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.

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Interesting @WafflingDreamer

I have had eczema / contact dermatitis on my hands for years, but always related to things I've touched, or stress. Now I find I'm getting much worse itching and at strange times eg middle of the night. So I figured something else might be causing it. Apparently some foods can cause flare ups, I have never made that connection before, but like I say this feels like a different itch / pain from before. I wondered with the slower digestion caused by MJ whether that might be what's happening 🤷‍♀️

Currently avoiding dairy and it has calmed down a lot. But it's difficult to tell what the cause is because of the lag between eating and reaction. It's only been happening since I reached the higher doses, so hopefully when I come off MJ things will go back to normal.

I have some super strong dermovate from ages ago that I only use when desperate, otherwise I'm getting through a lot of Doublebase flare relief emollient which doesn't need a prescription.

The sore itchy patches on my hands have gone since I started Mounjaro and the gum disease I have struggled with for years has almost gone, so the reduction in inflammation that has been talked about has definitely happened for me.

Harking back to some earlier comments on this thread about other threads where people have clearly not understood what MJ does or done any research, I found myself sucked into one last night that was just so very very frustrating. Not changed diet, not reducing calories, not doing exercise but wonders if maybe they're one of the few who MJ doesn't work for! Arghhh really need to force myself to back away slowly and hide thread.

Interesting re the skin.....I have psoriasis but that does seem to be better than it was pre injections

@InfoSecInTheCity I read that one, I couldn’t understand how anyone would invest so much money in anything without a basic understanding of how it works and what you need to eat etc.

Mind you I have seen worse, there was a woman on a Facebook group for people using weight loss medication who decided she wanted to eat an enormous lamb roast dinner at New Year as she normally did and ate it as fast as possible so she could have her usual portion. Unsurprisingly she was extremely ill and was almost at the point of having to seek help from out of hours or A and E, I just can’t understand why you would do that.

I’m feeling less inflamed generally, which I’m hoping is a good side effect. My 5mg pen arrived yesterday although I have tomorrow and next Sunday’s injection of 2.5 left yet.

My thread of the week was asking if she can have WLI 4 weeks postpartum, post C-section too. Thankfully a midwife answered and said no.

My psoriasis is much better too. It’s because it’s an auto-immune condition, like rheumatoid arthritis, and the MJ helps to control inflammation. It’s very frustrating when GPs try to treat psoriasis as if it were bad eczema. They are completely different conditions.

Interesting that people are seeing improvements in psoriasis, that's good. The itch and pain for me is quite different from before, I'm usually very good at ignoring and riding it out and it doesn't tend to last very long. But now it's much, much more intense, always all over both hands instead of localised to one patch, and I have actually rubbed the skin away once or twice trying to relieve the itch 😣

I have done all the usual things like switch soaps, washing powder, shampoo, have tried wearing gloves to shower and cook, tried three different phone cases, using a lot of emollient. The only thing that has made a difference is giving up dairy, it's still a bit volatile but much better. Hopefully will clear up completely post MJ, I shouldn't have much longer to go 🤞

Morning all, thanks for all your responses and thoughts about my maudlin ramblings the other day! Its been exacerbated by a really stressful time in work but things have eased off this weekend and I have some fun planned for today so that helps! Lots of things to take in and consider here. But I am determined to get back on the good mood train!

This week I have lost 1.9lbs, which gets rid of last weeks gain and a little more! I have 4.5lbs to my end of Jan target and I will probably not quite make it but thats fine!

I hve decided this week to increase my dose to 8 or 8.25mg from 7.5mg. I have got an entire 7.5mg pen to use so will make it up with bonus dose and all the extra needleheads and syringes I have. I have been on 7.5mg three months so would rather not jump straight to 10, and work my way up over this pen, and maybe even the next depending on suppression/food noise.

Hope others are having a good week!

I AM BELOW ONE HUNDRED KILOS!!!!

Joyous happy dance.

SW 124kg
CW 99.1 kg

Loss to date 24.9kg - that's 3.93 stone. Or 55lb.

Gone from notch 1 on my belt to notch 5.
There's not a bra in the house that fits.

I've been thinking about how easy it has been so far. If you can eat a healthy diet, & don't have the side effects, MJ is mostly an exercise in patience & persistence, with a large side helping of self care & and determination to stay well hydrated.

The work will come later I am sure.

I am wearing a mens XL hoodie. It's my favourite. It fitted well when I bought it in Vinted a few years ago. Now it flaps on me. Especially around the hips.

Joy!

Great progress @Darlinghag and @RobinEllacotStrike, we keep on keeping on and we get there in the end.

@Darlinghag and @RobinEllacotStrike well done both of you!

Your updates prompted me to have a look at my spreadsheet and I realised i weigh 20% less now than I did in Sept.

I have a record in MyfitnessPal of my highest ever recorded weigh in, back in August 2012. Since then I've lost some, gained some and then did it all over again several times. I am currently 96lbs less than I was then. That's a whole person or a new born calf.

Congratulations @RobinEllacotStrike amazing stuff!!

and thanks and congrats to everyone else.

So my electric shower has died, and I have had to have a bath this morning and I was thinking as I was contorting myself round in the tiniest bath to shave and wash my hair, in August this would have been an absolute nightmare, and I would not have fit!! Hurrah!

"or a new born calf" 😂😂

It's one whole Mike Tyson, 100kg 😱

And he's a big lad.

Some great updates this week, well done everyone! Especially @RobinEllacotStrike with your brilliant milestone <100kgs! 🤩

Here's my Saturday weekly weigh in. Hit 25% loss today, I am now officially 3/4 of my former self! 🤯

End of week - 30 (5 x 2.5mg, 25 x 3.75mg)
SW - 21st 5lbs BMI 44.8
CW - 16st 0lbs BMI 33.6
Losses (2024) - 10,2,2,4,1,3,3,3,1,3,2,2,3,3,2,3,3,2,1,4,0,2,3,3,1,4,0
Losses (2025) - 0,3,2
Total loss - 5st 5lbs (75lbs), 25.1%
Next Target 🎯- 14st 3lb by end June (BMI < 30, 100lbs lost, Onederland!)

Gosh we are smashing it!
75%, 96lbs, small bathtub navigations!

Brilliant everyone.

MFP tells me the last time I was below 100kg was December 2012!

Does anyone have any jeggings from Asda, trying to figure out what size I should be wearing, just bought some 16R and they are baggy on the butt and waist, so I would need a 14R in there, but how do their sizes compare to other shops?

I've lived in men's XL or XXL joggers or jersey dresses for the last 15-20 years so women's trousers with actual numbers in the size are baffling.

@InfoSecInTheCity sizing is just so all over the place I've had to start to do real shopping and try stuff on (or ordering in more than one size and being better about returning what doesn't fit for online ordering)
Today I've gone down to size 12 knickers (despite size 14 jeans still from same store...)

Urghhhh that means going to a real clothes shop though 😖 All the supermarkets round here have closed their fitting rooms so you have to buy and return. The only real clothes shops left on the highstreet or at the local retail park seem to be Primark/new look type places or sports shops and I just get irritated by the loud crap music and people slowly bumbling around or talking loudly at their phones while they narrate their every thought and move to the poor bugger on the other end having to listen to their inane ramblings.

I think I've become hugely intolerant of people over the last few years as I hit my 40s and after Covid.

Asda is generous with dresses and any bottoms without buttons. If there are buttons on the trousers or skirts, the sizing seems smaller. I have elasticated trousers in a 16 that feel a bit big but can't do the buttons up yet on a 16 pair of work trousers. Might be that my belly is still biggish but used to be like that before as well. Used buy dresses and jeggings in a 20 but work trousers in a 22

I've lost half an 11 year old. No, rhat doesn't mean I've chopped my 11 year old up, neither have they maimed themselves or are sans limbs. The average 11 year old weighs 33kg and I've lost 17.3kg in the 16 weeks I have been doing this. I'm beginning to notice it now- a few items of clothing have been relegated to the charity clothes bag.

Getting close to my first target of 20kg lost which'll mean I am the same weight I was a year ago. My next target after that is 29kg lost which will be the same weight I was when I was pregnant with aforementioned 11 year old. For the first time ever it doesn't feel totally unachievable either.

THAT dress (size 16) progress? I can get it over my head now but zipping the thing up is a hard no.

Love the weight equivalences. Weigh day for me too, currently down 51lbs or one Siberian husky.

Weight loss has been much slower for me so far this month despite going up to 15mg. And my skin is going nutso and I'm definitely feeling a bit off. I have one dose left in this pen and then another 15mg waiting in the wings but think I will only take 12.5mg from now on and see how that feels.

I also haven't been drinking or exercising enough (I run but hate the cold 🥶) so need to step those up again.

Maybe I have just got to the point where every pound is hard won, if so that's ok. I am chuffed to be where I am and really wouldn't mind if this was it. I'm much fitter and healthier, more confident, clothes are now a pleasure, I feel like anything is possible.

SW: 241.2 lbs, 17st 3
CW: 190.2 lbs, 13st 8
(GW: 160? 11st 6)

Total loss: 51 lbs, 3st 9
21% of starting weight lost
63% of the way to goal

I’m early days with this journey, but I love reading this thread and your incredible losses. What amazing work you’ve all achieved! Really inspirational for me.

I’m currently W2D3. Including some weight I lost with the flu over Christmas, I’m a whole Toy Poodle less. 🐩

It's been good to see so many positive updates this weekend. Yesterday, I hit a 50lb weight loss - it's hard to fathom. I've been using Mounjaro for just over six months. I'm still on 5mg, with feeling frozen all the time (since day one) still being my only side effect. I'll keep plodding along...once I lose another 4lbs, I'll be in the 11s. The 11s! As I've said before, that used to be my fat weight and now it is one of my goals.

I've added exercise into the equation this month and feel good - I'm getting back to my old self, who I have really missed.

Oh we are all bloody amazing!

If we added up all our losses as a group we'd probably have a small kids football team at this point.

I did have a bit of a mournful moment this morning as I've been collecting beautiful dresses over the last year, I'd gotten into a rut of just wearing joggers and hoodies, so last June I bought a couple of Popsy dresses in bold prints and have then been building my collection. I realised this morning that they pretty much all have to go. They no longer flatter me because they're too baggy, and there's only so much a fitted cardi and belt can do. So I need to sell them on and buy new ones, some I will hopefully be able to replace with pre-loved, but they rarely restock so some will just be gone.