Typical food day before and after

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Trying to get a genuine idea of how my appetite might change when I start this week and would love to hear an example of how much you would eat prior to starting MJ and how much you eat now (approx obvs!) I know everyone is different but it’s still good to hear others experiences.

Also is there anything you cannot eat or drink anymore.

thank you!

It's very different from everyone, as seen on these threads, but for me right from the beginning my appetite dropped. I just don't fancy so much food.
I eat lighter than before and partly I do this by ditching most of the carbs. I just don't have room for them.
I have discovered exactly why I put on so much weight - I was eating so much more than I realised and have only noticed since I stopped all the grazing.

I went on an immediate diet, so the drug impact immediately was always going to be moot. As most of us can stay on a diet for a period. And I was excited to start and determined to make it work,

id say my evening meals stayed the same, still ate with family, just I eat a healthy portion, rather than an over large one like before. It’s normally a protein, chicken, fish, seafood, with veg and rice.

i tend to also eat healthy througout the day, boiled eggs, lean protein, a clear protein drink, sometimes a Huel black, lots of fruit, a kvarg.

the fruit thing is weird, as I never touched fruit before, but it tastes Like sweets to me now everything tastes much sweeter.

I seldom have chocolate etc,as I don’t really have the urge,

Before I would have had two Weetabix with semi skimmed milk for breakfast, then lunch would be something from the canteen like curry/pasta/chips, or a salad from the salad bar, dinner might be chili with rice, or pasta bake, or spag bol. I'd also snack - maybe a mid morning pastry, maybe a couple of biscuits in the afternoon, some chocolate or an ice cream after dinner.

Now, breakfast is a protein yogurt, lunch is a frittata with salad, dinner is some kind of veg/rice/protein combo. I still have a little bit of chocolate after dinner, but no other snacks, and my portion sizes at dinner are smaller.

Before - cereal bars for breakfast - probably 2. Mid morning 2/3/4 biscuits. Lunch - soup and 2 rolls, chocolate or cake or something sweet. Snack between lunch and dinner - whatever was to hand, usually sweet stuff and often 2 or 3 snack times before it got to dinner. Dinner - normal meal and portion sizes ie fishcakes, chips and veg, chilli and rice, thai chicken and veg curry with rice, followed by some fruit, sometimes with icecream. Before bed - chocolate, biscuits usually both.

You can see why I was overweight - sweet tooth and snacking out of control.

After. Cereal bar for breakfast (creature of habit 😆). Lunch - soup, sometimes with 1 roll often without. I try to have some protein in the soup - chicken or lentils. Mid afternoon protein shake with added fruit - strawberries, raspberries, blueberries. Dinner - similar to before but smaller portions, usually no chips and if I have rice I now use cauliflower rice. Before bed, small chocolate bar (like those mini kinder bars) if I really fancy it but often I don't.

previous typical Sunday:
B:2 crepes with fresh fruit filling and maple syrup, black tea 650 cal.
L: ham and swiss cheese on sourdough, dill pickles on the side 350 cal. black tea
D: protein of some sort, rotation of potatoes, rice, noodles, combination of veggies rarely under 500 cal.

S: wedge of cheese and herbal tea
no evening snacking
1550-1650 on Sundays due to the crepe breakfast. Most days 1350-1450
Today
B: 1 crepe, 100gm strawberries, maple syrup black tea 350 cal
L: BIGGEST CHANGE
1/2 bell pepper filled with ham and topped with cream cheese. Celery sticks, black tea 145 cal
S: herbal tea, cheese 100 cal
D: 2 cups mixed salad, oil and vinegar dressing and protein 450 cal

aiming and succeeding at maintaining 900-1200 range.

I’m not hungry or focused on the “next meal”, but that doesn’t mean I’ve stopped enjoying the foods I ordinarily enjoy. Tweaking and cutting back on side dishes or toppings.
no gastric side effects but significant water retention (looks like a rare side effect).

The biggest change for me was I stopped buying crap and thinking about it all the time. My meals were generally pretty healthy, but I couldn’t nip into the shop for teabags without buying a bag of doughnuts, tea cakes for toasting covered in butter, armfuls of crisps, peanuts, bags of sweets, biscuits…I thought about food constantly and pretty much ate constantly, even when I felt sick from eating so much.

Now I have three smallish meals a day - something like omelette for breakfast, chicken salad for lunch and a small serving of whatever everyone else is having for dinner. I drink lots of mint tea and water, instead of tea and coffee. I might succumb to the lure of the biscuit tin, but once I’ve eaten whatever number of biscuits my inner Fat Woman desires, I can then put the lid on the tin and get on with my day, instead of going looking for something else to eat. I don’t want cake or bread at all. I don’t want crisps, or anything oily - not interested indeep fried stuff, whereas previously I was a scampi and chips fiend. It’s a cliche, but it has truly been life changing. I have lost 7 stone over the last year.

Edited for typo.

I don’t think my diet has changed that much.

I used to eat reasonably healthy, with a few treats. I eat similarly now. Probably just a bit less; mostly slightly smaller portions.

It took me the best part of a year to lose two stone, so I was a slow loser. But I am stable now, though a stone over BMI.

I still have a sweet tooth, I still drink wine, I mostly enjoy the same foods. I can only assume that I eat a bit less and can go a bit longer without food (but not much longer, I still get hungry at meal times).

ps. It doesn’t sound dramatic but losing those two stone has made a difference, including to my health. I’ve even started exercising a bit. And this has been achieved without going on a strict diet for a long period of time, which without Mounjaro would’ve been impossible to sustain anyway.

I mostly ate the same food, as I already had a healthy diet. But I cut the portion I would normally eat down to about 1/3. Ate that, checked if I was actually still hungry or as they say, was mouth just lonely.
I did initially track every calorie.
Initially I also stopped white carbs like bread and pasta, and any sweet snacks. I eat some now, but very moderately.
Went off alcohol and still (more than a year later) barely fancy a drink.

Interesting, thanks for sharing everyone!

Interesting to hear the changes. I love food and cooking and also eating out socially. I am more than happy to alter my choices and choose and serve smaller portion but part of me is really nervous that I won’t get to have a varied diet or have a social drink anymore! I know drinking is a good one to drop but I hope I can still have spicy foods for example! All in moderation I guess and a bit of trial and error required over the next few months!

I always ate healthily, just too often and in too large portions, so it’s mostly been about portion size, so 25g of porridge oats not 50g,100g of Greek yoghurt not 150-200.
I do have the occasional treat, but it’s instead of a meal, so if I’m out for coffee & cake, that’s instead of breakfast or lunch, and I’m able to eat one or two biscuits without eating half a pack
Main meals, I’m now satisfied with a regular portion eg a Cook ready meal for one, previously I’d have eaten the meal for two myself, or if a recipe says serves 4, now it does! I often leave about half the carb portion when eating out, and serve myself much smaller carb portions at home
have gone off anything very sweet like cupcakes with lots of buttercream, sweeties etc
not gone off wine completely but have a definite off switch after 1 glass, and if it turns out to have a sweet taste I can’t drink it at all
not hunting around for a snack after dinner in the evenings and mostly just eat 2 meals per day - brunch and dinner

I had an absolutely terrible diet before MJ, I was morbidly obese since childhood and a lifelong binge eater. MJ fixed all of that for me, I lost 13.5 stone in a year and am now in maintenance and have so far managed to maintain for just over 4 months.

My average diet before:

B - nothing
Snack - bag of crisps and chocolate bar
Lunch - supermarket sandwich, crisps and a danish pastry
Snack - half a pack of biscuits
Dinner - huge portion of pasta bolognese with a whole garlic baguette followed by dessert - a big slice of cheesecake or chocolate brownie for example
Snack - other half of the pack of biscuits, sharing bag of chocolate buttons/M&Ms etc, maybe another bag of crisps

My average diet now:
B - nothing (just not a breakfast person)
Snack - banana and/or some berries
Lunch - Small portion of couscous and roasted veg with either hummus or half a chicken breast
Dinner - Sea bass with potatoes, asparagus and broccoli (average portion, small amount of potatoes, large amount of veg)
Snack - 2 rice cakes with peanut butter (good quality, no UPFs)

Now that I am in maintenance I do allow myself some extra treats, eg coffee and a cake at the weekend in a cafe, or a small bar of chocolate or low calorie crisps in the evening.

i also exercise every day, whereas I was pretty sedentary before. I do a mix of cardio, strength training, yoga and Pilates.

I never imagined I could turn things around so drastically, the medication has been truly miraculous for me but I expect I will need to stay on a low dose for life. (Currently taking 5mg every 2 weeks, hoping to drop to 2.5 soon).

Before if I brought a multi pack of crisps or kit kats they would be gone in a few days, now a pack of 6 kitkats stays in the cupboard for a month.
Before take away would be large doner, chips and onion rings, now its a small chicken shish no pitta.
Before breakfast lunch snacks dinner, now lunch protein shake or yoghurt and fruit and small dinner.
Before a bottle of wine, now a glass..
Before large chocolate bar of an evening now a walk.

Amazing well done xamazing, well done e 👏

I can eat what I fancy and stop when I am.full. There are leftovers. I plate myself a small plate and then.men in my family have big portions. I used to eat only slightly less than them.

I was healthy and didnt snack that much
But now I am even healthier and snack rarely

I had to eat regularly or would get shaky and anxious

Now I forget to eat until I suddenly realise I should have lunch because its nearly 3 o'clock, and when do I really enjoy it, becuase I was actually hungry!

Oh, and probably the most important thing for me is, the WLI allow me to keep eating like this, day in, day out, for weeks and months - with no derailments for weddings, funerals, holiday, sad days, mad days, which is what has made the real difference.

before, I could do the healthy, portion controlled thing but something would eventually send me off track and I’d be back to square one. Now, I do eat out ( but usually one course not three, one glass of wine not a bottle), celebrate and commiserate but not solely through the medium of food. I also seem to self- regulate, I’d never been able to understand the people who said they didn’t fancy breakfast as they’d had a larger than usual meal the previous day, now I can.