Hope … what difference has this made to you?

[Heavybuthopeful]

Having, like many of us, been overweight for all of my adult/teen life, I started Wegovy 6 weeks ago. I was very heavy (I’m still very heavy) but the difference in that time is huge. I had back problems (partly due to referred surgical pain but no doubt exacerbated by obesity) and couldn’t stand/walk for more than a few minutes. In the 6 weeks I’ve lost 16lb, I’ve had the joy of wearing clothes I’d bought but not fit into, I’m feeling pretty great. I started walking a little every day and have gradually increased and can walk about 5 times more without pain than at the start. My husband went away for a business trip for a week and said I looked so much healthier when he got back.

I realised early on that I’d been low level depressed before, worried about the future (I’m 59) and lacking in energy. I’m waking up earlier, feeling much more positive. I realised today that my internal vision of retirement (not yet!) had changed from old and frail to travel and purpose.

Hope. Makes such a difference. What are others’ experiences?

(Note: I’ve stayed on 0.25 and hoping to do for as long as possible. I have minimal side effects and some appetite reduction but I still need to consciously think about it. But it does mean I’m able to enjoy food and the odd glass of wine and make sensible choices. I appreciate that I’m very lucky re the side effects.)

The hope and possibility of a different future is an amazing thing. I find that I am much less grumpy and irritable, I want to make future plans and am looking forward to events much more than I have been recently. I used to be very upset about people seeing me at the size that I was, and that would exacerbate the overeating! I'm much more active with my children that I was, and don't find excuses to avoid getting up, going upstairs, etc etc that I was when I was carrying the extra weight.

The thing that also helps me a lot is the fact that this medicine has shown that it isn't a mental failing, a lack of willpower or determination. My physiology as a morbidly obese person was driving the urge to eat, to eat crap, to snack constantly. That was all just removed once I started with Mounjaro, it's a real mental weight lifted.

That’s lovely! Long may it continue!

I guess it's more than hope, it's oh, I CAN do this! The lack of misery, panic or fear of the future. I was also lucky in that I got the co-benefits quickly, joint pain and other compulsions disappeared.

Hope is everything (imo).

I had lost it. I was very obese and had lost and regained big chunks of weight maybe a dozen times in my life. I had lost hope in ever being able to manage it and had started work to come to terms with a fat future. To wrap my head around the inevitable health problems it would come with and a lifetime of always feeling awkward about my size. Always putting a brave face on.

This jab has given me hope. Hope I can be healthier and hope it can be a lasting change - even if it means taking the drug long term (or something even better as it's developed). Hope that I may one day look in the mirror and again like what I see. Hope that I may not face weight related health issues as I age.

For the hope it has given, it has been a gift.

Well I'm very hopeful that I've given myself the opportunity to avoid weight related illnesses.

I was a sliver off 15 stone and I would be breathless if walking at pace, my knees were ever so slightly twinging and my cholesterol and blood pressure was raised. I was snoring so badly that my husband went to sleep in the spare room. All of my clothes looked horrible on me (and this was sad for someone who loves fashion and beauty) and my triple chin was out of control

I'm now 9 stone 9 and close to my target weight so let's HOPE I can maintain

Wow @OhHaiOwlInYourTowel that's an amazing achievement.
@Heavybuthopeful it's great to hear you are experiencing renewed hope. I have too. Ian lighter than I've been for ten years now, I have taken things slowly; counted clicks so I could make a 1mg pen last Linder by just having .75mg for a while. My weight loss has been slow and steady, I'm half way to my goal weight after 5 months. I have stretched doses out because of money shortage but it has just meant I have plateaued for a bit, no big deal. It's a costly journey but if someone said to me that I could pay a couple of grand and get down to a healthy weight then I would have just taken out a loan to pay for it! I am wearing flirted I haven't worn for years and it feels good. Good luck to you in your journey. I have found the wegovy thread on here really useful,