Continuing Wegovy - thread 3

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Let's keep up the good work into a new thread. A few of us are approaching our goal now. 😊🎉

An up and down week for me. Was a kilo down until had a binge on sweets last night.

Had my last .5 this morning and until last night was thinking I'd stick with .5 but I'll move up at least part way next week.

I've reduced to 0.75 this week but still a bit green about the gills this morning (as my dad would say). 😷

I did 0.75 for two weeks and then took the full 1mg dose last Friday. Oh my goodness, I felt sick on Saturday and Sunday! Basically haven’t been able to eat anything apart from small bowls of tomato soup since 🤢

Oh dear, sorry you're both suffering.

I'm full of trapped wind so it might be my colleagues that suffer today.

I'm finding my weight fluctuates so much by the day. I weigh at the same time of day, first thing in the morning, but one day it might be 3lb less than the following, and vice versa. Finding it difficult to get a realistic idea of what, if anything, I'm loosing! I started weighing once a week but found after a "good" week I was up by 1lb, so weighed the next day and was down by 3lb. Difficult to go by how my clothes fit as everything is leggings with a baggy top!

@UnicornAndSparkles if you haven't already, take your measurements (waist, hip, bust, arms and thighs). I am similar to you in that my weight fluctuates a lot and appears to plateau, but my waist gets smaller. It's a nice boost!

Mine too. The trend is down but it's so slow.

Lots of people use the daily average technique (I know the NOOM app uses it too). Weigh every day and average the last 7 days to get your true number.

My scales send my weight to my phone so I can see the overall trend is down, with a lot of ups and downs between. Looking at the month as long as it's trending down I try not to get too het up on the day to day.
Easier said than done I know.

The diet I'm on is a daily weighing one too. She says weigh daily or not at all because once a week is meaningless if that's on an 'up' day.

Just did my third 0.5. I do feel it building a bit and combined with the high protein, high veg and low carb diet I am increasingly not hungry.

looking for some advice after a disappointing April.

Moved up to 1.7mg 2 weeks ago as felt food noise was creeping back in on 1mg although I was still loosing. Have felt the worst on this dose than I ever had done, really awful nausea and just feeling absolutely rotten, DH commenting that I am barely eating anything. I am, I am sticking to my calories of around 1200 a day but some days I don't quite meet that and it is a struggle - having to stick to very plain food,

I started 3rd Jan 212lbs and today I weighed in at 187lbs, so 25lbs over 17 weeks, just under 1.5lb a week. This last 2 weeks have been awful and my weight loss has been 1 measly pound 😭 I cried looking at the numbers on the scale this morning.

I am seriously considering whether this is worth is, 1) not just the expense, but the days of feeling awful, not being able to sit and have family meals etc go out and have a drink with friends and then to up the dosage only for the weight loss to slow down it seems. I can cope with all of these things if I feel good about seeing the scales moving, but this is not making me feel good.

I have a big birthday and holiday in 22 days so was going to have a break for that as I can't go on holiday feeling so rotten and not be able to be sociable etc....

I have 3 x 1.7mg injections left so do I start to taper off now (maybe go back to 1mg today) and maybe 0.75mg next week then 0.5mg the week after and then a break over the holiday? What would people suggest? I am seriously considering whether I will go back on it after the holiday too but will have a think about that before I make a decision.

If you have read this far, thank you 😀any advice from others gratefully received

Can I ask a question. I have just taken my 4th dose of 0.25. There is clearly quite a bit of liquid still left in the tube, I hate waste! Any idea how much will be left? Can I borrow a needle from the 0.5 pen that has just arrived and use up the last of the 0.25? I am 3 weeks in and 6 pounds down, hoping to hit the half stone milestone soon.

Honestly I think the jump from 1.0 to 1.7 is massive and too much for many people. Could you go back down to 1.0 for a week and see if your side effects lessen? If they do, you could stick with that through your holiday and then go upwards a bit slower, e.g. 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, then 1.7?

I can't offer any advice regarding your holiday as I don't have the experience but will say that you don't wont to feel sick on your holiday, can you reduce it to a more comfortable dose, also but wanted to say 25 pounds is amazing and it sounds like a sensible and steady loss.

Diary of a CEO has a cracking podcast this week with a guy called Johann Hari who is on Ozempic. He gives a really balanced view of the drug and I think it would be a great thing to listen to if you’re on or thinking about taking semaglutide in whatever form. He’s written a book called Magic Pill which is out tomorrow and I’ll definitely be buying it.

I am going to listen to that later too.

@anoldcharter I would just go back down again. You've done brilliantly so drop back to 1.0 and up the water etc.

Yes you can. I got about half a dose from mine. I can send you a couple of extra needles if you like as I have a box of 100 I'll never use.

thanks everyone, very sensible advice 😀I think I will drop to 1mg and see how I get on this week....

I know 25lbs is a good loss (I'm just greedy and want more for all the cost, side effects and lack of social life)

@boatgirl81 I remember there being some liquid left at the end of my pen too so I just injected at the same time, it wasn't actually that much in the end, just a couple of clicks, but looked more than it was

Thank you, that is very kind. I have actually just ordered a box of 100 as well! I figured that I might want to stagger some of the jump from .5 to 1 when I get that far.

Hello everyone - hoping I can hop on here. My first prescription has literally just arrived after I ordered yesterday on a bit of a whim following months of being fed up trying and failing to lose any weight! I'm currently 14st 8lb (heaviest I've been for decades - it just keeps going up instead of down!) hoping to get to 10st 7lb anytime this century (or this year would be even better)!

I have one big concern before I start - my work is very sedentary, and although I do a godo amount of exercise, it only just balances things out if I keep fully on top of this, hence the pickle I'm in now with my weight. However, this summer I am taking part in an event that will last a few weeks where I will need lots of energy to get me through the day (it will be a big jump in calories burnt each day!). I'm wondering if starting now is a good idea or best to wait until this is over? I have about 7-8 weeks before this starts, so I was thinking I could try it on the starting dose for the first month or 6 weeks (being a bit lighter will be a big help for me during the event itself) and then if I'm worried about energy levels let it get out of my system and take a break for a few weeks when I need to be eating more to get me through the day? I've been reading through the various threads and see lots mentioning lack of energy as a side effect (is this a side effect of the drug, or a side effect of not consuming enough calories?!) along with the nausea and digestive issues (which wouldn't be much fun for me during the event either, but a secondary concern really).

Thanks for any sage advice from those who have already been there & done that!

Hey everyone,
I haven't been on for a few weeks, nice to see some of the originals are still here.

I've taken my last shot today and am officially 53lbs down since when I started in November and have gone from a size 20 to a 12/14.
I still want to lose another 20lbs which will take me into the healthy weight range and get me comfortably into a size 12, I'm going to do it by continuing to eat healthily, I'm not in a rush though as I'm happy with how I feel so one pound a week will be good and anything more is a bonus.

I'd only ever planned to 6 months and I'm looking forward to feeling normal again, my side effects have never been dreadful just queasiness and tiredness for a few days after each shot plus I've had the runs at times but none of the effects were as bad as I felt when I was at my heaviest, I still had tiredness, dodgy guts, was stuck in a cycle of sugar highs and crashes and had so much pain in my joints which has almost gone now.

It's going to take my head a while to catch up, it all feels very surreal and I don't recognise myself in the mirror

Welcome @CatNoBag
I think in your shoes I would just jump in and see how you feel. There are people who feel no side effects at all until they have built up to higher doses. If this is you then there will have been no reason to delay. Your event will be over by the time you get to 1mg.
My main side effect is exhaustion I function pretty well all day but by the time I get to the evening I'm nodding off at 8pm.

Well done @Gingerlygreen !
You've done so, so well, you must feel amazing.

Have you tapered off your doses or just stopped dead? I'm about 6lbs from goal now and gradually reducing. I'm interested to see how I feel as it leaves my system.