Mounjaro July 2024

[Lumirubin]

Thought id start a thread for anyone starting in July given we are almost there. I've just ordered tonight with Voy, hoping I get approved and will be able to start next week.

I'm a little apprehensive as some of my eating habits are emotionally driven not hunger! So I'm going to need to find some will power too. That's why I've gone with a company that provides support as well as just medication.

Anyone fancy joining along?

My starting weight is 18st 1lb and I'm 5ft 5 so I've ALOT to loose.

I'm a slow and steady loser and have been avoiding the scales so not to be dishearted and I started towards the end of June.

So far a loss of 10lbs and 13cm off my waist.

This is solely food as my exercise hasn't been there so hopefully being more active will speed this up further. I sit down all day at work between 8am and 6pm so I think it's a godsend. I don't graze/snack all day at my desk or obsess over what I'm having for lunch.

Going to join a gym and start adding dome exercise in now and see if tgat speeds it up more. But not bad start for doing literally nothing!

Friday weigh-in. Haven't done my next injection yet due to having a busy morning but must find the time to do it soon! It will be the first 5mg one, so slightly trepidatious about possible side effects.

SW 139kg
Last Week: 131kg
CW 129.7kg
GW 125kg

My weight loss has definitely slowed down, so "only" 1.3kg lost this week. I have to remind myself that 1kg is 2.2lbs and is what I would expect to lose on any sensible diet. I've lost 20lbs altogether, in 4 weeks which I am pretty happy about!

I have not been doing much walking this week, which I think has contributed to the slow down.

Friday weigh in and I've lost 2.6lbs. That's a total of 16.6lbs since starting Mounjaro four weeks ago and 19.4lbs lighter than I was six weeks ago.

I'm not really noticing the difference yet. Although most of my clothes have elasticated or stretch waists so I guess I probably wouldn't notice anything yet. What I'm really pleased about is that my muscle mass has increased and my visceral fat has decreased by 1%.

I've got my 5mg pen in the fridge but going to extract the remaining liquid from my 2.5mg pen tonight. I'm hoping it will give me a little over a full dose and be a good stepping stone to 5mg. I'm looking forward to seeing if I finally get some suppression on 5mg as 2.5mg has done nothing for me and I struggle everyday.

Losing 16lb with no suppressions is a fantastic achievement!!

Back from hols and weighed this am,
down to 80.1 kg (12stone 8). So I’ve lost a lb or two on holiday in Italy…which I’m v happy with! I defo ate bigger dinners pizza/pasta on holiday as was away with the family and I’ve not told them so didn’t want to be looking odd in eating v little.

reordered a 2.5 mg which will arrive next week and just managed to get the bonus dose out, the ‘hard twist’ worked and I got the top bit to screw half way, I then panicked as was pressing on the end (I think it’s looser than after normal twists) and some squirted out. I couldn’t twist it any further. Had to go out so couldn’t faff with it, have just had a go now with pliers and it did twist more and have got the plunger all the way to the bottom.

hoping I’ve a reasonable enough dose to last until next week.

my injection day is usually Weds but I still had good suppression yesterday and today.

@cappycap Thank you 😊 I'm really scared of getting side effects from overeating or eating fatty/sugary foods so that's why I've managed to lose the weight. I'm also off work for the summer holidays so I've had time to do lots more exercise.

@BamberGirl That's impressive managing to lose weight after a holiday in Italy!

@Emeraldpies

Just over a stone, I hope you are chuffed with that. You've done great.

I hope you get the suppression you need from the 5mg doses and continue doing fab

Good luck 🤞🏼

@bambergirl good luck with the 5mg, I'm having my first 5mg on Sunday...hoping I finally get some suppression!

I e stuck with 2.5 mg as seems to be still ok for me. Good luck with yours! Keep us posted on here.

@Emeraldpies yes…normally I’d put on half a stone just from crossing the border into 🇮🇹
😂

I decided to go for 3.75mg rather than straight up to 5mg. I am getting good suppression so I did not want to risk extra side effects.

Happy Friday! Injection Number 5 this morning - I used my bonus dose and made it 3.75mg in advance of next week's move to 5mg. Weigh-in Number 4:

Start weight: 15 st 8 lbs (BMI = 37.2)
Current weight: 14 st 8 lbs
Goal weight: 9 st 0 lbs (BMI = 21.5)
Week 1 Loss = 6 lbs
Week 2 Loss = 5 lbs
Week 3 Loss = 3 lbs
Week 4 Loss = 0 lbs

I was hoping for a 1lb or 2lb loss this week as I have been good with my food and water intake. But the heat is killing me and I feel like a bloated pufferfish!. Even my wrists are swollen Perhaps there will be a whoosh over the weekend when it cools down.

One more week at 2.5 - I have just ordered a 5 pen. Wondering though about counting clicks and starting at 3.75.

@JaneFallow I did this - glad I did as I think the jump to 5mg would have been too much. It was 45 clicks.

Week 5 weigh-in on 3.75mg bonus dose

SW - 12st 7.0lb
Wk 1 - 5.2lb
Wk 2 - 2.2lb
Wk 3 - 1.6lb
Wk 4 - 2.2lb
Wk 5 - 0.6lb
CW - 11st 9.2lb

Total loss 11.8lb

Moved up to 5mg now, so hoping for a slightly better result next week. Good luck to everyone else weighing in today!

Seems a few of us are having a slow loss week! My official weigh day is tomorrow, but I jumped on this morning because I'm working tomorrow so will forget and I'm static this week. I went up a lb and back down mid week, but no shift below last week's number. I'm not letting it get to me because I've still lost 25lbs in 6 weeks so a static week is totally acceptable!! Hopefully for a woosh next week! Need to up my exercise this week, hoping the fatigue improves

@Lumirubin that's an amazing achievement so far, well done!

I'm injecting my first ever dose tomorrow 😬

Saturday weigh-in day for me. Started 5mg and my appetite suppression is really good and I have continued to lose weight.

Week 1 loss 1.6kg
Week 2 loss 1.1kg
Week 3 loss 1.2kg
Week 4 loss 1.4kg
Total loss on 2.5mg = 5.3kg

Week 5 loss 0.8kg
Total loss on 5.0mg = 0.8kg

Total weight loss = 6.1kg

Exercising has been hard this week. The heat has really zapped my energy and I must admit there have been quite a few times where I didn’t do any.

I tried taking protein drinks in chocolate milkshake form but found them too sweet. I have also found even mild spicy food quite difficult to cope with. Apart from this thou I have not had any side effects from moving up to 5mg.

Although my weight loss was less this week and I have a long way to go I am still feeling really positive.

Well done to everyone, some amazing weight losses on here

Good luck @HereIfYouNeedMe it really is a wonder drug!

Thank you @DoctorMartin. Did you do it once or for the whole pen? Some people seem to have gone to 3.75 for 4 or 5 weeks before stepping up to 5?

I did 3.75 for just one week as a step up.
I didn't have any side effects so felt happy then moving up to 5 the next week.

I've just been to nandos. Due to inject tomorrow so today felt like a day I could eat without too much appetite suppression and enjoy a meal out. I barely ate a 1/3 of it and now I feel like I've eaten a huuuuge meal! I'm guessing some of it is related to the medication and some of it will be my stomach shrinking to the size of a normal person instead of being able to put away a massive amount of food!

@JaneFallow it's my first week after five weeks on 2.5mg. I haven't fully decided what I'm going to do on Tuesday when I'm due another dose.

Appetite suppression has been great up until today (Saturday) but then I got really hungry this morning. However when I ate I felt stuffed and bloated so I'm thinking it is still working well?

I don't have much more to lose - maybe just ten pounds, so I'm thinking if I stick with 3.75mg this could be my last pen. (I'm prepared to risk going over the 30 days)

I did my first month at 2.5, and I’m now on month 2 and went to 5mg. Not sure why, other than it was the same price 🥴 No ill-effects from the higher dose.

As of this morning, I’ve lost 22 pounds. In five weeks. I’m really thrilled as I don’t have much more to lose (I’ll admit I fibbed a bit to be in ‘obese’ category). It’s been the easiest thing in terms of weight loss I have ever done. Grateful to MN, as I’d never have thought to try it otherwise.