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

Hi all 👋🏻

I haven't posted on this thread in a while - I panicked a little when I started to see people reach their goal weights (or even get remotely close) and wanted to avoid for a while in case it made me lose my own motivation for my significantly longer journey. BUT it's so good to see all the updates - very happy for those who are nailing their GWs and glad to see some familiar names trundling along well still.

Can I ask on average what your losses are a week? I've just worked out mine are 1.5lbs a week average. Which I'm happy enough with but wonder if it would have been backwards had I not had MJ lol.

@peonym just checked my Shotsy app and my average is 1.8lbs a week. Some weeks I lose nothing then the next I lose 4lbs!

@peonym my weight loss has slowed down - it’s now averaged over the nearly four months at 2lbs and month - but it’s been lower than that since Christmas.

im pretty relaxed about that because i was starting to notice loose skin and some hair loss, so i wanted things to slow down a bit. I am in no rush to reach my goal weight. I also plan to stay on MJ for as long as I can to ensure I don’t regain the weight

Average has been 2.5lbs per week but, like @Bellyblueboy it's slowed down since Xmas and I am also a bit glad that it has. I've had some hair loss, feel my skin getting 'empty' and wanted to just bring the loss rate down a little bit.

I’m on week something something.. I’ve honestly lost track. Started on September 27th? Stayed on 7.5mg for now.

Losing about 1.5 to 2 lb a week although really constipated for the first time so no real loss for a while. Mainlining coffee at the moment.

Hoping to come off by end of March is the plan for now and nearly at first goal, but it may all change yet.

and I forgot to take jab last Wednesday as perimenopause has me all upside down right now. Taking it tomorrow instead as had a full on day today and knackered.

hope you are all doing well today #ihaveTraffordCentreShoppingTrauma

I’m almost at my goal now, 3kg (about 7lbs) away. I also tried on some of my thin clothes today and they fitted. A skirt I loved but was always a bit tight and a lovely dress that I bought and was almost immediately too big for now fits and looks lovely!
My weight loss support person has said to maintain where I am once I get to my goal, I can try a few things; staying on 2.5 (I’ve never gone over 2.5), spreading out the dose, giving a lower dose and then a higher one etc. She’s very relaxed about me just figuring out what works best for me which is great!

She is also on Mounjaro and used 5mg to lose and then is now on a maintenance dose of 2.5 and she says this allows her to eat but not overeat but not lose any more.

I still honestly can hardly believe that I’ve dropped 15kg with no willpower, no hunger and no stress.

Even sometimes I’ll have a “hungry” day and eat a bit more. In the past this would have led me to spiral into “fuck it I can’t do it I may as well eat a load of chocolate” whereas now I just think “well I guess my body needed more today” and go back to normal the next day. It’s truly life changing.

@peonym my shotsy app says 2.2lb a week on average, but if I take off my first week's big loss, it's actually 1.8lb a week. As with others, sometimes I lose less, and then I'll have a week where I lose 3lb.

@ShiftAMountain - do you have any digestive enzyme tablets, or charcoal tablets? Might help - but, touch wood, I haven't had the burps so I haven't tried anything myself.

Glad you've got a good prescriber for maintenance @Ozgirl76. I think maintenance is going to be challenging, trying to find the right balance. But like @Bellyblueboy - I'm happy to stay on MJ for a long while in order to avoid gaining. Hopefully not for life, but I think it can't hurt to maintain for 6/12 months and help your body reset itself at a new weight before trying to come off the meds.

@TheCatterall you're on week 17! 😁 I started on the 24th Sept and have just completed week 17. Total of 2st 5lbs lost, roughly 2lbs a week if I spread it out. Last two weeks have been good/a bit higher since going up to 5mg.

Hello lovely people, I hope you are all well. I cant believe its week 17! I havent been on the thread much. I had a bit of a tantrum at the start of Janaury as I havent seen the huge losses some of you all have.

However, its all personal to me and I have lost a stone. A whole stone in weight.

I went for a jog for the first time ever with DH (serious runner) and it was ok, nobody died, and we are staying married. I felt good, all the gym hours and not carrying an extra stone around with me was amazing. I walked loads and it was SLOW but I still managed a run! That was so far out of my reach last year ❤

I have another stone to go and I ordered a 7.5mg pen for the first time. I may regret the increase in side effects, but maybe its what I need as the weight loss has stopped since Christmas.

@ShiftAMountain I sometimes find a Rennie is just enough to stop the burps for a while 😁

Thanks @boxoftoads - luckily they seem to have gone this morning but I may take a rennie or two, just before I go - as a precuation.

Being a dentist seems hard enough, without an eggy burp to the face 😂

Thanks everyone that's really helpful!

Onwards and upwards 🤦🏻‍♀️

Another one here suffering from the eggy burps at the moment. Hopefully they’ll go away at some point.

Stayed the same - ARGH! admittedly I'm having a surprise period (56, last one was when I started Mounjaro, it's all winding down) so let's hope for next week. I think I might need to start charting what I eat (I hate doing this..)

Peonym - I'm another one who hasn't posted on here for a while because I haven't lost a great deal in comparison to others. I started on 29th September and, as of last Sunday, I have lost a grand total of 23.5lbs - so around 1.5lb per week. However, I lost 11lbs in the first 4 weeks, and the loss has slowed down considerably in recent weeks. Having said that, I did lose 3lbs over the Christmas/New Year period, which is cause for celebration.

Although I would love to be the weight/size I want to be right now, I do feel that losing weight this way is right for me. I am in my mid-60s, so am more likely to have sagging skin if I lose it too fast. As it is, I have been amazed that my skin appears to be shrinking back quite nicely. That could change at any time though! I'm not losing any hair either.

Also, I am not counting calories or following any particular diet and, as I can afford the jabs (and I know many cannot), I'm content to let it all play out in its own time. I've never been a big eater or someone who eats unhealthy food, but I have been someone who picks under stress and I have liked a glass or two of wine at night. Both of those issues have been resolved with Mounjaro, and this might need to be a lifelong commitment for me.

Anyway, I am truly impressed by those of you who have lost considerably more. We are all on our own journeys and may we all be successful - particularly in the long term.

Officially hit 2.5 stone off this morning, although pretty sure that will bounce back a little as it was over a pound overnight which is unusual. I've been lucky with loose skin so far apart from bloody turkey neck which is highly irritating and I try and remember to moisturise but hey small price really!

I hit the lowest weight yet after my big Christmas gain, I’m at 102kg so 14.5kg lost!
I’ve averaged at 1.5lb a week since I started, which feels quite sustainable.
I’m Swapping chemist for the first time for my next order (first 7.5mg!), anybody used pillsorted and got any experience? Would like to know

Started my new pen today, 12.5. Still a huge amount to lose, but my hips and cheeks are apparently more streamlined. I think I’m going to spend an afternoon over the weekend gutting my wardrobe and putting all the stuff I never want to see again to the charity shop.

@Felicity I used PillSorted for either my 2nd or 3rd pen (I'm fickle and a discount chaser) I seem to recall a little slow in agreeing to prescribe, have now learned from this and keep the box label to add to the file uploads. (They were insistent on a copy of 'scrip from previous supplier (IQ doctor) who took a while to
send it on. ) No major issues though..

Very hungry yesterday (surprise period) am working with this today. Tried to eat a inch wide slice of a tiny Portuguese lemon cake from Waitrose as it's my birthday tomorrow and couldn't eat it - horribly sweet.

Has anyone found that their taste buds have changed? Most sweet things now taste strangely salty and it’s very weird.

A bit premature as I'm about to start my first 10mg dose, but what are everyone's plans when you finish the last dosage of 15mg?

My weight loss has been slow in comparison to others, on average it's 1lb a week. So I'll still be well into the overweight category when I've finished my first 15mg pen. I'm presuming you can just continue to stay on 15mg?

I stayed on 5mg for an extra month over Christmas but didn't lose anything, not sure if that's because it was Xmas or the dosage just wasn't effective any longer.

Who are you using to buy your pens through?

Week 17 update

SW: 196.6lb / 14st 0.6lb / 89.2kg / 32.2 BMI
CW: 159.2lb / 11st 5.2lb / 72.2kg / 26.2 BMI
GW: 147lbs / 10st 7lb / 66kg / 24.2 BMI

Total loss: 37.4lb / 2st 9.4lb / 17kg
Wk 1-4: -12.6lb
Wk 5-8: -8.8lb
Wk 9-12: -8lb
Wk 13-16: -6.4lb
Wk 17: -1.6lb

I finally told DH this week about the WLI. He was shocked, I thought he might have guessed tbh, but mostly he felt a bit cheated I think. He'd been feeling inadequate for being overweight (he's not obese). But now he knows it's been with the WLI, he feels less bad about his weight, which is partly why I told him. He clearly thinks it's an 'easy way', and he didn't say so, but I guess has lost some admiration for me losing the weight this way.

I also had coffee with some girlfriends, 3 of which are big, 2 are slim. The conversation ended up on WL surgery and WLI and I should have admitted it, but again, it was quite a negative conversation from half of the group, so I chickened out.

So overall, I'm still feeling a bit shit about 1) taking the drugs and being seen as 'taking the easy way' or 'cheating' and 2) that I'm still lying by omission to people.

In positive news, I went down to 2.75mg this week which has been much better symptom wise and I've managed to eat more. Although weirdly, I've been more light headed. Need to up the water I think.

@JustWalkingTheDogs I think people just stay on the 15mg once they hit that level. In the trials that's what they did, and continued to lose weight, albeit slower, but I guess that's partly because it's 6 months down the line, your body is more used to the drug and you have less weight to lose by then.

@Mydoghealsmyheart no tastebud changes here. I definitely don't get that dopamine hit from food anymore though.