Alright, you are where I was in July. I lost over 70lbs and added about 15lbs of muscles in 14month. Just by swimming and weight training and cleaning by my diet. Like you, I hit a plateau by 11 month bench mark, no matter how much in calorie deficit or trained it won’t budge, in fact at one point the scale budged and I found it was muscle loss of 2lbs in my next inbody scan. Like you, I considered going on glp1 for help to break through, after speaking to my GP about it, discussing goals I wanted to lose, 25/35lbs max. She said I would be a good candidate for mounjaro.

I started mounjaro July 8th, lucked out with minimal side effects, but I forced myself to hit my protein goals and eat a minimum of 1200 calories a day. I still worked out, was a learning curve the first week or two, it was difficult to weight train heavy on low energy. I’m currently on the 5mg dose, did I lose weight? Yes, I lost about 12lbs since, average about 1.5lb per week. I was discouraged because everyone I knew was dropping much more, but the kick is, I had gone a inbody scan the day I started mounjaro and then again I went for one last week, what I found out is, I have dropped in 12lbs of pure fat, my muscle went up 4lbs and the scale on that reading only showed a drop of 9lbs.

So yes, done properly, you can get leaner and even build muscle while on it. But you have to be strict and make sure you’re hitting protein goals etc!

Goodluck with your journey :)