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

Waiting on new scales the old ones died! I may be a little too addicted to weighing myself atm!

I don’t have scales, makes it easy. I just get weighed whenever the machine at the gym decides to be functional. If I had home scales I would probably end up so far down the rabbit hole that I’d be emptied by the red queen.

Another new number on the scales, another lightest weight in many years. I got very teary this morning when I looked down. I think I am going to stick with 5mg again for another month. My side effects are back (feeling quite sick/heartburn) and the supression wasnt great in the past few weeks its back with a bang this week.

I have no idea if I would ever reach the heights of 15mg!

Is Zava still the cheapest for a 5mg pen at £129? (UK Prices)

Well done @boxoftoads !!

Zava looks to still be the cheapest - with some possible dicount codes listed here to get it down to £109: https://monj.co.uk/discount-mounjaro-price-list/

@boxoftoads I bought off pillsorted last week and it was £109 for 5mg and came less than 24 hours later! Would recommend

My jab days are Fridays so I will be taking a normal dose this Friday. I'll still be trying to eat in moderation over Xmas but will relax a bit and won't be tracking calories etc.

I'll have a full Xmas dinner, but probably just not quite so many potatoes, pigs in blankets etc as I normally do. And a small bit of pudding. And limit the chocolates a bit rather than sit in the evening with the full box next to me, eating without thought.

What I do want to keep to is ensuring I keep drinking plenty of water and with my time off, make sure the dog goes for quite a few long walks.

I'll be happy if I get to 3rd of Jan weighing about the same as I do now. Then I will be due a dose of my new pen, the next dose up - and so intend to get back to business properly then.

I am still on 5mg and do get hungry for meals and eat around 1,000 calories a day. I finish meals no problem - I just do t snack between meals like I used to. And I can resist chocolates and crisps.

so I am going to continue on as normal. I will probably eat more than usual - but hopefully not like a normal Christmas with mindless snaking until I feel sick!

This has been taking up a bit too much of my headspace lately
I did 3.75 on Sunday night, current plan is 1.25 top up on weds or Thurs, maybe 2.5 on Sunday and 2.5 on Boxing Day then normal again from 29th

I usually jab on a Tuesday so I'm putting it off for 24hours on Xmas Eve so I can at least eat some food on Xmas Day, suppression is usually still quite rough otherwise I won't get to enjoy anything!

I usually jab on a Saturday night or Sunday morning, but my peak suppression days are quite often days 3/4/5 - so Tues/Weds/Thurs. I took 3mg on Sunday morning this week and I've only managed 800 cals today as the suppression is strong. Off to eat some nuts in a moment!

So I think I'll go right back down to 1.25mg - I've been playing with my shotsy app graph to see what jab amount has my levels about 2mg on Xmas/Boxing Day as that's when I feel most able to eat more normally.

Or I might just miss the jab entirely and take it on 27th. I'll be 4/5 days late but seeing as I'm at such a low level anyway, it's not like I'll need to start back at 2.5 and work up to my normal level of 5 or 7.5.

@ShiftAMountain - try sleeping in a satin bonnet or on a satin pillow case. It will minimise the stress on your hair which will help slightly too. Don't brush harshly when you have wet hair - wide tooth comb only.

I'm trying to find a maintenance dose and definitely wanted to feel hungry over Christmas to enjoy the treats a bit .
However after first week going ok , this week is not.
On 2 mg and nausea is stronger than ever , especially if I drink any alcohol and had three dinners out ..barely managed my starters and was sick afterwards.
Currently on day 5 and really could not eat at all ...not hungry, slightly nauseated and generally can't face food.
All this means I've lost another kilo.
So now 13 kgs lost...Im not going to jab again until after new year eve.
I'll weigh then and assess how much to try.
I never in a million years thought I'd be actively trying NOT to lose weight!

I’m due to take dose 2 of 10mg on Tuesday but may wait for Wednesday evening. Will see how I feel.

This was fab! Got £30 off with the ZAVA code 😍

I think that price list is regularly updated so for those who like to shop around for price, it's well worth consulting.

I’m not going to lie, I’m too addlebrained to mess with different providers, as I know I’ll screw it up at some point. I’ve stuck with the same one throughout. :)

I stay with the same provider too - but I like to use the list to check how they fare price wise, just to make sure I'm not massively overpaying. If they slip too far down the list, I may make a move to another single provider.

I jab on Thursday and am still on 2.5 so have suppression of snack desire but can still eat normal meals so I’ll be sticking with the normal dose.
Im away at the moment (in the U.K. -hello!) and weighed myself on the electric scales they have here and I’m 63.6kg which is 11.4 total kg lost since I started which is brilliant!

Great article in the Times today about “microdosing” or as the Dr calls it “lowest effective dose” which I guess is what I’m doing and for once it’s a positive and supportive article about the huge advantages to even non obese people for injectables.

Just jumping on to celebrate this moment, I had to take a screenshot just in case it goes back up again before official weigh day on Saturday (it's period week)

This goal was as much as my nutracheck app would allow me to set when I started in January, 20% of my weight. I need to set a new one now. And there's an 11 today!

Although, I'm having guilty feelings. Someone complimented me on my weight loss this week. He had a gastric band years ago, but to me, he was never that big so I was surprised at the time. I told my DH about the compliment, and he asked if I mentioned that I did it 'without surgery'. DH doesn't know I'm on the jabs.
It felt a bit judgey which isn't like DH at all, so I can only assume he's really proud that I've managed to lose the weight 'myself' when I've struggled every time before. He has never mentioned my weight as I got bigger, and he hasn't as I've lost weight either, although I can tell he appreciates that I'm looking better now, IYKWIM I know he won't compliment me on weight loss because that's like saying he didn't like when I was bigger.

Anyway. Now I feel guilty that I haven't told him that I have had help. So I'm going to have to tell him this week I think. And obviously it's a bigger 'thing' now, because I haven't told him for the past 12 weeks. I just hope he's not disappointed in me... I did tell him 6 months ago that I was considering the jabs, but the side effects and cost put me off.

That’s awesome @Cocoaone , what a fab loss!
Funnily enough I haven’t told my DH about the jabs either and I’m not even sure why. I think because I know he would say “you don’t need to, I love you how you are” etc and he also thinks I already don’t overeat (I did!) because I eat less than him (well yes, I am significantly shorter!).
Anyway, the cost is right there on the bank account and he hasn’t mentioned it and he knows I’ve struggled with my weight through the 25 years we’ve been together.

@Cocoaone My DH has been my biggest cheerleader with this even though the side effects have caused some real problems on and off (looking at you loss of libido) however even with that complicating factor he has never said I should come off. Your DH might be a little offended that you've done it without his knowledge if you're usually close, but maybe go with the I didn't want to fail again, I just wanted to keep it a secret. Rather than that you worried he would judge you, weight loss is so loaded as we all know and hence why most of us aren't telling people!
Oh and well done on the new weight number! I have new scales and I'm not sure if we're friends yet!

@Cocoaone wonderful achievement.
I bet you look great and hope you feel wonderful too.
What does it matter "how" you lose weight?
Try to put all thoughts out of your head of being guilty or cheating. I don't engage in conversations about how I've lost the weight...if people comment, and say " gosh you've lost weight"...I neutrally reply saying " yes I have ...a bit...I feel great thanks"