Mounjaro July 2024 - continued

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The first thread was almost full, so I thought I'd start a second so we can carry on the fab support!
I don't think I could manage tagging everyone!! But here is the link to the first thread https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5101435-mounjaro-july-2024?page=1

Welcome and congrats! How have you found the journey so far?

Thank you.
It's been a great journey. I've not had many side effects, other than abit of nausea and the occasional exploding bottom. 😆
It's just so hard to believe that it's working. In 30years, nothing has.

Hope everyone is doing well!

I'm still on 45 clicks of a 5mg pen and the low dose means my weight loss has slowed to a crawl of 1lb a week. I'm with Asda paying £180 for a pen so the past couple of months each pound of weight lost has cost me £45. I'm still at 15st 3 so I won't meet my interim goal of a 14 on the scale by the end of the year.

And...I don't care! I have been insanely busy with work, had a lingering cold and only been able to make the gym once a week (gosh if you add in gym membership and PT fees, each pound of weight has probably cost me closer to £100 to lose!). Without MJ, I would be gaining a pound a week right now, I'd be exhausted and stress-eating and going into Christmas feeling terrible about myself.

But I have lost almost three stone in total. I feel light and happy (even though I still have a BMI of 35!) and so much better than at the start of July when I was carrying all that extra weight I've since lost. I have another three stone to go and it will take a long time - and btw I will still be overweight when I get there; I'm aiming for a BMI around 26 or 27 to maintain. I'm sure I'll be taking these drugs in some form forever given how slow the weight loss is but the point is, it's steady and it's achievable and it's WORKING where nothing else could.

If I could accept the diarrhoea and increase my dose, I know I'd lose faster but it isn't worth it for me. I'm so happy with how these injections have transformed my life and I finally feel like I'm living it well.

I'm losing on average 1lb a week also, but tbh I don't care. I feel it's probably safer and healthier to be losing slow and steady, so I'm fine with it. I've said it before, but I just feel like I eat like a normal person now. Last night we went out for a meal, I ate what I genuinely fancied and didn't even feel wistful about a pudding because I didn't want one. (who am I anymore!) I had a Bailey's instead, which felt like a treat itself, so it was all good.

I'm looking forward to Christmas, and not eating so much I forget what being hungry feels like (a particular low point in my life). We'll still have lovely food, but not so much of it. I feel quite balanced about it all.

I think the mental work required to keep my eating in check stopped me from being able to examine any emotions behind that obsessive drive to eat. Now I don't have the 'food noise' I'm able to sit with my emotions better and deal with things properly. I always expected it to be the other way around though - deal with the emotions and the emotional eating will stop. But now the emotional eating has stopped, I can manage everything else. Interesting.

One hundred percent it is that way round @KeepinOn! It was not possible to deal with the emotional drivers of eating while I was in their grip. Eating normally has made me able to work through the mental stuff in a way that I just simply couldn't beforehand.

I should probably not be surprised that after last weeks big jump downwards, I have pretty much stayed the same this week. A loss of 100g apparently! Slightly annoying as I was showing 101kg ish mid-week but not today.

Current stats at the end of week 22:
SW: 139kg (21st 12 lbs)
CW: 102.2kg (16st 1.3 lbs)
GW: 100kg (15st 11 lbs) third interim goal.
Total of 5st 11lbs or 36.6kg lost to date.

I'm continuing on with 7.5mg as it still seems to be working for me, decent suppression and minimal/no side effects.

@Windsweptandweird hello 👋great to hear your story, thanks for sharing.

@WeepingInASunlitRoom and @KeepinOn also great to read your updates too.

I had my work Christmas meal yesterday evening, and was not stressed at all about food and eating. I had the starter as it was soup, and then ate a small portion of my main course, focussing on the protein and veg, didn't eat any of the carbs. Then, didn't order a dessert, and didn't care about it at all. Normally if I'd decided not to order a dessert I'd be feeling miserable and looking on enviously at everyone else! I just had coffee and enjoyed chatting to everyone. It was so nice to be able to stop eating when I was full and not feel that I wanted to continue to eat everything else on my plate even though I wasn't hungry anymore.

So I had my flu and covid jabs last saturday. Sunday I felt HORRENDOUS!
Monday morning, I was 2lb heavier, and I still haven't managed to shifting all.
I know that it's probably water, and being ill, feeling rubbish affects your weight, and I know that you can weigh 1/2 a stone different atthe opposite ends of the day, but to say I'm exceedingly vexed is definitely not an understatement. 😞

Good morning to anyone still around from the July starters! Weigh in Friday rolls around for me again.

Current stats at the end of week 23:
SW: 139kg (21st 12 lbs)
CW: 100.8kg (15st 12 lbs)
GW: 90kg (14st 2 lbs) fourth interim goal.

Total of 6 stone or 38.2kg lost to date.

Losses for the 23 weeks have been:

-9,-2,-7,-3,-6,-4,-1,-4,-3,-4,-3,-5,-2,-7,-3,-2,-4,+1,-5,-2,-6,0,-3

I'm marking off that I've reached my 3rd interim goal of 100kg, even though my weigh in today was 100.8kg so a touch over. Now I'm heading towards my fourth interim target of 90kg. I will be so thrilled when the scales are in two digits! Hopefully that will be this coming week. I'm still on 7.5mg as it's continuing to work well for me.

That's fab @SilenceInside well done and great news on your mini goals

Another July starter still here and this week I celebrated the scales starting with a 12. I'm 3.5lbs away from 4 stone loss as at this morning (aim is to be there by NYE!) 21 weeks in and a way to go yet but feeling positive that my GW is achievable!

Congratulations @SilenceInside and @Jfw82 ! I'm not weighing in this week but all signs point to a continued downward trend - rings a bit looser, coat a bit baggier, jeans a bit less tight around the waist. I'm going to have to trawl through Vinted in the new year for another set of interim clothes I think - some of my 'new' work shirts are flapping around like sails in the wind. I always lose quicker on my top half than my bottom half, so this is to be expected.

Christmas is getting ever-closer as well! Any special plans? I'm planning on doing some winter-themed gardening and not driving anywhere if I can possibly help it!

Another July starter here still keep kicking around!

Doing OK loss-wise, slow and steady. I've done 2 pens of 7.5mg and my bonus dose last week was 10mg, with a view to starting a 10mg pen on Wednesday. Except I've had a last-minute cancellation for surgery I've been waiting for, so have had to stop taking it as there's a risk of aspiration pneumonia under general anaesthesia due to the delayed gastric emptying. So, no jab this Wednesday, and not one next Wednesday either. Still very much feeling the effects of last week's, but also feeling a wee bit anxious about having to come off it, even if it's only temporarily.

Hello fellow July starters, I'm still here and my scales haven't moved since 25th November so I'm feeling frustrated and annoyed. But not devastated and face-first in a pile of mince pies which I would be right now if stalled on any other diet in December. I am particularly irritated that I am stuck TWO POUNDS away from a three stone loss - and I guess I don't think I'm going to make it there by 2025. It would be nice and neat to finish the year - and six months on MJ - on a three stone loss, even nicer if I could drop four pounds to get to the 14s which I will not be seeing until next year. But at least I know I will see it eventually.

Good luck with the surgery @MounjaroMunchie!

Hi all. Sorry I've been absent! I came off MJ on 14th November because our fertility treatment is starting soon and I didn't want there to be any sort of overlap, I kind of abandoned the thread at the same time so apologies.

Thought people might like an update on how like has been post MJ going cold turkey from 10mg. Firstly the food noise came back, which is ok. I can manage it a bit better now, don't get me wrong I've given into it a few times and almost missed the silence from the MJ! But all in all I'm still eating pretty well. I've tried to be conscious of my portion sizes not getting too big, but my appetite is definitely getting back to normal and it's now a conscious effort not to over eat rather than just realising I'm full.
Weigh wise I've gained 5lbs from my lowest MJ weight, but I'm sitting the same place that I had plateaued for a few weeks before my final quick loss on MJ, so I feel like my body is actually just sitting in a comfortable place for itself. I'm not worried about gaining more, this has been fairly steady for the last 3 weeks so I suspect the gain was mostly water loss.

Symptoms wise I didn't experience any withdrawal effects, felt totally normal. I would say my MH from an (undiagnosed) ADHD perspective I've lost some focus since coming off and I've been a bit more prone to mood swings.
Unfortunately the worst thing I'm currently dealing with is hair loss. But I've read up that this is likely a symptom of something that happened 3 months ago and it's 3 months since my rapid weight loss on MJ which is probably the cause. I doubt I was managing enough protein most days. Luckily I've got thick hair so it doesn't look too bad yet, but it's noticeably thinner. But id rather have thin patchy hair and be a healthier weight so I'm just rolling with the punches!

Hope everyone is well!

Weigh-in today for me - I'm consistently losing about 1.3kg - 1.5kg every two - two and a half weeks, which is a respectable pace. Definitely lost faster at first, but don't we all!

In the meantime I went to the hair dressers today and got a lovely hair cut, glanced at the bowl of chocolates on the side, and didn't even have a twinge of wanting one. Another win!

@Lumirubin great to hear an update of how you're going after stopping Mounjaro. Really wishing you well for the start of your fertility treatment.

@KeepinOn congratulations on the continuing weight loss and the continuing disinterest in chocolate!

So weigh in day for me, had a bit of a levelling out over the last couple of weeks with not much movement on the scales.

Current stats at the end of week 24:
SW: 139kg (21st 12 lbs)
CW: 100.5kg (15st 11 lbs)
GW: 90kg (14st 2 lbs) fourth interim goal.

The scales have been teasing me all week, showing 99 point something at various points, but of course this morning when I come to weigh in they say 100.5kg. So only a titchy 300g change since last week. Nothing has changed in terms of what I'm eating so I guess it's just my system adjusting to the weight loss and stabilising a bit. I will expect to remain stable over Christmas, and not hope for too much downwards movement until January. I will need to decide whether to stay on 7.5mg or move up to 10mg when I order my next pen. Really not sure at the moment what I'll go for.

Keep going, @SilenceInside , getting to 99 is inevitable! In the meantime, are you keeping your fluids up? I wasn't drinking as much a little while ago, and I do think it was linked to a plateau. Just a thought.

Remaining stable over Christmas is a great goal in the meantime!

Hello the July gang! Congratulations to all. Well it's touch and go whether I make it to a nice round 30kg loss by Christmas day. That would also be me at my original goal (highish normal BMI range), but I'm aiming to titrate down slowly, so may go slightly below that. I have decidedly mixed feelings about coming off altogether given the relief it has given my otherwise unmedicated ADHD symptoms, my age and the amount of dementia on both sides of my family. I'm interested in whether MJ becomes licensed for these uses (think there are advanced clinical trials going on?).

I'm enjoying wearing nice clothes again and moving so much more freely.

So frustrating @SilenceInside but also so close !

We're away to family for Christmas so I won't know whether I've made it to a 4stone loss for Christmas Day as I won't be able to weigh but that's the goal for NYE instead now 2lbs to go....

The support on these threads has been great being able to chat with those on the same journey. Am going to end 2024 in a healthier place thanks to Mounjaro and will hit goal in 2025!

Thanks @KeepinOn and @Jfw82 I will get there soon I'm sure. I probably don't drink enough, I find it hard to drink water on its own - always have done and Mounjaro definitely doesn't help with that. I'm trying to drink herbal tea more, but it's hard to remember to!

It's a bit surreal to actually have achieved my weight loss goals this time, and more than I was hoping for really. If someone had told me in June that I would be over 6 stone lighter by Christmas I'd have thought they were mad. But here I am!

@WeepingInASunlitRoom You've done well, ive been off and one and off again for Christmas now. I think we just have to focus on the positives of what we have achieved and accept that there will always be some level of abstinence needed. :)

here with an apology. I’ve been MIA since about October - if I’m honest I’m not sure why. This thread was the non judgmental safe place I needed so no idea why I’ve been in hiding but anyway….

i started mid July - 5ft4 or 5ft3 according to my GP and 13 stones. I started on the 2.5mg for a month, went up to 5mg for two weeks, didn’t like it and came back down to 3.75mg ever since (using insulin needles to extract the dose).

As of 19/12 I am 10st 7 lbs. I know I’m still way overweight for my GP surgery (7stone 10 was the goal I was once given) but I’m probably now getting to where I feel good. I can fit into all of my very expensive wardrobe comfortably and I have oodles of choice (to the point of being paralysed by it) in terms of what to wear. I should be ecstatic but I’m ashamed, I’m embarrassed and I want to disappear. I dread anyone mentioning that I look thinner and I’m utterly disgusted at my gross wrinkled inner thighs and upper arms. I’ve spent the last 25 years religiously weight training, running and spinning but obviously the vast amounts of flab I had are irretrievable in terms of my skin tone and I know it’s horribly vain but I can’t see beyond it.
I genuinely don’t care much for food now which is a weird sensation and I’m not sure how to deal with that.

I don’t regret my weight loss or my journey but I’m so angry with myself that I can’t embrace it, enjoy it and frankly I so need to get a f*ing grip.

Im delighted when I hear other success stories and i raise a glass to all of you who welcomed me without question. In true mumsnet fashion I need to “give my head a wobble” and be ready to face 2025.

Who knew the road to weight loss would be bumpier that I ever imagined!

That's something I really understand @Mounjarorookie and it happened to me on previous weight loss experiences. I have had my ups and downs in terms of mood this time as well but the very slow loss I'm experiencing (2lbs in an entire month!) actually seems to be giving me a bit more time and space to adjust. I really want to lose more but part of me has had an odd sense of relief the past couple of weeks that I've kind of been on pause. There are so many feelings tangled up in our bodies and a lot of how we identify and define ourselves. I also live in dread of anyone commenting on my weight loss, but luckily I have obviously been such a basket case for so long about it that my family haven't said a word so far and long may that continue! It's weird and it's complicated but you aren't the only one to feel that way. I don't think at any point I will feel wildly celebratory. Part of me feels so sad for myself now that MJ has confirmed for me that I couldn't do this on my own and it wasn't my fault. There is a lot of blame I need to let go of and it's left me feeling a little unanchored and unsettled. And I don't have my old coping mechanism - food! I'm sure we will find our way to a stronger sense of peace with ourselves with a bit more time.

I've been thinking about your post, @Mounjarorookie . About a decade ago I lost weight the 'old fashioned way' and felt under massive amounts of scrutiny. I would be minding my own business walking home from the school run, and a school mum would practically jump out at me to say something about weight loss. Or I would be ogled by older men I looked up to/felt like father-figures to me. Or... or... or. It was really disconcerting. People would ask me how I did it, and I felt at a loss... I stopped eating junk food and started exercising more, that was basically all. I had no magic, no secret to share. And of course my own mother had her own opinions about it that she couldn't stop herself from sharing.

Of course I gained it back over time, and it's just such a head-f*. Now I work from home full time, we moved house to a completely different area shortly before I started MJ, so neighbours, school mums, and colleagues haven't seen me at my heaviest and haven't said anything about weight loss, mostly because they don't know me that well I suppose. Or maybe I just don't mix with rude people as much anymore! (I'm NC with my mother, too, for other reasons)

I have a different clothing style these days also, so I don't have any old 'slimmer me' clothes to wear - I'm getting stuff ad hoc from Vinted and the like, so no emotional attachment to specific smaller sized clothes. It's very much like starting fresh all round, which is a relief. It turns out that without other people's judgement I can feel pretty neutral about weight loss. Or positive in a balanced way - I'm pleased for myself at the 3 stone lost, I have about 2 more to lose, and that's fine. I would be a lot more self conscious and frankly, pissed off, if I was being scrutinised all the time again.

Good morning and Happy Christmas/Hanukkah Eve!

It's a holiday miracle - I'm no longer obese! With a BMI of 29.9 and a weight of 12st 6lbs, I am now merely overweight.

Now begins the next phase of the journey to "healthy".

Wishing everyone a wonderful few days - it can be a tough time of the year, but hopefully we all manage to find some joy.

@EternalFatalist congratulations! What a great target to achieve in time for Hanukkah and Christmas.