Mounjaro October starters - Thread 4

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Number 3 was almost full so hope it’s okay to start a new one @YummyCookie

This is a fast moving group but so useful 😀

Update from me.. I’ve done my first 4 weeks and did the 5mg this morning!

Stats
5’5 33 PCOS
SW 16st 2.7lb BMI 37.7
CW 15st 1.1lb BMI 35.1
Total loss 1st 1.6lbs

Losses
W1 6.5lbs
W2 4.7lbs
W3 3lbs
W4 1.4lbs

As you can see I had a big loss initially but it’s slowing down now, and that’s ok. I want this to be sustainable long term so don’t want to get into my usual mindset of restriction… I am terrible for a restrict and binge cycle which has dominated my life for about 10 years.

I’m concentrating on protein and manageable chunks of exercise. I don’t eat a lot of meat so getting enough protein has definitely been hard, but I’ve done it.

As I said before, the weight loss is great.. but what I am more happy about is the total freedom I am feeling from food. I no longer think about it 24/7. I eat when I am hungry,
until I have had enough, and I don’t think about it again until the next time I eat. I can get on with my day now and I am so much more productive. I am getting up earlier and sleeping better.

Initially I had a few days of not sleeping well but that passed quickly and I have had no side effects at all really.

I was getting hungry again towards the end of the week on 2.5mg so I decided to move to 5mg.

Anyone who wants to shit on WLI is welcome to question me on my 20yrs of dieting, of ‘trying harder’, of my gallbladder removal surgery due to crash dieting BECAUSE I WAS TRYING SO HARD, my experience of every diet under the sun, my inability to control my weight because actually it IS out of my control because of endocrine instability due to PCOS. All the lost opportunities and memories, all the self hatred because obviously I wasn’t trying hard enough, I’m a glutton, I don’t have any discipline… OH FUCK OFF!!!!

Mounjaro has saved my life and I damn will take it till the day I fucking die if I’m allowed.

Love reading all your updates and I’m so glad we have a space to support each other.. have a fab week!

@Relaxedandchilled I have 6st 1lb/38kg left to go so I really understand that. Right now it feels.. well, so out of reach? Like I will never get there? I’m sure we will get there though. This drug will save us, I’m sure of it. Hope the app goes well.. will be amazing for you to reduce some of those meds. Keep us updated!

For those of you buying needles to get the bonus dose, my local pharmacy just sold me a pack of 10 for £2.99 which is a lot cheaper than getting them from Amazon!

@IlovetoKnitandRead glad you're feeling more on it today. Please don't give up! 8lb is 8lb less than you were a month ago - that is in no way a failure! Perspective is everything, just remember you're not in competition with anyone else and if you keep going you'll keep losing.

As others have said, losses are relative to how the drug interacts with our system. Those with the 'high' of big initial losses will also have to adjust to the reality of their losses slowing down to 1lb/2lb a week as time goes on.

Well done on your losses @HansHolbein (great username btw!) and thank you for being such an enthusiastic cheerleader for everyone else on the thread!

Yes! So annoying to need a poo AFTER weighing! Glad I'm not the only one to peer into the toilet and think "ooh, that's at least a pound sitting right there" 😂 (apologies to those eating/feeling queasy) 🙈

@littleburn He was a great guy! Thank you for your nice message. Just wanna keep everyone’s spirits up.

@MontyJinks Hahahahaha! Happened to me again this morning too.. I saw those rabbit pellets in the loo and I was FUMING!!!

Thank you and you will get there. Do you have what I have, that feeling that it is now just a matter of time to get to target weight? Before when I dieted it seemed a mountain to climb, impossible, I was dieting and gaining, and gaining fast, but now it’s 5 more pens and I’ll have got to target.

when I think back to what I was eating a month ago. It’s appalling. Like 3 big bowls of pasta in a row for dinner. Sandwiches with four slices of thick tiger bread, cheese , mayo etc, followed up by crisps for lunch. 2 or 3 bottles of wine a week. Just massive portions of everything. And I thought as I ate between 11 and 6 I’d be ok. Like some clueless fool. Then wondered why I was gaining, and I was always so so hungry,

Yes, I realised no one was paying attention to what I was (or wasn’t ) eating!

Luckily there is now 5 of us on a diet at work so nobody is really paying attention to how much I am eating, rather what I am eating for ideas!

I am definitely hungrier tonight. My stomach is rumbling!

How long is MedExpress taking to deliver? I'm trying to time my delivery for the weekend. My last pen wasn't signed for, it was no signature but on the website it is saying it will require a signature.

Did anyone need to sign for it?

Hope everyone had a gentle Monday x

My medexpress came last week, 2 days after I ordered it. I had to be in due to the size of the box, but didn't need to sign for it.

@HansHolbein I have just qualified as a midwife 😍

Well done on your losses too!

@Relaxedandchilled Your post really resonated with me. We sound very similar. I thought I didn’t eat much but I really did. And I would still be hungry. Bread, bread, pasta, bread, pasta, chocolate, cakes, bread, bread… you get the picture! Constantly snacking and picking. Constant feelings of guilt. It was truly awful and exhausting.

I agree, this time it feels different. I had a smaller loss this week and the old me would be saying fuck this.. and start my old ways. My old losses were painfully slow and I would give up easily. I feel like I finally have an ‘out’ with this. I’m so glad for us, and everyone else, that finally something is going to save us.

@UpUpUpU That is incredible! I am so so so happy for you. What a wonderful person you are. I always dreamed of being a midwife as a child, but alas it didn’t happen. When can you start your first shift? Babies, babies, babies! Love them!

Nearly 12hrs into 5mg and nothing to report yet..

Has anyone ordered a repeat pen with iq doctor? Medexpress emailed me constantly telling me when I would be able to order the next pen and it was on my original order. The only options when I look at the IQ doctor dashboard is to update them with my weight which I have done but there still doesn't seem to be any information about when I can order the next pen.

I ordered my first pen from medexpress and it came as royal mail signed for. It was really annoying as no-one else had to sign for it according to these threads so I thought it would be OK but they took the package away as I wasn't in. That was a Saturday so I didn't receive it until Monday by which point it was warm.

That’s amazing, what a vocation, you must be both very proud and excited!

@HansHolbein I finished my degree and training end of July and started my job end of September. I absolutely love it and always come home beaming. I feel exceptionally blessed. And now I’m a stone lighter and eating better I can bounce through my 12.5 hour shifts much more easily!

I’m two days in after taking 5mg, I’ve been jabbing a day early for a couple of weeks and will do so this week as I want to jab on a Friday, no feelings of nausea and no full on suppression either, but there’s no constant nagging ‘what can I have to eat noise’ which is wonderful.
still having problems with flaming constipation though. My prunes, chia seeds and flax ‘experiment’ didn’t work 😫Had to resort to a suppository this morning. I really want to avoid laxatives (I have abused them in the past), I eat plenty of veg, fruit and pulses and drink 2 to 3 litres of water a day, just not sure what else I can try…

I am also suffering with constipation:( I am W4D5. I wondered if anyone further along had this and it improved? I have also tried all the natural remedies. Flax, chia, more veg, more fruit even fresh orange juice at the weekend. I have not lost anything this week which I am sure Is due to this 😥

I am taking pysllium husk capsules from Solgar. I have been on 1 a day but since moving up to 5mg MJ I may have the recommended dose of 2 capsules. They seem to be working well. I couldn't get on with chia, it gives me stomach pains.

I’m 5 and a bit weeks in and
struggling with the constipation still. I’ve tried chia seeds, senna psyllium husk and none made a difference at all. 1 dulcolax sorted it out this weekend, but it’s not something I would want to have to do every week 😏

I’ll try the pysllium husk capsules next, it’s so frustrating… but in the grand scheme of things, I’d rather be having constipation issues and losing weight than keeping ‘regular’ and gaining

W4 D2
SW 106.5kg
CW 103.1kg
GW 70kg

@IlovetoKnitandRead, sympathies on reasonably slow loss. I had my fourth 2.5mg injection yesterday, and have noticed I am hungrier sometimes, or at least am slightly more inclined to snack without being hungry, last 10 days or so. Calories in very little more, though.

I was thrilled with 3kg loss first week, but lost only 0.1kg second week, and 0.8kg second week.

I am also struggling with constipation, so need to try harder with water and fibre.

However, that is just shy of 4kg in 3 weeks - which is over half a stone, and way more than I’ve lost in years! Hoping with some effort to get up to a stone in the full month since starting (6.36kg).

I have my 5mg pen in the fridge waiting. Planning to use my bonus dose remaining in 2.5mg pen this weekend, and hope there will be 3mg or more to ease the transition.

I am exercising at the gym 4 or 5 days a week, dog walking, aiming for good protein and body moisturising twice daily!

These tea bags help with constipation, Iv drank them on and off for years.

www.hollandandbarrett.com/shop/product/ideal-health-slimatee-green-tea-gentian-10-tea-bags-6100003131?skuid=066194&utm_campaign=shopping&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=pmax&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD96OoJvUpc1j8hhfNfM4_A5Vueng&gclsrc=ds

You can also get a Chinese slimming tea which does a very similar thing