Wow – some great updates since I last checked in!
@Snapespeare – really glad your surgery went well and glad you still managed your dose this week. Also, well done on beating your previous MFP best. I also have been logging my weight for over twenty years now. I am never sure if it’s helpful or not but I can look back and see exactly when I weighed more/less/the same as now, noted against key events.
@Cocoaone – great loss this week.
@boxoftoads - I am also on the 5mg and am going to stay on it until the New Year rather than go up a dose before Xmas
@KitsyWitsy – what a big week for you. 4lbs is phenomenal.
@Ozgirl75 – Yes, I am frequently surprised by how eating out of the ordinary now leaves me feeling a bit unwell.
@Theredjellybean – well done on navigating your holiday. 3 weeks in S America sounds wonderful! I am personally so far away from maintenance it’s not yet on my radar.
@Jabberwokie – I swear that the weeks when the scales are not so impressive, they are the weeks I physically feel much thinner. It’s so odd, it’s like my body is saying ‘hang on, I just need to swap some stuff around to stack it more efficiently’. I also think my nails are longer and better than they have been in years – but I am taking collagen and biotin. Not convinced either work to reduce hair los and saggy skin, but felt like a reasonable gamble.
@Pashazade – I have a whole wardrobe of 16 clothes that have been stored away. I am starting to think I may have to dog them out before Xmas. Hurrah.
@lespameo – 17lbs in 9 weeks is really good progress and your chart is a great illustration of how it’s never a straight line, but the results keep coming all the same.
@Witchyandtwitchy – you sound like you have the same plan re dosage over Xmas as me. Fingers crossed it works for us both.
@10storeylovesong – I haven’t noticed that about the bonus dose – maybe it’s just because it’s at the end of the pen and so comes at about the time the official schedule recommends you move up?
@AussieMum135 – that sounds tough. I think we probably all recognise that switch in us that wants to use food to comfort or steady our emotions. I know I do. Glad you’re going to keep trying a bit longer.
@peonym – Great to hear that 7.5mg has given you the boost you needed.
@boxoftoads – well done! I am so far away from 11 stone, it seems like a lifetime away so I can well imagine it is an emotionally moving achievement
@MiddleAgedNotOwt – I like the layer analogy. I too am finding my old natural confidence creeping back, bit by bit.
@FelicityBeedle – well done on hitting 30lbs. I sneaked a peek on the scales this morning and am exactly 30lbs down myself today. I am so glad I started MJ (just wish I’d done it a bit sooner, but hey-ho).
@Floofypuppy – That’s so little to be eating, if that carries on, might you think about reducing the dose again a little bit just so you can eat properly?
@Darkbutstarrynight – It’s a tough decision. If you stick, you know what you’re getting but you run the risk of it not being particularly effective at Xmas when you might need it the most. But if you go up, you might find it a bit much at Xmas – though I suppose you can always just take the smaller dose out of the bigger pen. But, as I’ve said – like @Bellyblueboy I am staying on 5mg until the New Year now. I am having good lose, reasonable suppression and I don’t want to have to balance side effects and Xmas food.
Well done everyone!