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

[VelociraptorsVelociRapping]

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

I think @WeeklyJab that you can set a new challenge for yourself, which is to come up with and cook tasty food that you absolutely love, that aligns with whatever your eating plan is, be inventive and creative. And please post on the thread "what I ate today on MJ" as everyone needs inspiration!

For me a big part of being on MJ is that it's not really dieting (although I do keep an eye on calories and protein) but more to do with nourishment and enjoying food while also enjoying the feeling of treating myself well and giving my body what it needs.

I also think that you might become less interested in some foods, people do report going off v sweet foods, for example. So maybe you will naturally fancy doing less baking, or maybe your baking will lean towards savoury foods, or making your own protein bars or carrot cakes etc.

Being able to cook well is such an advantage when trying to feed yourself well. So enjoy figuring out what you're into at the moment and you might feel like pausing (for now) some of the stuff that doesn't suit your current goals. You will still be you though!

@WeeklyJab you could perhaps turn your cooking passion into high quality, nutritious, complex, healthy dishes and avoid any that were quantity or high calorie?

Buy smaller loaf/cake tins and make 1/2 quantites.......

Make your preserves and enjoy them in moderation and get pleasure gifting the rest to others (I'll pm you my address 😉)

I still enjoy good food, a finger of cake is very nice, just don't need a full slice.

@WeeklyJab I think I experienced something of your fears. I have always been a big foodie and have an enormous library of cookbooks that I read for pleasure. My own experience is that you may find that there is a large gap at first in the space that you used to spend thinking about and preparing food, both of which were unthinkable
for me on high suppression days. My advice is to have some busy projects ready to fill the time that you would have spent on food: maybe a big gardening project, or reading a gripping novel.

As things have settled down, I have found that I can still take pleasure in food but I tend to time my cooking sessions for the end of the week when the suppression is waning and I can face the sight of food. The great gift for me is that MJ is slowly helping me as a tool to become the kind of person I always wanted to be, who can take pleasure in small quantities of really delicious food and then stop, rather than looking for opportunities to binge at every meal or celebration.

I hope this helps. Good luck!

Thank you, @gimmemounjaro , @WeAllHaveWings and @VelociraptorsVelociRapping . I woke up feeling pretty ropey after yesterday's injection and I appreciate thr encouragement.

I already cook high quality, nutritious meals than are often low calorie too - I just then eat three tonnes of cheese after them - so the sort of thing I cook isn't really the issue. I particularly love pulses and fish. Cod with puy lentils and spinach is a favourite, or hake with borlotti beans and cavolo nero.

It's as Velocirapor says, the gaping hole that an interest in food would leave.

I have over a kilo of freshly harvested borlotti beans to cook this weekend, for example, and 4 kilos of apples. I made 2.5kg of mincemeat for Christmas yesterday (some goes to my relatives, some goes away for next year, only a small proportion is for us, I promise!). The green tomatoes from the greenhouse are in to make chutney and the ripe ones are waiting to be made into sauce for the freezer to get us through winter.

However, I do have a blanket to crochet for a Christmas gift and plenty of books from a recent pilgrimage to Barter Books, so once the harvest stuff is over I will use those to fill my time and attention.

Thanks for understanding!

I absolutely get it, @WeeklyJab, and although I don't want to draw any crass comparisons I do think that this is one reason why it's so hard to treat food addiction. Humans can live without most addicting substances, but we can't live without food and we have to find a way to live with and love our enemy!

Crochet is a great idea. I also found the fatigue of early days on MJ quite helpful to avoid my worst time for snacking as I simply started going to bed pretty much straight after my children.

Hi all! It's day one for me. I injected first thing this morning. Not sure if it's all in my head but I started to get side effects quite soon after. First I felt shaky and had a bad headache. Felt very bloated after lunch and then suddenly so tired I had to go back to bed for a few hours. Nothing too awful but hopefully it doesn't persist.

I have no idea whether this will work for me, but I have been inspired by these threads. Fingers crossed...

SW: 119.8kg / 18st12 - BMI 38.7
GW1: 108.4kg / 17st1 - BMI 35
UGW: 83.5kg / - 13st2 - BMI 27

It's my 4th weekly weigh in and I have lost a stone! Absolutely delighted with that. When I came on this thread, I was blown away that people were losing that amount of weight in a month, and here I am :-)

SW: 18 stone 11 (263 lbs)
CW: 17 stone 11 (249 lbs)

On 5mg - no side effects (I did have a dodgy stomach for a day or 2 at the beginning, but a pro-biotic (I think it was that) sorted me out and no other issues or side effects. I am eating twice a day (keto), and my meals are still fairly large. Not had huge suppression, but it is clearly working so not complaining!

Week 1: -6
Week 2: 0
Week 3: -5
Week 4: -3

Thank you everyone as I don't think I would have taken the plunge if it wasn't for this thread. Best thing I have ever done for myself and I don't feel the overwhelming dread of how much I have to lose as I usually do. Motivation remains very high. Early days I know, but easiest stone I have ever shed.

Good luck fellow losers, We have got this!

I am 14 weeks in and still feel tired day 2-3, which coincides with not being able to eat too much, so not sure if its MJ or lack of calories (combined with ongoing menopause insomnia as I am up most nights!) I try to eat and drink as much water as I can stomach those days and it does help a little.

I have also bought some magnesium tablets to try this week to see if it helps my sleep, but keep forgetting to take them before bed!

week 9 weigh in and the scales are showing a 1kilo gain - I know I've been in carlorie deficit every day so I'm now overly worried about this.

Still 10 kg loss since I started. 30ish kilos to get to "healthy" BMI.

Hope to be resuming downwards trajectory this week.

TWI Warning - I have noticed my digestion seems to be getting slower & slower, and I've slowed right down, and am leaning towards slight constipation now. No discomfort (yet) but I'm not as regualr as I was previously. I'm mostly eating protien and lots of fruit, veggies, nuts so I should be getting plenty of fiber. I will make sure I eat 2 kiwifruit a day this week along with chia seeds and see if that regulates things a bit better.

Overdue check-in! I'm now on holiday but weighed just before I left and had finally got into the 11st bracket (just!). I ummed and aaahed about whether to skip this weekend's dose (I'm away for 2 weeks) but worked out my pens so that I have one pen with one dose in it and have brought it with me.

Total loss is about 3st now and I think I started sometime in May (atrocious record keeping on my part) and the losses are now very slow but it is all in the right direction and removing the food noise (obsession?) from my daily life is reward in itself.

This week I have noticed feeling more comfortable in myself. Swimming in the pool and then standing in the sun drying off instead of immediately flopping and dripping to my sunbed to hide under a towel. Being able to move easily in size 14 shorts I tentatively took out of an old suitcase in the loft a few weeks ago. Climbing back onto a boat after a snorkelling trip and not feeling like I was going to tip the whole thing over. Going snorkelling!

I'm almost dreading having to stop taking it. Next step: improving at meal prep.

I just realised I will be due to take the fourth injection of one pen on Christmas Day and the first injection of the next pen on 1 Jan.

I haven't told my family that I'm on MJ and would prefer not to go there I think. This does make it tricky as I can't use the fridge to store pens and have to time my orders so that the pen arrives on the day I need to take it.

This has worked ok so far but obviously will be a nightmare between Christmas and New Year, plus we are usually away around that time. So I've ordered a cheap mini fridge for my MJ. Is anyone else keeping MJ to themselves for now?

I am. I'm not sure why, but I haven't told anyone about it in real life. I need to think about why I'm doing that. Do I think privately that I'm cheating? Maybe.

You've already ordered the fridge but I found a good deal on a 2nd hand medication refridgerated box on ebay - like this one. I thought it might be easier to stash away and travel with, when needed.

For anyone else, it might be worth keeping an eye out if you think it would be useful?

Glad I'm not the only one.

I think DH would think it was a waste of money (even though it's my money and it's working!) and would be quite negative about it. It's tough enough without any extra stuff like that to manage.

That does look like a good solution @ShiftAMountain

I thought the pens are OK out of the fridge once you start using them? It sounds crazy but I'm sure I read that somewhere, probably on MN.

I thought that too. I'm keeping mine in my sock drawer.

@BingoWingsOverScotland I haven’t told a soul either.

I think partly because I don’t engage in diet talk, because it often can be really stressful and disparaging. The other part is this terrible internalised shame around ‘cheating’ even though I don’t feel I am now I am doing it! The days I have supression, i often feel a bit nauseous and then when i don’t i still have to use willpower and I still have to measure and count everything.

i just don’t want other people’s expectations to manage as well as my own. Its tiring.

Yes I think that's right - my issue is how to store a pen before it's time to use it for the first time, when it does need refrigeration. I've been avoiding that by trying to time delivery for the day I need to inject, but that's going to be tricky over Christmas and New Year. I'd also like to make sure I am sorted for January in case there are supply issues when everyone's resolutions kick in.

You can buy cool pouches you rehydrate in ice cold water which we use to keep my child's epi pens and other meds which needs refrigerating cold when we are abroad without access to a fridge https://friouk.com/

I've told children and husband and regret it as one child and husband both very worried and negative about it at times. I don't need that.

I was keeping mine in the fridge but after being told you don't have to once opened I haven't bothered....however am now wondering if this coincided with them being less effective

My DH is being Ok with it but he also has an injection pen for crohn's disease which maybe makes it more familiar.

Here is the source.

Don't refrigerate epipens; it damages the adrenaline. We took ours abroad this summer in 40° heat but if it's kept packaged up in a bag in the shade it doesn't get too hot. I just wanted to say that as we were warned to never keep ours in fridges or cold bags and as it's life saving medication I felt worried.