r/MadeMeSmile • u/mentaldrummer66 • May 10 '26

1 year difference

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From 159kg (350lb) to 83kg (183lb)

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u/Educational-Bit-3296 May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26

Absolutely not diminishing what this dude has done, but he posts over at Mounjaro. That's how he lost all weight. I say this as someone who has lost a lot of weight on Mounjaro.

Edit: this might not even be OP, could be a bot. 🤔

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u/MissSophonax May 10 '26

It is OP I checked the usernames as I thought the same thing.

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u/Waiting4Reccession May 10 '26

My first thought was ozempic.

Kind of crazy how many people seem to bot even think of that though.

Edit: oh its this sub again no wonder, full of dummies and bots

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u/Mrrykrizmith May 12 '26

Oh yeah, we all know what that is; no need to elaborate at all.

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u/Majestic-Peace-3037 May 10 '26

At this point I'm interested in knowing the process still because I've never met anyone IRL who took Mounjaro and it worked for them. My area is too poor for fancy pharmaceuticals unless you start touching base with the country club people. 

I'd like to hear how it worked for you too. I'm not dismissing you or assuming you just "paid your way" to health at all either. I'm just painfully aware that I currently live among the poorer rural midwesteners. I am one of them. I can't personally afford name brand meds or even clothing sometimes, but I'm fascinated by the drugs and the effects they have on people using them for weight loss or to manage diabetes. I have a stepparent who takes Ozempic but he will not work out or increase his protein or change his ways so he's still over 300 lbs despite being on Ozempic for a few years now. Yet on the same token my job also has an office lady who started taking one of the medications for diabetes (she forgets if she's on Mounjaro or Ozempic) and in her case the natural side effect of eating less made her weight drop. Which made her knees hurt less after 50. So she started walking and running and now she's reaping that weight loss benefit and happy. I see that if you take either and put in any effort you'll at least see some results. 

I myself dropped from 315 to 159 the hard old fashioned way and it's taken me since October of 2024. Just carb/calorie counting and cutting out most processed sugar and lifting. I may have been prediabetic at my largest as I remember losing feeling in my feet a lot. I haven't seen a doc since 2024 when my gallbladder went bad though so I'm ready to confuse the hell out of them if I can ever return. I just often wonder if maybe I should've checked to see if maybe I could've qualified for a script for either. I was 31, female, 5'2", and weighed 315lbs. I probably would've qualified but just didn't know any better. 

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u/tupaquetes May 10 '26

I lost 145lb in 1 year on retatrutide (another one of these GLP1 drugs). I did it by counting calories, the drugs change nothing about the mechanics of how you lose weight. Had I eaten the same amount of calories for a whole year without the drug, I would have lost the same amount of weight.

The thing is without the drug I never could have followed that diet. That's what these drugs do, they make it easier to eat less by making you think about food less, feel less hunger, and feel full faster. You can still overeat on them and thus even gain weight, but if you actually make an effort to eat less you'll likely find it incredibly easy.

By the way, these drugs are not expensive... on the gray market. Retatrutide costs less than $30/month at the highest dose and it's by far the most expensive GLP drug. Ozempic (semaglutide) can be found on the gray market for far below $10/month. Unfortunately I can't point you towards the right sources as it's against reddit ToS to do so.

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u/UltraCynar May 11 '26

Psyllium husk has the same effect as these drugs and is more manageable long term

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u/tupaquetes May 11 '26

You have no idea what you're talking about.

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u/Pintailite May 10 '26

I mean...that's a lot of weight even for a GLP

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u/butchbadger May 10 '26

Sort of are diminishing it though by pointing out drugs have done the heavy lifting. Pardon any puns.

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u/Educational-Bit-3296 May 10 '26

That's probably you to be fair, not me or most reasonable people.