AIBU to be very, very pleased with myself for being Not Overweight for the first time ever?

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Well, since very early childhood, anyway. Too early to remember.

Today was the day. Last pound gone that took me to BMI 24.9. Not Overweight. Normal Weight. I keep checking it again on the NHS calculator, just to see it. (Had been about 12.5 stone, BMI 32, from mid teens to now, age 48).

Went about my business at work all day, being Not Fat. Felt like strangers should be noticing, and be impressed. Watched the eclipse, thinking "This is great, and also happening while I am Not Fat". I think for the rest of my days I will associate eclipses with being Not Fat. My first-ever Not-Fat memory.

Does it ever become just normal?

Still look a bit fat, though. Too much stomach, too much upper arm. I think another half a stone and I'll feel OK about how I look.

Life has been on hold, in many ways, since I was about 12. The things I'll do... when I'm Not Fat. I thought I would be more confident. I am, in a way. The ways that relate to looks. But not in much else, really. That's been a bit of a shock.

Your brain changes its idea of what's normal in your body, somehow. I don't feel like I'm a whole 2.5 stone thinner. You just shift to getting pickier about what you're unhappy about. Some of the time. And then you go back to feeling ecstatic.

I wish WLI had been invented about 30 years ago. I could have had a whole other life.

People treat me better. This is very awesome and also very depressing. People should not be treated with more or less respect based on body mass. But I want to be the person people see me as now.

I have actually achieved some stuff in my life. But this feels like the best thing. This is also, if you stop to think about it, depressing. Whilst also making me very happy.

I'm sad that I will never know what it's like to be thin and young at the same time. There was a lot of youth wasted.

I might be able to go to the doctor now, if I need to. For the first time in several years. I might even not refuse (for the first time since age 20 or so) if they want to weigh me. Imagine it - no patronising lecture. (Or do they just find something else?).

It'll need to be Wegovy tablets for maintenance, I think. Does anyone know what dosage to start on, if you're coming off 15mg Mounjaro?

I feel like somebody should be throwing a party. I also do NOT want my body mentioning, by anybody, ever.

It's a weird thing.

All the advice for successful weight loss on WLIs says that you should: eat more protein, drink more water, and do some resistance training. If you try to eat a bad diet on a WLI you will feel grotty anyway. My lifestyle has changed drastically for the better since I started on Mounjaro 5 weeks ago. Before that, I did manage to lose weight the 'right' way by eating a low-fat sub-1000 calorie diet for 3 months. God knows what that did to my muscle-mass! WLIs are wonderful and I think everyone should be given the chance to have them, but unfortunately quite often it's the people who need them most can't afford them, and GP prescriptions are hard to come by. I needed to lose weight after touching obesity and being told my cholesterol was so high I stood a 23 percent chance of having a stroke or heart attack in the next ten years. So I started on statins and Mounjaro. Should I have kept on trying to lose weight by 'going on a diet' every few weeks, giving up almost immediately, and then feeling terrible about myself and eating more to cheer myself up? I can pretty well guarantee that everyone who is taking a WLI has tried every diet in the book, healthy and otherwise, and probably exercised more, too. It's a shame the general attitude to WLIs is that it's cheating, and that I and the OP feel we have to keep it a secret, but congratulations to the OP! You earned your happiness today!

@StickyProblemI’ve been considering the wegovyvtablets but was unsure as so many had said they weren’t sure how effective they were but your post has made me reconsider. Had you had jabs previously and moved to them or just started?

@hobbledyhoy I started with the tablets, haven’t been on anything else. The first three weeks they were amazing, no appetite, had to force down a chicken salad! I’m 6 weeks in now, still on lowest dose, not quite as suppressed as before but still sticking to the 1600 calories that Juniper gave me. I’m in my 50s, have 2.5 stone to lose and work out four times a week anyway, so my diet is stricter than if people can make bigger increases in their exercise levels.
I took no notice of them saying the tablets are less effective - it’s all individual. I need to be careful with hydration before a workout or I get nasty burps but generally it’s been fine, few side effects. I’m careful to do my protein, fibre, eat regularly etc.

@StickyProblemfantastic, thank you and very pleased it’s working so well for you!

Agree, when people do the state the obvious stuff they arent doing it to the help the person they are doing it to give themselves a good feeling inside. We are all judgmental about stuff (I know on here people will say they never judge anything which is a lie) but we need the emotional intelligence to know that we can keep our thoughts to ourselves or have a think what the thought means and how we may address the part of us that thought comes from.

I haven't started on the tablets yet - jabs all the way, been on Mounjaro for 20 months, on 15mg for 15 of them I think. But definitely planning to go on the tablets for maintenance.

We buy a 5mg pen but only dose 2.5mg (30 clicks instead of 60) and have been maintaining since Jan x