Mounjaro / Wegovy with > 5st / 30kg to lose: Thread 2

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Thread 2 of our lovely, welcoming community of MNers using weight-loss injections to lose more than 5 stone / 30 kg.

I've now reached 30% loss from my starting weight 🎉

That’s fantastic @PissedOffNeighbour22 - how long has that taken you? Mine is still sitting in the fridge!

@JustMoved123 thank you :)
I started on 21 February. The first 3 stone came off within 3 months, the rest has been a bit slower.
I still have a stone to go until bmi 25, but I can't see myself wanting to go much lower than that. My bmi was 40 when I started.

Honestly it's the best thing I've ever done. Good luck for when you start - are you starting soon?

WOW! What a milestone @PissedOffNeighbour22 - brilliant! 💫

You've inspired me to add % loss to my spreadsheet too.

Going down to 2.5 mg seems to have worked, although a bit early to call that as I only took it yesterday. My weight has gone back up to where I expected it to be this week (slow week due to cycle) now I'm better. I was 2.65 kg down this week on Thursday but now just 0.4 kg down for official WI day. Strangely, reassured to see it! Used to GLP1 plotter to work out that to effectively stay on the same dose next week I need to take 3.5 mg. That plotter has been so useful - I love it!

@PissedOffNeighbour22 - as soon as I pluck up the courage!

@PissedOffNeighbour22 Amazing! Hopefully we will all be able to share a similar massive achievement in the future!

For me it is 3lb loss this week. Which again was unexpected as I was showing as 1lb loss Friday morning. I think a Saturday morning lie in must agree with me!

Week 7
SW 21st 5lbs BMI 41.8
CW 19st 8lbs BMI 39.2
Losses - 10,2,2,4,1,3,3
Total loss - 25lbs, 8%

It will be my 3rd dose from my 5mg pen today. I was feeling quite hungry yesterday which is ok as not obsessive, I consumed all my calories healthily and seeing a loss today, so sticking with 3.75mg for now as it seems a reasonable balance.

Glad you are enjoying the plotter @Tirzepatide it's a very useful tool in sensible hands!

For some reason this week I've had really awful sickness after the injection. It's been so hard to eat anything, started Thursday and today I feel a bit better but I've mostly been forcing myself to eat. No idea why it hit me so hard. It almost made me want to give up completely! Hope it's just a one off as I thought I'd hit quite a nice spot with side effects and how well it was working.

Well done on losses everyone. Excellent stuff.

Hope you are feeling today @KeepingUndercover, and the sickness has abated.

What strength are you on, is it a recent increase?

Thanks @WeAllHaveWings. Today has been much better and I've eaten 3 meals and not felt sick. It was my fourth 10mg dose, I don't know if maybe the residual in my system and then this on top was a bit much? I'm very glad it's passed now anyway. My next pen is also 10mg so hopefully it'll smooth out.

@KeepingUndercover That's interesting. I'm coming to the end of my second 10mg pen and after my dose on Friday I have felt a bit sick yesterday and today. Not horribly bad but a low level nausea which I've not had apart from a day when moving up to 5mg. Seems odd timing and maybe it's not MJ related but it did make me crave plain carbs to settle my stomach.

Well done all on some fantastic losses. I’m a relatively slow loser averaging around 0.5kg per week now. More at the beginning but it has slowed. I’ve been on MJ since the end of May and I’m down 9.4kg
SW 110kg
CW 100.6kg
GW 64kg
Loss 9.4kg

Next stop double figures rather than triple.

SW 123kg BMI 40.9
CW 118.9 4.1kg loss
GW 85kg 33.9 kg to go.

4.1kg after 3 weeks - I had 5 days drinking tequila and beer at a music festival in the middle of that, so I am very happy.

Feeling very good - strong appetite suppression still. I have one more week at 2.5 & then I ordered a 5 pen, but wondering if I should stay on 2.5?

Also I'm off on a weeks holiday at the end of the month.

Has anyone skipped a week? Not sure wether to take MJ pen with me (I'm paranoid I will forget it out there in the mini fridge) or have a week off.

I read that eating 2 kiwi fruit a day keeps constipation at bay and that seems to be working for me.

NSV my dress sleeves are looser and I can get up Nd down the stairs quicker. Not much loss this week but have maintained. Was on holiday last week and did have ice creams, booze, etc and generally ate badly. Next pen is 5mg but will probs click count to 3.75. Life currently generally quite stressful in various directions so happy enough with current achievements

Well im officially part of the club 😁

Start weight: 20st9lbs
Goal weight 1: 17st9lbs

Hoping to be there before Christmas but also putting no pressure on myself as I get used to this

Welcome! It's been life changing. I have lost best part of ten kilos in the blink of an eye with limited side effects. Feel the best I've felt in about 18 months. Wishing you lots of luck and limited side effects x

@CrazyKats so far the most painful part has been getting my finger stuck in the sharps bin as I tried to put the lid of the pen into it 🤦🏼‍♀️🤣🤣🤣🤣 hoping it stays that way!

@NeedSomeAnswersPlease 🤣

I'm due to go on holidays by myself for first time.in almost 20 years mid October - would be amazing to be somewhere between 90 & 95 kg.

SW early July 109.6 kg
CW 101 kg

Hoping to hit double figures by end of august

Hello, joining this thread for the first time.

Took 2nd dose of 2.5mg on Saturday. Hideous constipation. Took a laxative last night and have felt awful all day today. However I am now definitely unblocked!

I have been reading posts on other threads which mention you learn not to eat anything too fatty/spicy on MJ and I think that's been one of the issues today; I had some
Mozzarella cheese, sun dried tomatoes and roasted artichokes in oil which I thought would be good for protein as well as fibre but I ate this meal at 2pm and it's now nine hours later and I still have heartburn and haven't been able to eat anything else since that meal.

I think I will try and eat super clean tomorrow, including some kiwis to help with the constipation. I've ordered some phyllium husk capsules to try and prevent a recurrence of the constipation as that's happened both weeks.

SW 20'12.5"
Low carb for six weeks resulted in loss of 1'3.5"
SW on MJ: 19'9.5"
CW: 19'8.5"

Hi all, sorry I've not really been keeping up, I have been absolutely knocked out by 5mg! I'm midway through my 2nd jab now and I'm so tired, I just feel almost a bit vacant, it's weird. I have got terrible reflux at night too, I'm waking up several times a night choking on acid which is just gross and also a bit scary. I'm eating pretty much nothing and even struggling to drink, yesterday I had about 250ls of squash and half a can of coke.

I'm having a b12 injection tomorrow so hopefully that will perk me up a bit! Unsure whether to carry on with 5 or dial it down a bit for my Friday night jab.

Lost 24.4lbs as of today (6 weeks in) which I'm delighted about, although people are starting to notice and I've not told anyone what I'm doing so for people like my mil, I'm really trying to avoid discussing it because to her the weight is falling off (which it is really) and we've done weight watchers etc together before so she can see it's fast!

I wouldn't post my face on mumsnet but I do have 2 really good side by side face pics now, on one side the pic that made me realise I had to make a change and another this weekend and it does appear that I've lost all this weight from my face, the difference is crazy!

Sorry to hear you are feeling rough @JessicaPeach. I am on my 3rd dose of 3.75mg (injection day Saturday), the first two weeks were ok with some heavy fatigue on days 2-3, this week no fatigue but the suppression has been insane the last two days, I can't stomach much and nothing even slightly sweet such as my protein yoghurts. I have not wanted squash or fizzy drinks for weeks.

In your position I would probably try dialing it back a little too, I would prefer to need a little bit more will power than have awful side effects.

@JessicaPeach I took weeks to titrate up between 2.5 and 5. I used a whole 5mg pen split over 6 partial doses to step up. I did a couple of weeks on 40 clicks, then 45 etc. I felt the step up each time so I don’t think I could have jumped straight from 2.5 to 5.

Feel really strange, I just felt really hungry after feeling sick all morning and so I ate an apple and some strawberries. Now I don't feel massively hungry, but a really strange feeling in my stomach. So weird!

I too am taking a long time... Found 3.75 too much going back down to 3.0...

I did the same, except it took me 2 pens to move up. Mainly because I had a busy time and couldn’t afford to be ill so I stuck at 3mg for a while then started moving up 0.5ml at a time. I’m on 5 now but it’s not doing anything for me at all, which is mad considering how ill I was the first time I tried to move up back in May! 3rd injection of 5mg today and hoping it will have built up in my system that I get more than 1 day of suppression which is all I’ve had the last 2 weeks (and gained 1lb)