8 months on Mounjaro: 348 → 267 (81 lbs down). Type 2 diabetic, 9.1 A1C, hypertensive, food-addicted.
Post body:
November 1, 2025 was my start date. Here's where I was standing:
348 lbs
- Hypertensive
- Food-addicted, and I don't use that term lightly. Food occupied my thoughts
- constantly to the point I was planning the next meal while eating the current one, the whole exhausting loop.
Eight months later I'm at 267, down 81 pounds. Currently on 7.5 mg. I've been holding at that dose for 4 months (3 months 5mg, 1 month 2.5mg) and don't plan to go up as long as progress continues. Started out losing about 4 lbs a week, and now I'm at a steady 2 lbs weekly, sometimes a bit more. Slow and steady is fine by me.
First, the luck part, because I want to be honest about it.
I know not everyone responds to Mounjaro like this. Some people lose slower, some stall for months, some don't get much appetite suppression at all. I hit no shortages, no insurance nightmares mid-journey, and my body just...responded. If you're reading this and your journey is slower, it doesn't mean you're doing anything wrong. Different bodies, different timelines. I got a good roll of the dice and I'm not going to pretend otherwise.
The biggest change wasn't on the scale. It was the silence.
The food noise reduction is, hands down, the single most impactful part of this journey for me. I spent decades with a radio in my head that only played one station. When that finally quieted down, I understood for the first time what it must be like to have a normal relationship with food. That mental freedom is what made everything else possible. The weight loss is almost a side effect of finally being able to think.
But it's not magic. I'm doing the work.
The medication opened the door but I still had to walk through it:
Mounjaro didn't do any of that for me. What it did was remove the constant mental battle so I actually had the willpower left over to build these habits.
To anyone just starting or thinking about it:
Be patient with your body. Celebrate the non-scale victories. The quieter mind, the looser shirts, the better labs, the stairs that don't wind you anymore. And treat the medication as the tool it is: it levels the playing field, but you still have to play the game.
Happy to answer any questions. Rooting for every single one of you.