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.

@hellohellooo I can't move up, I'm prescribed it for diabetes and they keep you on 5mg, unless it's not treating your diabetes well. My sugars are perfect so I know they will keep me on this dose. It's so frustrating. The last couple weeks weigh ins have been crap too, 0.7lbs lost this week, 0.5lbs the week before 🙄😞

Just in case anyone was wondering, if your leisure centre runs a class called "functional fitness" described as "a class taking you through practical movements to improve your functional fitness" it's a nice way of writing "Bootcamp". 45 minutes of kettlebell swings, lifting dumbells, lifting heavy bags, running laps, planks, rope thing, sit-ups, press ups and other things that mean I won't be able to lift my arms above my head for the rest of the week.

@alwaysscared are your prescribing team aware that you took an in-between dose? Perhaps you may have developed a tolerance as a result. Sorry you are having a frustrating time.

@VelociraptorsVelociRapping no, I didn't tell them. I should have maybe, but they probably would have said not to.
I wish I could afford to buy it myself

@gimmemounjaro that's amazing!!!
Great to see you back and great work!

I told my sister I had lost 24kg - she was astonished and said "I know how hard it is". But it's not hard is it? )Well not for me though not everyone has the same experience 🙏🏼. )

I realised actually it's been really easy. Once I eliminate the food noise, I am pretty much able to eat what I want in reasonable quantities and lose weight. Time passes & I reduce size.

The hard part is to come - keeping it off.

I was doing a class like this at my old gym. I started out wanting to throw up in class (due to being completely unfit), but a few weeks in I really grew to love it and I got fitter & stronger. Key is to start out gently though it may be too late for that 🤣

Thank you @RobinEllacotStrike ☺️

I enjoyed just focusing on eating well and just enough, and moving around, without all the numbers and other stuff. These threads are lovely and really supportive but the trouble sometimes is there's always someone who has lost more than you, or is losing more quickly, or is nearly at goal when you've still got ages to go. So that can get a bit much for me if I'm not careful.

I am already slightly twitchy about getting to goal and coming off the meds, although I've probably got 4-5 months still to go. I feel like I can live like this forever quite happily but who knows what life will be like without MJ, I'm not sure how much of my current behaviour is the drug and how much is actually me.

I think I will need a replacement challenge, probably a fitness one, maybe a 10k or taking up a new sport, something to focus on and occupy my brain.

So far I think I would like to try:
Climbing
Horse riding
Paddle boarding
Sailing
Some kind of martial art

What does everyone else have planned for life after MJ?

Just came across this on instagram & it really rang true. I need it on a poster in the kitchen

@RobinEllacotStrike I did try to go gentle but the giant asshat running the class kept yelling to not be a quitter and then I got annoyed at him which made me stubborn which made me ignore all my bodies signs I should slow down, grit my teeth, glare at him like I wanted to set him on fire with the strength of my eyeballs and long story short now my arms hurt 😂

Gosh I feel like I could have written this entire post!

I was just thinking earlier, I am a lot closer to being able to take those horse riding lessons 🐎

And wouldn't it be lovely to learn to sail (again) this summer. My friend has joined the local sea rowing club and I'm thinking of trying that out too. Not only am I getting smaller my mobility it vastly improving. I know big women can sail, but I didn't fancy my chances moving around on a sailing dingy.

Very true @RobinEllacotStrike, and unlike many other addictive substances it’s not possible to live without food!

Thanks for checking in, @gimmemounjaro. Great to see a familiar name ❤️

@InfoSecInTheCity hilarious!
Wednesday those arms will be the worst. 😫

I only recently found out you can take painkillers for post exercise pain. (I'm 57).
I thought it was a suffering I had to go through. Paracetamol felt way too extravagant 🤣. How do we get stuck on these things?

My mum always tried to tell me 'not to cut my nose off to spite my face' but it's a lesson I never learned.

@alwaysscared I'm also prescribed it for diabetes but seem to be further along and my weight loss has slowed down now. I'm on week 18 of MJ and week 14 of 5mg. I've had weeks on 5mg similar to yours but the next week have had almost unbearable supression. I have to take one slow release metformin a day because MJ has improved my blood sugars. One thing I have started to do some more during the weeks where I feel more food noise is OMAD and ADF. Before MJ it would have been almost impossible for me to even think about that but it is such a good tool especially in the early stages when you just want to shift the weight. I have been making significant changes otherwise. Exercise and whole foods but the OMAD helps with focussing on this as well.
Starting weight in July 2024: 108.5kg
Starting weight pre MJ in September 2025: 99kg
Current weight 83.2kg
Mini goal weight: 80 kg hopefully by end of February if not sooner.
Trying hard not to weigh every day!

This is such a lovely thought and one that hadn't occurred to me (only on day 2 of MJ!) - that this might actually work and there might be life after being morbidly obese...! I went to bed wondering what I might want to do - horse riding would be amazing, but also just any kind of long walking that I might actually enjoy! I love swimming because it's the only exercise I can do without feeling like I want to die. Getting out and walking would be amazing - roll on the summer!

I've woken up this morning feeling so positive and I've put it down to feeling like for the first time in my adult life, I feel like I'm getting help with my weight. I've been to SW/WW for years on and off, but it didn't ever feel like help - just punishment and embarrassment. This really does feel like proper help - and that I'm paying for it and helping myself feels good too.

Will shut up now!

@MooBaggage You truly are doing something wonderful for yourself.
Hopefully it will be as successful for you as it has been for me and many others on here.
It's transformed my life: 5 stone down, another 3 to go.
I look forward to reading about your losses. Good luck.

@Loveachoc sorry, I should have been clearer, I'm on week 19, I have been titrating up very slowly and spent quite a few weeks on 4.5mg.
I have lost 20kg so far, but it's slowed down massively again, I have had this happen before but just gone up a dose back then. I obviously can't do that now which is frustrating.
I'll have a look at those diets, but I really don't think I'd be able to do one meal a day or an all day fast, I get so hungry.
I have been able to come off all my other diabetic medication because MJ and the food I'm eating is working so well at controlling my sugars.

@MooBaggage I’m very early days (week 2), but feel the same too… I feel totally amazing! I think partly because I’m eating better (because I actually want to not because I’m on a “diet”), but also that for the first time in my life I feel free of food demons. I’m enjoying the food I eat, but then feeling satisfied, and not constantly obsessing about what’s next, what I’m missing out on etc etc etc.

I think I’m also actually properly realising that it’s not my fault for just not eating less/moving more. It’s very freeing.

Ive only told a few people in real life I’m taking these and they’re sick of me going on about how great I feel. So I’ll share here instead! 🤣🤣

Exactly this - I’m week 2 also, it’s 1 o’clock and I’m about to eat my first meal. Usually I wake up hungry! I’m only eating now because it’s lunchtime and I can feel I need to. I’m hopeful this might be the thing that helps me lose weight for long enough to make a difference to my health. I’ve placed my order for my next pen, going to 5mg as the cost is the same and I can always give myself a half dose if I feel 5mg is too much. No side effects at all so far, other than loss of appetite and slight constipation (I usually lean the other way, so that’s rather welcome as long as it doesn’t get worse). Drinking lots of water, I bought a 1.8L Stanley cup but I have yet to finish it.

Reminder to us lovely losers 🥝🥝 2 kiwis a day keeps you regular.

I flip in and out of 🥝🥝 a day, and I can confirm it's a pretty good way to go.

I just need to remember to do it everyday!

I take pretty high doses of painkillers for arthritis, so it takes a bit more than a couple of kiwis! But yes, fruit & veg intake is really crucial - I've just made loads of soup and frozen it in single portions as an easy way of upping my intake.

Just watched the news and they are talking about obesity being reclassified......can't help thinking that someone has worked out the cost of rolling out the jabs in 12 years to all over BMI of 30 and the government has thought oh shit, we'll have to create more hoops for fatties to jump through.... the timing is just off with the jab roll out being on the news and talked about

@NearlyNewHip
Ive just read the article, id say it’s definitely related to the cost

It's an interesting concept, and I could be misunderstanding, but wouldn't this just shift extra costs from MJ prescriptions to diagnostic tests and likely treatment.

If the concept is that people with a high weight are either :

Pre-clinically obese - fat but not yet diagnosed with a weight related illness

Clinically obese - fat with: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, fatty liver.......

Then in order to categorise people you would need to run the tests to determine which category they're in.

Now I don't disagree with that concept, as someone with PCOS and what appears to be years of undiagnosed diabetes, I think it's a good idea to actually diagnose patients rather than just take one look at them and say 'ah yes you are overweight, eat less, move more and if you still feel bad after losing weight come back and see me.' But there would be costs in terms of tests and actually having to give the time to give a crap.