Mounjaro August thread 3

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Almost at 1000. We are a chatty bunch but nice to have each others support

I joined a Facebook group (well a couple of them but some were awful so left) and thinking of leaving this one too. Sooo much fear mongering, people acting like experts giving out advice when they’re not qualified to in relation to dosages and how long to stay on them for. I think I’ll stick to MN and Instagram!

I am a bit concerned that I’ve purchased a 5mg pen (have one more 2.5mg jab left due on Sat) but I’m feeling fine and great suppression on 2.5. Maybe I should have stayed on the 2.5 longer? But then again I’ve read that people stayed on it longer then regretted it on week 6/7 🤷‍♀️

Requested my 5mg pen but feeling very deflated. I'm already up 2lbs, I'm going to guess it's because I've had more carbs etc but I've been in a deficit, admittedly I've been eating 1600 calories instead of 1200, but at my weight that should be fine; surely??

Apparently, not already 🤦🏼‍♀️

I'm in the same position. But I think it's just because I'm a bit scared to move up to 5. I joined a Facebook group and very quickly left as well. Awful!!

I’m now exactly two weeks in. I’ve had no side effects at all, my appetite is definitely smaller, I feel full very quickly.

I haven’t lost much weight on the second week, but at almost half a stone lost in two weeks I can’t really complain.

SW 16st 4lb
CW 15st 11lb

I am struggling with fatigue, and my go to when working was a can of Monster Energy. I had one yesterday then was horrified with myself when I saw what the calories were. I need to find a replacement. I suffer with CFS so the MJ fatigue on top is getting to me a bit

Week 1: -7
Week 2: -5
Total: -12lb

Utterly delighted ✨🤩

You may just have to accept that you are someone who's weightloss is not linear and fluctuates quite a bit. It may be best to weigh every week or even every fortnight.

@MissFancyDay I'm pretty sure it's because I ate more processed carbs than usual yesterday but it's so tough because this is the point in weight loss where I'd turn round and say "nope, I'm done, it's not working", so trying to beat that mindset will be an interesting challenge!

I eat processed carbs rarely and weigh daily and they cause an immediate (water) gain for me. If i then have a day of protein and salad and drink lots of water to flush the carbs out the weight goes in 24 or 48 hours.

@Choux don't think it helps I've not used the toilet properly still either, it's just frustrating

@NeedSomeAnswersPlease I think weighing daily for you isn't a good idea

Weight does go up and down

If I had weighed after my cashew nut and malteaser incident sure I wouid have put on 3/4lbs

I may still weigh heavier Fri but it's a learning curve

Obv if I hadn't eaten the whole box .......... and limited myself to maybe 10 like a treat bag but I didn't

Sits on naughty step

Hence why I will go up on 5 on Fri

@NeedSomeAnswersPlease agree with the above / - daily weighing is not helpful at all to the psychology. Also didn’t you have a large loss in week one so presumably over the period it’s still averaged positively ?

Definitely done weighing everyday, I really think I need to start 5mg though as the 2.5 has worn off which I'm very surprised by considering how I felt the first week! It's such a learning curve

@cosylife it is hard to know! I think I’ll go up to 3.75 and see how it goes. I’m only on my 3rd hab tomorrow so have time to decide.

Hanging head in shame here too. A handful of peanuts on Monday and 3 chia cakes with peanut butter last night. I had a really good nights sleep though finally.
My weight rose by 1kg and I feel a bit despairing. Yes I ate that but my overall calorie intake was fine. Do I have to avoid simple carbs for dinner entirely? I’ve since dropped that kg but it means my total loss is just 2kg.

Wonderful your doing amazing 🤩

If we're going with food confessions, yesterday I had a couple of chocolates out of a box, 2 bags of crisps and then two slices of toast with butter and marmite. It's a fraction of what I would have had before Mounjaro, so I'm looking at it as a win!

I just lost my mind with the snacks at work - caramel tart, Viennese whirl and a mini roll! Definitely less than I would've had though

I know it’s very easy to get obsessive but honestly agonising over daily fluctuations and feeling shame about eating are not going to help anyone. I do it too - but these kind of negative ‘diet head’ behaviours are exactly why we ended up needing mounjaro in the first place!

Severe restriction and then thinking ‘sod it it’s not working’ because I’d cracked and eaten something not on the plan, or because of a normal weight fluctuation, was such an established pattern for me - I’d then go and finish the packet of biscuits or tub of ice cream because the day was a ‘write off’ anyway, might as well get it all in before starting again tomorrow/ after the weekend/ definitely before Christmas etc etc. I’m seeing mounjaro as my chance to fix this mindset. I’m trying to hard to just trust the process - I didn’t become obese overnight and I’m not going to lose it overnight either. It was amazing when the mounjaro just turned off every thought about food or desire to eat - but it doesn’t seem to work like that 100% of the time for me so in the in between times I see it as practicing living healthily but normally with just that extra bit of help.

In your real, post-mounjaro life you’re going to eat processed carbs or some chocolate occasionally unless you really do get the keto evangelical bug which admittedly some people do - it’s just not going to be me! But if you look at your intake over the whole week, it’s hopefully going to be so much better than it was previously. That’s enough for me.

Having said that - I feel horrendous today. First instance of the sulphur burps that people talk about, shaky and sick. Not sure if it’s to do with the class last night, or my last injection took a couple of days to kick in with the side effects! I’ve had an electrolyte drink and just sipping a mint tea, but not been able to think about food yet.

@AuntieDote another exceptionally wise post thank you. And so many points I agree with. Black and white thinking (good food versus bad food, on plan versus off plan) are all actually disordered thinking and behaviour. Trying for perfection is absolutely the road to ruin.

In my head now I’m just getting on with life. I’m not on a diet, I’m just choosing more wisely. It’s a wholesale change from previous attempts where I felt SO virtuous as I deprived myself constantly then SO despairing when I inevitably caved and binged.

Be kind to yourselves.

Well said @AuntieDote . When I am starting to be filled with self-loathing for any slip up, I try and remind myself that it took YEARS to gain the fat and I cannot expect to lose it in weeks.

Arghhh I'm so cross with MedExpress. Ordered my 5mg pen beginning of last week and they've only just dispatched it, I was supposed to take my dose on Monday so it's going to be 4 days late if gets here tomorrow! Has anyone had a gap like that? Will it be ok?

Also I'm a week late for my period has anyone else had a messed up cycle on MJ?

I think that gap is ok, though annoying! @TinaTotal

I don’t see it as black and white thinking. Taking Mounjaro gives the space to think think things through. We are all, I’m assuming, thinking a long game.

The way that MJ has acted - even partially - on food noise and appetite has been very reassuring for me because it says to me that there was something physiologically off with how my body was responding to and wanting food, it wasn't just me being mad and weak. That said, it's obviously not just physiological, as this is underpinned by years-long habits, behaviours and associations. I don't think any of us can expect that to be fixed for us in a month!

I think that impulse to say it isn't working after eating off plan and seeing a tiny blip on the scales isn't just a learned (and misguided) behaviour, it's also an active attempt to give ourselves the excuse to stop trying so we can eat crap. So we need to recognise it for what it is. I used to be a heavy smoker and finally gave up just over 20 years ago. In all my earlier failed attempts, it wasn't that my willpower weakened (though it did), it was that I convinced myself that I didn't want to give up anyway and there was no point doing so - in the face of all the evidence this wasn't true! I think our brains try to trick us in any way they can into going back to patterns of behaviour they're familiar with through constant repetition.

They did say it may take 2/4 days to dispatch

Hence when they say you can order at 2w it's worth it so have the pen when need it