Mounjaro February to April 24 starters - Thread 3

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Third thread 😊

Link to 2nd thread

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5167988-mounjaro-february-to-april-24-starters-thread-2?page=40&reply=139735608

Agree, I'm 5 3 and not far off 9 stone. My ideal range starts at 7 stone 7. I'd be emaciated at that weight. I can see ribs now!

I'm similar. Currently 171cm (around 5'8 I think?) and 76kg, size 14-16. I'm looking pretty slim around face, shoulders, arms and wrists. My watch band and rings are looser by the day. Still have my hanging belly and large thighs but these are long-standing - even when I was a size 10 at 13yo I still had a pot belly, thanks PCOS (!) and thighs appeared during pregnancy and never went.

If I got to the low 50kg that my BMI says is ok, I'd look ridiculous.

My goal is 5-6kg less than my current weight, which should be a mid-14 in clothes. Then it will be time to muscle up like @FlappyFish has done!

@MJqueen
I took my rings in the other day to get altered. Dropped from a size S to an N. Watch strap two notches. But still got proper fat, dimpled knees 😅
Like you, I think size 14 is a good size for us tall birds. So I'm pretty happy with where I'm at as long as I keep my clothes on!

My flat chest and narrowish shoulders mean I’m an 8/XS on top. 12/10 on the bottom though. I am also almost two stone from the bottom of the healthy BMI range! I know MN orthodoxy is that size 12 is verging on obese but in my world it’s pretty slim, and two stone would leave me looking seriously unwell.

Blimey @Wonkypictureframe, you're tiny! That's crazy to still be 2st off bottom of healthy!

Conversely I always thought I'd be skinny at less than 9st 7, as before kids I was definitely slim at 9st 9, yet the changes my body has been through over the past 15 years means it holds weight differently and I could definitely lose another stone if I wanted to but it would all need to come from my midsection. Based on my current shape and loss to date though, I think my legs would get skinnier, my chest/decollete scrawny and my belly would stay flabby! So I'll stop where I am which is 1st 7 off lowest I think.

Yep. I can see where another stone would come from on me as I still have quite a tummy. Two stone is pushing it! But I’m happy as I am with what I have. I don’t mind a bit of a tummy as I’ve pretty much never been as thin as this in my life. No memories of a youthful flat stomach for me.

According to BMI I would still be within a healthy range with another stone off. I have been that low before, and looking back at photos I was way too thin. So thin that my knees looked huge compared to my thighs! I was in my early 20s then, and it wasn't a good look, so it would be way worse in my mid 50s.

Just thinking that every time MN descends into the whole ‘no one used to be fat - there was only ever one fat kid in a class’ I think ‘yes, that was me’! We did exist. And I had parents and a sibling at normal weights. I’ve been a weirdo all my life.

My ideal weight range is 7st 7lb to 10st 1lb. I'm currently 10st so only just in range. I feel fairly slim but could probably lose up to 2st and still look ok. I do remember thinking I looked fat at 8st 12lb when I was at college 🙄.
If I tried to lose more weight it wouldn't come off where I want to lose it, so I'm not intending much more of a loss.

@Wonkypictureframe it really annoys me hearing 'people didn't used to be fat' as my great grandma (born in the 1890s) was morbidly obese most of her life.

Go to https://www.smartbmicalculator.com/ …it gives a much more nuanced appropriate bmi to aim for that includes ethnicity and ,equally importantly, age. Plus also measure and use waist - height and waist - hip ratios to get a better idea of health.

@MJqueen Are you sure you are reading the BMI thing correctly. The absolute bottom of my health BMI is 50kg, and I am only 5ft 5.

@Smallsalt I just did a few calculations and I believe for @MJqueen 's height, the lowest weight is 54 (so not that far off 50!)
For me at 5-4 the lowest is 49kg which is 7st 10. I'm currently 9.5 stones and there is no way I could lose a further 25lbs without looking like a skeleton. This actually worries me as it can so easily lead to disfuncional eating and thinking. A few of us have had a taste of the "I will just lose another half a stone and see how I feel / look", and these measures only help justify that.

That smart bmi calculator is good, for my age and height I am spot on and 'losing any more weight would have no medical benefit'.

Imagine!!!! From obese to correct weight in 9/10 months. A modern miracle.

Checking back in with you inspiring lot. My contribution to the tally is 22kg, which is 49lb. Very modest compared to some, but as one of the shortarses that amounts to over 27% of my starting weight gone, which I'm thrilled with.

I'm at my (revised) goal of 58kg, and have been hitting the gym to try to get the muscles back. I completely agree with PP who said how much easier it is to exercise without heaving bulk around. It's like this huge revelation! It's not that I didn't exercise enough to be slim, it's that I was too fat to exercise!

Some very crepey skin on my chin, neck, upper arms, inner thighs and belly. I've started using a firming body lotion as well as face cream but don't hold out much hope for improvement really unless I can really build up some muscles too.

I'm still maintaining on 5, which I'll aim to do until new year before dropping to 4. Slooooowly does it! I'm very much listening to the experiences on here of needing to come back onto MJ. I'd like to come off, I feel it's flattening my mood and sapping my motivation, but there's no way I'm going back up to BMI 32 again, so I'm hoping to find the lowest stable dose and hold there.

This is so very articulately put!

Current tally is 1724lbs lost for all reporting.
@Everdecreasingcircumferences did you report you loss before your last post on 11 Dec?

42 lbs loss here- can’t believe it! Taken 9 months

@Moanranger you can add another three pounds on from my last check in. I've had my whoosh!

I've lost 55lbs since April. I initially planned to take the medication for a year but I think its going to take a little longer. Ideally I want to lose another 50lbs.

I'm slightly bored of dieting now and I've slipped back into some bad habits. I can binge even on 15mg but it's no where near as much and I can get back on track the next day. I still haven't found an alternative dopamine producing activity to replace binging so that's my new years resolution!

I don't post very often but I always read this thread...it's kept me going all these months x

I’ve got two more doses of 7.5mg left but I’m feeling very little suppression now. What is heartening is that I have such a habit of small meals now. I had a service station baguette last night as there wasn’t much else and I was hungry, but it totally floored me. I felt like I’d had Christmas lunch. DH had the same plus crisps and a mince pie. I know I could push on through and get more appetite but I’m hoping that I now see exactly what sort of portions are right for me and can carry on like this.

Tell me your on Mounjaro without telling me your on Mounjaro.

I was asked what snacks and treats I wanted for over the Christmas period… I couldn’t think of any that I wanted! 🤣🤣🤣

I have brought zero things that I’d normally let myself indulge in. Just not interested. Now Christmas Day lunch on the other hand, I can’t wait for all the trimmings!

Ok, drum roll...Blimey, this is scary! Anyway, as it's you lot...
Have just bought my 501s. I told the lovely young woman in the store that I was 58, just lost 5st and wanted to buy my first ever pair and the two of us nearly had a little cry.
She asked me what size I wanted to try on, said I hadn't a clue so she bought one pair in, after another, each progressively smaller till we settled on a 28 waist, 32 length! Best clothes shopping experience ever 😅.
Photos attached - including the awful 1st prescription pic, a selfie in a grubby mirror out the loft as I was too ashamed to ask my OH to see me like that (as if he hadn't been looking at me everyday!)

@KrankyKumquat
momentous well done! 🥳🏅🥳

Hello!

I lost you all for a while 😳 house buying has been super stressful but we are almost at the finishing line! In the meantime, I tried to start titrating down to 3.75 as 5mg was making me feel like shit but it was an epic fail because the food noise was deafening so I’ve gone back up to 5mg again. I’ll live with feeling rubbish for a day or so post jab for the time being. I’m counting clicks from a 7.5 pen

On the upside, this mornings WI put me at normal weight 🎉 49.5 lbs to add to the total… that last half a pound just does not want to shift 😆