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To expect more than 0.5 pound weight loss?

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Epicentre · 08/12/2025 07:47

On 25th October I weighed 11 stone 7 pounds.
I stayed that same weight for weeks. Wouldn't budge.
Then eventually a month later I went down to 11 stone 6 pounds.
Then magically last week I dropped to 11 stone 3 pounds.
Hooray! I thought. The looooong plateau has gone. I'd dropped 4 pounds.
Got back on scales today and I weigh 11stone 6.5 pounds.
So in 6 bloody weeks I've lost a grand total of 0.5 pounds.
This is on 15mg mounjaro and 1,200 cals a day.
I weigh myself once a week, no more.
I track my calories carefully.
No I'm not an idiot who vastly overeats more calories than I think I'm eating. (This seems to get trotted out a lot on MN).
I am SO SO SO pissed off.
0.5 pounds on 15mg MJ in SIX WEEKS!!!!!
Humph.😡

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ThisMustBeMyDream · 08/12/2025 07:55

Firstly, weigh daily. You can see the natural fluctuations that way and it gives a much clearer idea of what your actual fat weight is doing, not your water weight and food weight and so on.
Secondly, what is your height and have you worked out your tdee?

tamade · 08/12/2025 07:54

Doing once per week weighing is just a snapshot, it is kind of meaningless a glass of water or a pee is a few hundred grams. You would be better off measuring your waist, hips and neck or weighing everyday and looking for a general downward trend (weekly max weight decreasing over time, weekly min decreasing over time etc).

Good luck

CrossChecking · 08/12/2025 07:53

Hormones, water retention? It's unlikely that you have gained 3 pounds in a week in a calorie deficit. I know that it is disheartening but stick with it. I weigh myself every morning. It really helps you to see normal fluctuations. Some mornings I can be 2 pounds heavier than the morning before but then the next day I'm right back to my 'normal' weight.

TinySaltLick · 08/12/2025 07:51

Sorry but unless you are extremely small with a an almost unfessibly low metabolic rate, you must be counting calories wrong

Achangeintone · 08/12/2025 07:51

What did you eat pre mj?
what do you know eat?

have you increased movement?

Achangeintone · 08/12/2025 07:50

Heavens, there’s no way around it. That must be incredibly disappointing. Particularly as a lot of money presumably involved?

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