Mounjaro February to April 24 starters - Thread 2

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Thread 2

Link to last thread https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5139634-mounjaro-february-to-april-24-starters?page=1

Hi... really quick question please, I'm sure I've seen it on here but can't find in my scrolling back 😕. I love these threads. I'm not a frequent poster but 6 months in and 3 stone down.... still a way to go though... its going well 😁

Can anyone please help with the new expiry on a 12.5 MJ pen . I need to reorder and don't want one that expires in November.

Brilliant, @Choux! What a great feeling.

I had a moment this morning. I’m seeing a friend in a couple of weeks who I last saw at the end of August and she was exclaiming then at how slim I was and how I mustn’t lose any more. My first thought was that things have really stopped as I’ve gone down to 7.5mg and she would be happy, and then I realised that even so I’ve lost 8-10lbs since then (depending on scales) which is pretty good for six weeks.

Well done @Choux 😊

So many of us reaching these milestones together 😊

I think some pescribers have late 25 expiry! So seems to be better expiries for the 12.5. but unfortunately I am not sure who has what expiry. I think Oushk said they have late Nov expiry. Not sure about others. Depends who you're with, but might be worth emailing before order to find out what the expiry is before ordering.

@Moanranger I'm 5ft 3 and have to be 10st to be bmi25 - and I'll still look dumpy 😒
Being short is shit.

Still have 4lb to go.

Well done @Choux 🎉🎉
Great achievement!

@Choux really well done - Congrats! @PissedOffNeighbour22 Yeah, us shorties should get a handicap or something when it comes to BMI. I dont think I have ever been below 25- oh well....

@PissedOffNeighbour22 @Moanranger
I've never thought about it like this before. I've always been taller than everyone else, all my life, and longed to be short. At 5'9" and genuinely big-boned (as well as fat!), I feel like Shrek when I'm with friends 😅
But I don't envy you having to get to such a low weight, just to hit 25 bmi. Mine was 12st. Working out percentage of start weight lost might help a bit with the mental battle?

Hello all! Infrequent poster but checking in. (And I always feel bad that I barged in with a copycat username of @Choux's - it wasn't intentional, promise!)

I started MJ mid-March and am down just shy of 50lbs.

SW 14st 8lbs
CW 11st 2lbs
GW 10st 5lbs

So I'm almost at the 'end' of my journey, with goal weight in sight. MJ has truly changed my life, although it's not been without its challenges (I've found the physical side effects minimal but the mental ones quite tough - it's really lowered my mood and made me snappy and irritable). I'm still undecided as to what maintenance looks like for me. If it weren't for the mood issues, I'd be signing up to stay on for as long as possible, no questions.

Today I'm wearing a size 12 skirt. My BMI is 23.9. I've been overweight or obese for almost 20 years, so I can't believe I'm typing that!

I did have my first real-life judgey experience last week. I've been very upfront with people who've asked about my weight loss that it's been from the injections. Last week I went to M&S for a bra fitting (my boobs have shrunk - I've gone from a 36GG to a 34F) and the lady measuring me asked why I was in; explained I'd lost weight etc. Eventually told her how I'd done it and she got VERY judgmental about how I was denying her T2 diabetic husband his supply of Ozempic through the NHS. I told her I wasn't on Ozempic and she went a bit quiet. I think I might be less truthful in future 😅

Just came across this in Oushk support group

I'm not tall AND I've never had boobs so I've definitely been feeling a bit envious at what some of you look like at my weight! I'm a size 12 and still fairly solid at 9st 6lbs.

I have never thought about the height thing either. I never thought I was tall and I’m not really, just above average at 5”7. I generally got the “you carry it well” comments. I did as I was in proportion.

My BMI is 20.4 at 9 stone 4. If I was 5 foot that would make me overweight. (Just had to play round with the calculator).

A new week and I need to stop shopping. It’s just too fun being able to buy size 8 jeans. 😅

I want to add my complaint to the short assed crew!
I've reached 9st 10.4 this morning and I'm still bmi 23.3 😤
My original goal was to reach 22.5 only because its half way between 20 and 25 (so will reluctantly agree it's not a scientific goal) but at 5ft 4 it means maintaining at 9st 5 which I don't think it's possible :(((

Snap!

I am 9st 11lb and STILL over 24 BMI.

I'll have to eat like a child to maintain 😂

@NextPrimeMinister yep! I've just worked out that if I was just an inch taller, I would be bmi 22.5 at 9st 9 😤
That is a 4lb difference ffs
<considering extreme lengthening procedures 🤣>

But us taller people had to weigh more to be obese.

The actual weight range between healthy and obese is the same in stones and lbs I guess no matter what height?

So it's not that you've had to lose more to be healthy bmi as your starting point could have been lower.

I'm just looking forward to getting a BMI under 30 at this stage!

I do think tall people can get away with more fat.

I carried it hideously.

We definitely can. I'm 5'10". No one believed me that I was 17.5 stone (BMI of 35). When I'd lost a couple of stone, even the doctors I worked with assumed I was a healthy weight and yet I was still obese.
DH asked the other day how much more I planned to lose. 2 stone. He said surely not? I said well I'm 13.5 stone! Yes, but you're tall he says. Still BMI 27! I'd like to get to a healthy BMI, top of which is 12 stone 5.5lbs. Ideally, BMI 23.5-24 so around 11.5 stone.

Each BMI point is half a stone for me. A dress size is 1.5-2 stone. Downside of being tall is it takes more weight loss to show a difference because it's coming off a bigger surface area.

@RagzRebooted
Yes you're right. I only told my OH that I started out over 15st when I'd lost 3st. He was gobsmacked. I've only dropped 2 dress sizes with a couple of pounds off 4st loss. To be quite honest, I find it hard to pinpoint where over 50lbs has actually gone from!

@KrankyKumquat maybe you had chunky earlobes 😂

I've still got two stone to go before I get in to a healthy bmi, which is bloody miserable to think about, so I'm not! However a good (and lovely) friend of mine at the weekend did that "don't lose much more though" thing to me. Really frustrating, although I know he was only trying to be positive in his own way. I think I've got another couple of months before I can start to think about coming off.

Agh same! I’m 157cm - 5”2 & need to be 9st 6lb to be the very very top end of healthy BMI.

I’m currently 11st 2lb and feel fantastic.

How incredibly unprofessional of her!

I’d have had a word with her manager. (Well, alternative me who does that sort of thing would.)

Actually I’d probably email them about it from a nice safe distance. That was really unacceptable of her.