The Weight War: How GLP-1 Meds Temporarily Flip the Game (and What Happens When They Leave)
posted on: February 03, 2026. posted in: Weight loss, Health
We've had a message sent to us...
"I’m stuck and desperate for advice. I started Mounjuro in September after years of diet abuse on and off of SW groups, my weight controls every aspect of my life so I took the plunge. Having already lost 2 stone, Mounjaro helped me lose a further 2.5 stone. I stopped the jab in December and all was good. Xmas came….. and all hell has broken loose, I’m back to my old ways, eating everything and anything. I’ve gained 8lb already and I’m devastated. I feel it’s because I went cold turkey during Xmas, I feel I should go back on it and come off it slowly, in all honesty I’m not sure what to do."
Hello and welcome to Rebelfit 🙏
We're getting so many enquiries from people in this exact situation, coming off a GLP-1 and the weight flying back on. Science and research confirms this phenomenon too. The following will help you understand what's going on.
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The Weight War
I'd like you to visualise a tug of war for me.
Except, with this being Rebelfit and all, this tug of war is a little bit different.
Instead of the rope running left to right, like it would in a tug of war in a field, I'd like you to visualise the rope running up and down, vertically, representing your "set point weight".
There are two teams:
Team Up represents the factors at the top of the rope, pulling your weight upwards. They include a crack team of weight increasing specialist, including...
Mrs Fat Genes
Mrs High Appetite
Mrs Emotional Eating
Mrs Poor Sleep
Mrs High Stress
Mrs Hormonal Imbalance
Mrs Financial Stress
Mrs Low Muscle Mass
Mrs Low Fitness
Mrs Body Shame
Each member of Team Up creates its own unique pull on the rope upwards, pulling your body towards a higher set point weight, resulting in you gaining weight and getting heavier over time.
Team Down represents the factors at the bottom of the rope, pulling your weight downwards. They include a crack team of weight decreasing specialists including...
Mrs Lean Genes
Mrs Low Appetite
Mrs Emotionally Stable
Mrs Optimal Sleep
Mrs Managed Stress
Mrs Hormonal Balance
Mrs Financially Stable
Mrs High Muscle Mass
Mrs High Fitness
Mrs Body Acceptance
Each member of Team Up creates its own unique pull on the rope downwards, pulling your body towards a lower set point weight, resulting in you losing weight and getting lighter over time.
When I say the phrase "set point weight" to people it often confuses them. However, the simplest way to understand this phenomenon is who wins the tug of war - Team Up or Team Down?
When I meet my clients, my job is to assess their unique balance between Team Up and Team Down, to create a picture of who is winning The Weight War and where their set point weight lies. But here's the really interesting part...
Players can switch teams.
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Your Experience Explained
Remember how, before you went on a GLP-1, you had Mrs High Appetite and Mrs Emotional Eating, both playing a huge part in pulling your weight upwards as part of Team Up? And remember how no matter how hard you tried to pull downwards, by dieting, restricting and trying to control what you eat, you still couldn't get your weight down?
But then, you went on a GLP-1, and suddenly you felt your appetite was more controlled, you were emotionally eating less, and pulling the rope downwards felt easier, producing weight loss?
Well, your GLP-1 did something really important...
It made Mrs High Appetite and Mrs Emotional Eating switch teams.
So visualise that vertical tug of war again for me, The Weight War. For a long time Mrs High Appetite and Mrs Emotional Eating were two key players on Team Up, pulling your weight upwards and increasing your weight, no matter how hard you tried to resist them and pull down. But the moment you started injecting, it's like they dropped the rope, stopped pulling up, switched teams, became Mrs Low Appetite and Mrs Emotionally Stable, and they started playing for Team Down, pulling downwards.
And now that hard part...
When you came off your GLP-1 and stopped injecting, they switched back again. Your two key players, helping to pull your set point weight down, Mrs Low Appetite and Mrs Emotionally Stable, dropped the rope, moved back to Team Up, became Mrs High Appetite and Mrs Emotional Eating, and on goes 8lbs before you even know it.
Guess who else showed up at that time? Mrs Christmas Food rolled up her sleeves, took a deep breath, grabbed the rope for Team Up, and started giving a very powerful upward pull on your set point weight too.
Is it any surprise you gained weight? Losing two key Team Down players to Team Up, and gaining an additional Team Up player in the form of all this delicious, tempting, easy-to-overeat Christmas food.
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The Lesson
You haven't failed.
As I always remind my clients...
"There is no failure, only feedback."
And the feedback here is that you weren't ready to come off your GLP-1. Or to express this in The Weight War terms, your Team Down wasn't strong enough to cope when you stopped injecting, so your set point weight started to fly back upwards when those two key players switched teams.
Learn from this.
Create a new strategy.
Come back stronger.
I only ever advise my clients to start tapering their GLP-1, reducing their dosage, when they have a rock solid Team Down, who can hold their set point weight down once they eventually stop injecting altogether.
In The Weight War terms, it means having...
Mrs Low Appetite
Mrs Emotionally Stable
Mrs Optimal Sleep
Mrs Managed Stress
Mrs Hormonal Balance
Mrs Financially Stable
Mrs High Muscle Mass
Mrs High Fitness
Mrs Body Acceptance
...all super strong, and ready for the fight. So that if, when you come off your GLP-1, Mrs Low Appetite does decide to switch teams, becoming Mrs High Appetite again, you have a team of players in place to hold your weight down. Or even better, you have the nutritional strategies in place to keep Mrs Low Appetite on Team Down, without needing a GLP-1.
Liam x
Rebelfit
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