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.

Below 11 stone 🎉🎉

I did have a look at that website, will use it to find somewhere for next month.

Oh god I hope you manage to not have the 💩
I'm so jealous your all nearing your ideal weights, I have only just broken in to the 'overweight' category from 'obese' 😅 🙄

Curate only let you use the 25% code once but I did get 22% discount, meaning the 10mg pen was a shade over £145 including delivery, which is DPD sadly but I’ll tolerate them for a decent price. Hope this helps @Pinkyp22 although I have a feeling you didn’t have a good experience with them?

I felt getting to “merely” overweight was one of my best achievements so far, I loved it! Well done! I was asked by Curate to send a full length photo (they seem to ask every second month) so it was into a tight dress and stick my tummy out time. I didn’t used to have to make that much effort to get a fat photo 😂

But you’ll have to tolerate my ramblings for a good while yet, I have a stone and a half still to lose to get to top end of normal bmi, and since my frame is tiny tiny I should really be aiming for lower. Soooo hard…those who think Mj is an easy way to lose weight genuinely have no idea…but at least we’re getting there, however slowly.

@Ifyounevergiveup Hi there and fingers crossed for getting under that 11 stone permanently! I will definitely be staying in touch while away as being on this thread is huge help and I try not to go on too much to the BF. I am also on August starters thread which can get busy but is also helpful. Sounds like you have a similar goal and approach to me @Ifyounevergiveup? I can't quite remember ..are you petite or in other words a short arse like me?! Even at 9 stone I will be classed as overweight..the top end of my BMI is 8 stone 12. My younger sister, same height as me, looked really gaunt at that weight. It's useful to compare with her. She is currently 9 stone 2 and looks slim. I haven't been that weight for over 30 years but managed to get down to 9 stone 4 in lockdown..for about a week 😅😅 I am so scared of putting it back on though. How are you finding 1000 calories? It's certainly do-able with MJ for me.

@Azuresky68 Short arse, absolutely, 5’1.5” and like every other dieter YES THE HALF INCH MATTERS!! I’m so glad you’re planning on staying in touch, I find your posts so helpful and supportive. I never go on the other threads any more, they bring out the green eyed monster in me and good Lord that monster can EAT!

I’m supposed to be 9 stone 8 heaviest and 7 stone 2 lightest. 7 stone 2! Crying laughing! I have always seen 9 stone 8 as being out of reach, but I share your faith that actually, with Mj, it’s more than achievable. 1000 calories is something I’m striving for rather than achieving, but not because of hunger, I’m just eating carbs and they’re too calorie dense. I just need to shift a little more towards fruit, veg and protein and all will be well. OMG I appear to be channelling Slimming World 😆. Oddly (and it is really odd) I don’t feel any fear about regaining weight. I don’t know why, maybe because I don’t feel like I’m anywhere near the end of my weight loss yet!

@Ifyounevergiveup I wasnt impressed with curate and now they dojt take paypal which always concerns me. I backed out of using Oushk for this reason but @Azuresky68 seems to not have had any problems.
I paid medexpress £189 for 10ml so feel a bit robbed now as I cant price match any cheaper pharmacies either 🙄
They also say its dispatched today, but will be expectd by 14th 🤔

The highest weight in healthy BMI category for me is 11 stone 9 - personally I don't think below 12 stone would look healthy on me at all. I would like to get to 12 stone and re assess.

@Ifyounevergiveup ..I WAS 5 foot but my skinny doctor wanted to measure me and I am now 4 foot 11 😱 ...and 68. The good thing with the doctor was she mentioned weight loss injections back in August...I had never even heard of them! The MJ road trip beckoned after more than 50 years of weight loss/gain misery! Like you I have never given up!! Am I right in thinking you are from Yorkshire or is that someone else? The only way I got under 10 stone was cutting out obvious carbs...bread, pasta, rice and potatoes. It's surprising how many carbs in milk and lots of vegetables, even cauliflower but I need milk and veg although I weigh and measure everything! I was supposed to start my packing today but I have just done whatever I wanted instead and subsequently spent far too much time on social media! Not just the youth of today doing that you know 😅😅😅 Signing off for today!

Just weighed myself at work
86.5kg - My total loss to date is 3 stone 🎉🎉
I can not believe this is me! Three whole stone gone forever 😭

Wow - well done

@Pinkyp22 what a fantastic achievement..enjoy your success x

Everyone is doing so well! Just goes to show that slow and steady losses are still losses. My momentous news is that today I am 2 stone lighter than I was in mid June! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉💃💃💃💃💃
Im so delighted and feel lighter and so much better and my snoring which was the bane of DHs life has almost ceased. The only downside is I get SO COLD now I have lost my duvet of fat 😱

@Pinkyp22 your losses are fab, well done. I hope to be reporting that I’m another stone down and in a bikini in another 3 months when I have a winter sun holiday booked with my 26 yo daughter….

Happy Friday everyone and well done on sticking with this no matter what your loss has been. I need to do a digital detox as I have spent far too much time online over the last month. I will check in eventually though. Best wishes to all and remember how well you are doing just for being here. Don't let the down days defeat you - you are not alone as you know from this thread x

@Pinkyp22 @Delphigirl look at you two! Whole stones dumped forever! Utterly superb! @Azuresky68 yes, you remember correctly, it’s my Yorkshire genes which won’t let me not use my bonus dose 😆 despite not living in the county for the last 40 years! You go detox but know we’ll miss you!

Drum roll please my dear Mj friends…

TEN STONE THIRTEEN THIS MORNING 🙌 🎉 🥳

Congrats @Ifyounevergiveup that’s fab. I’m desperately trying to lose 3 pounds to see 11 stone 13. 10 stone 13 is amazing!

Congrats @Ifyounevergiveup that must feel SO good!

How spooky, me too! After being around 11.1 for what feels like weeks! Congrats. Starting with a 10is a massive psychological boost I think.

I was starting to feel fed up - always cold, tired every weekend. Being 10 something has cheered me up somewhat. 4 pens to lose 22 pounds so far. I had hoped for 7lbs a pen when I started, so 6 pens altogether. I have my next 2 pens already, I’m hoping the new year health kick everyone goes on will spur me on to try and up my game a bit. I haven’t done much differently since starting, not sure how this magic is working! ( to clarify, I have always eaten healthily so no crisp or chocolate habits to get over, just think it is portion sizes as I am quite short. Even healthy stuff has calories!)

Aww thanks guys and @Sadteacher we clearly have more in common than dodgy knees! You’re bang on, I was stuck for weeks until I dropped to 1000 calories a day from 1100. How is it even possible that a chicken breast has over 260 calories? I’m mainlining seafood now! You’re doing so well, 22 pounds in either 16 or 20 weeks (can’t remember if you use your bonus dose), you should be proud. Keep going, everybody, and keep posting through the festive period…I know I’m going to need your company!

Trying so so hard to get to under 12 stone by the end of the year. Currently 12 stone 1.5. You'd think that would be achievable right? I'm now doubting it as the weight loss has slowed right down now and it's 2 steps forward 1 step back, week after week.

Massive congratulations!!! And to @Sadteacher as well!

@1clavdivs first off props for the fab name, I LOVED that show! Second, and of course I know you will, grit your teeth and just keep going. Fat moves when the scales don’t. And there have been posts on here about set points and how it can take weeks for your body to “allow” you to drop more weight. That’s when most people give up. But as a wise poster once said, the time will pass anyway…so why not spend it working towards something so good for you which WILL happen sooner or later? We’re all here for you to shout at and grumble, with virtual hugs and support. 11 stone 13 and three quarters (!) will be with you before you know it. Don’t let an artificial timeline beat you up! 💐

This is so encouraging, thank you. I keep telling myself that I'm just losing fat at the same rate as gaining muscle. It's partly true, which will do. You're very right.

Whoooooo hooooo!

Well done getting into the 10s - big milestone.

i have now finished 4 weeks on my 0.5 Wegovy dose and am 1.5kg/3.3lb down in that time. Not as much as the 3.3 kg /7.3lb I lost on the .25 dose but it all adds up. I think I have to measure in four week blocks or it would be too depressing some weeks.

Yay for all the losses no matter how gradually.

i have been out at Christmas parties this weekend so amazed at my Monday weight which is usually more of a jump up than today.

starting on the 1 mg dose this morning. Hoping for no side effects and some good suppression.

Well I didn’t make it to the 11’s at today’s weigh in, but I have lost 3/4 lb. So I’m now 12 stone 2 lbs and can but hope that I reach something beginning with 11 soon! @1clavdivs good luck with your quest for this too!
I’m hoping I can do this by the end of December.