Mounjaro September Support (3)

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Another gathering of losers! 💪

Previous thread here: Mounjaro September Support (2) www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weight-loss-injections/5170252-mounjaro-september-support-2

I'm the same, I sometimes have a tiny bruise which helps me remember 😄

@Thornymum interesting. I have also had worse side effects injecting into my stomach compared to my thigh but wasn’t sure if it was just coincidence 🤔

@InfoSecInTheCity I alternate between thighs and have a little R or L in my diary so I can keep track. Do you find you still bruise? My injection sites would bruise in the beginning and then stopped completely. However last week's site has developed quite a big one! Not important in the grand scheme but I'm fascinated by the whole process.

Also congratulations on all your progress! I'm always pleased to see how well you're doing and I love the excel tracker that you made. I've really enjoyed using it.

I have been away. I took my 8th injection tonight and have ordered another 5mg. I have ordered some needles for the bonus dose.

I will weigh myself in the morning. I will not weigh myself at night.

I am really hoping to have maintained, any weight loss will be amazing.

Thanks @LucyBnotG ! Glad you like the tracker. I was actually having a moment at work today where I was seriously considering the various ways I may murder a colleague if they asked me the same question again, and I whipped out my spreadsheet and did a little bit of tweaking just to give myself a happy task to do 😂 Being an excel geek is a boon sometimes.

I don't really bruise, managed a good one once and that went proper black and blue but nothing since then. I'm one of those weird people who can bash themselves up good and not a single mark, then mildly and gently like a butterfly's kiss brush up against a leaf and end up with a massive bruise that looks like I was in a major accident. So no rhyme or reason in it.

I’ve ordered my next pen, I ordered a 5mg one after 2 2.5mg pens. I’m not sure what dose I’ll take though. I feel like I have good suppression just now and I feel a bit sick most of the time so I might stick to 2.5mg but I figured I may as well get the 5mg pen when it was the same price as the 2.5mg one.

Morning all, I am due to do my 6th injection today and it’s official weigh day. Weirdly I have gained weight over thr past couple of days (weighed midweek!). But still really happy with a 3lb loss and have now officially lost a stone yay!

Week 1: 5lb loss
Week 2: 3lbs loss
week 3 2lbs loss
week 4 0.5 lbs loss
Week 5 3lb loss

Well done @MissBPotter you made it to a stone! I weighed midweek and I had reached the 1 stone mark, but today is my official weigh day and I am still 1lb away. Maybe next week! Having not lost anything last week I think I am in a bit of a stall but will keep on going.

I’ve had a three week stall, including being ill for most of that, and have just done a midweek weigh and finally under 13 stone. First time since 2017. And it feels so sustainable. Am delighted.

3/4lb off this week. At least it's off and not on. Still frustratingly slow.

Well done!
I'm thinking of ordering my next pen as another 5mg it seems to be working really well, a few days of side effects here and there so it seems silly to go up a dose yet , especially as it's more expensive, lol

This is how I feel! I am losing weight but very slowly but it’s all in the right direction!
I weighed myself this morning (official weigh in is tomorrow) and my weight now begins with an 11! Only just (I’m 11st 13.5lb) but it has been over 2 years since my weight started with an 11.

I have heard that some people don't have a therapeutic dose until 7.5mg. I would rather have minor side effects and stay on 5mg. Even though weight loss is slower.

I've lost 1stone 4lb or 8%. I have some suppression but am definitely using willpower to make healthy choices.

I am hungry and could still eat normally. Feeling bloated and bunged up.

Well-done on getting down I to the next stone bracket. I have 6 and 1/4 lbs to go.

I'm staying on 5mg too. Finding that the days after can hardly eat anything anyway so don't want that to be any worse. By the end of the week things are a bit better.

Also staying on 5mg. It’s working well so I don’t feel like I need to go up. Just picked up my third pen.

5 is kicking my ass, so I'm going to go back down to 3.75. I've felt pretty icky since taking the 5 and today I've managed about 300 calories, which obviously isn't enough food, so I'll dial it back for next dose. Annoying but never mind!

I'm a long time lurker on these threads, I started on 31/08 and did really well month 1.
Then I got my second pen, an order accident meant I got another 2.5 instead of 5, but that was fine I thought, I was losing with no side effects.....
well month 2 has hit me with a shovel! Guaranteed the day after injection I cannot move far from the toilet and I'm being sick all day too. With a baby to care for and a full time job I can't afford to have a day out every week.
So I have made the decision to stop Mounjaro.
Has anyone else been this bad once a week after injection?

Well done @SecondDesk that's tantalisingly close to goal weight! Will you start to wean off?

Sorry to those of you struggling with illness and to hear you're stopping @Izzydogmum. I can't understand why it would suddenly affect you more at the same dose, although there is a slight cumulative increase of the amount in your body with each dose over time.

I'm really savouring the "what it feels like to not be constantly restricting/on a diet" feeling. Eating what I want, which tends to be healthy and moderate but isn't having to exclude a food group. I think on some days I'm not getting as much protein as I could but I am favouring healthy, fresh foods. Protein powders make me feel like I'm "on a diet" so not having very much of that sort of thing either.

I've got a 7.5mg pen coming on Friday but I'm sticking to 5mg I think. I want to hold off upping doses as much as I can.

@Izzydogmum I’ve had pretty bad side effects days after jabbing at 2.5mg. I dropped down to 2mg this week and had day-long diarrhoea a couple of days later. Will be interesting to see whether I’ve actually lost anything this week. I’m still feeling a bit of suppression but not sure whether it’s enough. If I can’t lose weight without feeling grim, it’s probably not worth continuing.

I've not posted for a while. Friday will be my 10th injection (on 5mg now) and I'm still at 9lbs loss. I'm losing and gaining the same pounds over the last month. I'm in calorie deficit, I walk 10k steps a day and drink 3 litres of water. I've tried having high cal days then lower cal days. I really don't know if it's feasible to continue.

I have one 5mg dose left....should I go up to 7.5? I feel full after eating but can still eat a full meal - never had the sensation that I couldn't eat at all.

How much do you have to lose @Elephantino ?

I'd like to lose another 2 stones. I would still be technically overweight but think I would be happy at 13 stones (I'm 5 7)

Hi @Elephantino possibly a silly question so please bear with me, but how do you know that you are in calorie deficit?

• Are you keeping a record of what you eat, and is it accurate with weighed out portions?
• Have you done a TDEE calculation to determine how many calories you should be eating, or used something like MFP to calculate it for you?

You have lost 9 lbs in 9 weeks, so actually pretty much what would be expected if you are eating a 500 calorie deficit per day.

MJ doesn't increase or speed up your weight loss, it makes you more sensitive to the insulin your body produces naturally which should mean you are less likely to convert new food into fat, and it slows down your digestion so you feel fuller for longer making the dieting process feel more manageable as you don't feel like you're starving all the time. But a 500 calorie per day deficit will equal about 1 lb fat loss per week still.

@InfoSecInTheCity I've been logging everything on My Fitness Pal and my TDEE is 1400. I have been weighing everything but do guestimate if i eat away from home. You have have actually helped me so much by what you have said...a pound a week is actually what my body should be losing! I had lost just over 2 stones on my own before starting MJ ( took me 9 months)

I think I just feel a bit disheartened that I haven't had as much weightloss as others. I shouldn't let that get me down.