To expect more than 0.5 pound weight loss?

[Epicentre]

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.😡

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

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

have you increased movement?

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

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.

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

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?

Sounds like your calories aren’t low enough for weight loss then OP. How tall are you? You should have lost a lot more than that on such a high dose.

How old are you? I do think as we get into our forties our metabolic rate can absolutely crash, and its terrifically hard to rebuild enough muscle to get it back when your hormones are working against you

What is your BMI? maybe your body is where it needs to be.

How are your energy levels? Do you need to eat a bit more and move a bit more? I'm on mounjaro and feel much better on a slightly lower dose when i can get a few more calories in, including carbs, which i couldn't on a higher dose, giving me the energy to exercise and enjoy life. It can be a fine balance.

I put on 3lbs whenever I ovulate- you need to weigh daily and look over months not days 😀

also I think until you have a few days of consistent weight at the 11st 3 you haven’t actually secured that weight loss- it can take a few weeks to stabilise.

this is without MJ but I’m assuming as you don’t weight much you’re on a low dose and wouldn’t be expecting rapid weight loss?

eta- I misread you were on 0.5mg 😱

Um that’s not how weight loss works, it’s the opposite, the lower the cals, the higher the loss. It really isn’t the more you eat the less you weigh.

Are you still drinking alcohol during this period @Epicentre ?

That’s what the poster you quoted said?

How long have you been taking it for and what was your starting weight?
and how much do you weigh now, what’s your BMI?

Reread what I said… ‘your calories AREN'T LOW ENOUGH for loss’. Goodness me, the comprehension on this site baffles.

It’s not the site is it, it’s one person. They’re allowed to misread at 8am on a Monday morning.

I'm on 12.5 and a slow loser. I realised over summer that any time I have alcohol it prevents me losing weight for that week. And agree with people about day to day fluctuation, I also gain around ovulation time and then it drops again about a week later - weighing every few days helps get a sense of what factors influence losing...

Perhaps you didn’t read that post properly @Frenchfrychic

It’s something that’s been happening a lot recently which is why I said the site.

Oops yes sorry !

No need to be arsey, we all make mistakes.

Well exactly

so perhaps you need to tailor your responses when you think you see a mistake

If you are not losing weight but you want to, you need to eat less. That's all there is too it. You're eating too many calories.

I'm not saying you're counting calories wrong, you may be counting them perfectly, but it's too much.

A lot of people do not lose weight on "recommended weight loss calories", because it's too much for them to lose weight on. People don't like really admitting it or talking about it, because it's actually pretty bad for you nutrition-wise to eat little enough to lose weight (for those people).

Many people on the weight loss jabs who are suddenly losing weight when they couldn't before are losing it due to now being able to eat very little. Much less than you imagine. Again, won't be admitted, because it's terribly bad for you.

Eating less is not 'all there is to it'. Much better now would be to increase exercise given she is already on low calories.

Weight fluctuates constantly throughout your cycle. It increases by anything up to 5lbs before your period for example and for some women prior to ovulation too. You didn’t gain 3lbs of fat in a week, it must be water weight. You retain whenever you drink alcohol too if this is something you do.

Are you exercising?