Mounjaro October starters - Thread 5!

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Thread 4 is nearly full so making the next one so we can all carry on chatting ☺️

@letshavetea Bless you, thank you. Absolutely fine on 2.5 and 5. I moved up each month. So 4 x 2.5 jabs, 4 x 5mg jabs then on to 7.5.

I’ve sent them a message so I will see what they say. I’ve trawled through the Reddit subs and it seems I’m not alone with the 7.5.. but then people are saying that the 10 was absolutely fine!

@HansHolbein - Funny isn’t it. No predicting when we’re going to feel like that’s I’ve had some ongoing difficulties with nausea, burps and constipation so still on 3.75 (3 times). I also inject on a Sunday. I hope your provider opens on the 27th and gets back to you. If not then I think I’d be tempted to go back to 5mg on Sunday and review in the new year.

@letshavetea Thank you. Where do you inject? I always do tummy but maybe I should try thigh?

@HansHolbein - I always inject in the thigh. Alternate each week. It’s absorbed less quickly there than in the abdomen.

@letshavetea Very interesting. I will definitely do that on Sunday. I’ll let you know how it goes. Thank you so much for being there for me.

@HansHolbein , I also now do thigh, and no issues, I’d say it was worth a try.

Happy Christmas everyone. I had my second 7.5 today. Made lovely poached egg, potato rosti and smoked salmon for brunch and I only rented it for about 10 minutes before it reappeared spectacularly. Oh well. Roast lamb and trimmings seems to be fine in small quantities. On 7.5 MU constipation has gone which is great.

Anyway had a lovely day and off to bed.hope you all did too

I normally eat 3 plates of xmas dinner and at least 2 desserts. I had one plate and struggled to finish that. One small bit of christmas pudding and custard, a few chocolates here and there, and I was done.

My family know I am on mounjaro, but even they were shocked at how relatively little I ate today and I feel stuffed. Its a christmas miracle 😁

Merry Christmas everyone 🌲🎅🏼🥳
Well done to all of you who stayed in control today. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 You should be really proud of yourselves.

confession time 😢 I’m afraid I fell off the wagon this evening…
I did really well early on - cup of tea and nothing else until the main event - a very small portion of turkey, veggies and 1 roast potato (a quarter) with a small glass of wine
but then I turned into the hungry caterpillar 😳

• Christmas pudding with cream and brandy butter
• 2 celebrations
• 5 chocolate coins
• a bowl of salt and vinegar crisps
• 3 cherry liqueur chocolates
• a bowl of prawn crackers
• 3 haribos
• can of tonic water

I don’t even want to think about how many empty calories that is! Feeling a bit downhearted and know this is normally where I’d quit.

Just got to try to get back on track tomorrow - wish me luck x

maybe worth looking at the dose you are on? I think you’re still only on 2.5, so just. using will power mainly. So it was always going to be a hard day.

and please don’t worry, it’s one day, and will make no difference on your journey,

I think I did okay yesterday. No breakfast and then went to my Nan's for Christmas Dinner. I had a Sunday lunch type plate full, little bit of everything. No dessert, as Nan forgot to get it out of the freezer (best thing ever!!!!!). Pretended to eat a mince pie while Nan had some Christmas pudding (I don't like it). Then for supper a sandwich made with the cold meat and pickle and a handful of pringles.... I felt really in control all day x Weighed this morning to put my mind at rest and from yesterday morning to this morning I've put on 0.2kg about half a pound. So chuffed with myself!!!
Can remember last year, I was on SW and when I weighed in after the Christmas break ( would have been about 10 days without tracking) I'd put on 13 lbs, I shit you not.
Only thing to do is work out what to do with the two big trays of Ferrero Rocher and cheese platter (a fancy one with board and knife) Father Christmas brought me........
Hope everyone is okay this morning and please remember even if you went overboard and are a little disappointed, it's one day... you cannot negate all the hard work in one day x x x x

Just been catching up on everyone's Christmas day adventures. To be frank my festive season would always revolve around food. So it has been difficult in a way to embrace my new way of doing Christmas. But embrace I have!

Been on 2 5 for 5 weeks
3.75 for 4 weeks
Jabbed my first 5mg on Christmas eve

I was ready to go up and I was a little worried about going overboard and eating too much and making myself ill or undoing all my good work (12 kg lost in 9 weeks). I mean it works what can I say. I only managed a protein shake for breakfast, a tiny amount of turkey and veg for dinner and some prawns for tea. No deserts, no chocs and no cheese! By now I would usually be feeling so uncomfortable from the day before but I feel good! I feel in control around food in a way I cannot ever remember even as a kid. I can enjoy it, without it consuming me and taking over. Today i am planning on a mince pie with custard! And I know I will enjoy it.

I wasn’t too bad yesterday, had small portions of things I wouldn’t normally eat, eg stuffing and bread sauce. Oh and a small portion of sherry trifle and glass of fizz.
Nothing too excessive and was brilliant not to have that post Christmas lunch carb induced coma I normally have. We enjoyed playing Trivial Pursuit and Articulate, whereas normally I just want to crash.
Food today will be leftovers reheated, I must start cooking less food at Christmas as always end up throwing about a third of cooked veg away.
Hope you had a good Christmas all.

I had a full dinner but that was my only meal apart from a slice of hot buttered toast at work at about 6am and half a chocolate orange. I've gained 4lb on my weigh in this morning from Monday. I'm sure most of it is water retention from the high salt meals. We have another meal at my mums today and I'm planning that will be my only meal of today, then I'm hoping I can work on dropping some of these lbs to get back to pre Christmas. I'm currently making the kids laugh by doing some steps around the kitchen to try and keep them up

I managed a pretty much normal sized Christmas dinner just with a few less potatoes than everyone else, but I only had one pain au chocolat in the morning and then a bit of dessert about 7pm and that was it! No turkey butty and cheese board later on, no chocs, nothing! Even though I planned not to restrict what I was having at all I just didn't even think about getting up to eat anything else. I did get through probably one too many glasses of wine (my head isn't thanking me this morning...) but weighed in for the first time in a few days and miraculously I've stayed the same despite having some booze nearly every night since last Thursday .

Thank you 🙏 Yes you’re right I went back down to 2.5 because I had terrible side effects on 5 mg. I might try a slightly higher dose next week. I know it’s only one day - just hated that feeling of not being in control of myself 😢

How was your suppression on 5mg? I believe the general advice is the dose you should be on is the one below the one you can't tolerate. Perhaps 5mg is your dose, if you weren't losing well on 5mg or were struggling with not having much suppression then you could look at dosing in-between but assuming you tolerated 5mg well and had good effects then I'd go back down. You will either need to count the clicks or use an insulin needle to get 5mg out of a 7.5mg pen

Try not to feel too bad, I've found that once I start snacking or whatever you think of it as, I have a tendency to do it mindlessly and just keep going. If I don't fancy a dessert or whatever it's easier just to say no but if I start eating a tub of pringles next to me I can still eat them all. Trouble for me in the past is I would then think I need to be a human dustbin and finish off all the remaining treats and snacks left after Christmas and carry on the over eating for days/weeks

How long did you do the 5mg for, and what were you eating /what were the side effects.

sometimes it can be due to what we eat. Other times it is simply you can’t tolerate the drug. Hopefully it’s the former and it’s easily resolved.

I felt very nauseas on my first 5mg, second still bad but better, and since then fine, thankfully.I am due my 4th 7,5 on sat.

I take a psylium husk with a probiotic every morning, with a litre of water, and I avoid all refined sugars , and I don’t eat additional fat. Be it sauces, fatty meat, cooking oils, butter, mayo etc. and I don’t eat simple carbs either. It sounds restrictive but it is not, as I need to ensure I get enough protein in, within a calorie limit.

so it’s all fruit, protein drink, non-root veg, meat, fish, eggs, seafood. Clean and healthy foods. I’d say it was worth a try if you’re not doing it already, see how you fair. On the right dose, and the right foods, it may work better for you.

and as said, don’t be concerned about yesterday, 2.5 isn’t a dose, so you won’t have been suppressed, so falling off the wagon is understandable, and you won’t gain weight from it, nothing that’s not fixable immediately.

@HansHolbein If 7.5mg is too much and 5mg is not enough, you can try in-between like 6mg or 6.5mg, I've just moved up from 5mg after 7 full weeks of suppression to 6mg and will then do 2 x 7mg and then 7.5mg from a 7.5mg pen by counting clicks after 5mg was wearing off in 3 days. 6mg is ok but not enough and I've had to use will power to keep losing weight and consume low calories for deficit since tuesday so i had maybe 2 days of suppression!, it's not been easy, yesterday only ate upto 1000 calories including my Xmas dinner as I didn't want a dodgy tummy with the fattier food! I do feel good today.

Helloooo! I somehow survived 🤣 I hope you all had a wonderful day yesterday.
Managed a little breakfast on Christmas Day then stayed away from all the treats! I was the Christmas dinner cook this year so while everyone else worked their way through the snacks I stayed in the kitchen - had a little too much Prosecco but it's Christmas after all. A very small dinner which I pushed round the plate but no one took any notice. No desert, cheese or Christmas pud 🤷🏼‍♀️ Everyone has just gone home and I couldn't be more delighted. I plan to get back to focusing on water and protein for the rest of today and blitz the house which looks like a bomb has hit it!!!

Did you see all the articles in the Guardian today about the 'wild west' of online pharmacies advertising and selling mj and the other slimming drugs? The evils of price promotions. Hope they don't clamp down too hard!!

Had a good day yesterday, some smoked salmon and scrambled eggs for breakfast and then everything I fancied for Christmas dinner but probably less than usual. Small
serving of pudding.
no snacks and no extras in the evening as I wasn’t hungry.
One glass of wine with the meal and 2 vodka sodas in the evening.
Really happy, enjoyed my day (hard work, hosted for 24!) but everyone had a lovely
time as far as I could tell.
went for a swim this morning, came
home and dh had made me a club sandwich for brunch which was nice but only had half. Then had some leftover chocolate torte as I really fancied it.
I’m jabbing a day early as we are going away tomorrow, also be weighing in a day early. Am
expecting a gain, not because I’ve eaten masses more but because despite running about for the last few days I haven’t had time to prioritise exercise and I’ve really missed it to be honest!

I must be one of those rarities that have stayed on 2.5mg and now on my third pen. I've lost 20lbs so far and really happy with that, the biggest win for me is that the food noise has gone and I'm still finding the supression working so I'm not wanting to move up whilst everything is working well.

Another victory for me was that I bought a Tony's Chocoloney advent calender and still had 4 numbers left by the time I got to Christmas day, that was my daily treat of one choc each evening with my cup of tea but didn't fancy one every night.

i think it’s quite common, often due to cost or anxiety, people stay on and make it work, using a lot of willpower too, however if you genuinely are suppressed and couldn’t eat more, then yes I’d think that was rare, as it’s not even a dose. Good for you, I’d class that as a result.

Many of us have other health issues though, insulin resistance, unstable blood sugars, so the drug is much much more than a tool to suppress our appetites.

id also class it as a result for you uou don’t have these things. 💫