Why You Regain Weight After Weight Loss Injections and How Hypnosis Can Help
- May 20, 2025
- 5 min read
Jonathan Butler enables people to overcome limiting beliefs and habits that hold them back. He is a Mindset Architect and Transformation Coach, using neuroscience and 30 years of experience in leading organisational and personal change. He is the Founder of My Fit Mind and the Author of Bye-Bye Anxiety.
You didn’t just lose weight, you gained a glimpse of what life could feel like. The lighter body. The clearer mind. The sense of control you thought you’d never reclaim. But now, as the injections wind down, something unfamiliar is creeping in. Not just hunger, but fear. Fear that it was all temporary. Fear that the old patterns are returning. This is the part no one tells you about. The emotional aftermath. The subconscious pull. And this is exactly where your next transformation begins, not in your body, but in your mind.
You lost the weight. Can you keep it off?
You stuck to the plan, committed to the protocol, maybe even took Mounjaro, Ozempic, or Wegovy, those breakthrough GLP-1 medications that have helped millions lose weight. The pounds dropped off. The cravings faded. Your confidence grew. But now, something’s changing.
After weight loss injections stop, the hunger is back. The cravings for sugar, carbs, or late-night snacking have returned. And, perhaps most painfully of all, you’re seeing the weight slowly come back on. If this sounds familiar, you are not alone, and it’s not a failure. But it is a sign that there is more work to do to change your relationship with food, something no tablet or injection can fix.
According to the BBC, research shows that most people will regain some of the weight they lost soon after stopping their injections, and within a year, they have regained nearly all of it. So, the challenge is this: how do you ensure that the weight does not return?
The truth about what happens after weight loss medications
Medications like Mounjaro (tirzepatide), Ozempic (semaglutide), and Wegovy (semaglutide) have been game-changers in the weight loss world. They work by helping you feel fuller for longer and reducing your appetite. For many, they’ve offered real hope after years of struggle.
But there’s a hidden truth:
These medications can change your appetite while you’re taking them, but they don’t change your subconscious relationship with food.
When the prescription ends or you begin tapering down, your body’s cravings return. The emotional hunger, the snacking, the pull toward food as a reward or comfort, it all begins to reawaken. And unless you've addressed the root cause, you risk returning to the same habits that led you to seek medication in the first place. For example, it is estimated that one year after finishing semaglutide, people will regain two-thirds of the weight.
The emotional whiplash of weight regain
Let’s talk about what this does emotionally, because this is where many people suffer in silence.
You did the hard work. You invested time, money, and energy. You felt empowered, maybe even for the first time in years. And now, watching the weight creep back on feels devastating.
The self-judgment creeps in. You wonder, “Was it all for nothing?” or “Why can’t I control myself again?”
This is the moment where many give up, believing the problem is willpower, discipline, or simply "not trying hard enough." But the truth is, the issue lies deeper, and it's not something a pill or injection can fix.
The missing link: Your relationship with food
Behind almost every eating pattern, bingeing, emotional eating, sugar addiction, is an unconscious belief or emotional association tied to food. Maybe food was your comfort during childhood. Your escape from stress. A reward system that helped you survive burnout, trauma, or overwhelm.
GLP-1 medications help silence these patterns temporarily by dulling hunger. But once they’re gone? The emotional drivers are still very much alive.
That’s why now is the most important time to do the work your mind has been waiting for.
Why hypnosis is the key to making weight loss permanent
Hypnotherapy is a safe and proven therapy for losing weight and keeping the weight off. It works at the level where these patterns were first formed, your subconscious mind. It helps to:
Uncover and release the emotional roots of overeating
Rewire how you think and feel about food
Create new habits that feel natural and automatic
Reduce or even eliminate cravings, not by force but by changing their meaning
Rather than white-knuckling your way through another diet cycle, hypnosis empowers you to shift your identity from someone who struggles with food to someone who is effortlessly in control of their health.
As a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Rapid Transformational Therapist (RTT), I’ve helped hundreds of clients break free from emotional eating and self-sabotage, not through force but through deep subconscious transformation.
Injections are not the end of the journey. They’re the turning point
If you're coming off Mounjaro, Ozempic, or Wegovy and seeing the old habits creep back in, this isn’t a sign that you've failed. It’s a sign that the next chapter of your journey is ready to begin.
This is your moment to turn temporary results into lasting change.
You’ve already proven that transformation is possible. Now it’s time to make it sustainable by addressing the part of the mind that controls 90% of your behaviors, your subconscious.
Ready to rewrite your relationship with food?
I enable people to change their relationship with food permanently. So, if you are coming to the end of your medical weight loss treatment, or if you have finished it and are worried about the weight and bad habits returning, learn how I can help you change your long-term outcomes in just one or two sessions of RTT and hypnotherapy.
Because losing weight is only half the story. Keeping it off, for life, starts in your mind.
Learn more
Discover how hypnotherapy can provide the bridge from the weight loss your injections helped achieve to a lasting, healthier relationship with food, one that delivers the long-term results you truly want.
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Or, if you’re ready to change now, book a free 30-minute consultation with me here.
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Jonathan Butler, Mindset Coach and Transformation Architect
Jonathan Butler is a leader who helps people identify and overcome limiting thoughts, beliefs, and habits. He was a high achiever in corporate life, holding senior positions in global technology and management consultancies when he was hospitalized for a life-threatening, yet mystery illness in 2014, Four years of recovery led Jonathan to understand the power of the mind-body connection. He saw how learning to control our thoughts with tools such as hypnosis and NLP could overcome many physical ailments.
