Slow losers club! (Ozempic, wegovy, mountjaro etc)

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There are so many weight loss injection threads, but I thought I'd start this for anyone feeling a bit deflated by their slower than average loses. It can be disheartening to see others losing multiple lbs per week when it is a slower process for some.

Oh dear god, just reading about your 7.5 side effects @Ifyounevergiveup !!

I work full time and am a lone parent so there's never a good time to get side effects 😬 Oh well, I've got another dose of 5mg and the bonus dose left still, so 7.5mg can be October's problem 😂

Very frustrating to be spending so much money, eating so little and still not losing weight. I'm fairly sure my thyroid is dodgy too so hoping to get that tested soon as well. Getting older sucks!

Well done...great to be near your goal! I have always been a slow loser so calculating average loss of 1 5 pounds a week.
SW 11 stone
Loss after 3 weeks 5.5 pounds on 2.5 (2 weeks holiday in those 3 weeks)
GW 9 stone but my top end of BMI is 8 stone 12. Will see how I feel nearer the time.
Planning on joining Ousk maintenance when I am at 26 BMI
Currently with Med Express as its the cheapest and no problems with delivery by Royal Mail but slight delay in prescribing initially due to a high demand. Have a great day everyone.

Well done on moving those scales! Tracking my calories at between 800 and 1000 a day, low carbs.

How us everyone's week going?
@Ifyounevergiveup how are you doing?

@Pinkyp22 good! My not hungry-ness has lasted all week for the first time! And I have managed to maintain my pound loss and not to bounce around weight wise, having stayed at 11.8 steadily for four days. Biggest news is that I’ve moved out of obese territory…only just, but my BMI is 29.8!

I had side effects all Saturday, rather than all weekend, although my tummy was sore on Sunday. Dose day tomorrow and I can go back to a morning injection which I’m pleased about, as I always feel I’m taking a risk with liquid insides overnight…I’d rather be rushing to the loo during daylight hours! Hopefully the side effects will be weaker again now I’m three doses in.

speaking of side effects, how did you get on with your split dose?

@Ifyounevergiveup

Great news about the BMI
I havnt needed to add the extra dose, I have 100% suppression still and more importantly NO side effects!
Even the little bit of constipation ive had since day one has gone.
Im still feeling tired but nothing like last week. I think I may stay at 6.25 for the rest of the pen
Will let weigh day Friday be my guide.
Still fighting the never ending battle to get a decent amount of protien per day

@Pinkyp22 superb! That’s great news! Protein wise I hadn’t quite appreciated how great haddock, cod and prawns are; huge amounts of protein and for far fewer calories than meats. Win win if you can eat them (I know some people have allergies). Might they help? I find myself eating a packet of king prawns as a meal, yum

@Ifyounevergiveup
Yes i like prawns, completely forgot about fish, thank you that's a nice break from chicken!

Hi everyone! Hope you are well. Just an update - had my first dose of 10 on Saturday, no side effects, good suppression, and have lost 2.5lbs since last Thurs whoch means…. Drumroll…. I have my first stone weight loss! 14.5 lbs in total since I started MJ June! Whooo hooo. Let’s see if on 10 I lose weight a bit faster but otherwise it is averaging a Pound a week and frankly I can live with that. Expensive but effective.

nice to see everyone here is doing well save for the side effects @Ifyounevergiveup has suffered - ouch! Hope you are ok.

@Delphigirl congratulations 🥳! That’s fantastic news! A pound a week will do the job quicker than you (I!) think. I find having to take a photo of the scales for each new pen really useful, it does make me feel better to see the number looking significantly different each time.

I am ok, thank you, if slurry is the price I have to pay then so be it! Still don’t understand how it can happen and not give me a whoosh, but hey ho. Jab in a few minutes, then I’ll see what happens in this week’s vile instalment of The Mounjaro Diaries…!

It’s taken all this time but I got a response from Lilly. It was utterly meaningless, started off “sorry this has happened, we have logged a formal complaint “ and asked for demographic information. All I asked them was to tell me if, from their research, there were participants who did not lose weight at all until the higher doses. So it looks like bots handle their emails!

never mind, at least we got a substantive response from my provider.

happy evening, everybody!

Good evening everyone. Hope you have had a great MJ day! Sorry if this is a silly question but here goes...so I took my last dose of 2.5 last Friday (end of week 4 of the journey tomorrow) I have my 5 mg pen in the fridge and really want to step up as I am curious to see if it will help weight loss. So far 5.5 pounds lost but not sure if I lost any this week until I weigh tomorrow. I was hoping to use bonus dose tomorrow but that will only be 2.5 and I really want to go up to 5 now...should I take bonus dose plus half of 5 dose or us that too complicated? I have bought some syringes so I know how much will be in bonus dose. Average daily calories this week 900, low carb and high protein.

@Delphigirl @Ifyounevergiveup congratulations on your success this week. Sorry if I have missed anyone else. We can do this!

I'm off for a week's holiday soon, I can't be bothered with the hassle of taking my wegovy with me so am leaving a 9 day gap between them for the next couple of weeks. So wish me luck 😱

I also want to be able to enjoy my food on holiday and not stress about it too much. When I come back will be really pushing to lose more before Christmas.

I will be wearing a bikini for the first time in a long time though!

@NoMoreCheddar enjoy a wonderful break and let us know how you went on when you come back. The bikini is unutterably wonderful news! Did you manage to go shopping for smaller trousers?!

@Azuresky68 of course you can go to 5mg, there’s no rule says you HAVE to use the bonus dose, and as you say you could just top it up. I would say there’s just one thing to bear in mind…well, two actually. The first thing is, going to 5mg from 2.5 is the only time you double the dose, and some people struggle with it. The second thing is that the bonus dose is actually usually quite a bit bigger than standard, rather than smaller. So you could just take the bonus dose with no need to top it up. Then if you don’t have any adverse effects, and you want to do so, you could go up to 5mg early…just leave three days between doses. Whatever you decide, good luck!

@Ifyounevergiveup thanks so much for helpful explanation..put my mind at rest. Will see how much I extract from the leftovers. @NoMoreCheddar enjoy your holiday and feeling amazing about wearing the bikini👙

Oh my god, Ive lost 4lbs 🙏😱
97-95kg 🙌🙏

Ordered a new pen with curate at 06.30 this morning, been approved by 8am!!

Woohoo well done @Pinkyp22!

@Azuresky68 I did the bonus dose before moving up - there was more than a standard dose in there and it equated to about 3.33mg. I thought it was a nice step up and also like having free money 😅

I seem to be losing and gaining the same lb so far this week. I'm relaxed though as I know there's no possible reason for actually gaining fat as I am on a strict calorie deficit! Took 5mg for the first time on Sunday, had zero side effects though I definitely had less suppression and willpower at the start of the week than I'd had on 2.5mg which was weird.

Good morning. Hope I am OK to stay on this thread. For me it's a miracle loss, and it's been so easy 9.5 pounds in the first 4 weeks. I have calorie counted and eaten around 850 cals for 6 days and gone up to 1200 1 day plus a HIT session to keep up metabolic rate. The injections have meant I haven't felt hungry most of the time! Very happy 😊 I was anticipating 1 pound a week. Good luck to everyone

My top tip for this week...catch the new strain of COVID and lose weight twice as fast 🙄 Loss of appetite is one of the predominant symptoms so I've lost 2lb this week instead of 1lb!

Takes me to 12st 12 and a 9lb total loss in 8 weeks. Slooooow progress but progress nonetheless 🥳 4th jab tonight of 5mg and because I'm ill I've decided to save my bonus dose and do another 5mg + next week.

@Pinkyp22 4lb!!! amazing, and @Delphigirl Congratulations on losing a stone 👏!

Pinky! That’s utterly fabulous news! Weigh day was worth waiting for…you must be over the moon! Did you nearly faint when you saw what the scales said?

Let us know how Curate perform…

@sundaysunday2024 Covid…jeeze, it never gives up, does it. Hope you're managing and it’s not too bad a bout. Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate!

@Azuresky68 you’re putting in the hard yards and getting the results you deserve, Azure. Well done!

Ooh ps seasonal treat time for melon lovers….Tesco have snowball melons in stock at the mo, yum!

Hi, I hope you don’t mind if I join the thread too as I have recently stalled on Mounjaro and have seen slow losses.

I haven’t really lost much on 5mg as my weight has hovered around the same kg all throughout September.

@sundaysunday2024 I did laugh at your post as I totally relate! I didn’t have Covid, just a cold, but that was the only time my scales meaningfully changed this month! Hope you feel better soon

@Ifyounevergiveup
I stepped on, and off and on.......
Another week where I have forced myself to have a drink, ate a whole bag of proper chip crisps things, bread and chicken ceasar dip from m&s 😱
Unbelievable

I scheduled the delivery for Friday next week so will see how this pans out