I Didn't Start With a Target Weight

My personal experience of Mounjaro, weight loss, appetite, side effects and discovering that knowing why I eat doesn’t necessarily make it easy to stop.

Note: This is a personal account of my experience with Mounjaro (tirzepatide). It isn’t medical advice, and my experience won’t necessarily be the same as anyone else’s.

I didn’t start with a target weight

I started Mounjaro at around 16 st 10 lb (106 kg).

People often talk about weight loss as though there is a magic number at the end of the journey.

Get to 80 kg.

Get your BMI below 25.

Lose another ten pounds.

I haven’t set myself a target weight.

What I actually want is much simpler.

I want to wake up in the morning and walk downstairs without feeling out of breath.

I want to walk up the six flights of stairs at work without arriving at the top soaked in sweat and wondering whether I should have brought a second shirt.

I want to be able to do ordinary things without my weight turning them into an endurance event.

That’s the goal.

I don’t know what number on the scales corresponds to that.

Maybe there isn’t one.

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What I actually want

I want to walk downstairs in the morning without being out of breath.

I want to climb those six flights of stairs at work without needing to wring the sweat out of the shirt I put on ten minutes earlier.

I want ordinary physical activities to feel ordinary.

I want to be able to move around without constantly being reminded that I’m carrying more weight than my body really wants to carry.

If that happens at a particular weight, great.

If it happens at a different weight, that’s fine too.

The number is a measurement. It isn’t the destination.