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

@Ozgirl75 @Cocoaone how do your husbands not see the pen in the fridge? Do you hide it in the salad drawer or something? My partner is the only person who knows and the only reason I told him is because he'd have found the pen as he's constantly in the fridge 😂😂😂

Thanks all. Useful to hear I'm not the only one with guilt feelings!

@lespameo - mine is in the spare fridge in the garage, in a tomato puree box!

@Cocoaone ooooh sneaky! I love it 🙂

Mine has only been in the fridge for a morning or so as I go and pick it up on jab day!

My husband is thebonlynone who knows and is very supportive....but the teenagers don't know and I hide my last pen behind the Christmas food they have learnt not to touch!

I was a bit smug to start with about being open and telling people, but I haven’t told my parents or in laws so defo a hypocrite. But on Saturday I was at a birthday do with my mam and gave up and told her, she was curious and fairly supportive. In laws are coming for Christmas so need to decide if I hide the one in the fridge or come clean

For now I’ll keep trucking, and avoiding steak as it just doesn’t bloody digest!

oh no @RandomID this is one of my fave ‘Mounjaro’ meals as I can’t eat quite a bit and feel fine!

@Cocoaone - that's aweosme! Well done!

I know what you mean about feeling guilty about not telling anyway - especially those who you suspect may find the information valuable. I've not told a single soul in my life that I am taking the drug. For me, it started out as just wanting to be able to try the drug for myself, without outside opinions or noise, and to have the 'freedom' for it to fail privately instead of yet another public failure re my weight. But now we are 3 months in and it's just become a habit to keep it to myself. I am not sure why now, but I still find myself really reluctant to tell anyone.

End of week 13 weigh in:
1.3lbs lost, 37.5lbs total.

A smaller weight loss week for me this week - not really to do with relaxing the food as I go towards Xmas, just one of those weeks where the results on the scales are not that great. Still, 1.3lbs is better than nothing and true to form, my measurements have gone down by the biggest amount. It frequently seems that when I lose scale weight, my measurement losses are smaller but the opposite is true when I have less scale results.

(Steak and salad is also one of my 'go to' meals on MJ).

I was the same, I didn’t want to announce what I was doing until it worked, or didn’t. I also didn’t want any input really!

Similarly I have Botox and I don’t talk about that either - no one else’s business!

I have now lost just over 2 stone - which is amazing!

people are really noticing, which I hate. And some people really cross the line on what they say. It can be quite insulting. I am hoping the comments will die down soon.

I am 10 stone 2 this morning. I can fit into all my old size 12 clothes and I have had to buy some new work trousers. I fell great - and am much more confident than before. I don’t panic when invited to things and I don’t hide from the camera anymore!

I know I will gain a bit over Christmas, but that’s okay!

Week 12 update

SW: 196.6lb / 14st 0.6lb / 89.2kg / 32.2 BMI
CW: 167.2lb / 11st 13.2lb / 75.8kg / 27.5 BMI
GW: 147lbs / 10st 7lb / 66kg / 24 BMI

Total loss: 29.4lb / 2st 1.4lb / 13.3kg
Wk 1-4: 12.6lb
Wk 5-8: 8.8lb
Wk9. -2.6lb / 1.2kg
Wk10: -0.6lb / 0.3kg
Wk11: -2.6lb /1.2kg
Wk12: -2lb / 0.9kg

Still over the moon to have hit my ‘mini’ goal of 12st by Christmas. I have noticed that my bum is really flat and saggy though 😬 so my NY resolution is to start doing weights more often, and especially squats. Not sure how my poor old knees will cope though!

I’d like to start doing a bit more vigorous exercise too (for heart health, I really enjoy spin), as I’ve not really been able to eat enough to do so - I’m averaging 1100-1200 calories still, so burning 300-400 calories wouldn’t be ideal. Hoping I can stay at a low dose in the new year and try to increase my calories and exercise a bit.

Does anyone else have any New Year’s resolutions?

@Bellyblueboy I'm glad you're feeling great but it's a shame others are making you feel uncomfortable. I'm not getting lots of comments at all- maybe everyone assumes it's the jabs and are secretly gossiping behind my back 😁

@ShiftAMountain - what an amazing loss in 13 weeks! I feel the same about the secrecy, it's very odd. Still haven't plucked up the courage to 'confess' to DH, it's never the right time...

Only lost 1lb this week and only 5lbs in the past 4 weeks. However, 29lbs total in 12 weeks so I can’t complain.

I can’t remember if I posted but 7.5 nearly killed me off so I had 6 days at 5mg afterwards and this week have taken 6.25. Hopefully onto 7.50 next week.

Jab day is Wednesday and I will be injecting as normal.

I got into a pair of size 16 jeans!!! Very excited by this. They aren't quite breath easy when sat down, but they did up and everything!
Really need an in between size as all my 18's are gaping at the waist and I hate using belts.

Hi there - this is (originally) Ozgirl75 but for some reason my account is no longer working so I’ve had to re-register.
I’ve found this week for the first time that I’m definitely more hungry, but I’m on holiday, out of routine and surrounded by Christmas chocolate! However, I’m still full after the smaller portions which is great, but I think I might need to go up a dose with my next pen. My consultant told me that it is possible to increase to 3.5 without going the full 5 so I might try that once I’m back home. She’s very comfortable with trying these things out luckily.

@Ozgirl76 yeah I've been on 3.75mg for the past month and it's been working well, this week has been a bit weird/slow but trying not to start fretting about it. You count 45 clicks on a 5mg pen.

I’ve hit a bit of a plateau and not lost for a week or so. I’ve been hitting the Xmas booze though so probably that

I’m due to inject Tuesday but thinking of doing it today so I can eat something on Xmas day. The day after I can barely ever eat

Oh that’s good to know! I’ll try that from my next one. I’m still losing weight but definitely having to make more willpower decisions (which is fine) whereas for the last couple of months I just haven’t thought about food outside of meals.

I've done 45 clicks a few times to get 3.75 dose.
I've also used syringe and needles to draw out bespoke doses as I need about 3mg to lose and 2 mg to maintain

I jabbed Saturday night as usual - had been on 3mg but was finding the suppression quite high mid-week so I've done a much lower dose of 1.25mg. That should mean that the levels in my blood are around 2mg by Xmas day according to my shotsy graph, which is roughly when I feel able to eat more 'normally'. I won't be able to overindulge, but I'll be able to eat more than mouse-sized portions, so hopefully will attract less attention 😁

I'm in the week post-period this week, where I traditionally don't lose anything, so fully expecting a maintain or a gain, which is fine.

I was just updating my long-term weight graph. It's interesting and depressing!

I've been overweight since 2011, and obese since 2019. And I just hit obese class 2 at the start of 2024 - I have no doubt that my weight would have continued to increase without mounjaro

I'm looking forward to getting below the yellow BMI 25 line in 2025 😁

I’ve decided to postpone till after Xmas. I ate two slices of pizza yesterday (takeaway treat for my kids) and felt sick all night!

Not checked in for a while,
SW 12 st 6
CW 10 st 8
Was hoping to hit that two stone marker for Christmas but not to be. On my last pen and going to split the last 2.5mg in half to finish slowly (only time I'm going over the 30 days)

Still half a stone to go to hit a healthy weight but I've had a weird time on MJ and pretty confident I can do it alone now.

My gf will be continuing on for a while so that should help me keep up the healthy habits. We've lost 55lbs between us since September!

Good luck to everyone ongoing