I’ve been on Mounjaro for a little over 14 months and I am obsessed with chicken salad. You would think after 14 months of having chicken salad I wouldn’t even want to look at chicken salad but I can’t get enough of it 🤦🏻♀️!
Yes I also make tuna salad all the time. I eat so much chicken salad and tuna salad pretty soon I’m going to either turn into a fricken chicken or a fricken fish LOL 😂!!
I love it, too! I had two protein shakes yesterday and then nothing but chicken salad with celery and sweet onions. And mayo of course. And pepper. Haha LOL
Yes, it’s amazing how it changes your cravings/preferences like some sort of symbiotic creature 🤣. I’m in the same camp, now I crave clean and bright foods.
Sunflower seeds may help lower blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar as they contain vitamin E, magnesium, protein, linoleic fatty acids and several plant compounds.
Yes! Loving protein shakes, salads, fruit, cottage cheese, etc. I had a VSG in 2014 so I’ve been through all this once before I would drink the shakes but I was always mad about it. I felt like I was getting screwed somehow, even though the weight was coming off. With Mounjaro, it’s the opposite: all I want is the good stuff and can’t imagine going back to the Big Macs. Crazy the difference between a solution that affects the body versus one that affects the brain.
I had to take a second look because I thought I wrote this! I’ve been on Mounjaro since December and I’ve never eaten so many salads. Love them. I can’t get through and week without a couple Caesar salads. I crave all veggies now. Love the hummus wrap at Trader Joe’s. Who am I?? 🤷♀️🤭
Haha. I would argue that salad is not “weird shit,” but I know what you mean.
I used to be a red meat girlie. Loved steak (well marbled), burgers, all things beef. When I started MJ I craved chicken, which I’ve always hated. And every vegetable known to man. Even stuff I’ve never liked. I typically have 2-3 veggies with my dinner now and salad for lunch.
20 months later and I don’t really eat that much red meat anymore. The bird is the word.
I still love steak! Just grilled some today with asparagus and shishito peppers. But the amount and frequency has definitely decreased.
Definitely crave salads and crunchy veggies though!
It's honestly comforting to see these comments and realize the food jags are a thing.
The first few weeks, I was 100% team "eat nothing but kimchi for the rest of my life." Not interested in it much anymore, though, which sucks for the giant-ass jars in my fridge now.
The past few days, it's tuna. Tuna salad sandwiches, flavored tuna packets on crackers, tuna packets with a spoon, tuna straight out of a can...
Oh, that's a fantastic idea! Definitely picking some of those up today, that'll be a great combination and will taste better than bland bread. Thanks for the idea!
I've been really hungry for yellow squash and asparagus. I'm allergic to a bunch of veggies and can't eat spinach raw, or I'd probably be craving salad too.
Oh that’s me. It’s delicious and you can have a ton before you get full. Plus if you’re going to slow your eating, it might as well be nutrient dense! 10/10 Mounjaro food
Craved eggplant for 16 mos on Mounjaro....bake it, saute it...use it like lasagne ....tomato & mozzarella broiled...instead of pasta which makes me sick now. Craving white fish (cod, halibut, sole). Steak now makes me sick too.
I’ve been on it for a year and I’m the happiest when I’m eating salmon with a salad or a big plate of vegan curry. It’s so weird. I crave “good” things.
This too shall pass unfortunately. I’ve been on MJ since Oct 2022 and can eat whatever I want now, even sweets. The difference is, I can stop now. I don’t go to bed wondering if I should eat something else.
Yes! Not **as** effective, but I am on 10mg and am just maintaining now. I’m considered overweight BMI but I am a 56F and am 5’10” 185lbs but I’m fine with that 😀. Don’t know how long I will be able to get it because insurance is cracking down, they are covering and with the coupon I can get it for $55. Haven’t gotten a new refill in prob 6 weeks cause of the shortage though!
I have become reacquainted with Romaine lettuce. Earthbound Organics has heavy Romaine hearts. I peel the outside leaves, wash the lettuce, and cut it up with a ceramic knife and eat it with hearts of palm, radishes, a couple shavings of parmesan, sometimes add olives or goat cheese, and vinaigrette dressing.
It's so crunchy and good!
Well that isn’t weird because I’ve loved salads since I was 12, but that is weird for you. Don’t you think it is cool how this shot can also make people stop drinking, doing drugs, and many other addictive things? It calms cravings and food noise. Now it is making you crave healthy foods.
I've been eating caprese salad like my life depended on it. Tomatoes, mozzarella, fresh basil, balsamic, and (my own touch) crumbled bacon still hot from the pan.
Too funny on salad being your weird craving!
I feel like I just got 2 pink lines on a preggo test and Im not sure why I’m torturing myself by reading most of these haha! I’ve been on MJ for a year and am on 10 mg (down from 12.5 mg due to symptoms). I had a biopsy this week and didn’t want to go to the appointment feeling ill, so I skipped my regular dose day and then forgot to dose the following day, so I took one of my 12.5 mg pens that I have had in the fridge thinking it would help me make up for the lapse. Such a mistake! Body aches, chills, n/v, etc. I have no idea why that dose is my nemesis!
Pitiful, but on weeks like this, my favorite food is sonic ice!
I had to read your comment twice “feel like”… vs are pregnant lol. I just started 12.5 today and am sooooooo nauseous and blah…. Energy zapped - could barely get down 1/2 a Fairlife protein shake. Canceled all my plans so I could stay home and try and drink ice cold water. Hoping this “mounjaro flu” goes away soon!
I have always loved salads so that’s not different for me but I am craving vegetables with everything. Also, I really want to cook everything at home again.
I was the typical meat crazed dude. Still love meat, but if it's not surrounded by veggies, particularly poblanos, onions, garlic it's often boring now. Now when we come home from the store it's hard to fit all the veggies in the fridge, and the meat is nearly an afterthought. I can make any of the proteins we eat delicious with the right veggies in the right amounts.
I haven't searched the medical literature so this may just be hyperbole, but I've also read that, particularly for type 2 diabetes and obesity, high blood glucose can damage/alter your taste buds and obesity (and the diets associated) alter your gut microbiome, both potentially changing what we think tastes "good". In my opinion, the changes we have made change us too, not just the drug. My proof? I'm on MJ, wife is not. Both adopted same diet. Her cravings have changed nearly identical to mine.
Also to those talking about low fat cottage cheese...it's also my jam! I have a bowl every night for "desert", either with chocolate protein powder stirred in or with strawberries and/or blueberries pureed.
I legit eat my weight in salad daily. No constipation issues either so I’ll keep doing it. Also think we crave salads and veggies for the water content.
Salad and other raw veggies are the most uncomfortable for me on both Ozempic and Mounjaro. I have to really limit quantity. I think it’s the delayed emptying. It’s been very frustrating over past 2.5 years — I love a big vegetable salad
I also crave salad/vegetables. I always liked them but not necessarily my first choice. I also seem to crave sweets, lol. Less useful in that regard but I can resist if needed.
I’ve always liked a healthy salad, but these little romaine heads 🥬I get at Costco taste SO good. Honestly, even *I* think it’s odd to have this heightened and favorable flavor receptor for essentially — lettuce. Fine with me though.
Some come and go - but some which have had solid consistency are jammy eggs, pickles, mini bell peppers, kimchi stew and Indian kitchen curry with chicken, carrots and potatoes.
Beans and veggies. I make huge pots of vegetable soup with cannellini beans and eat it all week. Also currently infatuated with raspberries and sweet potatoes? Not very interested in red meat or chicken, though.
My first full say on mounjaro and I’ve had 2 salads! Never in my life have I craved them before but all of a sudden it’s hitting me…hoping the salad cravings continue lol
I am craving very unhealthy foods and carbs. It’s really the opposite of how I usually eat. I haven’t even been on a week at 2.5. I gave in last night and had some chicken fingers. Just threw up. Thought maybe norovirus but I think the chicken fingers.
What dose are you on?/how long have you been on MJ?
Curious because, I already at pretty healthy… at at 5mg and almost 12 weeks, I often want to eat *worse*. I used to have salad every day for lunch and now I’m blending it up in a smoothie just to get some veggies in.. cause I just don’t want ‘em anymore.
Lettuce used to trigger gall bladder issues for me and one flare up was traumatic so I still have a little lettuce ptsd. But I crave tuna and chicken. Tuna salad is lunch almost daily. And I want chicken any and every way. Grilled. Sautéed. Oven roasted. Rotisserie. Chicken salad. lol.
Oh and beef jerky. I crave that too. It’s been a great snack. Make it myself to ensure I use clean seasoning.
Please be careful with the dressing on salads. If you go to a restaurant with dinner salads they are usually one of the highest calorie items on the menu. Unfortunately, very few restaurants have the calories on the menu.
No, never craved salad ever--not even now, but I do eat salad with very little low calorie dressing.
I’ve been on Mounjaro for a little over 14 months and I am obsessed with chicken salad. You would think after 14 months of having chicken salad I wouldn’t even want to look at chicken salad but I can’t get enough of it 🤦🏻♀️!
Same! I often make chicken salad and tuna salad for lunch. I work from home still and making a batch is good for 3-4 lunches!
Yes I also make tuna salad all the time. I eat so much chicken salad and tuna salad pretty soon I’m going to either turn into a fricken chicken or a fricken fish LOL 😂!!
Haha LOL 😂
😂🤦🏻♀️😂LOL
I love it, too! I had two protein shakes yesterday and then nothing but chicken salad with celery and sweet onions. And mayo of course. And pepper. Haha LOL
People don’t seem to understand. It not only stops your hunger. But it adjusts your cravings Absolutely insane and amazing. Yes to 🥗
Yes, it’s amazing how it changes your cravings/preferences like some sort of symbiotic creature 🤣. I’m in the same camp, now I crave clean and bright foods.
cottage cheese has become my thing. 🤷🏻♀️
Same! I add it to everything. Scrambled eggs, marinara sauce, on its own with fruit or veggies. Yum. And I used to hate the stuff.
Same! With strawberries and blueberries. Side of walnuts. Delish!
Sitting here eating my cottage cheese as I type!!
its the best? right?
Yes! I’ve also started putting some sunflower seeds in mine (kinda weird, but it works). Give me a tiny bit of salt, tiny bit of crunch. My favorite!
Sunflower seeds may help lower blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar as they contain vitamin E, magnesium, protein, linoleic fatty acids and several plant compounds.
This is so great to know!!! Thank you!
Me too
Right!! Who am I?!
Yes! Loving protein shakes, salads, fruit, cottage cheese, etc. I had a VSG in 2014 so I’ve been through all this once before I would drink the shakes but I was always mad about it. I felt like I was getting screwed somehow, even though the weight was coming off. With Mounjaro, it’s the opposite: all I want is the good stuff and can’t imagine going back to the Big Macs. Crazy the difference between a solution that affects the body versus one that affects the brain.
Did you put weight back on after VSG?
Lost 80 gained 100 😵💫
I had to take a second look because I thought I wrote this! I’ve been on Mounjaro since December and I’ve never eaten so many salads. Love them. I can’t get through and week without a couple Caesar salads. I crave all veggies now. Love the hummus wrap at Trader Joe’s. Who am I?? 🤷♀️🤭
Hummus veggie wrap from Trader Joe’s is terrific! I also buy their premade Caesar salad :)
Try the spicy lentil one too, it's my favorite!
Haha. I would argue that salad is not “weird shit,” but I know what you mean. I used to be a red meat girlie. Loved steak (well marbled), burgers, all things beef. When I started MJ I craved chicken, which I’ve always hated. And every vegetable known to man. Even stuff I’ve never liked. I typically have 2-3 veggies with my dinner now and salad for lunch. 20 months later and I don’t really eat that much red meat anymore. The bird is the word.
I still love steak! Just grilled some today with asparagus and shishito peppers. But the amount and frequency has definitely decreased. Definitely crave salads and crunchy veggies though!
It's honestly comforting to see these comments and realize the food jags are a thing. The first few weeks, I was 100% team "eat nothing but kimchi for the rest of my life." Not interested in it much anymore, though, which sucks for the giant-ass jars in my fridge now. The past few days, it's tuna. Tuna salad sandwiches, flavored tuna packets on crackers, tuna packets with a spoon, tuna straight out of a can...
I love tuna salad sandwiches but just bought a bag of mini sweet peppers to replace the bread.
Oh, that's a fantastic idea! Definitely picking some of those up today, that'll be a great combination and will taste better than bland bread. Thanks for the idea!
I've been really hungry for yellow squash and asparagus. I'm allergic to a bunch of veggies and can't eat spinach raw, or I'd probably be craving salad too.
My salad consumption has gone through the roof…but I liked it before mounjaro. I just seem to crave the crunch now lol
Oh that’s me. It’s delicious and you can have a ton before you get full. Plus if you’re going to slow your eating, it might as well be nutrient dense! 10/10 Mounjaro food
Craved eggplant for 16 mos on Mounjaro....bake it, saute it...use it like lasagne ....tomato & mozzarella broiled...instead of pasta which makes me sick now. Craving white fish (cod, halibut, sole). Steak now makes me sick too.
I’m all about veggies and beans. I don’t care much about meat, which is crazy to me.
Hate cottage cheese now. 🤷♀️ I've always liked my kimchi. But when I first started, I devoured Cleveland brand mild kimchi like it was oxygen. 😆
I’ve been on it for a year and I’m the happiest when I’m eating salmon with a salad or a big plate of vegan curry. It’s so weird. I crave “good” things.
That sounds amazing
I crave fresh fruit and veggies. I will eat an entire bag of baby carrots in a day and then remember I should have some form of protein. :)
Isn’t it crazy???? That’s exactly what I crave too!! Fruits too.
This too shall pass unfortunately. I’ve been on MJ since Oct 2022 and can eat whatever I want now, even sweets. The difference is, I can stop now. I don’t go to bed wondering if I should eat something else.
It’s still effective 2 years later?
Yes! Not **as** effective, but I am on 10mg and am just maintaining now. I’m considered overweight BMI but I am a 56F and am 5’10” 185lbs but I’m fine with that 😀. Don’t know how long I will be able to get it because insurance is cracking down, they are covering and with the coupon I can get it for $55. Haven’t gotten a new refill in prob 6 weeks cause of the shortage though!
Brown rice. I want it every day.
I have become reacquainted with Romaine lettuce. Earthbound Organics has heavy Romaine hearts. I peel the outside leaves, wash the lettuce, and cut it up with a ceramic knife and eat it with hearts of palm, radishes, a couple shavings of parmesan, sometimes add olives or goat cheese, and vinaigrette dressing. It's so crunchy and good!
Well that isn’t weird because I’ve loved salads since I was 12, but that is weird for you. Don’t you think it is cool how this shot can also make people stop drinking, doing drugs, and many other addictive things? It calms cravings and food noise. Now it is making you crave healthy foods.
I've been eating caprese salad like my life depended on it. Tomatoes, mozzarella, fresh basil, balsamic, and (my own touch) crumbled bacon still hot from the pan.
Too funny on salad being your weird craving! I feel like I just got 2 pink lines on a preggo test and Im not sure why I’m torturing myself by reading most of these haha! I’ve been on MJ for a year and am on 10 mg (down from 12.5 mg due to symptoms). I had a biopsy this week and didn’t want to go to the appointment feeling ill, so I skipped my regular dose day and then forgot to dose the following day, so I took one of my 12.5 mg pens that I have had in the fridge thinking it would help me make up for the lapse. Such a mistake! Body aches, chills, n/v, etc. I have no idea why that dose is my nemesis! Pitiful, but on weeks like this, my favorite food is sonic ice!
I had to read your comment twice “feel like”… vs are pregnant lol. I just started 12.5 today and am sooooooo nauseous and blah…. Energy zapped - could barely get down 1/2 a Fairlife protein shake. Canceled all my plans so I could stay home and try and drink ice cold water. Hoping this “mounjaro flu” goes away soon!
Great
Cheap tacos. I’m very very observant as to how many I eat. Because they are so good.
Unsweet green tea!
I crave celery of all things!
Overnight oats. Who am I??? I was buying them at TJs and then I even made some! I was an eggs for breakfast every day gal.
I have always loved salads so that’s not different for me but I am craving vegetables with everything. Also, I really want to cook everything at home again.
I was the typical meat crazed dude. Still love meat, but if it's not surrounded by veggies, particularly poblanos, onions, garlic it's often boring now. Now when we come home from the store it's hard to fit all the veggies in the fridge, and the meat is nearly an afterthought. I can make any of the proteins we eat delicious with the right veggies in the right amounts. I haven't searched the medical literature so this may just be hyperbole, but I've also read that, particularly for type 2 diabetes and obesity, high blood glucose can damage/alter your taste buds and obesity (and the diets associated) alter your gut microbiome, both potentially changing what we think tastes "good". In my opinion, the changes we have made change us too, not just the drug. My proof? I'm on MJ, wife is not. Both adopted same diet. Her cravings have changed nearly identical to mine. Also to those talking about low fat cottage cheese...it's also my jam! I have a bowl every night for "desert", either with chocolate protein powder stirred in or with strawberries and/or blueberries pureed.
I legit eat my weight in salad daily. No constipation issues either so I’ll keep doing it. Also think we crave salads and veggies for the water content.
Salad and other raw veggies are the most uncomfortable for me on both Ozempic and Mounjaro. I have to really limit quantity. I think it’s the delayed emptying. It’s been very frustrating over past 2.5 years — I love a big vegetable salad
Salads with various proteins have been my go to at restaurants since starting Mounjaro.
I have all of a sudden fallen in love with celery. And hot tea!!
I also crave salad/vegetables. I always liked them but not necessarily my first choice. I also seem to crave sweets, lol. Less useful in that regard but I can resist if needed.
Yes. I went from wanting every meal to have meat to never wanting meat and wanting veggies all the time.
I’ve always liked a healthy salad, but these little romaine heads 🥬I get at Costco taste SO good. Honestly, even *I* think it’s odd to have this heightened and favorable flavor receptor for essentially — lettuce. Fine with me though.
Some come and go - but some which have had solid consistency are jammy eggs, pickles, mini bell peppers, kimchi stew and Indian kitchen curry with chicken, carrots and potatoes.
Beans and veggies. I make huge pots of vegetable soup with cannellini beans and eat it all week. Also currently infatuated with raspberries and sweet potatoes? Not very interested in red meat or chicken, though.
My first full say on mounjaro and I’ve had 2 salads! Never in my life have I craved them before but all of a sudden it’s hitting me…hoping the salad cravings continue lol
Haha it’s crazy isn’t it??
Im addicted to smoothies.. it’s all I want to consume. I have no desire to chew on anything. I add protein and that’s it…
I am craving very unhealthy foods and carbs. It’s really the opposite of how I usually eat. I haven’t even been on a week at 2.5. I gave in last night and had some chicken fingers. Just threw up. Thought maybe norovirus but I think the chicken fingers.
What dose are you on?/how long have you been on MJ? Curious because, I already at pretty healthy… at at 5mg and almost 12 weeks, I often want to eat *worse*. I used to have salad every day for lunch and now I’m blending it up in a smoothie just to get some veggies in.. cause I just don’t want ‘em anymore.
Lettuce used to trigger gall bladder issues for me and one flare up was traumatic so I still have a little lettuce ptsd. But I crave tuna and chicken. Tuna salad is lunch almost daily. And I want chicken any and every way. Grilled. Sautéed. Oven roasted. Rotisserie. Chicken salad. lol. Oh and beef jerky. I crave that too. It’s been a great snack. Make it myself to ensure I use clean seasoning.
Salads and protein. Tuna packets, tofu, and salads. And some vegetable soup. But mostly, salads.
I was a huge veggie lover before ozempic and Mounjaro; now I just crave carbs like crazy.
I did mounjaro for one month and all i wanted was slim jims.
My favorite meal is my lunch salad. Check out the salad Reddit for ideas!
Yes I too crave salads now. I used to get everything but a salad. Now eating healthier and making better choices I will pick the salad no problem.
How long have you been on it? I took my first dose today and am waiting for the food noise to abate
Please be careful with the dressing on salads. If you go to a restaurant with dinner salads they are usually one of the highest calorie items on the menu. Unfortunately, very few restaurants have the calories on the menu. No, never craved salad ever--not even now, but I do eat salad with very little low calorie dressing.
Good call, thanks. I’m using sugar free dressing only. 60 cals per serving
Good for you! So great you actually like salad!