MJ August starters #5

[Wingingit11]

Welcome, August starters ! Can’t believe we are on thread 5🫣

I will also say that I am terrified of the happens when I get to my goal weight. So I'm watching lots of videos on maintenance and trying to do as much research as I can. I'm still 19lb away from that though, so I have no idea why I'm concerning myself with it so much 😂😂

@Glittermoonlight thank you, I think I expected to turn into Cindy Crawford overnight! I've just started 5mg, was on 2.5 for first 4 weeks

I'm at least 3 stone away and also worried! I think I'm just going to give myself something like a 7lb max margin to allow for fluctuation and vow to take action if I get to that marker.

😂think we’re all the same!! Then we have to remind ourselves that the reality is it might/will take months to get down to a healthy weight. But every week if we slowly chip away at our weight it will go down. Plus we’re all still very early on in the MJ process, early days. For inspiration I’ve been reading the first threads that started in March & seeing where they are now.

Yes, that's a good idea, I might had a read

I’ve just done my (god how many is it ?! About 10th?!) jab and have gone for 6.25 rather than going straight to 7.5 in the end . Worked well doing a mid jump to 5 and I’m too much of a coward to go straight to 7.5😅

Yes, me too. I'm very much a savoury snacker. I've opened the occasional bag of crisps and had a couple of bites, and genuinely haven't wanted to finish it.

This is why this medication seems like magic to me. Before I would just plough on if I had served myself something, regardless of whether I was full or even enjoying it.

Now I just bin it without even thinking twice, it's a complete mindset change, and I'm hoping that in a year, it will be second nature.

After all habits are only things that you do over and over again, so I don't see any reason why we would not all form new habits. I've got about 9 months to a year to be forming mine 😄

Get a little cold bag with a couple of ice packs and keep it in your bedroom.

Salad drawer works in this house! (bit like under the sink with the cleaning stuff for anything else I ever need to hide 😆 )

I think I am going to do the same next week. I did 3.75 into 5mg as I wasn't brave! So will try 6.25 next week.

Weasel, this is the path I’m also going to take going forward. In fact I’ve started it even now and without a doubt this is the best thing I’ve ever done for myself.

When I was coming home from my travels the other day I ate in the airport before boarding my flight. Now usually I’ll then sit and have dinner again on the plane because the food is so good but this time I refused dinner, then I felt nauseated at the look of champagne being served after my awful experience with a glass of wine recently so I didn’t have any, and I then slept through breakfast and just had a cup of coffee before we landed.

Im so proud of myself. I told myself you’re going on board. You’ve eaten. You’re not hungry and you don’t have to eat again till your home tomorrow morning. And that’s what I did. I fasted for about 12 hours which was the equivalent of having dinner at home, going to bed a few hours later and having my breakfast in the morning.

I never forget to eat or miss a meal. I’m getting through 1400 calories a day and nothing is processed (but nothing processed is normal for me) and I’m eating from smaller sized plates. I had a really nice roast lamb dinner today on a decent sized side plate and my Christmas Day dinner will be a turkey dinner on a side plate. I’m not going down the ‘but it’s Christmas’ route because there really is no free lunch.

@weaseleyes @Pinkjenny @AnnieMcFanny Yup, I've been thinking about what 'normal' means. One of the reasons I'm sticking to 3.75mg for another pen is that, actually, I do have some hunger on it (as well as suppression) and it's important for me to learn how hunger feels and that I don't need to meet it with a large slice of cake or 3. I'm still on 3 good meals a day, I'm just working to learn how to...feel that feeling differently. I have a lot of sympathy for my friends who have worked through alcohol problems and talk about that overwhelming urge to drink, and how much resilience it takes to not drink in the face of it (tho I know it's different with food).

On a different note, I've seen a bunch of folks I hadn't hung out with in a while over the past few days, and they all said 'You look so well!'. No idea whether they'd clocked it was from weight loss or just vibes, but either way :) Also god knows I would be very unlikely to comment on someone's big weight loss in case it was for medical reasons etc.

@MissFancyDay Yes, continuing to eat something even if I wasn't enjoying it was certainly one of my habits. I think a childhood of having to eat everything on my plate and my distaste for food waste result in me finishing something rather than throwing it in the bin. Someone I knew on another diet forum used the phrase "I am not the dustbin" to remind themselves that they didn't have to finish everything including the leftovers on their kids plates

Hey,

Thought I'd join you all on here.. I started back on 23rd August and have been tootling along since. I've lost 10.7kg/23lb so far.

I'm currently on 5mg and have two doses left. I thought I'd order the next pen up (7.5mg). However now I'm wondering whether I should have stuck to 5.

I'll still use the 7.5mg but reduce the clicks instead.

Would you then throw the pen after 30 days- or has anyone else used the pen after that time period? And if so have you noticed any difference?

Thanks

Hey @Fuffedoff . Great username. I’ve manipulated my last 5 mg pen and basically worked out how much in the pen (about 310 clicks but it’s locked to 240) then divided over five dose (to be within the 30 days pen life). Presumably you might work up over time?
you could shorten the period between doses
But yes possibly might end up losing a bit

I think I've seen some people sometimes buy the higher strength pen but use smaller doses.

I was hoping this would be my last pen before I leave my Mounjaro Journey to TTC

@Manypaws seen the dosage. Sounds normal. But you will prob lose more on a higher dose

@cosylife well done on loss

I use insulin pens

@Wingingit11 Honestly 7.5 is fine

No I don't get excited or scared or anything. I just jab. I'm
Boring obviously

Welcome @Fuffedoff

Tbh pen is used in 30 days so never had that issue

NSV - saw a relative I haven't seen for maybe 2mths or so and he said hello blondes. are you ok ?

I said yes why. He said. You've lost weight

I said yes I have. 2 stone or so and he was wow. Well done

It's a nice feeling

That's the second person who has said to me

Think as see the same people daily /weekly so they don't really notice the loss

It's people I don't see for a while - which is rare - but did give me a big boost !!!

Hi all. I've been trying to keep up with the threads although I haven't posted since my first weigh in. I'm now on week 3 of 5mg. 25lb down so far and I'm over the moon with that but still have a very long way to go.
Has anyone noticed other people struggling to accept that you're different to how you used to be?
My colleagues are still offering me cake and biscuits. They know I'm on mounjaro and seem to see it as a challenge to get me to go back to my old ways. If there was cake in the office I wouldn't concentrate until I'd had a piece and lunchtime was my favourite time of day 😋
My partner admitted he missed the 'old' me because if I was eating crap then he would too.
I don't keep mounjaro a secret, I'm diabetic. My blood sugars are much more controlled now and I feel better than I have in years.
It's always been me self sabotaging in the past. Not this time. I'm a new woman 😁 I just wish others would accept it too!

My husband and my closest friends are being a bit funny about it. People are weird about weight, aren't they?

My mother on the other hand is behaving like I've won the Nobel Peace prize.

I don’t like it when people I am not close to feel free to comment on my appearance. It’s none of their business. I also think lots of people are threatened by other people’s success and try to sabotage to prove something to themselves. Ignore them and crack on - you do you

@Fuffedoff I’m wondering about the 30 days too. I’ve got a 5mg at the moment but it has been too strong, so I’m going to drop my dosage down to 2.5mg, but this will mean either throwing away a few weeks worth of medication, or going over the 30 days. Does anyone know if it’s safe? I know it might be a bit less effective, (which I would put up with on this occasion), but obviously don’t want to do it if it unsafe.

@BigBagOfElbows my office friends have been great, we’re all eating less cake at the moment (turns out I was the bad influence!), but DP has not got his head round my smaller portions yet. He still buys too much and dishes up too much. Hoping he’ll take the hint eventually.

I’m starting to feel better after my rubbish week. Jab was due Thursday, but haven’t had it yet and still have low appetite. I am managing to eat little meals again now though, and energy levels are gradually improving. I’m out tomorrow so think I’ll jab Monday if all is well.

So great to read about everyone’s journeys. It feels like a great support, especially as no one in real life knows I’m using MJ. Actually, at one point this week when I had my head in the loo, feeling especially awful and contemplating giving up altogether, I felt a bit sad, and that I would miss this group. So, thank you everyone for posting, and keeping me company.

Oh that’s rubbish ☹️ @Alwayshockey

@itwasnevermine I know! I can’t have a snack because then I don’t feel like having a proper meal.

@Ithinkimrincewind yes, I think about life after MJ often and have read the threads and research about it. It’s always doom and gloom. I will come off when I’ve reached my goal weight. I feel quite uneasy about all the packaging too. All the jettisoned pens 😬 I plan to keep it in check with 5,2 or 4.3 when I need to. In reality we’ll have our blood sugar in check through the weight loss. A few of us will be diabetic, proven by MJ and I hope we get the medical treatment we need. Controlling the head will be the hardest but I hope being slim will be enough motivation. I also relate to @AnnieMcFanny point about not being normal so consider myself a work
in progress.

I’ve been sitting on this comment
for hours so have missed out loads, sorry.

I had my 4mg jab last night and this morning out and about I was really hungry and panicked snd had a 1mg top up in the thigh. I had previously been injecting myself only in the stomach but read that you should vary limbs and areas to spread drug better. Oops.

@FlappingMadly My plan is to come back down through the doses I think, hopefully landing on a smaller dose that keeps me at a stable weight.

Who knows? One thing I do know though, is I'm not doing this again. Ever.

My exercise has completely dropped off since the first couple of weeks. I need to get back into that this week as otherwise I'm not maintaining any healthy habits other than barely eating much!

@ChunkyMunky re: the thirty days... I kind of think it's a bit like best before dates. If they've tested it for 30 days and it is A+fine then 31 days is highly unlikely to be a dramatic difference. Personally I'd take it at 31, 32, 33 days as long as the liquid remained clear and that all hygeine/sterile proceedures had been followed. I'd maybe store it in the fridge.

A 10% tolerance would feel OK for me. But getting to 40 days. Woah! That's 33% beyond what is recommended.