Hello all! Back to report. (There might be a few bits of tmi).
2nd injection and things are going okay so far. Appetite suppression started immediately after the 1st jab and I was surprised. I wondered if it was psychological but it's persisted although it seemed to wane a bit by the 5th day.
The best thing is that it's calmed my mind and stopped me from constantly fighting the urge to do something, like snacking. Now able to do what I need to do with stronger willpower. I see Mounjaro as my willpower aid, calm mind aid, appetite balancing and blood sugar balancing tool and this helps me to only focus on eating better and eating less, therefore weightloss. Before, i had to do all the others on my own which made it near impossible fighting them everyday. I can drink water regularly now and not feel like i need something to 'taste'. It's calmed my taste buds.
Weighed myself and I think I've lost about 4lbs but I always second guess things even when they're right infront of me so I'll wait for my next weigh to be sure.
I'm afraid to go up to 5mg because while I'd like it to work more, I don't want to get insane side effects. So far, I've been lucky enough. Side effects have been minimal and nothing I can't handle yet. A bit of extra farting at first but has stopped now, feeling colder than usual, a bit of 30 seconds mild nausea that's only happened twice, Persistent but mild headache after exercise, sore injection sites after exercise. These last two have made me fear exercising though and I don't like that. I'm drinking more water and have a bottle by my side all the time.
I usually suffer from constipation as well as diarrhoea so I could say I'm constipated but I don't know which is MJ and which is my normal. Nothing out of the ordinary for me on that. No diarrhoea yet, especially the explosive kind like a lot of people have mentioned and I'm hoping it stays that way, which is one of the reasons I'm afraid to go up to 5mg.
I decided not to exercise today and haven't had the headaches and sore injection sites yet. Feeling some painful cramps and sore muscles today but nothing else.
Some days I've felt hunger pang and I find that drinking more water or a bit of food calms it immediately. I also feel full on a third of what I used to eat so that I spread out my meal and can eat a little and often if I want. Even when I feel hungry, my brain isn't jumping and screaming to eat. I'm not immediately thinking of my fav chocolate or cake and when i do, I'm meh about them. I can take them or leave them which doesn’t happen often. I keep testing myself with thoughts of them to see if it's a fluke and nope, I'm not bothered. The 3 times i ate my chocs, I could only manage a few pieces and I was satisfied unlike before. I put the rest back! Me?! A small bag of caramel choc bites took me 3 days to finish instead of in one sitting, and I had to throw away a few pieces left in the bag because I was tired of eating them and trying to make myself finish the bag!
I haven't had cake since because i just dont feel like it. I put one pack in my shopping basket and before checking out, i took it out because i just knew i won't/can't eat it and would waste it. I was forcing myself to buy it so i didn't.
I don't eat cake often but when i eat cake, I EAT CAKE! It's all or nothing for me. So before MJ, if I was buying cake, I would be struggling with how many packs to buy instead - atleast 2 or more - so i don't run out. Now can't even buy one! Life changing! I hope it continues.
If I'm hungry now, I can quietly make my way to choose what I actually need rather than the most convenient and 'tastiest for my tongue'. I can also just not eat until I'm really hungry instead of thinking I'm not hungry but i want to eat something! I'm now also able to just stop once I'm done as opposed to continuing to eat past the full mark because I don't want to waste it or it's too tasty to stop. I simply can't eat anymore when i hit the mark, even my favourite foods. I've not felt stuffed since, just full and it's a great feeling because I used to be either hungry or peckish or feeling bloated because I've eaten too many snacks or couldn't stop eating because a meal was delicious and I didn't want to throw it away.
Everything feels normal and quietened in my head now and to me this is just awesome before I start thinking of weightloss. I have no doubt I'd lose more weight but I'm trying not to obsess over it and replace my snacking obsession with weight loss obsession. It might set me back if I worry too much about what I've lost and how quickly.
I'm sort of dealing with mounjaro information obsession though and I'm reading everything anywhere. I'm weaning myself off it slowly. Lol
Nice to read everyone's posts and I'm sorry to see that some are struggling. I hope we can all make it 💐