Mounjaro / Zepbound Journey

  Hello All!   So today I hit 261.2 pounds for a 96.8 pound weight loss on Mounjaro! … 27% loss.    In talking to people about Mounjaro I find it hard to explain why this is such a great medication.  I have changed my diet and I am eating much healthier but without the Mounjaro my results would not have been any near as dramatic.   And the changes I have done would have completely overwhelming with my body fighting me all the way …. starving … craving … tempted … eating chatter all day and all night.   The medicine takes care of that part of the problem.  It allows us to make the changes we needed to make.   The medicine has been wonderful and nothing short of a miracle! Speaking of wonderful … the photo above is of Pirate’s Day on Smith Mountain Lake Virginia which has truly been an outstanding adventure to participate in every year!!

  I took 10 mg dose today.   On a weight loss plateau presently but I had company all last week so I am just glad I did not put on weight! Update: 4 days later D 182 … at 265.4 pounds for 92.8 pound weight loss (25.9%) since starting mounjaro!   And if you look at loss from my max weight including pre-mounjaro weight loss I have lost 118.6 pounds (30.7%).   I am completely amazed! The photo above reminds me of what it felt like when I was heavier... Nothing seemed built to accommodate me and I was always self conscious that I just did not fit in... Literally!

  Hello!   I am doing one more dose at 15mg this week and then going to 10mg for 2 weeks and then a 15mg and then 2 weeks of 10mg … good plan … after that will depend on what is available to get!  Update of anesthesia with GLP-1s … the American Society of Anesthesiologists came out with a task force recommendation which is what doctors will be following for now on GLP-1 patients … they say to hold the dose for one week before elective surgery and to consider using ultrasound of the stomach on the day of surgery to see if there is any food in the stomach.   If in doubt they are to treat the patient as being a full stomach.  I think that only waiting a week means a lot of people will have something still in their stomach following regular eating guidelines before surgery so we as patients are still at increased risk.   The issue they were compromising on was that if a diabetic’s sugars were under control on a GLP-1 then holding it longer than a week would mean poor sugar control at the t