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Mounjaro August thread 2

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DinnaeFashYersel · 18/08/2024 10:21

Hi here's another thread.

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MargoLivebetter · 20/08/2024 09:56

@CremeDeSudo do you track what you eat?

I am plugging what I eat into the free version of the app MyNetDiary. I'm a gimmer (55), so I'm trying to hit my protein macros. I have two degenerative bone conditions and worry about being crippled in old age, so am trying to avoid any muscle wasting. In order to get in the protein, I have to eat it and so I'm forcing it in, even though I am neither thinking about food, nor do I really want to eat it. Lunch was the biggest struggle yesterday. What I ate actually repulsed me (normal food: skinny bagel with sliced beef, horseradish and lettuce). It tasted disgusting to me, really disgusting. Reminded me of the early stages of pregnancy when all food tasted foul.

Even my coffee today isn't tasting very nice. My first thought was that they'd changed the beans, but I think it is my taste buds, not the beans!

HelloHello321 · 20/08/2024 10:02

CremeDeSudo · 20/08/2024 09:51

I'm either just not hungry, or feeling a bit nauseous. I can eat, but get full quicker, but I'm never hungry!

I was hoping this week I'd have a little bit of an appetite back, but apparently not!

I'm thinking I might set a reminder on my phone to eat, even if it's just a bit of fruit or something small. I'm happy to have no appetite haha, it's such a change! But equally, I don't want to be eating next to nothing.

Have you told anyone about the jab? I'm keeping it quiet, but won't be long until people notice the lack of eating!

CremeDeSudo · 20/08/2024 10:14

MargoLivebetter · 20/08/2024 09:56

@CremeDeSudo do you track what you eat?

I am plugging what I eat into the free version of the app MyNetDiary. I'm a gimmer (55), so I'm trying to hit my protein macros. I have two degenerative bone conditions and worry about being crippled in old age, so am trying to avoid any muscle wasting. In order to get in the protein, I have to eat it and so I'm forcing it in, even though I am neither thinking about food, nor do I really want to eat it. Lunch was the biggest struggle yesterday. What I ate actually repulsed me (normal food: skinny bagel with sliced beef, horseradish and lettuce). It tasted disgusting to me, really disgusting. Reminded me of the early stages of pregnancy when all food tasted foul.

Even my coffee today isn't tasting very nice. My first thought was that they'd changed the beans, but I think it is my taste buds, not the beans!

No I haven't been so far. One of the reasons I've started MJ is because I've logged everything for so long in MFP and I'm thoroughly sick of it and really needed to get away from it. I wanted the freedom to choose the right thing without obsessively logging everything.

I don't want my disordered relationship with food to change from worrying about eating too much and hitting protein, to worrying about eating too little and hitting protein 😆🤦‍♀️😬

MargoLivebetter · 20/08/2024 10:17

Fair enough @CremeDeSudo . I completely get that 😁

CremeDeSudo · 20/08/2024 10:17

HelloHello321 · 20/08/2024 10:02

I'm thinking I might set a reminder on my phone to eat, even if it's just a bit of fruit or something small. I'm happy to have no appetite haha, it's such a change! But equally, I don't want to be eating next to nothing.

Have you told anyone about the jab? I'm keeping it quiet, but won't be long until people notice the lack of eating!

I think it's because I don't fancy anything in the evening then wake up feeling a bit empty and nauseous! Will try and make an effort to have something more for tea tonight I think.

Yes I've told DH, 3 best mates and my Mum! All are being supportive tbf.

I'm probably overthinking. That would be classic me!

PineappleCoconut · 20/08/2024 10:32

My first pen has just arrived

Nervous

Blondeshavemorefun · 20/08/2024 11:18

@Cosycover and @doodles55 I'm the same. I am hungry. Am eating. But def less

But the headaches and nausea and tiredness must mean doing something surely

Day 5 today. Wi Friday and 2nd jab

HelloHello321 · 20/08/2024 11:31

PineappleCoconut · 20/08/2024 10:32

My first pen has just arrived

Nervous

Good luck
I'm only on day 2 after first jab. I was super nervous too, follow the instructions and you can't go wrong. I was hit with the appetite suppression instantly, but others it's seems to take a while.

Let us know how you get on!

PineappleCoconut · 20/08/2024 11:34

I’ve done it
Easier and much less painful than I was expecting
Onwards and downwards

PineappleCoconut · 20/08/2024 11:35

HelloHello321 · 20/08/2024 11:31

Good luck
I'm only on day 2 after first jab. I was super nervous too, follow the instructions and you can't go wrong. I was hit with the appetite suppression instantly, but others it's seems to take a while.

Let us know how you get on!

Instantly?
That’s amazing- I can only hope

good luck to you too

MargoLivebetter · 20/08/2024 11:40

Good luck @PineappleCoconut . It is a bit nerve-wracking and exciting too.

weaseleyes · 20/08/2024 11:49

This is day 5 of week 1 for me. Side effects tolerable so far, though I'm glad I'm wfh and not in the office - for the constant weeing through trying to drink more water, if nothing else! In recent years the only diet that has worked for me is a low carb very restrictive one, so I think I'm probably eating similarly at the moment but without feeling so hungry and carb fluey than I usually would do in week 1 of that diet. I'm hoping this carries on, but will try to eat a little as the days go on.

CheekySwan · 20/08/2024 11:52

NippyCrab · 18/08/2024 21:06

Flip, I better read them again 😬 xx

It's do get rid of any air in there i think, need to do it each time 😀

TheShellBeach · 20/08/2024 13:05

PineappleCoconut · 20/08/2024 10:32

My first pen has just arrived

Nervous

Don't be!
It doesn't hurt and most people have very few side effects on 2.5mg.
Good luck!

lookathatbookcase · 20/08/2024 13:17

Week 3, day 4 - definitely getting more hungry atm, but finding it's the same patterns as the same few weeks where I need to eat slowly, smaller amounts of food fill me up, and eating fatty/fried/carby-heavy food is a terrible idea. It's also the run-up to my period so I wonder if that has an effect?

Either way, have ordered the 5ml pen, eek. However, have also lost nearly half a stone since I started and nearly all of the side effects have vanished so it all seems to be going ok? Keeping up with electrolytes, protein. and lots of water to keep me on the level.

Soberfutures · 20/08/2024 13:42

Has anyone used chemist 4 u? They show price of 130 online. If u have do u get all the needles etc. I know that may sound strange but on the page it has a list of items u need so wasn't sure if they were extra to buy

NeedSomeAnswersPlease · 20/08/2024 14:36

Feeling hungry today. Think it's just mental as I'm convincing myself it's not working (🙄) but I go between feeling hungry and feeling sick, and I had to leave some of my wrap from lunch

CremeDeSudo · 20/08/2024 15:15

NeedSomeAnswersPlease · 20/08/2024 14:36

Feeling hungry today. Think it's just mental as I'm convincing myself it's not working (🙄) but I go between feeling hungry and feeling sick, and I had to leave some of my wrap from lunch

This was me the day before my 2nd jab last week. Today is the before my 3rd and I don't feel like that at all!

NeedSomeAnswersPlease · 20/08/2024 15:17

@CremeDeSudo I did my second jab last night:( no real food noise so it's bearable but still

cosylife · 20/08/2024 15:29

Week 1 day 3 here and I’m loving it so far. Did the jab Saturday night but not counting that as a day - or should I?

My main side effect that was unwanted was a
metallic taste but that’s passed now or seems to pass once I’ve guzzled water so I wonder if it’s linked to thirst?

I need to stop weighing daily as well but I get so excited 😂 food noise is less than ever and my suppression is increasing everyday.

cakewench · 20/08/2024 16:09

I've been lurking for quite a while but thought I should say hi! I finally started MJ last week on Wednesday. I have been fortunate to have responded immediately in terms of hunger suppression which is wonderful.

However the thing I am over the moon about is the silencing of my anxiety! I have had a really tough summer (aging parents, funerals) and have been spiraling in a way I never have before. I'd come back from visiting my parents having decided to go to the GP for something, anything which would get all of the noise in my head to calm down.

But before I did that, I decided to try MJ after having put on a few kilos the few weeks I was away. It was the trigger I needed. I've spent my entire life overweight or obese to some degree, I'm at a 33BMI at the moment and at a time when everything was feeling just too much, I couldn't face mediocre results again if there was a way to try to do it better. I'm 47, cholesterol is up, BP is creeping up. Thankfully not diabetic but blood sugars aren't exactly low, either!

Within an hour of taking the first does I felt very different, but definitely within hours I noticed my brain was just.. fine. And I wasn't stressing over anything. I didn't put the two together because I was marveling over the lack of appetite, but over the next two days I realised I wasn't getting irritated by anything, I wasn't doom spiraling over every little thing, or imagining the worst case scenario etc.

I am now officially terrified of getting off of this!!

Anyway thanks for listening to my tale. And thank you to everyone posting their stories and different facts they're learned. I've read and learned so much.

WorriedRelative · 20/08/2024 17:22

Took my third dose of 2.5 yesterday afternoon and have felt a bit sick today. Not unbearable though.

weaseleyes · 20/08/2024 17:24

That sounds very encouraging, @cakewench!

diian · 20/08/2024 17:26

That is a great NSV (Non-scale victory) @cakewench. This medicine is truly life changing. I hope you get a good weight-loss too but having a calmer mind and being less anxious is fantastic.

My NSV last week was noticing that when I sneeze I no longer piss myself! Apparently when you lose weight from your middle there is less pressure on your organs and it can affect your (in)continence. I am sneezing without a worry in the world now!!

Cosycover · 20/08/2024 17:31

cosylife · 20/08/2024 15:29

Week 1 day 3 here and I’m loving it so far. Did the jab Saturday night but not counting that as a day - or should I?

My main side effect that was unwanted was a
metallic taste but that’s passed now or seems to pass once I’ve guzzled water so I wonder if it’s linked to thirst?

I need to stop weighing daily as well but I get so excited 😂 food noise is less than ever and my suppression is increasing everyday.

This is encouraging.

Because my husband just ate a pizza and I very much wanted it.

Took my jab yesterday morning so not sure if I count today as day 2 or 1.

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