3rd year of maintenance

I started MJ in Sept 2022 and lost 85 lbs over the following year. I’ve been doing maintenance since then at 12.5 every 14 days. For the past 2 months I’ve not stuck to that 14 days—travel mostly being the culprit.

After maintaining within a couple of pounds of my goal weight for all this time, until around December today I noted the creeping weight gain had reached 10 lbs.

I’m going back to logging my food, more frequent weigh-ins, and sticking very closely to an every 14 day dose rather than 16-19 days between, which is what I figured from my notes I’d been doing since mid-December.

It’s interesting to me that having all this data and knowing what has worked so well, that I still can be surprised by the cumulative effect of stretching doses beyond what is effective.

There’s no question I will be taking this medication for life, and on a very set schedule. That doesn’t seem at all unreasonable and the science and research thus far definitely supports that.

I know folks are interested in those of us who have been in maintenance for many years, so I thought this would be helpful information. September will start my fourth year on Mounjaro and I am so grateful for this truly miraculous medication.