Mounjaro - Late September Starters, Round 2

[ShiftAMountain]

Following on from https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5168998-mounjaro-late-september-starters?page=20&reply=139052946

Thanks so much for this, I’m off to have a read. 💐

In what way can it be serious? I already have so many health problems and cannot cope with anything else. 😩

0.8 off this week - that will teach me for buying a size down for black Friday. This has happened before, a loss is a loss and will need to tough it out, etc.

I've not lost over the past two weeks due to eating badly and being very busy so it can't be helped. Back on it this week tho. With the exception of a Christmas work do which is a bottomless brunch (urghhhh).

You will be grand, it will continue to come down! Always seems to happen with me on MJ when I least expect it 😂

I haven't been reading this thread for about 12 days and having now caught up, I really wish I'd stayed up to date in real time. I would have seen that I wasn't the only one feeling a bit disappointed in my weight loss last week, and I would have felt less disheartened I think. It's really interesting catching up and seeing those of you who were struggling a bit, have got through it and are losing again too. I think without Mounjaro this would have been my falling off the wagon point, as the disappointment of the scales would have overwhelmed me. Being on Mounjaro has made it easier for me to carry on as I don't feel I'm depriving myself of tasty food and alcohol, I just don't really fancy having it.

I went away with friends the weekend before last, still ate very mindfully but had more alcohol - though not as much as I would usually have. I had 2 cocktails and a G&T over 2 nights (barely anything in my eyes!) and only lost 0.5lb on official weigh day (last week Sunday, a day late). I weigh every day to help me stay positive if I don't have a loss but for 5 days after I returned home, I gained weight. It didn't help me stay positive, unsurprisingly. However, by my official weigh in this Saturday I lost 1.5lb. And on my unofficial weigh in today I've lost another 2lb - I'll see if that sticks for Saturday coming. I really hope so as it put me in the 13 stone bracket.

Overall, for the last 5 weeks or so I'm still averaging about 1lb per week loss which is a steady rate. DH has mentioned my collar bones are starting to emerge again, and he can see I've lost weight from my outer thighs and lower belly. My size 18 bottoms are all pretty loose but size 16s are still too tight for now. I'm still on 2.5mg as my weight loss is continuing and I have minimal side effects for about 36 hours post-jab, though I find I can get hungrier than when I first started on it. I don't mind some food noise though, as I feel it may stand me in good stead should a long term maintenance dose not be possible (prescribable and/or affordable I guess).

SW: 15st 3lb
CW: 14st 0.5lb
GW: 10st 2lb ish maybe?

I find the thread useful when I'm having annoyed days. My weight has yoyo'd quite a bit this last couple of weeks, weighing daily, but I am still losing and that is the important thing. Had my first non family member comment on my weight loss yesterday, I'd mentioned to her at some point that I was considering MJ and she was very curious as she is considering it herself!

When I started Mounjaro I told some of the lasses at work and a few have started it too, one of them landed in hospital on Friday with likely side effects (abdo pain and diarrhoea) and I feel kind of responsible. I encouraged her to go for it and said how minimal the side effects are for me

We've all taken the gamble, I'm sure she doesn't blame you, it's unfortunate but she's a grown woman and presumably read about possible side effects. I understand why you feel bad though.

Plus you don't know - maybe she went up the doses too quickly for her body. Maybe she's still been eating lots of fatty fried food still. More likely she's just one of the unlucky ones that doesn't react well to the drug.
I can't remember what the drop out rate was during the trials - 5-10% maybe. There will always be people who can't tolerate certain drugs

How's everyone doing? I'm edging towards seeing a 13 on the scales, it flickers at me at the moment! So near and yet so far, a couple more weeks if I stay at this rate of loss. I seem to lose a chunk at the beginning of the jab week and then gain a bit of that back towards the end.

I am doing well. Weight loss starting to slow down which isn’t a bad thing. 10st 8 this morning.

I have now lost 1st 10 in ten weeks and my BMi is 27!

I went out last night and a weird thing I noticed is none of my dressy shoes fit! I walked out of all of them. I didn’t think this would be enough to change my feet!?!

My size 12 clothes now fit - but missed fitting into my favorite jacket (size 14). I tried it on yesterday and it was too big😩. I had been waiting for it to fit since I started.

1st 4 until my target weight. But there is no rush.

Ticking along here. End of week 11 weigh in this morning and 2.5lbs down, for 33.1lbs total.

I'm pleased with how the loss is going but I'm even more pleased with how 'normal' living like this has become. I'm still on 5mg and have bought a 7.5mg for my next pen (I had to order early to avoid the christmas deliveries) but I'm starting to wonder if that might not be a bit much. 5mg has settled to feel exactly right: just the right level of suppression. I am hungry for my meals and can eat and enjoy them but can temper my portions, make healthier choices and easily turned down snacks and desserts etc.

I'm not due my first 7.5mg dose until 3rd January so there's still time for 5mg to wear off a bit but right now it feels like a great dose for me.

It's probably good news that I am finding the lower doses to be good - I am have a looong way to go yet. My mini Xmas goal is to get to Class 1 obese (so BMI just under 35) and I still have 70lbs to go before I am a healthy weight.

@ShiftAMountain I also bought the 7.5 pen in haste and due to start early Jan. the 5 is working for me so why did I feel the need to go up?! I will do less clicks I think although will need some guidance nearer the time on what to do! Haha.

I stuck with the 5mg for December. I’m no longer feeling like I have symptoms all the time like I was, I just now feel very full quickly and can feel very queasy after eating.

My weight loss has been good and steady, I’m not sure about moving up in Jan.

It's a marathon and not a sprint I keep saying 😊

The flicker of that lower number on the scales can be so encouraging, mixed with a teeny bit of Damn, if only it had stayed on that number. Here's to starting with a 13 soon. My official weigh in is tomorrow and I've been weighing regularly through the week and have gone into the 13s for all of them, so just hoping it holds for tomorrow!

I'm 0.4 of a pound away so fully expecting the scales to go up tomorrow just to spite me! 🤣

Todays ‘unofficial’ weigh in was 102.6, and I’ve tried to be extra good to speed up the day I see 99 on those scales, I think I might honestly cry when it happens, it’s been years. But of course I’m due on imminently so that will slow everything down

I am struggling to remember I have lost weight - so pick the bigger clothes out of the wardrobe and am shocked every morning when they are too big!

I am trying not to buy too much - I am a size 12 now but goal weight will be a size 10, or maybe an eight as I think vanity sizing has impacted clothes since I was last 9st 4.

I am selling some bigger clothes on Vinted brocade I don’t want a wardrobe full of clothes that don’t fit. That has been my whole life! Risky strategy but hopefully it means I won’t drift back up.

I did keep some of my smaller bras from my last diet - but pretty soon I will need to buy new ones! I counted 23 bras last night - two fit😩.

Yup I was right 0.8 gain! 🤣

Oh no, how annoying! Don't be disheartened though as that could just as easily disappear by tomorrow. I weighed myself this afternoon before I got into the bath and I was 0.5lb lighter than when I weighed myself first thing this morning, which shows how much weight can fluctuate in a day. Think I was dehydrated by my second weigh in as hadn't eaten a thing, and barely drank anything as I'd been busy Christmas tree shopping and decorating.