Mounjaro - Late September Starters, Round 2

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

I am also feeling a bit more controlled today. Not hungry , and at work ..very busy so distracted.
Not had nausea I have had in past on day after jab.
I had 2.5 mg so going to see how it goes for the next few days... strangely would like to go back down to pre Christmas week of 63 kgs despite the current 65 kgs being my goal weight.
I reminded myself today that I started at 76.4 kgs so I've not exactly "ballooned" and gained it all back and 65 kgs is amazing for me...

Golden dose of 5 on Friday night, worked out at 6.66mg and suppression is in full effect. Have managed a box of kiwi and melon and 3/4 of a salmon sandwich today. Feel almost holy! Hoping the plateau will finish, intend to weigh on new year's day.

Bought some goal trousers in the sale from Lucy and yak, they're an inch too small, hoping to be in them for the end of January.

Upping liquids, took a fybrogel and a hydrating electrolyte drink.

Took my 10th dose of 5mg yesterday and I'm not feeling the suppression at all now. I think my extra month on 5mg wasn't worth is as I don't think I've lost anything in the last 5 weeks. I'm moving up to 7.5mg on Saturday so hopefully I'll be back into the swing of things again in January

Ugh I’ve not jabbed yet - 5 days late - and I had two takeaways. And feel gross. Want to get back on it but should I go straight back to the 7.5mg do you think? Or jab a bit less?

I took my 5mg jab like normal on Thursday - but quite worried that I am very hungry today. I ordered my fourth pen yesterday and stuck with 5mg - but starting to think I actually need to increase the dose😩.

I don’t want very strong suppression - I need to be able to maintain this weight loss and I am already worried about what happens when I can longer get prescriptions. But I still have a stone to lose.

Grim today, had Sunday roast last night and a glass of wine to watch Taskmaster, feel very bloated and burpy. Can't face breakfast, have a banana sat on my tray looking at me. Breakfast is 2x deflatine and a glass of aloe juice. <burps>

I've come to hate that bloated/burpy feeling.

Sulphur burps sound like such a harmless side effect - but they are bloody awful when they go on!

I usually start the new year depressed about my weight and looking at a huge amount of weight to lose!

this year I am 10st 3, size 12 with only another stone to lose to be my ideal weight!

so today I am going through my wardrobe and removing all the clothes that don’t fit. I won’t spend another year looking at a wardrobe crammed full of clothes that don’t fit or large clothes that I hate.

there are clothes that are really out of style and really bloody ugly (I punish myself when I am big by buying ugly, cheap clothes).

I’ve never had a sulphur burp. Wonder why

Since postponing my jab I have however got anxiety?!

I've had two weeks since my last jab and gained about 3kg but I have been drinking heavily and eating lots.....I will jab at 5mg tomorrow to start my 2025 in the right way. I'm not too worried about the weight gain as I'm confident I can get back on track.

Someone mentioned loose skin.....I've noticed this particularly around my neck and under my arms...crepey skin.....I need to start doing some exercise and bought myself some skin firming cream. I think some.of the issue is skin dryness along with I'm no longer a spring chicken!

I’ve also bought myself skin firming cream @AussieMum135 - I’m 47 so it probably wouldn’t be all that firm anyway but I figured it might help.
My “worst” thing though is my boobs. They’re just deflated. They’ve gone up and down in size anyway through weight gain and breastfeeding but they’re pretty droopy now. I think I’ll just have to deal with that though as I’d never have surgery and my DH is the only one who sees them and he doesn’t seem fussed at all.

I'm 54 and got crepey old lady skin now on thighs and abdomen.
Id have it removed and a tummy tuck ( yes I'm vain) but I scar badly due to some black heritage.
So also need to tone up . Starting tomorrow with weights/ body work outs and gentle running again next week.
Tonef muscles hold skin better but in my case I'm old, lost collagen and been fat for too long..but I'll give it a go

Hello again.

Last weigh of the year for me, and have lost 23kg. Currently sat at exactly 143kg. Much further to go, obviously, but it isn’t a race.

Wind is howling here at the moment, so I’m away to snuggle under my duvet until the fireworks inevitably wake me up later.

Happy New Year to you all.

New year's weigh in,

SW 17.8
Today 15.5.5
GW 12.7ish.

BMI teasing me at 30.9 - January goal is to shift out of obese into overweight..

Just under a lb off this week, which I am happy with given Xmas wine and cheese etc. suppression still good on the 5mg golden dose of 6.6. hoping for a good loss in the coming week and to be properly back on track.

My last day of the month trying on of goal trousers yielded buttons done up (just!) on size 16's.

Wishing you all well for your goals for 2025. We've got this!

Oh, I also did my last bodypump class of 2024 yesterday, upped my weights and I can now press 28lbs, which is 3lbs less than I've lost and weighs a lot the thought that I was walking around with that all the time is insane.

Thats a great non scale victory at the body pump class @Snapespeare

3 stone gone today...and my trousers fell down yesterday!

Well done @Darkbutstarrynight! Have you considered a belt? 😁😉😁. Hope it wasn't an embarrassing sartorial failure!

@Pashazade
Luckily only at home :) Cant find the belt so took it as a message to wear the smaller pair!

I lost 2lb over Christmas week which I was really happy with as I had a lovely Christmas dinner, some chocolates and alcohol consumed but everything was in far smaller and less frequent quantities, and yet I don't feel like I've deprived myself.

I'm really here to report on some NSVs which included feeling really good in the outfits I wore for our festive celebrations at home and with work. I'm a bit worried (having just checked my BMI & realising I'm still very comfortably in the obese category) that I was deluding myself about how good I looked but I guess it doesn't matter - I felt confident at the time.

I'm currently wearing a pair of very stylish trousers on that I bought in May 2021, and which fit me for just 2 months before I out-ate them. They are comfortable today - I'm sat down and they're not slicing me in half.

And after our friends left us following our NYE party, we threw out all the delicious leftover cheeses, dips & pate etc that I'd normally trough down, whilst promising myself the diet would start later in January once all the Christmas food was finished.

I'm lucky enough to still be on 2.5mg dose which is working very well on my appetite and giving me slow but steady loss.

I keep a spreadsheet of my weight going back to Sept 2016 (sad I know) and in that time my weight has been as low as 10st 8.5lb (WeightWatchers) and as high as 15st 3lb (when I started Mounjaro). I'm currently 13st 7.25lb and it's been 3.5 years since I've weighed this or lower. I know I've still got a long way to go but I currently feel good about myself. It's a really, really nice change.

Where is the best place to buy extra needles? Been using the extra dose (5th dose), so need to order some extra needles

I got needles on Amazon. They have the exact same ones that med express send - I also use insulin syringes to extract the dose. Again amazon

Lovely to hear how many of you have done well over Christmas - and we're all back for the New Year to crack on. Remember, we will emerge from our Too Big winter jumpers in spring, like slim butterflies 😂

Tomorrow morning is my test: it marks the end of the 2 week festive period that I allocated to just maintain any loss. I'll weigh in and am hoping I've managed that and can then look forward to more loss.

7.5mg for the first time tomorrow also.

It was 13 weeks and I broke the 30 lbs threshold at last. I'm finally seeing a differentce - trousers are too big and some people are noticing and commenting on the difference in my appearance.

I'm still on 5mg. My SIL is on 10 and haqs had a bloody awful time, so I'm sticking with this dose as long as the weight continues to come off (slowly, but that's OK).

I don't know why this week has been awful but I've had acid reflux and burps for 5 days so far and my stomach feels awful. Most weeks I am tired after the jab and otherwise have no problems. It's very annoying.