There are two (at least) main reasons why Mounjaro is not a drug that should be relied upon if one wants to lose weight because one is obese and perhaps has type II diabetes as a consequence. It cuts appetite and therefore you eat much less.
The first reason is that you have to keep taking it for the rest of your life and as I understand it that means paying for the drug privately and it is expensive. It may cost £300 a month which most people can’t afford just to lose weight. And if you stop using it you put on weight much faster than normal. In other words you regain your previous obese state very rapidly, surprisingly so apparently.
At the moment the experts don’t know why but clearly there is some sort unknown chemistry going on affecting metabolism causing you revert back to your former obese state in a remarkably short time.
The second obvious reason is that it is a new drug. People are clamouring for it. People are demanding it usually from their GP under the NHS (or simply buying online which is dangerous) in order to cure them of type II diabetes and other illnesses caused by obesity.
But because it’s new even the best experts don’t know what side effects might be developing in the long term. You know there are some side effects in the short term but there appear to be acceptable. There is one in the news media today about a young woman who lost a lot of weight as usual with this drug but ended up with chronic and extreme burping in the middle of the night. It appears to be in some sort of acid reflux. Perhaps not that important but indicative that something is going wrong and it happened quite quickly apparently. It may lead to more serious symptoms.
It is the long-term consequences that concern me. We don’t know and I would pretty well guarantee that there will be some long-term consequences. All drugs are in effect poisons and there must be side effects to varying degrees.
People appear to be ignoring this possibility in their eagerness to get their hands on this ‘magic formula’ weight loss which in effect bypasses self-discipline.
The only real way to get rid of weight is to exercise extreme self-discipline and go on a long-term i.e. permanent diet by eating perhaps half of what you normally eat. And of course you can eat better foods such as more vegetables.
Back in the day, just after the war years for example, British citizens typically ate a lot more vegetables and a bit of meat. It was ‘meat and two veg’ and that was the typical meal eaten at the table as a family.
So, no junk food. No ultra-processed food (all too prevalent in Britain today). Just normal meals as I would call them and far more vegetables and perhaps fruit as well (e.g. apple pie). A healthy diet and the plate size in that era was about half the current plate size.
It say you can turn over a current plate and eat off the base which is the size the plane should be if you want to eat a normal quantity and maintain a healthy diet which does not put on weight.
So it’s about self-discipline and Mounjaro is a drug which ostensibly circumvents that precious commodity: self-discipline. It’s a form of behaviour which has sadly been lost in a very high percentage of people particularly in the West where there is a lack of discipline generally including self-discipline. There is self-indulgence and the need for instant gratification, in this instance through the pleasure of eating.
It’s a bit like retail therapy. This is eating therapy; eating when you don’t need to eat. Eating when you’re not hungry. We should only eat when we are hungry and the amount we should eat is, as mentioned, above and the quality of the food is as mentioned above.
I predict that Mounjaro will lose its attractiveness in due course. It will still be in place to treat desperate people and I hope this inept British government and foreign governments will drill people into the belief that by far the best course of action is to simply eat less and better.
P.S. Another reason is that the patient loses all the fun of eating!! Yes, that is a necessity but they have to realise that their main source of pleasure will be taken from them. 😉😒💕
