Continuing Wegovy - thread 3

[AhBiscuits]

Old thread
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight_loss_chat/4985875-continuing-wegovy-thread-2?page=40&reply=133953193

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

Are you tracking your calories?

No harm in dropping your dose if you aren't coping imo. You can then maybe build up more slowly. I did two weeks of 0.75 before going up to 1mg.

That's @AhBiscuits I'm feeling a bit better today so might stick with the 1mg.

I'm on my 4th dose of 0.25 and just had such a bad week. Really binging, despite no appetite. Almost like I'm pushing myself to see what side effects I'll get?

It's like I don't know what to do with myself if I'm not eating. What do people do in an evening if not watching tv with a bar of chocolate?!

I had lost 6lbs but reckon I'll have put a few back on now.

I've always been one to self sabotage but hoped this journey might be different. Will keep going, move up to 0.5 on Wednesday so hopefully will make some progress.

Thanks for the new thread @AhBiscuits and well done on the running!
I posted this on a different thread. I haven’t lost any weight this past week - still at 2stone 2lb loss, but do have a lot more to lose. So I have gone up from 1mg to 1.35mg yesterday ….decided that going up to 1.7mg was too big a jump especially as still suffering with constipation.
Today, I can feel the difference with no temptation to snack at all so fingers crossed for weight loss this week. Trying to eat as healthy as possible and cutting down on the carbs and eating more protein.

First week on 0.25 and 1 lb off, delighted.

I'm on my first week and have definitely felt less hungry - to the point where I'm making myself eat something - but then when I do start eating I don't feel that full quickly. Although I've been making myself stop.
I also not getting so much enjoyment from my food - which is kind of odd for me but I guess that was the problem in that I enjoyed it too much!!
Have been reading about the half life of wegovy and looking in to how much is in your system (as I'm often quite sensitive to meds). Planning on increasing v slowly so any tips on how to do that would be appreciated. I guess it's counting clicks that I keep hearing about and working out a smaller dose?

I was exactly like this. Don't worry too much. If you're anything like me, the self sabotage phase is natural at this point. Testing to see what I can get away with. I felt rubbish about it but honestly, the drugs start to work their magic and you just will not want that evening chocolate. You probably won't fancy dinner at all. If you don't have this innate willpower others seem to have you might need to just ride this part out and not be too disappointed that you're spending a lot of money on achieving nothing until you're out of that phase.

Alternatively Try for a reset. Go through the usual thinking when you first start a diet - why are you doing it, what's your motivation. Do a shop and get all healthy stuff. Throw out all the junk. Go for it like a fresh start. I usually decide to allow the mad few weeks of binging because I know further restriction will make it worse. Know thyself!

Yes you can count clicks. I have moved up very slowly and have never gone above 1mg.

Week one done, 4lb 2oz off. Really pleased.
Have made conscious efforts to eat less and more healthily (eg yoghurt and fruit for breakfast, veg and chicken for lunch or half a bagel with two scrambled eggs and then a normal dinner but smaller portion), and have really limited the biscuits and chocolate, which was my downfall. Hoping I can keep it up.

SW 14st 8oz
CW 14st 4oz

Aim 11st 8oz

One stone off in 2.5 months!

This past week, I dropped down 1.4lbs to get me there.

I'm injecting 1.5 doses of 0.25. I've been feeling hungry and had a few cravings, so had considered going up to the full 0.5. But I'm still losing weight, so decided to ride out the rest of this pen on this staggered dosing schedule. After two more shots, the pen should be done with and then I'm due to move up.

@ManchesterMarie I und chocolate tastes different now and I've completely lost my sweet tooth.

That's good to know. What dose are you on now?

I'm going to do a reset on Wednesday when I go up to 0.5 and start tracking what I'm eating.

I've taken .1 for the past two weeks but I'm dropping down to .5 again from tomorrow as I'm too exhausted and sick on the .1.

The chocolate tasted weird from about week 3 of the .25 and my sweet tooth went early on. It's not come back yet.

Urgh. I took 1.0 yesterday for the first time and I feel awful this morning. I'm so tired I can barely move.

I started on Ozempic at the start of November last year. I also started the 5:2 diet at the same time, with 2 days per week of very restricted calories.

Luckily I was a super-responder so was able to stay on 0.25mg for nearly 3 months and still saw results. I moved up to 0.5mg last month. But I even eeked that out, starting with a couple of doses in the middle (around 0.35mg) by counting clicks.

I'm keen to keep the cost down and also maintain a bit of willpower alongside the injections as I'm terrified of just piling the weight back on if I stop the injections.

I then had a two week break from the injections and the 5:2 diet. I'm really pleased to find I haven't put on any weight after my 2 week break but I haven't continued to lose either. So Ive just ordered a 1mg pen of wegovey (ozempic no longer available from my online pharmacy).

Ive lost a good bit of weight so far. People have recently started commenting which is nice.

Has anyone else switched from ozempic to wegovy - any advice? Did you notice any difference?

Is anyone counting clicks on a 1mg wegovy pen? How many for a 0.5mg dose as I think I'll take a couple of those before moving up to 1mg.

Thanks!

I took my 8th dose of 1mg yesterday and am joining those of you with side effects. Reflux last night was making me cough and diarrhoea this morning. NGL, looking forward to being done with this stuff.

I'm on week 10 and have lost 17lbs, currently on 1mg. It feels quite slow going with only 1 or 2lbs coming off each week which is surprising given how little I eat. I'm going on holiday in a couple of weeks and wondered if I can just miss an injection without too much ill effect...does anyone know? I feel like shit on 1mg (which I'm prepared to put up with) but it would be nice to have a week off for my holiday. Is that a bad idea?

I took a week off at Christmas and it was fine. The only thing was it took some time for it to start working again. It builds up in your system and I had no appetite suppression for the first couple of weeks back on it.

@Hobsons123 I took a week off and went back on when I got back. No issue with it. I didn't east half as much as I normally do on holiday though we still wasn't really hungry.

Did you also notice that it took a couple of weeks for your appetite suppression to come back?
I'm really conflicted - it would be lovely to have a week off but I don't want to risk my weight loss either!

I'd absolutely have a week off if you're on holiday. Enjoy it!

I went off for 2 weeks. My appetite didn't spring back but I could tell I was a bit hungrier. Took my next injection yesterday (0.5) and finding its working as normal again.

Ive just ordered a 1mg wegovy pen. Ive been on ozempic until now. Anyone know how many clicks for 0.5 in a 1mg pen?

Thanks everyone, I'm going to have a week off. It's not that I want to eat more but it would be nice to not feel awful whilst I'm away.

thanks for asking the question @Hobsons123 as I have been pondering the same thing, I go on holiday in May and don't want to feel so tired and sickly whilst away... be super helpful if you report back and let us know how it goes for you :)