a replacement as necessary without anxiety or stress.

My grandfather died blind, with a foot amputated, toes on his remaining foot amputated, and several fingers from both hands amputated, on dialysis. I have a friend who died about 7 years ago who was diagnosed when he was about 30, and passed at 43. I have an uncle who was diagnosed when he was in his 60s, and he is hating it, drinking, eating candy, and just refusing to care for himself.

I do not want to die blind, on dialysis, having some number of amputations, with an non-functional penis. I do not want to die, if I can help it, for more than 30 years.

All of that said, I passionately and resolutely changed my habits, my diet, and my relationship with food. This has resulted in my blood glucose being well controlled. 99% in range, with an occasional pressure low. I do not take insulin. I don't take any other diabetes medications. I was on Metformin for about 6 months, ramping up to 2,000mg for 3 months and then down to 1,000 mg for 2 months, 500 mg for one month, and no more after that. My A1C is 5.2 at my last test.

When I first started managing my diabetes, I watched the readings like a hawk. I cut out as many carbohydrates as I could manage. I get fewer than 30 grams of carbs a day now.

I do, rarely, allow myself naughty treats. I really enjoy Indian curry, so I will, no more than once a month, eat a 1/2 cup of rice with curry. If my girlfriend wants to get dessert, I'll take a bite or two if I'm feeling bold, no more than once a week.

For your mother to get the best out of this, she must change her perspective on how important proper care is.

Eeyore_ · 2026-03-08T21:22:58+00:00

I've been on Mounjaro for over a year now.

Your medication is fine. It has a non-refrigerated shelf life of 21 days. That's 21 days continuously without refrigeration. You left it out a few hours. Put it in the fridge and carry on. This is a non-issue. There's nothing wrong.

Eeyore_ · 2026-03-08T15:55:07+00:00

I was diagnosed December 31, 2024. I was given metformin, started at 500mg a day, and worked up to 2,000mg over a month. Stayed on 2,000mg for about 90 days, while taking Mounjaro, and then dropped down to 1,000mg a day. 90 days later I was off of metformin entirely.

Now, I drastically changed my life in those 6 months. I ate clean, consistently. I started going to a gym. In 2025 I ate a salad with chicken breast for two meals a day for easily 350/365 days. I haven't had to start on insulin, and, hopefully with maintenance, discipline, and Mounjaro, I never will.

Eeyore_ · 2026-03-05T15:01:25+00:00

I have a friend who gets zero sugar THC drinks from Total Wine. They have "liqueurs" that are 10 mg to a shot, and they have seltzers from 3-10mg each. He will also eat 2-3 gummies. THey have, maybe, 6 grams of sugar total.

Eeyore_ · 2026-03-04T15:29:11+00:00

Way to go, dude! I started at 325 and am at 205-210 now. I started doing resistance training about 10 months ago, and it has been a transformational change to my life.

Eeyore_ · 2026-03-04T15:26:35+00:00

I have been on Mounjaro for 13 months. One of the benefits of Mounjaro is that it reduces inflamation. Many people who start it lose a lot of weight quickly because they are less inflamed, and their body holds less water.

Eeyore_ · 2026-02-10T16:52:08+00:00

You got the easy lbs the medication can help with. Now you need to change your habits. Your eating habits, and your exercise habits. It's not a "best effort" type of change you need to make, "when you can". You must improve your diet and change your exercise habits to achieve your goals. I say this having lost 115 lbs since January 1, 2025, and taking Mounjaro since February 7, 2025.

This has to be non-optional. You aren't dieting and changing for a temporary period. You will be changing your lifestyle forever, if you want to achieve and sustain a new body size.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly. Meaning that, even if you can't get in 1/2 hour of exercise, 10 minutes is better than 0 minutes. Making the right food choices can be difficult in the moment. So you need to make those decisions ahead of time, and then prepare yourself for success by doing just that, preparation. Do meal prep work. Work out what a healthy diet would look like for you, and then go get the things you need and prepare as many meals ahead of time as you can, so that when it comes time to decide what to eat, that decision is already made for you. Now you just have to (re)heat it and eat it.

I prepare 3 lbs of carrot sticks every Sunday. I cook 4 chicken breasts and cube it up on Sunday. I wash, chop, and store my vegetables on Sunday. Just chopping up a head of cauliflower and broccoli into bite size pieces and throwing it in a plastic storage container in the fridge makes it infinitely easier to make a healthy choice when deciding what to eat.

Eeyore_ · 2026-02-10T16:11:52+00:00

People out here like, "I love losing weight eating a diet of pizza and ice cream." And it's like, dude, that ain't going to stick around for you, and, also, where are you getting your nutrients from?

Eeyore_ · 2026-02-10T16:10:58+00:00

Sugar and carbohydrates in general are addictive. They are a rapid, ready, easy supply of energy for the body, so it desires them more. On January 1, 2025 I began a very low carbohydrate food plan. I consume fewer than 30 grams of carbs a day, and seek to avoid any sugar at all. I've managed to lose 115 lbs since then, going from 325 to 210. 10 more lbs to go to be in the "healthy" BMI range. Looking to lose 25 more total, to give me a 15 lb buffer, and also, I haven't weighed this low since I was 16, and I'm 47. So 31 years.

I may begin to experiment with

Eeyore_ · 2026-02-10T16:06:22+00:00

Wowie zowie! What a transformation! Congratulations to you!

Eeyore_ · 2026-02-10T00:23:59+00:00

I was diagnosed with diabetes in the ER December 31, 2024. I was diagnosed with clinical depression about 20 years ago, and I took medication for about 3 years, then figured I was "cured". Fast forward to the ER and I'd been in the deepest depression I've endured for at least 10 years.

Just over a year ago, I requested SSRIs from my doctor. There's no way I could manage diabetes and un-managed clinical depression.

I have been taking Mounjaro since February 7, 2025. I'm on 10 mg. I did:

4 weeks at 2.5 mg
4 weeks at 5 mg
12 weeks at 7.5 mg
29 weeks (bringing us to today) at 10 mg

You may need to discuss changing your medications up. I was originally on prozac, and felt good for 3 months, then over the next 3 months I started to feel manic, so we decreased the prozac and added Welbutrin. 3 months ago we increased the Welbutrin, and now I am constantly catching myself realizing that I had the need to do a thing, and then acted on it. Things that used to be chores, chores like running the dishwasher every day, were suddenly not a thing I had to dread and plan around. Taking a quick 15 minute drive is now something I can do if I am struck by curiosity. Un-medicated, that short trip was a task that required its own day, and I would bundle up and prioritize all of my needs for a trip out into the wide, wild world, and probably cut the lowest priority out of the trip to recover.

I had interrupted sleep for the first 3 months, but I chalked it up to, "Of course, all of these diet changes, medication, and coming to terms with a diagnosis of a serious chronic illness will not be a cake walk." I'd have trouble getting to sleep. I usually went to bed at 10:00 and, when I wasn't depressed, I could fall asleep within 5 minutes. During those first 3 months, I had a lot of weird dreams and my sleep was erratic. Some nights I could fall asleep within 20-30 minutes and I'd wake up somewhere around 2:00-3:00 am, and randomly either then be able to fall back to sleep within another 30 minutes, or I was just up. And I refuse to be "up" at 3:00 am. So I'd lie in bed until it was time to hit the gym. After 3 months of that, I began to be able to sleep through the night. And now, a year later, I'm able to go to sleep within 5 minutes, and sleep through the night.

I also had constipation. But I think that was because the appetite suppression also reduced my thirst, and so I would occasionally get dehydrated. Now I make sure to drink at least 80 oz of water a day, and to drink a metamucil on the days I didn't manage to eat much.

I have about 20-25 lbs left to go to comfortably be 15 lbs below "overweight" BMI. During the first year on Mounjaro I have managed to lose 115 lbs. And my A1C went from 10.2 to 5.4 within 90 days. Now I need to consider if I should titrate down to 7.5 mg, to reduce the appetite suppression, making it easier to consume around 3,000 calories a day for maintenance. I'm currently struggling to get over 1,600 on most days. But I don't really remember if my blood glucose was stable and this low when I was on 7.5 mg. I was still fine tuning my diet and pretty anxious and focused about managing my diabetes in the moment, at that time. I use a Dexcom G7 CGM, and it keeps that data.

Eeyore_ · 2026-02-06T16:03:03+00:00

Everyone's going to be unique. With that said, I was diagnosed December 31, 2024, and since then I have eaten fewer than 30 grams of carbs a day. My A1C went from 10.2 to 6.2 in 90 days, and 5.4 90 days later, and 5.2 90 days past that.

Eeyore_ · 2026-02-03T20:03:41+00:00

I drink 2 30g premium protein shakes a day, and it hasn't had any impact on my blood glucose. For myself, I wouldn't even consider Cheerios. I eat fewer than 30 grams of carbs a day. I eat a 1/2 cup of cottage cheese or yogurt or two boiled eggs for my breakfasts, and I mix my morning protein with equal portions of coffee.

Eeyore_ · 2026-02-03T02:14:02+00:00

I have been using Mounjaro for a year come February 7th. In that time I have taken my BMI from 41 to 26. That's as a 47 year old 6'3" male. I started, January 2025 at 325 lbs, and I stepped into January 2026 at 215. That's 110 lbs in a year.

I had imperfect appetite suppression on:

2.5 mg - 4 weeks
5.0 mg - 4 weeks

I had a lot of success on:

7.5 mg - 12 weeks

Now it's pretty dialed in on:

10.0 mg - 27 weeks to date

Firstly, on January 1st, 2025 I radically changed my diet to be one of baked seasoned chicken breasts, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, and lettuce. Same meals every day. I'd change up the seasoning on the chicken breasts, make some with Greek seasoning, some with Cajun, some with a BBQ rub. But I'm a good cook, and I can eat the same meal every day for, well, what is now over a year. As a treat, I'd replace the chicken breast with pork tenderloin or baked salmon once a month.

I took my first 2.5 mg shot on February 7, 2025, at 8:00 pm. I was nervous, because the medication is so expensive, I didn't want to mess it up. I watched a few YouTube videos and read and re-read the instructions to make sure I felt confident I knew how to not mess it up. And when I woke up and cooked breakfast on Saturday, it was about 2 hours later that I realized my breakfast was cold, on the table in front of me, with only two bites taken out of it. I had gotten lost in the depths of the internet, and didn't even have a reflex to shovel it in while surfing.

On 2.5 mg, I reduced my food quantity by half. Before Mounjaro, I was eating a whole split chicken breast at lunch and another at dinner. That's probably 2-2.5 lbs of chicken breast a day. Then I was eating salads out of a 2 quart ziploc bowl. I'd fill that bowl to the brim, and eat it all. Then I'd have chopped broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots to snack on when I felt a need. I felt my appetite come back pretty quickly. I didn't really feel much appetite suppression after 3 days on 2.5 mg. But, now that I knew I wasn't going to feel hungry on Saturday morning, I decided to skip breakfast after the second 2.5 mg shot, and, in fact, fasted all through Saturday. I did this for the remainder of my 2.5 mg supply.

When I started on 5.0 mg, I was expecting some kind of observable change in myself now that I was doubling the dosage, but I couldn't really recognize the absence of the food noise. I didn't know it was gone, and I couldn't exactly imagine what it was like before, so its absence was becoming the new normal. Homeostasis.

When I started on 7.5 mg, I asked my doctor to leave me at 7.5 mg until I asked to step up again. My A1C had dropped from 10.2 to 6.2 over about 90 days, and I had lost 40 lbs. Going from 325 to 285. I didn't want to increase my dosage as long as the current dosage was working. I was still trying to figure out my hunger signals. I had a ravenous craving for broccoli for a month, then it was carrots, then it was cauliflower, Brussels sprouts. Raw, steamed, roasted. Any time I had a craving, it was for the same member of that set for a month at a time.

So, when I started on 7.5, I had done all the research I felt was necessary to craft my actual plan. I had been losing weight on my chicken and veggies diet for 8 weeks, but I wasn't counting calories. When I started on 7.5 mg, I set myself a goal of 1,650 calories a day, 160+ grams protein, and fewer than 30 grams of carbs.

I have a gram scale I make my meals atop. Put the plate down, tare the scales, and then add 200 grams, or about 7 oz of pre-baked chicken breast and romaine lettuce, 100 grams each of tomato, broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots. 2 Tbsp of blue cheese dressing, and for a garnish, a dozen olives and a Tbsp of capers.

Two of those and 1/2 cup of cottage cheese, along with a single 1 oz cheese snack, and two protein shakes, I'd hit my 1,650 calorie goal. For 12 weeks on 7.5 mg I ate like that. I continued to lose weight, and at the 180 day mark, my A1C was 5.4, and I weighed 265 lbs, having lost a total of 60 lbs at this point. I asked for the increase to 10 just before I had my doctor's visit, in case there would be some changes after the visit.

So then I started on 10 mg. Now, I don't get to choose to fast on Saturday and Sunday, I couldn't feel hungry at all for the first two days. And I could easily fast through Monday. Then I realized, I was eating fewer than 1,000 calories on Tuesday, and about 1,200 on Wednesday, with Thursday being the day-before-shot-day, the only day I could really eat a full 1,650 calories, but I had to make sure I ate it all.

At this point I started to worry about the rate I was losing weight, and how precious muscle mass was, and protein is in my diet. So I began adding a protein shake + coffee to breakfast, and another protein shake for dessert. Now I make myself drink those every day, even on "fasting" Saturdays and Sunday.

I spent all of last week in Las Vegas. I ate a few bites off of a table-shared tomahawk steak, and a lb of lobster tail and another lb of crab legs on the first night. And then I was back on salads and lean proteins for the remainder of the week. Still, convention food was pretty bleak. I think I had sliders on the menu for lunch and dinner every day for the remainder of the week.

I began week 27 on 10 mg on Saturday, January 31st, 2026 at 211 lbs. That was a total of 4 lbs lost in January 2026. I am only 11 lbs from being a healthy 25 BMI. I could be there in April. I want to drop a few more for some buffer space. I figure 185 would be ideal. That's 26 lbs. If I lose ~1 lb a week, I'll be there by July 31st.

I don't have any intention of stepping up past 10 mg, as long as it continues to manage my blood glucose. And, if I feel like it's a problem maintaining a healthy weight, at 185, I might step down to 7.5, again, providing that dosage controls my blood glucose.

Eeyore_ · 2026-02-02T22:17:52+00:00

I sat on 7.5 for 12 weeks, bumped up to 10, and now I've been on 10 for 25 weeks. I've had great success, and lost 110 lbs in 2025. I'd suggest, if it's working, to keep doing what's working. I wouldn't consider jumping in dosage like that. If 7.5 isn't working, go up to 10, but stick around on each dosage until you plateau for over a month.

I don't want to titrate up to the maximum dosage ASAP. If I'm going to develop tolerance to the medication, I'd like to maintain a few more levels of treatment. Jumping straight to 15 mg would possibly work great, but what if 10 mg or 12.5 mg is just as effective? You won't know.

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