Mounjaro February to April 24 starters

[ObsidianTree]

Hi all,

Thought I would start a thread for those that started quite early on and would like a space to chat with others that started around the same time. Like the threads that are dedicated to those starting in May, June, July etc thought it would be nice to have a space for people have have been on for similar amount of time.

Thanks for the notification, @ObsidianTree.

I started 2nd March solely because of finding the first thread and I'm so very grateful.

I'm losing slowly but steadily and even on weeks where I don't lose anything I still feel so positive. It's better than any anti depressant for me! I started with a BMI of 46.9 and can't imagine ever actually reaching a healthy BMI and although only 32lb down, which is slow in comparison to others, this is the only thing that has ever worked for more than a few months. I'm in it for the long haul and grateful for the support from these threads.

Hello ladies. Thank you for the invite over obsidian, much appreciated :)

So I had to come off as I’d missed two weeks with slow very issues and then they wanted me to restart at 2.5 and I didn’t want to plus I’d a holiday to go on and the funds were just not available for me. I get married early next year.

Id gotten down to 14st6lbs and sadly I’m now up at 15st6. Really frustrated at that. I’ve reassessed my budget and have joined a gym with an outdoor pool to try and force me to swim as it’s the only exercise I manage due to disabilities sadly. I have a raging hunger and I binge eat, literally sat on a car ride just now and after dinner I’ve eaten a full sharing bag of chocolate buttons.

So my plan is to restart and treat this as a new start again, my wedding dress has arrived in store and I’m scared it won’t fit! Realistically it should be fine as it was ordered in March.

Just need to choose a new provider, any recommendations for best prices currently?

@ObsidianTree thanks so much for setting up this group! I started back in early March. I’m 5 ft 3 and was 13 stone 6. I’m now around 11 stone 2. I’d like to lose more weight and get to a healthy BMI but equally I can’t believe I’m this size. It’s the lowest I’ve been in years.

I have tried to stretch out my doses because of the expense. I’ve just started on 10mg and the first 2 days have been awful for tiredness and nausea. It’s like being pregnant! I actually ordered 7.5mg and Pharmacy2u sent me the wrong dose. I think I’ll try and go back down to 7.5mg though.

Only my husband knows I’m on MJ. I do feel a bit awkward when people ask about how I’ve lost weight. I tend to quickly mutter something about not snacking then try to move the conversation on.

This is a great idea, @ObsidianTree. Thanks for the PM!

I find it hard to contribute much in the big thread and it made me so nostalgic reading that first thread earlier.

This is my place mark as it were and I will be back tomorrow. Probably with a nice dose of self-psycho analysis as I am prone to do. 😂 I don’t think any newbies need or want to hear that. I remember how excited I was to even lose my first pound on MJ. Now I’m here 4 stone lighter thinking a million things and I can’t do endless positivity of yay I lost a lot of weight. Yep just thinner…

Sleep well all.

Thanks all. Reading everyone’s experiences with interest! Congratulations on everyone’s losses!

weirdly the very slow losses do not bother me hugely, I don’t really keep track as much- I hop on every few days and sort of just accept what is and keep trucking on but now the food noise is back- although I suspect not as bad as it used to be, reading pp talk about how it came back with a vengeance once she came off mj and hadn’t realised how much it had been suppressed before has shaken me a bit. I fear I may also have forgotten just how bad it all was, it’s been an immense privilege to finally live life in peace.

but I would like to see it pick up now. I’m 2lbs or so from the next stone bracket so the dancing around it is beginning to grate.

I too am at a weight that I’ve been before and need to smash through this blockage. I wish to finally be free of this and be at the weight I need to be at last. That has felt like it’s slipping away somewhat.

Thanks 😆 I discovered Lucy and task last year and went a bit ott - bought about 18 dungarees the ragans didn't look great to begin with. I've had to sell them all on vinted now but have slightly made a profit. Won't replacing too much until I've settled and got to where I'm happy.

I should have said the outfits were two sizes apart- not sure if that was obvious 😂

Thanks so much for this thread @Obsidian
I am an original, l started 13 st9 about 20 weeks ago and am now 10st11.
Coming off really slowly now but still coming off.
Recent NSV , can hang more washing on the line now my clothes are smaller.
Am also enjoying seeing my reflection in windows.

Although I am the same weight I was 15 years ago, my shape isn't as nice. Bloody menopause belly and thighs

Am about to order my first 10 pen

Hi everyone- thanks for the thread @ObsidianTree.

I started at the end of February and got on pretty well as far as side effects and suppression went. Weight loss wasn’t as fast as some but was happening and I lost around 10kg in 4 months and my BMI dropped below 30.

I got up to 10mg and then my theory is that I had a dodgy pen (this was my second 10mg pen) and suddenly developed awful side effects. I halved the dose for the second week on that pen but it was the same.

I was just about to go away so had around a three week break. No meds and holiday food and I gained about 4kg in that time.

I had to restart on 2.5mg as I had had more than 2 weeks off and my BMI had to be over 30 again in order to be approved (which it was). Back to being patient on the low doses as I build up.

Thank you @ObsidianTree for the heads up about this thread!

It was reading the first thread that motivated me to start mounjaro, and I'll be forever grateful! I have a lot to lose, but I took my first mounjaro injection at the end of March and I'm now 40lbs down. Not the fastest loser, but losing about 2lbs per week on average. I've gone from a size 22-24 to a very safe size 18.

I think it was @EsotericMnemonic asking about side effects? I am on 10mg and get pretty bad nausea and fatigue the first 2-3 days after injecting. I've started taking cyclizine for the nausea on those days, which helps a lot. The tiredness is something else though! I'm not moving up to the next dose until the side effects calm down.

I've just been sorting through some clothes ahead of going away for a few days. When I started MJ I was squeezing myself into my well worn size 16 jeans (had to lie down on the bed to do so) and a new pair I bought would not button at all. All my size 16's now need a belt! I've just bought a pair of size 14s and I can do them up! Also found some tops that now fit. I need to have a big wardrobe resort and get rid of quite a few items - I'll see what I can sell and send the rest to the charity shop.

It's definitely obvious that the 'after' pictures are 2+ sizes down 🙂

I discovered L&Y in March a couple of weeks before I started MJ and, like you, I went bonkers buying a shit load of dungarees! Then I went to the imperfects sale here in London and fell in love with Ragans. I was a large 14 on the cusp of being a 16 at the time and had to buy size 18's, having no idea that the general consensus with Ragans is to buy 1 if not 2 sizes up.

I've been on a re-sell and re-buy mission since then getting everything in a smaller size. Have you seen the new Alexa's that are being released on Thursday? They're utterly mad but utterly gorgeous and I will be buying them 😄

Can't get this on my watch list, so I am posting instead. Had a brilliant weekend away and delayed my injection, so not expecting great things this week.

Thanks for the message. I'd stopped following the other thread as more and more new starters joined and it became rather repetitive. It's nice to check in again.
I stopped taking MJ about 6 weeks ago after losing 3 stone and reaching my pre baby target of 10.3.
By the time I'd reached 11.7 people were commenting on how much I'd lost. I work in a community that thinks noting of commenting on weight 🙈 it was rather embarrassing. My friends would never comment.
I'm a teacher so currently on holiday and it's been a little tricky to keep up with the good diet but after a week away camping I've only fluctuated by a lb or 2. It's been this way since I stopped and I think this is entirely normal.
Still being mindful about snacking and although I often want to I usually stop myself.

It's been interesting trying to find clothes that I like after wearing the same for years! I also have to keep reminding myself that my body is slim and normal and the bits that are round/chunky are ok and at least I'm so much less than before. It's been challenging as I've always thought I was fat even at 8 stone when I was a teenager.

It's good to hear maintenance is going ok for you @Pigriver, even if tricky at times.

@Pigriver I'm chuckling at your 'community' being transparent with people about weight! I do the same job and work in a setting with children with challenging behaviour. One child used to say 'f... off you fat c.nt.' Back in May, when I'd hit 11.5 she said 'actually you're not a fat c..t any more, you're just a c..t.' I nearly hugged her.

@izzy2076 omg that is the nicest put down ever!
I had a meeting with parents and on the way out the dad mentioned how much weight I'd lost (I was also wearing a very baggy hoodie) and I didn't know what to do with myself 😳 hopefully his wife told him off once they got outside!
The constant quizzing about 'how have you done it?' is a bit wearing. I tend to just say 'oh nothing fun! Just not eating cakes anymore' which always feels a bit disingenuous but 🤷.

Now I have people saying 'don't lose anymore/you're so tiny' to which I remind them that this was the weight I was nearly all of my adult life and the 10 years I worked there before having kids. I'm not tiny. I'm normal.

Thanks for the link @ObsidianTree - I didn't realise it has been so long since we started. Almost 6 months!

I started in February at 15st 11lb and I'm now 11st. Almost 5st off and I'm still fat 🫣.

Some good milestones - I've lost all my pregnancy weight, I'm thinner than my DP has ever seen me, lighter than I've been for around 8yrs (but that was a short lived weight), lost more than the combined weight of both my kids, have dropped from a size 20/22 to 12/14 and dropped from bmi 40 to 27. The last time I was consistently this weight was 2012.

I'd love to weigh less than my DP but I do like the size I am now. It feels like 'me' if you know what I mean. I still have an apron overhang and bingo wings - both of which make that awful flab-clapping sound if I move too fast 🫢. My boobs are knackered too which I'm sad about.

My aim is to not go above 10mg, then reduce to a 7.5mg pen I have in the fridge, go down to 5mg (from 10mg pens) and then see how I go. I don't want to be on MJ forever as I don't want the cost hanging over me when I have nursery fees and wrap around care to pay for many years to come.

Reading about the weight gains has me worried though. I don't think I've been as successful as others on here at changing my lifestyle. Once the hunger comes back with force I don't know how I'll cope.

Well done to everyone on this thread, there's been some amazing outcomes and lots of you are at target already which is amazing. Good luck to everyone when we hit maintenance and fingers crossed we can beat the flab for good.

Briefly, an NSV - I now have ankles!😁

That's def a compliment !!

@PissedOffNeighbour22 that is my worry too. I have not got into exercise or anything. I mean, I bought new trainers and downloaded couch to 5k. But that’s as far as I got…

I have loved buying clothes I already loved in smaller sizes. It’s daft things like cargoes from ASOS.

I know I need to exercise. But… I am ashamed. Ashamed at how loose my arms are. Bla bla. But sitting here typing won’t change that. :(

@FlappyFish who even has the time to exercise? 😄
I work away often, do long hours and my DP has 5 jobs so all my 'spare' time is looking after the kids and swapping over care from me to DP.

I'm managing the occasional go on the air walker but I'm so slow that it can easily take me an hour to burn off 300 calories. I don't really have an hour spare - only how long it takes DP to cook for the kids before he goes on a night shift.

I've also bought lots of my previous clothes in smaller sizes. I'm a clothes hoarder though so I'd hoped to avoid doing it as I'm supposed to be clearing stuff out!

Apart from the exercise I really needed to have sorted out healthier eating, but I just can't get there. At the end of the day, I just don't like healthy food and the fact it isn't filling. I'm not sure how I'm ever going to fix that.

I have lots of unhealthy habits that id hoped to kick. I do remember us all chatting on the other thread about losing interest in clothes shopping - well that was another side effect that soon disappeared 😂

What do you mean by healthy food isn't filling @PissedOffNeighbour22? Genuine question as I'm wondering if we can help give you some ideas of how to make it filling.

@KeepingUndercover I can't bear salad or most veg, not keen on fruit (waste of calories) and I don't have a wide range of things I'm willing to eat, along with some food intolerances and allergies.

There's been a bit of talk on the usual threads of recipes and food suggestions over the past 6 months and I haven't seen a single thing I'd eat. It just all sounds vile to me 🫢

I like carbs and it seems a lot of people are avoiding them from what I've read on the threads. I don't have any issues with getting enough protein as I'm a meat eater.

Ah that is tough then. But carbs aren't actually evil, I reckon you can still have a healthy diet with carbs, protein and whatever veg you can tolerate. Maybe it takes more tracking of calories, the benefit of veg a lot of the time is it adds bulk so you can feel like you're eating a lot but your calorie load is low. Tracking is dull though, that's always the bit I struggle with.