Usually, I’m very wary of these “miracle drugs” that come with ten thousand side effects, but so far, Mounjaro has been surprisingly effective and better than I expected. To give a quick example of how I know it’s working: eating a simple, modest-sized sandwich for breakfast keeps me feeling full until 6 or 7 PM, and that’s all I had.

To give you an example of what I’ve experienced:

• The first day marking the first time using Mounjaro: No effects whatsoever. I didn’t feel like I was full at all.
• Second day: Okay, I’m… feeling EXTREMELY full from what I’ve eaten.
• Third day: Still feeling the effect; it is more than obvious that it is working now.
• Fourth day: The effect starts to wear off a bit.
• Fifth day: Eh, it’s more balanced now. I neither feel hungry nor satisfied.
• Sixth day: I can’t recall, to be honest, what I did.
• Seventh day: I’m left with a somewhat skeptical outlook on Mounjaro wondering if it was a one-off type of thing.

The second week kicks in and I self-administer another shot. I think that’s the part that made it pretty official, where at times eating even a tiny bit of junk food, let’s say a bag of potato chips, would leave me full for most of the day. The finding was both amazing and terrifying. Who could have thought that you could feel full from eating junk food? Unless it is protein, I normally don’t feel full from junk food. With Mounjaro, it feels like it doesn’t matter what you eat: once you eat, you will feel full.

There’s a catch to that. If all you eat is unhealthy, then you are just making it worse than before, as, yes, you might be able to lose weight, but all that stuff isn’t going to be any good for your body if all you eat is meals that aren’t well-balanced in any way.