To expect more than 0.5 pound weight loss?

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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.😡

Maybe you need to be weighing daily and looking at the trend over the week. Weight fluctuates day to day and the scales often bounce around. It may well have been that your recent weigh in was when one of those fluctuations was happening.

Because it is a "range" therefore by definition some people will be at the bottom of the range and some at the top, otherwise it would be Finite point, not a BMI range.

If you really are a GP surely you understand this from reviewing bloods everyday.

Have you started doing a lot more exercise recently OP?

Just asking, because when I started going to the gym frequently, I went through a phase where the numbers on the scales were static despite me slimming down enough to drop a dress size, presumably down to muscle weighing more than fat.

Obviously.

No, I haven't changed my exercise regime. Still swimming and jogging as normal, no increases.

This sounds incredibly frustrating op. I think many of us have experienced similar and it’s not fun. The one thing I noticed when I was in a calorie deficit was that I naturally wanted to move less. I was tracking my steps and i
had dropped by around 4k steps. Also, this time of year makes me more sedentary. In the summer it’s easy to get out and do 10k plus steps. When it’s dark and cold, not so much. I found my weight loss started moving again once I became stricter about moving more.

Good luck op!

Muscle doesn't 'weigh more than fat' 🙄

Thank you.
I am making sure I'm still swimming and jogging. I've just returned from a fast lane swim session.
Perhaps I'll switch up my exercise regime.
Though the main contributer to weight loss is calories.
Ultimately I think I am going to need to reduce to 1,000 daily to shift this final stone.

Ive not read the full thread so sorry if you have answered this, but what are you drinking? Make sure that all your drinks are not only logged, but AVOID the artificfial sweetener low cal drinks too. Its better to have a few calories from the drinks than diet fizzy or sugar free squashes.

Im another who had to be on around 800 cals to lose weight, im very short (barely 5') and had to drop really low, and the more i lost the lower i had to go with my calories even on the MJ. Ive lost 55% of my body weight and now maintained for 8 months. but i had to keep decreasing cals to keep going down.

It could be worth having a bit of a break from it too, miss a week of the jabs, then go back on at a lower dose and build back up. I was on 15, stopped for 2 weeks, went back on it at 10mg and that helped when i stalled a bit.

Make sure you are measuring yourself not just weighing yourself. Sometimes the scales wont move.

Yet here you are in page 7 of this thread still bickering with everyone and anyone. Settle at BMI 25, you may loose again in the future you may not, BMI 25 is HEALTHY. Your weight will fluctuate day to day either side of BMI 25, this is NORMAL. Maintaining on 15mg is NORMAL for some people.

STOP comparing yourself to your colleagues, this is not a path to go down. You have done incredibly well to lose the weight you have. I think you now need to focus more on you mental health not on calorie counting.

First of all try a longer needle. Not 4mm. Try 6 or 8mm

can’t be arsed explaining but just try it. Get them from med supply stores online

I would be getting my kidneys checked. You must be retaining a LOT of water of these numbers are accurate.

If you don’t like the OPs style just hide it @Periperi2025

I don’t understand what people get out of trying to bait an OP. Obviously they get pissed off and bite back.

Who is trying to bait her, the reality is she’s eating close to double the cals she thinks she is. No way round it. She’d know if she was seriously ill and she’d gained a stone of fluid. Trust me I was ill and gained a lot of fluid at one point, and you can see it, even on your knees.

the fact she doesn’t like it doesn’t change it, and snipping at everyone as she doesn’t want it to be true doesn’t change it. Although it is amusing.😂

who is trying to bait her you

OP says she's a GP, what advice would she give a patient presenting to her asking the questions she's asking?
Presumably she'd congratulate them on the weight they'd lost and the work they'd put in to achieving it, and reiterate that BMI 25 is a healthy weight.

This thread is in AIBU, this is where people post to hear other people's unvetted opinions, not validation, we all need this from time to time.

Reading all of OP messages, she at risk of heading down a slippery slope with her mental health, when she should in fact be celebrating her physical health. Not everyone can be a BMI 18, otherwise the healthy range wouldn't be 18-25.

OP says she's a GP

this made me chuckle

I feel your pain OP. My weight fluctuates by as much as 4kg in the space of a few days. I too am currently stubbornly stuck at a weight that I cannot get below no matter how much I try. I've been on MJ and the weight came off nicely until I got to this weight in September and then it's just stuck. Gone up a bit and then back down to this but never drops below. I'm religiously calorie counting and exercising but cannot shift it. My body is obviously VERY efficient and hangs onto fat very well. Great in times of hardship, not so useful now! I blame my poor ancestors, they were obviously survivors!

Are you still on MJ?

This was me.

I lost weight because mj enabled me to eat 1,000 calories and not waiver from it.

I had to go that low to lose any weight, even though tde calculators said I needed 1,100 to 1,200.

I don’t really get what the relevance of the OP being a GP is. Does anyone actually think their GP could help them with weight loss? Absolutely no offence to any GPs but I think you’d be lucky to get an appointment for this and if you did they’d barely glance at you before maybe giving a sheet on healthy eating and exercise!

Honestly you don’t need to rush in, elbows out trying to monitor the thread, this is aibu, the op has asked a question, people are allowed to respond honestly.

The fact is she is consuming more than she thinks. No matter how much she doesn’t wish to accept that fact. And pretending otherwise is not going to help her on her journey, telling her this isn’t goading her. It’s trying to help her.

we all fully understand she doesn’t wish to accept it. And we all fully understand it is annoying her. She claims to be a doctor. So she knows full well she is not gaining weight in a deficit. She knows it. We know it. And she also knows the only way she is maintaining or gaining over such a long period is because she’s eating and drinking way more than she thinks. Again she knows this. We know this. She also knows eating one tuna sandwich in 24 hours is deeply unhealthy.

many doctors do have a very poor understanding of nutrition and weight loss, anecdotally we see examples of this on social media a lot. So instead of hurling insults at people who are trying to tell her she’s consuming too much to lose weight, it would be way better for the op, if she wishes to lose more weight, to really look closely at her diet.

cooking, what does she cook with, ie oils,fats etc.
snacks, if she eats things like nuts or nut butters, how much.
spreads ie butter and mayo etc, could she be underestimating how much
drinks, how many is she consuming, milk etc in them,
little things she consumes throughout the day
alcohol if she drinks
meals out.

and she needs to take seven days in total and then divide by seven to get her average cal intake.

righf now she is effectively eating to maintenance. Her maintenance cals are probably in the 1900 a day range, hard for us to know. So if she’s not losing weight and maintaining, then she is consuming about this much on average.

I’m not really rushing in @Frenchfrychic . It’d just this is a bit of a MN thing; posters sense an OP is a bit flustered or stressed or frustrated, goad and bait her and then repeatedly return to the thread to declare how rude the OP is. It’s both unpleasant and pointless.