Mounjaro / Wegovy with > 5st / 30kg to lose: Thread 4

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Thread 4 (!) of this lovely community. Anyone using weight-loss injections to lose more than 5 stone or 30kg is very welcome to join us.

No discount codes, please - these need to go in the dedicated thread on this board and they will be deleted.

I haven't weighed this week as I'm all out of whack. I haven't cooked proper meals since the big Christmas dinner and have just grazed since so heaven knows what my weight is doing. We are going away for New Year with family, back on 6th Jan so I'll restart properly then.
This is a new experience for me, not restricting but not bingeing either so I'm just hoping the effects are not disastrous but, if they are, I'll deal with it after the 6th

Dropping back in for a moan. Life has been shit so have really fallen off this thread. I'll try and keep up with it better from now on.
Weighed today and I've gained 3.3lbs since yesterday, WTF?? Grrrrrr.
I haven't changed anything, have had the same food throughout, no treats for chrimbo at all, but I've gained.
The only change is that I did my first 5mg injection on Friday, I've been on 4.5mg for weeks, but that won't have made me gain weight so I'm really confused!

@alwaysscared it'll just be a fluctuation. You can't actually have gained 3 pounds since yesterday. It'll drop down again I'm sure. When is your official weigh in day?

@SilenceInside Friday is my official weigh in day, but I weigh every day, just to torture myself it seems!!

I weigh most days too, but only count the official day. The daily fluctuations can be quite large!

NSV....just had a bath and I swear I saw a hint of collarbone while putting my pyjamas on!!!!

I love my collarbone, never really realised I couldn't see or feel it before but now I can it is my favourite new thing. That and the bone in my hip crease, which all of a sudden feels like it dips in a bit when I lay down.

Would you say that we are now at a point where everyone obese knows about WLI? Especially if active on social media, etc? And that the people not using WLI have made their made up, be it cost, health anxiety, been declined because of other illnesses?
I'm feeling really guilty about not talking about MJ to a woman in work I am close to. She is really struggling to lose weight. I feel like I'm (is it called?) gatekeeping. But.....she is a terrible gossip and I just don't want the whole office to know.
So to appease my guilt I keep telling myself, she'd be using them if she wanted to.

@NearlyNewHip I think we're certainly at the point where there must be near-universal awareness of WLI, but I don't think we're yet at the point where every obese person who could afford to access them has considered them for themself and decided against them. No-one becomes severely obese without internalising some very complex attitudes to food and fatness, and I think we all recognise that the stigma and judgement that we've all seen expressed on MN in relation to WLI is really an extension of the stigma and judgment of obese people.

Using WLI means allowing yourself to accept that your obesity is a disease (or the symptom of one) which can be treated by a drug and this is a major hurdle, especially for women who have grown up in a diet culture which has taught them since puberty that their fatness is shameful and a symptom of laziness and gluttony. This is a huge psychological shift, and you can't do it on behalf of someone else. You have no reason to feel guilty. You aren't responsible for your colleague's weight struggles and you don't have to disclose your confidential medical information to assuage your guilt. It might help you to spend a bit of time reflecting on the source of your guilt. Maybe you feel like you have given yourself an unfair advantage, or as if you are betraying the sisterhood by losing weight? Would you feel guilty if you were using medication to treat any other health condition?

I went to see the practice nurse back in October for the results of some blood tests and she greeted me with 'ohhhh you're the woman on that Mounjaro aren't you, me and the other nurse were just talking about that, is it any good, how does it work for you, is it worth taking?' So I'd say that outside of MN which can be a bit of an echo chamber, knowledge of MJ and other WLIs is still spotty at best.

Recovering on a cold with MJ has really floored me

Day 15 still Ill

Otherwise
This is the greatest thing I have ever done for my body and mind

Praying that I have success
Jan to July this year

Had 7 stone to lose
3 gone since Oct

Well done all I have been hugely inspired on here xxxxxxx

Trying to write out a reply has made me think. I'd typed out unfair advantage etc but it didn't feel right. It's embarrassment, it's shame that it has come to this. Even after reading up on obesity and the part MJ plays, even after all my research, I still have that voice in my head saying why couldn't you just eat less and move more. I dont feel embarrassed that I'm using MJ, I feel embarrassed that i have to.
Something to work on in the New Year because I know I'm being silly and it's just the learned thinking of 30 odd years of GPs, fat clubs (first one being rosemary connelly when I was 13...) telling me if I just work hard enough, restrict enough....
I need my internal voice to catch up with what I now know x I'm not a bad person for needing a hip replacement and taking painkillers while i wait, it is what it is, I'm not a loser for using HRT....I need to start looking at my WLI in the same way I view my arse stickers. Help to get me through and give myself the best life I can x x

I feel the same @NearlyNewHip

I wondered about having counselling but I hate the thought of talking about it

Not one thing to feel bad about

But I totally get where you are coming from xxx

I think maybe a bit more time and I'll start to feel differently. I'm on week 12 and am still absolutely amazed that it's working for me without punishing myself. Without the nigh on crying with hunger, without feeling like a complete failure ....
Without trying to sound overly dramatic, I think those years at various fat clubs did so much damage. The jumping on the scales for some lady (nice enough) to say awww love put on a pound, do you want to hand in your diet sheet? And me lying through my teeth because there was no way I could tell them about the massive binge I had two days ago because I was hungry I couldn't sleep......

X10000

So so true xxx

I think it's incredibly important to remember that pretty much all of us have grown up in a diet culture which views obesity as a moral failing, where greed and gluttony are vices and abstention is a virtue. It's incredibly complex to unpick but absolutely vital if we want to maintain our results. For me, the blessing of MJ is that the quieting of the food noise has given me time and space to re-address my relationship with food and particularly alcohol.

I haven't updated in a while. I jabbed as normal last week and enjoyed feeling in control over Christmas. I ate the things that I love and was able to ignore completely the things I don't. I don't have a sweet tooth at all and am completely unfussed by cakes, chocolate, mince pies etc, but in previous years I would have eaten them just because they were there. It was a revelation.

I weighed this morning and am a tantalising 0.6lb away from the next stone bracket. I would really love to start 2025 with a new number at the beginning of my weight!

Happy New Year to you all.

I'm 2lbs away from getting below the 20 stone mark for the first time in about 5 years. It's not realistic to get there in 2 days but my official weigh ins are on Fridays so I haven't given up hope yet.

This is the first time I've headed into the new year feeling positive about losing weight and confident that I can actually do it

Merry Former Cheese Week you lovely big losers.

I "lost" 100gms in the last week so I am happy with that.

Food wise things have been excellent- I've had some booze, trifle, a bit of cheese and chocolates but mostly everything contained & normal. I'm not much been bothered by Christmas food at all.

Still not drinking enough water!

Had a reasonable Christmas food wise, was with people on the day and ate and drank the same as them. Got back onto my plan the next day but had a bit of a binge, some nuts and chocolate that had been gifted to me, and wine. It was towards the end of my jab week and the food noise volume was up.
I am worried that I’ve punctured the protective shield that Mounjaro has put around me… but have now taken my next dose, upped to 4mg, and am feeling on course again albeit less invulnerable.

Amazing work !!

Such an inspiring thread and well done all

A late night post to share HUGE BREAKING NEWS from the world of cottage cheese.

Ocado have started stocking Longley Farm. Just the plain flavours but they have the full fat in 450g tubs.

(Yes, that’s nearly a kilo of cottage cheese in my basket. Don’t judge me!)

Weigh in number 12
SW 21st 9lb
CW 19st 11lb
GW 11st 13lb
+3lb
losses so far; 4, 1, 5, 1, 3, 4, 2, 2, 2, 4, 1, +3
So a total of 26lbs

It's my TOTM which I only have every few months because of the pill and I've been dreadfully constipated over Christmas probably because of a change in diet.

Bit sad about my gain but hopefully I'll get back on track this week and lose those 3lb and be back where I was. I'll see how this week goes but will probably plan to move up to 7.5mg next Monday.

Back from my weekend away and did my post Xmas weigh in. Feeling very pleased that I stayed the same. Well technically lost 0.2 lbs but basically stayed the same.

So end of 2024 round up is:

Starting weight - 217.5 lbs (BMI 33.1)
Current weight - 178.5 lbs (BMI 27.1)
Total loss - 39 lbs (18% bodyweight)

Week by week:
End of week 1 - 212.5 lbs - 5.0 lbs Loss
End of week 2 - 209.6 lbs - 2.9 lbs Loss
End of week 3 - 205.9 lbs - 3.7 lbs Loss
End of week 4 - 204.1 lbs - 1.8 lbs Loss
End of week 5 - 202.8 lbs - 1.3 lbs Loss
End of week 6 - 200.8 lbs - 2.0 lbs Loss
End of week 7 - 198.6 lbs - 2.2 lbs Loss
End of week 8 - 197 lbs - 1.6 lbs Loss
End of week 9 - 195.1 lbs - 1.9 lbs Loss
End of week 10 - 192.4 lbs - 2.7 lbs Loss
End of week 11 - 190.6 lbs - 1.8 lbs Loss
End of week 12 - 190 lbs - 0.6 lbs Loss
End of week 13 - 187.8 lbs - 2.2 lbs Loss
End of week 14 - 184.3 lbs - 3.5 lbs Loss
End of week 15 - 184.5 lbs - 0.2 lbs Gain
End of week 16 - 183.4 lbs - 1.1 lbs Loss
End of week 17 - 180.9 lbs - 3 lbs Loss
End of week 18 - 178.7 lbs - 2.2 lbs Loss
End of week 19 - 178.5 lbs - 0 lbs Stayed Same

I’ve been lurking on the boards for a while, but finally today took the plunge and ordered my starting dose.

I’m feeling excited, but also a bit like I’m opening Pandora’s box. (As with a lot of people on here…) my relationship with food is extremely complicated. I started therapy about 18 months ago which has been great, and I’m close to being at peace about how I look, but feel I’ll be 100 by the time I’m close to having “sorted” my relationship with food.

My health is really (really!) suffering carrying extra weight (and still gaining), so really hoping this is going to work for me without derailing the progress I’ve made in therapy around food (“diets” are a massive trigger for me). So really grateful to see such a supportive community…