Mounjaro / Wegovy with > 5st / 30kg to lose: Thread 3

[VelociraptorsVelociRapping]

Thread 3!

Anyone using weight-loss injections to lose more than 5 stone / 30 kg is very welcome to come and chat in this supportive space.

Yes @ShiftAMountain I've thought that might offset it a bit! Tbh the investment in my health has got to be worth it I think.

Absolutely! Health IS wealth.

Hi everyone, I have just ordered my first pen. I cannot stick to diets and as I get older I'm getting bigger and bigger, and worrying about my health as well as looking enormous. I have about 7 stone to lose. The cost will be a problem but as I'll be eating so much less, that must help! Excited (and nervous) to start.

I've lost about 3 stone since May with about the same to lose again. Slow but steady losses which I think is down to being 57 and female. Just starting my second 10mg pen. I'm concerned that there's not too far to titrate but still a significant amount of weight to go. I have good suppression and very few side effects.

My husband is taking part in a (free!) NHS trial for oral GLP1s and his progress is phenomenal which gives me great hope for the future of this medication.

Probably because I also have ME and my temperature regulation is shocking at the best of times but since starting MJ I have been absolutely freeeeeeeezing. As in heating on 22 degrees, wrapped in a duvet, thick woolly socks kind of cold.

Thankfully I don't have any calls today because heaven knows what anyone else would think.

welcome new starters and those considering it!

its worth it for me, even though I am still considered a slow responder. My best guess (because i’m not 100% sure of my exact start weight) is around 1st loss in 7.5 weeks. I have at least 5 stone to go, still.

its helped my food noise enormously, and i have 2/3 of the week where its easy to manage my deficit, and then i get the rest to use will power - which i think is important!! I have also had significant benefits for my digestive issues (i have no gallbladder), my pcos and what i suspect might be adhd (but undiagnosed!). I don’t have general food revulsion - although some foods just no longer appeal now.

cost wise - i’m using asda so not the cheapest but i have had a great experience with them. Its definitely saved me money - i do my food shop and thats pretty much it.

i think its saved money overall though - sure its linked to the ‘food noise’ and my maybe adhd - i dont have any appetite to shop for new clothes, even though i need some! And oddly, things like christmas shopping - which i normally love doing, i cannot be bothered 😂😂😂

@FIFIBEBE congrats on your loss and ooohhhh to the oral GLP1. Can you tell us anything more?

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Hi all! Place marking 😁

Question for those with say 10plbs to lose is there any issue with loose skin?

Thanks for setting up the new thread @VelociraptorsVelociRapping!

I was enjoying reading your discussion on the previous thread about the emotions and values we place on food, @RobinEllacotStrikeand @IReallyNeedThisToWork. We went away for my Mum’s 80th birthday this week and our family culture around food was very much on display - food and love are intertwined for us, and so there’s emotional heft in what I eat or refuse. I am grateful that two months into using MJ I’m able to cook and share beautiful, healthy, nourishing food and eat small but satisfying portions - and still continue with my small but steady losses.

I weighed in this morning at 99.9kg and I’m so thrilled - last time I recorded under a hundred was before April 2022. I will bask in this happiness to see the numbers going down - this is a result that working very hard on my own did not deliver, so it makes me so grateful for this medication and the opportunity to regain my mobility, my health, my confidence.

Just checking in as it’s been a while. I started the end of May and I’m currently down almost 16kg. I’m so close to being under 100kg now. So so close. My weight loss was around 2”b a week for the first few months but has slowed down to about 1lb the last few weeks. There was the odd week I lost nothing. I’m on 10mg and it’s kicking my ass the first half of the week with nausea but food noise creeps back in the last couple of days. Overall I’m eating probably less than I should and I’m finding it hard to get that right. Exercising well again, which I hope will help.

I’d like to get down to around 79kg.

Hello! Please may I join this thread?
I have 50kg/nearly 8 stones to lose. I received my first Mounjaro today but haven't used it yet.

Since having my wonderful little toddler, I've really struggled with my weight, getting active and eating well. I have always LOVED food, I always think about food. I am really hoping to instill these lifestyle changes forever. I want DC to have a healthy and happy role model in her life and I took would love to feel happy about how I look too.

Hi
Thank you, it's quite frustrating because although I think I look different, all my clothes are too big and I feel very different, nobody has noticed. It's made me examine just how much what others say matters. I'm trying to change my mindset and still intend to keep quiet about my journey.
The oral GLP1 is indeed very exciting, he began on a loading dose ( which has no relation to the doses we use) and is finishing his second month on the full dose. I think he was selected because he was on the cusp of being pre-diabetic . The trial lis set to last five years but I hope it's deemed successful before then. It has the potential to revolutionise the health of so many people.

@FIFIBEBE people likely are noticing, but I think many more people now realise that it’s just not acceptable to comment on women’s bodies in the way that used to be normal. You will soon experience the ‘paper towel effect’!

Oral GLP1 is already available in the UK for people with type 2 diabetes (on prescription of course). It’s being used more now because of the shortage of injectable GLP1 caused by the weight loss market demand.

Hello everyone

I haven't checked in for a week or so but marking my place on this thread. Will have my week 2 weigh in today, I've been using MJ & will update progress here.

It's been so helpful to read everyone's progress, especially the broad range of experiences.

I too found the discussion on emotions tied to food/ idea of "free food" really interesting and helpful: I've definitely done all the diets over the years & the idea of free food for me ended up feeling like it didn't count but then like another poster said, also felt like it wasn't "proper food" or "enough" or I was going to be satisfied on it. For me it's become really easy to overeat with that mindset.

I also have parents who are hyper vigilant almost on what you are eating/ whether you have shown any signs of weight loss and so have been so careful to try not to pass those feelings onto my own children. I think one thing with MJ is it is giving me a lot of headspace to figure these things out.

I think this is definitely true - I’ve mentioned in conversation a couple of times that I’m trying to lose weight and the other person has said something along the lines of “oh I didn’t want to say anything in case it wasn’t on purpose, but you can definitely tell”. Maybe they’re just being polite though 😆

I’ve lost another 2.5 pounds this week, which means I’ve hit a few big milestones:

• 3 and a half stone lost
• 50 lbs lost
• Halfway to my original goal (which I’m now reconsidering)

Hope everyone is having a good week - well done on all the losses!

A couple of people have started to notice with me, but I think the bigger you are when you start the longer it'll take to notice. It's called the "paper towel theory" on other forums - when you first start taking paper towels off the roll, you don't really notice it making a difference to the overall size of the roll, but when it hits a certain point every towel coming off makes a huge difference. So the larger you are, when you're first losing fat it isn't as visible but as you lose more it will become visible.

Morning!

Has anyone ever felt they've had more suppression at the end of their weeks rather then the beginning?

Or symptoms like sulphur burps many days after the jab?

I've put on 0.6kg today, compared to 3 days ago. Yes I know weight fluctuates but it still feels a little disheartening, especially when I've not eaten as much as I normally would.

Is there room on the bench for another one? I started in June and have lost 2.5 stone and another half a stone before I started MJ. Feel a bit of an idiot because I titrated up to 10mg quite quickly and now realised I shouldn't have done so am trying to stay here for a couple of months as I have a lot more to lose. Have good suppression and minimal side effects so I'm hopeful. I haven't been at the weight I am since 2017. Another 12lbs and I will be at my lowest weight since 2014 which seems incredible.

@Fuffedoff yep!! I generally find my suppression on days 5,6 & 7 is better than early inthe week! 🤷‍♀️

Although I will also say that last week was completely different and I wanted to eat everything on days 6&7 and so far this week, yesterday (day 1) was pretty strong. Just when you think things are stable, MJ mixes it all up again😂

I did have my flu jab last Weekend though and have seen several posts from people saying they I'd struggled after it!

Hi all, not sure if I've posted on this set of threads yet, but I've been lurking. I had about nine stone to lose when I started in March, and have now lost 3 stone 10 pounds of that, I'm post menopausal, and was pre diabetic and insulin resistant, so it's slower for me than some but it feels good to be going in the right direction.

I was very interested in the conversation on the last thread started by @RobinEllacotStrike about the damage slimming clubs can do. I used to go to Slimming World every few years for a while, lose a stone or two, then put it all back on plus more.

One of the things that, in retrospect, was most damaging for me was when someone asked a question about what to do about going to a wedding at the weekend and being tempted. The group leader turned to the group and said 'What do we do, girls', and the group chanted back 'Eat before you go'. 'Yes', the leader said 'So then you're not hungry and won't be tempted'. Such a ridiculous notion, my temptation and food addiction was nothing to do with being hungry, I just craved food. Unfortunately that stayed with me for years and I still think to myself before I leave the house 'have I eaten enough', 'should I take a snack with me'. It's been a hard habit to break and at the beginning of my journey I took a protein shake with me 'just in case'. I think after seven months I have now realised that I don't need to be afraid of hunger, when I'm hungry I can eat, I'm not wanting high calorie, high carb food, but something nutritious will be just fine.

Good luck all of you on your journeys, I think I'm on this for life as the lack of food noise is so liberating!

@MoreThanJustANumber that is a horrendous message! I never went back to a slimming club after the time when a Weight Watchers leader told me off for exercising because I was building muscle and it was showing as a gain on the scale. They are awful, toxic places.

There is a really important point here - there is a poster on another board who is disappointed not to be losing on MJ, and who is clearly still eating like she is on Slimming World. The SW / WW approach of high-volume eating has never worked for me and the only time that I lost significant weight before MJ was through low-carbing. I think this did help me to adjust to MJ more quickly as I didn't have to undo a SW high-volume mindset.

Morning everyone, yet another weigh-in day for me. I've found the 7.5mg to be suiting me so far, no side effects and consistent suppression/lack of food noise.

Current stats:
SW: 139kg (21st 12 lbs)
CW: 111.6kg (17st 8 lbs)

So I've achieved my second interim goal of 112kg which I'm thrilled about as it seemed to be taking an age! I'm also really pleased as my BMI is now 39.5 so I am now just "obese" as opposed to "morbidly obese". Amazing, as my starting BMI was basically 50. I've also now lost 20% of my starting weight.

New GW: 100kg (15st 11lbs) third interim goal
Total Loss to date: 27.4kg/60 lbs or 4st 4lbs.

I feel positive today that I will get to my final target weight, even though it's still a long way away yet. I've done 14 weeks, and I know that I can continue for another 14 weeks or longer!