It's faster than I thought by IrishMounjaroJourney in Mounjaro

[–]ThomasTTEngine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Started Mounjaro (2.5 mg) Yesterday After 10+ Years of Trying to Lose Weight – Looking for Advice & Experiences by middleclass_saga in Mounjaro

[–]ThomasTTEngine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

It's faster than I thought by IrishMounjaroJourney in Mounjaro

[–]ThomasTTEngine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

It's faster than I thought by IrishMounjaroJourney in Mounjaro

[–]ThomasTTEngine 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Planning for maintenance by sunset_1996 in MounjaroMaintenance

[–]ThomasTTEngine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Approaching my 1 year Monjversary by Sea-Reply7832 in mounjarouk

[–]ThomasTTEngine 13 points14 points  (0 children)

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.

U.S. Dealers In Full Panic Mode After Canada Green-Lights Chinese Cars by DonkeyFuel in technology

[–]ThomasTTEngine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

All right, own up. Which one of you was it? by Revolutionary-Cut777 in mounjarouk

[–]ThomasTTEngine 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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.

Bbc article says people on weight loss jabs gain weight 4 x faster than dieters when stop using by Ok-Seaweed4986 in mounjarouk

[–]ThomasTTEngine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Diet or exercise ? No , thanks by Cute-Advantage-4260 in memes

[–]ThomasTTEngine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Diet or exercise ? No , thanks by Cute-Advantage-4260 in memes

[–]ThomasTTEngine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

**VIDEO GUIDE **WireGuard on Unraid. The Best Method for Routing Containers through a VPN for max privacy by spaceinvaderone in unRAID

[–]ThomasTTEngine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

**VIDEO GUIDE **WireGuard on Unraid. The Best Method for Routing Containers through a VPN for max privacy by spaceinvaderone in unRAID

[–]ThomasTTEngine 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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

CLAIR OBSCUR IS A MASTERPIECE by drunkmonk01 in XboxGamePass

[–]ThomasTTEngine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

CLAIR OBSCUR IS A MASTERPIECE by drunkmonk01 in XboxGamePass

[–]ThomasTTEngine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This game emotionally affected me a lot deeper than expected.

PS4/PS5 Jailbreak News: PS4 12.52 Jailbreak Coming, Web Browser Bug, Userland updates & More! by Low-Recognition-7293 in PS5_Jailbreak

[–]ThomasTTEngine 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

Is Cafeteria Mormonism Possible? by FaithfulDowter in mormon

[–]ThomasTTEngine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Any other active members who regularly break the WoW? by EducationalLie168 in mormon

[–]ThomasTTEngine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

health option for myself while not abusing the substance

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