Mounjaro October starters - Thread 4

[JustKeepsBreathing]

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 😀

I ordered with IQ doctor at 1:30am on a Friday, and it was processing at 9:30, complete by 15:20, I got a notification from DPD by 15:30 saying it would be delivered the next day. Did you submit everything they ask for? I had to give a photo of my previous box with the prescription label clear and a front and side selfie. Perhaps you hit a pay day rush

That's fascinating! I had never made that link! I get sciatica too...

Some amazing losses already and we are still on starter and low doses - wow 🤩

Checking in thanks!

I cannot keep up with the thread!

Glad I’m not alone with the dreams. Last night was mental!

@AnneinEdinburgh I ordered once I did jab 3. I chose 5mg as I was finding by the end of the week I was getting hungry again.

@ApolloandDaphne Me too. No side effects and feeling really good. I am completely indifferent to food.

@PickleSarnie Hope it gets to you!

@FuckOffGerms Lol, your username. Fab loss well done!

@Fizzleaway1 Omg I’m fucking dying at your dreams! Hilarious! Sorry you feel like crap. A warning to us all perhaps 😬

@TheAmazingShrinkingWoman Woooohoooo!

@SunQueen24 I really feel for you. You’ve had a hard time. I wonder, can you miss next weeks dose and do one the week after?

@memememe Great loss, well done. Honestly, no, I’ve not really had any side effects. Still on 2.5 though. Everything I’ve read says stay away from anything fried!!! Or your anus will pay!!!

Similar for me! Wedding end of November and bought a dress I love - but I hope to be 16lbs lighter by end of November from the date I bought the dress so imagine is will make a difference in how it hangs. Must try it on !

I’m with Voy, wanted the additional support, but every time I message them I get an AI generated response, so probably change to a cheaper supplier ?

Exactly - and their website specifically states
that there are no AI generated responses!

I’m trying to. Firstly I moved into “overweight”. Then I reached a stone loss. My next milestone is to be under 80kgs … that’s over 3kg away, though.

I’m also struggling to think of non food rewards. I don’t want to buy clothes, as I’m hoping I’ll get smaller still. I don’t actually enjoy beauty treatments so much. I was thinking of a massage, but struggle finding time. Really keen to hear ideas!!

I'm promising myself a new bra with 3 pairs of matching knickers once the first stone has gone - I know you said no clothes but I do like nice undies!
The other thing for me would be books. I've got a massive Amazon wish list - so something from there.

I will be treating myself to little things each milestone that I think are a bit expensive for what they are but would like to try. Eg some wow hair products, better quality nail.polish than the Collection stuff I buy in asda, maybe a posh lipstick for a big milestone x

Treats for milestones are a great idea.
I’m hungrily (no pun intended) looking at clothes I would like to buy when much nearer to my goal - I used to love fashion, had a decent sense of style and enjoy buying good quality clothes to last. I’ve worn the same very limited wardrobe of joyless, dark, baggy clothes now for so many years, I cannot wait to get rid of them all.
Not much good as a milestone treat though - maybe getting hair or nails done more often than once a year?!

W3 D3 here
Definite lessening of suppression mid-W2 - no silly food choices, but was eating more in volume at meals. Suppression back to high from yesterday.
W1 loss 4kg
W2 loss 0.1kg!
however have lost a kg since yesterday, apparently, so go figure

Does anyone know how to adjust the body fat% and calories on the Monitor Your Weight app shown above?

Oooh, new thread and loads to catch up on after being incognito for a few days!
Had a rubbish weekend food wise, felt that I ate too much but obviously didn’t as I’m another 2lbs down today, 10lbs
Am slightly regretting not starting my 5mg pen, but used the dregs of the 2.5mg pen instead, managed to get 0.7ml out, so approx 3mg dose and having to use a lot of will power at the moment.
Want to move my jab day as well so I’m not thinking about food over the weekend, so I think I’ll bring my day forward each week (so take every six days) so I can get to a Friday.

My constipation experiment seems to be working. 1 teaspoon each of flax and chia seeds and five chopped up prunes mixed in with Greek yoghurt and honey is working so far thankfully.

And yes to the weird dreams! I’ve was in a final destination like scene one night, won the lottery, car chases and last night I had steamy encounter with Beyoncé…😂
Beyonce and constipation in the same post, who’d have thought it!

Mine will be posh shampoo and conditioner, I’ve got slightly wild long curly hair and I love the only curls products but they are pretty pricey, so I’m going to treat myself. Face creams that are a bit upmarket are also calling me - mind you at my age I need all the help I can get now!

Checking in for new thread thanks. Last day of Wk2. Need more fibre before weighing myself!

W2D3 - still getting such good suppression that i really need to force myself to eat. I’m not nauseous at the thought of food but I just don’t fancy anything. However this evening we had a birthday in the house and they wanted Chinese - I ate whatever I wanted which thankfully was very small amounts of everything. I would usually have a box of salt and pepper chilli squid to myself and at least 4 duck pancakes and half a chowmein but had about 3 pieces of squid, 1 pancake and then a few mouthfuls of chowmein. That was me totally full.

DH picked my 5mg pen up from ASDA and the pharmacist told him to make sure I was aware I shouldn’t take a 5th dose from my first pen. I feel I do need to move up to 5mg so I am not sure what to do.

Yes I’m setting mini goals. The first one was to lose a stone and this took 3 weeks and it’s achieved. My next goal is to lose 10% of my starting weight. I’m almost there now, 2.4lbs left to go.
My first major goal is move from obese to overweight. My BMI is 30.1 now with the stone off but because of my ethnicity, I need to go as low as 27.4 for to be overweight so that’s like such a long way to go (17.6lbs) so setting the smaller goals make me see the achievements.

I'm not going to mess around with extra doses. Once I have completed the four doses from my first pen I'm moving to 5mg. My suppression is okay at the moment but I know I could easily overeat. If 5mg works well I might remain there for a while.

Pharmacies are never going to suggest you go against prescribing rules of 4 doses from each pen. They can't be seen to advise differently to official guidelines.
But it's your decision whether or not you use it.
I've used the 5th dose on 4 pens so far and will continue to. The 5th dose is within the 30 days of pen first being used, and I don't want to throw away perfectly good medication.

There's an option in advance settings to link it to scales maybe that would do it. You can enable body measurements in advance settings which I think has body fat % on so I think you can change that. Not sure about calories, think it's just working out your TDEE

If you feel like you need to move up to 5mg and you have the 5mg pen what’s stopping you?

Took my 3rd dose of 2.5mg last night and injected in to the stomach, I've previously done thigh and arm and had stomach issues and the sulphur burps but so far this time nothing..... don't know if it's cos I've been taking the probiotic for a week now and I didn't think injection site may a different but now I'm a bit 🤔.

Has anyone else noticed differences in where you inject?

What just proactively, without your husband mentioning it? If people use the bonus dose suppliers lose 5 percent of their sales. So it must be financial as I cannot see any medial reason you can’t take it, it’s within the 30 days and staying on a Lower dose for a week longer. Cannot be in some way dangerous.

are you sure your husband didn’t mention it, I can’t imagine the pharmacist is saying that to every single patient, every four weeks,