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

4 or 5 tonnes?!!

Yep. Obviously that's cumulative across the workout, not single lifts 😂

Ah Ok I get it now!

@GoSummer676 well done on your loss! I can relate to the family members. I saw my siblings for the first time yesterday since dropping 2.5 stone and not a single comment from either of them. I know I look different because people at work have commented loads about how good I look in comparison. So I can only guess that it's jealousy/inability to be happy for someone else. My siblings have form for being very self centered so I'm not surprised. But this thread is here to celebrate the wins with eachother! I bet you are looking fab!

Really disappointed today, weigh 8 and my first week with no loss, only difference this week is I've walked a lot more.

I'll keep on keeping on but I didn't start MJ thinking I wouldn't lose some weeks...maybe my expectations are too high

I've maintained a few weeks here and there, too. I'm focusing more on how I feel rather than the scales, where I can. Clothes fitting better, feeling lighter on my feet, having more energy, just an increased sense of well-being. I've been looking back on pictures of myself from earlier this year, when I was very stressed and eating crap foods as a dysfunctional coping mechanism, and I look much healthier now. That's the most important thing of all.

Sorry to hear some people are receiving a lack of response from family, it's their problem though, not yours! Easy for me to say, I know!

I've had loads of weeks with no losses but then get a large loss eventually - I know we all assume there will be a drop weekly but our bodies didn't get that memo!

Interested about the family comment discussion - I'm extremely anxious about receiving any comments from family - I'm trying to figure out now how to shut down any discussion about my body at all whenever it might come up. I've lost and regained weight enough times now that I realise the compliments flow as the pounds drop off and are replaced by a horrible silence when they creep back on, and so any positive comment about my body only lives in my head as ammunition to torture myself with later - because I know what they think of me when I'm fatter and it's really upsetting. If I get a load of nice comments as I lose weight, I hear the unspoken equivalent when I regain it, or I hear how ugly they must think I am all the time I'm not at a lower weight and smaller size which has been a lot of my life. I just don't want to talk about any of this with anyone!

I can relate to this. I actually had a colleague say to me when I lost alot of weight last time (down 2 stone on what I currently am so 4.5stone on what I was a few months ago, vom) "you look so much better, don't ever let yourself go back to the way you where before". I cannot tell you how many times that's ran round my head as soon as I gained any weight. I don't even like the woman so I don't give a shit what she thinks of me, but she's probably the only person who's dick enough to say what everyone else is thinking!!

However, I'm embracing the positive comments because this is the last time I'll ever get them. A few years from now when I'm still slim, because this is it for me mentally, I'll never get a comment on how much better I look because it'll just be who I am. No more yo-yo!!

This is exactly how I feel.
im about a stone down and haven’t had any comments at all but im pleased about that. It also wasn’t that long ago that I was this weight iyswim, since I’ve gained weight over the last year slowly so it’s not like I’m different to how they’re used to seeing me.

im happier when people don’t comment:
and weirdly I’m massively unobservant when it comes to others weight changes!

I don't want anyone to notice or pass comments except for my partner. It feels intrusive to me, and I can't really cope with those thoughts of "so what must you have thought of me before I lost the weight". It has happened in the past, I went from a size 22/24 to a size 12 over the course of a few years (v strict low carb diet, obsessive exercise, genuinely miserable for lots of reasons but losing weight was a pleasant side-effect at that stage). The comments from men in particular, blokes I'd known for years and considered friends or even father figures, were disgusting. Thankfully those people aren't in my life anymore.

Clothes are fitting looser again this morning, a shirt I bought on Vinted a week and a half ago is looser even. I'm feeling more energetic on the whole, which is interesting, and makes me wonder if it's impacting my metabolism the way some of the newer studies suggest. As a woman on the cusp of peri-meno, a revved up metabolism would be amazing!

Had a bit of a dodgy week this week! After feeling so ill the first few days and bad diarrhea I seem to have made up for it and managed to gain weight on my first week of 5mg 🤦‍♀️

on holiday now and intended to go back to 45 clicks and 3.75mg because of the severity of the gastro effects. But as I was injecting I realised I hadn’t counted clicks and had turned it all the way to 1! So I just kind of stopped a bit short: couldn’t work out how to turn it back without pushing out the liquid so in the end as much as it pained me had to squirt the remainder out into the sink 😞
no idea how much I actually got in me but hoping it’s around 3.75! What a cock up 🙄

Second week on 7.5. The side effects were mega the first time so I was dreading it but pleased to say they didn't carry on. Lasted about 4 days, then settled, nothing with the 2nd jab same dose. Just incase people are worried about moving up, it doesn't last too long x

Weigh-in Wednesday!

Starting weight 13st 4 BMI 30

2.5mg pen: 4 doses plus bonus dose of 3.3mg

Week 1: 12st 13 (-5lb)
Week 2: 12st 9 (-4lb)
Week 3: 12st 7 (-2lb)
Week 4: No weigh-in (on holiday) No MJ injection whilst away
Week 5: No weigh-in (on holiday)
Week 6: 12st 4 (-3lb)

5mg pen: (2 weeks of 3.75mg 45 clicks, now up to 5mg- no side effects)

Week 7: 12st 1 (-3lb)
Week 8: 11st 13 (-2lb)
Week 9: 11st 11 (-2lb)
Week 10: 11st 9.5 (-1.5lb)

Total weight loss: 1 stone 8.5lb in 10 weeks with a 2 week holiday in the middle. BMI 26.3

Back to school next week. It will be interesting to see if anyone notices that I have lost weight!

Hi all.
SW on the 8/7 was 17:9
CW is 15:7
GW is 12:7

I'm keeping this low key with my family as I've lost and gained before.

Question For anyone else on 5mg- are you struggling to eat? And does it matter?

Yesterday I had a black coffee and an Activia yoghurt at about 10am and then was busy with work and didn't feel hungry enough to stop, even though I had a healthy chicken salad waiting for me in the fridge.

Picked up a couple of pasta dishes (light ones, about 500cals each) to microwave for dinner for me and DH, and ate at about 8:30, felt full straight afterwards. I genuinely did not feel hungry at any point. Skipping lunch is not completely unknown for me If I’m busy at work but normally I’ll be ravenous come 5pm and hacking chunks off the cheddar or making toast as soon as I get home.

I’d describe how I feel as the way you feel when you’ve been unwell- just no appetite. Energy and brain function all fine.

I’m not massively worried as I figure that there are plenty of diets out there that involve fast days so I’m basically just following that.

Appetite suppression is pretty strong for me on the 5mg now - if I remember rightly, the first week not so much, but from then on I've definitely noticed I just don't get very hungry. I could easily cope with 1 meal a day, but I worry about getting enough nutrients. I've been trying to load my plate with salad and veg first, then protein, then carbs. I don't want to miss out on vital nutrients even though I feel fine. I don't know if I'll feel fine 6 months from now if I end up with scurvy or something heh.

I had my first full 7.5mg dose on Sunday after taking the bonus dose from my 5mg pen the week before, so somewhere between 5mg and 7.5. I've had on and off diarrhoea throughout the whole journey, but now the tides have turned and I'm constipated. Honestly thing I prefer the opposite! Also not feeling a huge amount of suppression, wondering if my body is just getting used to the drug. Still managing to eat healthier but Ive snacked here and there which I wasn't doing before..haven't weighed for a few days as I've been too busy in the mornings, but hopefully the weight is still coming off

Maybe what you lost in weight you kept with muscle and water?

Weekly check in (to keep me accountable!)

SW - 13 stone
Week 1 - 12 10
week 2 - 12 7
week 3 - 12 6
week 4 - 12 4
Week 5 - 12 1

so now 13lb loss which is good and at the rate I want. Mentally I think it will make a difference if I can drop below 12 next week. I made a complete hash of taking my dosage last week, I had the 5mg pen but wanted to take less than 5. I suspect I took the whole 5 as I extracted it with a syringe however today I definitely took 3.75mg as I’m hoping to make the pen last 5 weeks.

I had the burps which others have mentioned really badly for most of the week which was rubbish. Touch wood, they subsided yesterday and don’t appear to have come back so hope that’s the last of that. I’m still tired but plodding on with my usual hour of spin/step/weights each day. I went for a run on Saturday and met a neighbour (size 8 at most )who said “ooh, so you’ve taken up running. You’re braver than me- I couldn’t be seen exercising in public until I was a bit thinner”. So clearly I shouldn’t be worried about anyone noticing my weight loss😁

I may try on a few things in my wardrobe at the weekend that I haven’t gotten into in a while. So far the loss hasn’t allowed me to wear anything different but that probably shows that everything was far too tight rather than I’ve dropped any sizes!

Hi everyone, I'm on week 9 and I've lost a toal of 17 pounds. I've found that some weeks I've lost nothing, then lost 3 pound the following week. So if your not losing every week don't lose heart.
I'm going to stay at 5mg as I definitely have an issue with nausea, it's currently manageable and don't want it to get worse.

Wow that neighbour is a bitch!

Hi all

I weighed late this week so today I am 76.8 kg…just over 12 stone!
its been a while since i was down here!

I started at 85.6 kg 9 weeks ago so v happy with this loss. I’m wearing tops that were too tight a few weeks ago though mostly the same clothes, just not bulging at the seams like they must have been!!

I’ve stayed on 2.5 mg as my side effects are mild and don’t want them to get worse. I also have changed my injection day to a Monday so I can eat more at the weekend as not told anyone!

I find that even 9 weeks in the 2.5 mg gives me good suppression though it wears off by end of week. I want to try and train myself not to snack mindlessly so I’m hoping the small reduction in suppression will help with this.

that said I’m due to order my next pen and undecided whether to go for a 5 mg but use it for smaller doses, 2.5 or 3.75 by counting clicks. That way I’ll get more shots for my £££. I appreciate this is not how it should be used and there is a risk the doses might be less effective as time goes on after the 30 days. I did use the extra dose from the last pen after 38 days and it hadn’t been in the fridge due to a holiday so think I might risk it.

@BamberGirl congratulations on your losses, it's great to be at the next milestone down. The "what pen to order next" dilemma is a real pain, isn't it! I am currently on 5mg but ordered a 7.5mg pen as the next pen which I'm now thinking might have been a mistake. I have had some side effects on the 5mg but some of that might well have been because I ate things on holiday that I probably wouldn't have done at home. In your position, if the 2.5mg is working well for you and you're coping with the tail off of suppression then maybe try sticking with that.

I can't decide if I should take the 7.5mg dose and see how I manage, or count clicks and do a 5mg dose from the 7.5mg pen.

I've decided to stay on 5mg for the foreseeable, I am happy with how it's all going for me.

Weigh-in today, I've lost 1.2kg this week. I'm another kilo away from a 10% loss.

Started 4 July at 106kg
8 weeks later I'm at 97.6kg

About a stone and a half down.

I feel much better in myself, how I look, how clothes are fitting, my general health and fitness. All positive! The losses week by week feel manageable.

My next goal is to get out of the obese bmi category, please and thank you. About 9kg to go. 💪