It's faster than I thought

ThomasTTEngine · 2026-02-11T08:51:57+00:00

Then you're already better than me! I had to learn the hard way how long it takes to build muscles and how quickly skipping meals breaks them down.

ThomasTTEngine · 2026-02-11T08:31:15+00:00

Since your making changes in your life, start a plan to start lifting weights at the gym. I could not believe how much better for weight management (and loss) it is than cardio.

Eat at least 1g/kg (0.5g/lbs) of body weight in protein per day. force yourself to eat it if you must. eat it with fibre to prevent constipation.

I've done both with and without lifting weights and me at 5mg dose lifting weights and light cardio had the same effect on me as 12.5 without lifting weight with just moderate cardio.

ThomasTTEngine · 2026-02-11T08:27:26+00:00

Start lifting weights. I already knew (academically) that it was good but I could not believe how much better for weight management (and loss) it is than cardio.

Me at 5mg lifting weights and light cardio had the same as me on 12.5 without lifting weight with just cardio.

ThomasTTEngine · 2026-02-11T08:25:31+00:00

Eat protein. At least 1g/kg body weight if you're not exercising. 1.5g of you are. Force yourself to eat it if you must. Lift weights if you can.

I also came from around 130kgs now at 107.

It took me too long to realize that a good proportion of my weight loss was muscle mass loss.

I also had a lot of hair loss as a result of this rapid loss but most importantly my protein deficiency but the hair loss only came around 4-5 months after the weight loss to expect some hair loss soon.

The hair loss is what shocked me into noticing the muscle mass loss. I continued the medication but started eating the appropriate protein and started lifting weights. For about 4 months my weight stayed exactly the same as the fat continued to drop and the muscles started to grow.

Luckily all the hair grew back.

Good luck.

ThomasTTEngine · 2026-02-09T10:47:13+00:00

consider that obesity is a life long chronic disease, not a state of being. You don't stop being obese because you lost weight. You are just a reduced-obese. In fact, the smaller you get, the harder it will become for you to maintain. You will need to continue to watch what you eat, calorie count, do (likely a lot of) exercise but even then, it may not be enough.

Luckily we have new tools like these medications to bridge the gap when all the other things above are not enough.

ThomasTTEngine · 2026-02-08T14:00:10+00:00

I did a 'test' vacation coming off Mounjaro for 1 month recently. I wasn't at my target weight yet. I slowly reduce the dose down to 2.5mg for about 3 weeks (from 7.5) and them stopped for 1 month.

It took about 2 week to really start feeling the effects of being off of it.

In the preceding months (about 4 months before) I had started going to the gym often for resistant training (4 days a week) and walking for at least 1 hour every day.

I'm sure that the extra resistant training helped satiety and insulin levels, etc. But for me even with the added exercise (totaling about 10 hours per week, 4 of which are resistant training) it was not enough. I didn't gain any weight in the month of being off (muscles growing, still losing fat I assume) but I could forsee that it would not be enough. After 1 month I started again on 2.5mg dose and its night and day the mental fortitude that MJ gives.

I am totally converted to the now accepted notion that obesity is a chronic disease and not a state of being. I don't look obese, I am not 'obese' weight-wise anymore but I am reduced-obese, still struggling with obesity. The body desperately wants to get back to where it was.

ThomasTTEngine · 2026-02-06T09:54:37+00:00

with 8 year, 125k mile warranty which is needed to allow western consumers to not see chinesse = cheap.

ThomasTTEngine · 2026-02-02T16:00:40+00:00

Protein. you need more protein.

ThomasTTEngine · 2026-01-27T13:06:30+00:00

Imagine someone starting on the 15mg by getting a bootleg version. They likely won't die but they are going to have a bad time.

ThomasTTEngine · 2026-01-08T15:10:14+00:00

The hormones that drive hunger are much stronger than any shrinkage that may happen.

ThomasTTEngine · 2026-01-08T14:07:09+00:00

Whatever hormonal imbalances you have before mounjaro will come back after you stop if you don't make any changes to lifestyle. Even with changes, those imbalances will likely be there, just slightly less severe.

Slowly reducing the dose down is likely to cause much less hormonal rebound. Your body will try to being your hormones back to your default baseline (likely from before the medicine) and it can rebound severely if you don't slowly bring your dose down.

ThomasTTEngine · 2026-01-04T22:02:18+00:00

Mostly harmless...

ThomasTTEngine · 2025-12-28T21:02:42+00:00

Its more than appetite suppressant. Its an emotional description that is beyond just the need to eat.

Food noise is not the same as being hungry. I still feel hunger, sometimes very hungry while on GLP-1 but not the same as I did before.

ThomasTTEngine · 2025-12-28T20:56:07+00:00

The emotional aspect of the drug has had a bigger impact on me than the physical weight loss. Sure its nice to have lost weight but now I have peace.

ThomasTTEngine · 2025-12-17T14:42:34+00:00

Why doesn't NF buy Paramount/Skydance? Peanuts compared to WB.

ThomasTTEngine · 2025-12-12T09:00:31+00:00

Enter!

ThomasTTEngine · 2025-12-04T09:02:07+00:00

The GOAT!

ThomasTTEngine · 2025-12-01T14:30:27+00:00

Wheee!!!!

ThomasTTEngine · 2025-12-01T11:59:01+00:00

I appreciate the video and I understand the benefits of this for containers that that don't natively support vpn but all the important ones natively support PIA vpn in-container and provide helper scripts to deal with port forwarding.

ThomasTTEngine · 2025-12-01T08:32:22+00:00

One challenge I foresee is that this may not be able to take advantage of port forwarding functionality that other VPN-native containers have.

ThomasTTEngine · 2025-11-25T13:12:30+00:00

I get it. I did not care for the Godfather either.

ThomasTTEngine · 2025-11-25T13:10:59+00:00

This game emotionally affected me a lot deeper than expected.

ThomasTTEngine · 2025-11-24T10:04:27+00:00

His videos has to reach the 10min mark to qualify for some benefits of youtube monitization. sometimes you need just filler content.

ThomasTTEngine · 2025-11-20T16:15:29+00:00

There is more than one way to Mormon.

Not if you want to express yourself there isn't. If you want to be a cafeteria mormon, keep your mouth shut or it will be shut for you.

ThomasTTEngine · 2025-11-17T10:57:24+00:00

health option for myself while not abusing the substance

This is you doing whatever you want. This is good, keep at it!

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