Mounjaro August starters thread 9 (OMG)

[NippyCrab]

Hey, since we are nearly at 970 posts i thought I'd take a turn and start a new thread...

So welcome everyone to our amazing August starters MJ super group ❤️

Xx

I'm having a wobble. Been in tears this am. I think being the first Xmas separated from dh is starting to hit me

I'm 50 , well 51 and will be starting again. Second time I've had to. First was after dh1 died

It's not that I want to meet anyone yet. If at all.

I'm happy enough on my own tho at times lonely

I'm just feeling tired and emotional 🥲

For the last 9/10mths I've done it alone - single parenting is hard and not what I went into when had dd if that makes sense

Tho guess no one does

She is my world but it's tiring doing it on my own.

Hats off to all single mums

You honestly don't know what it is like till you are there

I would never be without her and I'm struggling with emotions of what we dh/ had and don't now and I guess eventually will end in divorce

Just sad really

I needed to lose weight for me, for her and my health and joints and I as can't seem to see the difference it's starting ti get to me

The last week did knock me for six as I'm not usually ill

Im def over my bug. Thank god. Never went to feel that way again but I am def Hungry this week.

Starving

The bonus dose as less 8.33 think I worked it I think is making a diff 🥲

10 was working well for me finally

I don't know whether to jab early so do 10 today or maybe a 5-8 so a top up and then again maybe Fri / sat so 4 days apart and then next week go back to Fri

Or will that be too much

Bonus dose has always been same if not slightly more so the fact it was almost 2 less I feel is making a diff

Which then means as and when I stop it , I'm going to be starving and prob one of those people who will gain the weight

Tho I will throw out all my larger clothes - when I'm too slim for them but again at the moment I'm in the same size still - which is why I think I'm struggling as not down as dress size and bloody well should be at 3.5s less

Sorry for long winded Pity post. It's not me usually and I'm just feeling very bleugh and tearful

@Blondeshavemorefun I think Christmas is a difficult time of year. I was a single mum for nearly all my DC's lives. They are in their mid 20s now. I had so many teary moments in the run up and at Christmas itself too. There is something about Christmas that is particularly triggering I think.

Fat, thin or anything in between, you are doing an amazing job as a parent. Celebrate that A LOT!!!!! I wish I had done more.

In the meantime, it is ok to grieve for the lack of DH1 an DH2 and feel blue. We can't be chipper all of the time.

@Blondeshavemorefun Never feel you have to apologise for posting about how you are really feeling. If these threads are going to be of real value to us (and they are) then we have to post warts and all. No weight-loss journey is easy, and none of us are immune to all the ups and downs of life that are bound to happen over a 4/6/8/12 month period.

I think many of us feel particularly vulnerable when we've recovered from a virus/bug, and this 'festive' season doesn't help. I get such a mix of Xmas nostalgia, both happy and sad memories, lost dreams and mini-moments of wonder and joy. (those are usually the ones that bring on the most tears - seeing my dgc in their nativity reminds me I was always working and never saw my own dc perform - so it's joyfuly ters for dgc and self-indulgent tears for me as the mother who missed out).

@poppym12 I'm usually a daily weigher and was quite despondant after a few weeks of stall or very little loss. I've just returned from 2 weeks holiday where I had no option to weigh. Even though I thought I'd probably lost weight it was with great trepidation that I stood on the scales - in that moment I imagined I'd be right back at the start of this weight loss journey. I think it has been good for me to step away from the scales and just concentrate on eating and drinking healthily.

And in good news, I lost 4.5lbs in 2 weeks. Delighted! I saw a photo that someone had taken of me and I didn't have a massive double chin (it was from a flattering angle, but still, I'll take that). That loss also means I've lost slightly more than the '20 bloody pounds' that inspired me to start on this approach. I sort of regret my name change, because I have much more to lose than that, but it was braving the scales and realising I'd put on yet another 20 pounds, on top of the 20 lockdown pounds, that spurred me into action.

@Fuffedoff well done you for changing role and upping your hours so succesfully. I wonder whether you are less active than before and whether there are gentle way to incease that. When dh and I started working from home we used to 'walk to work' - a deliberate plan to leave the house at 8.30, walk for 15 minutes and arrive home at 8.45am ready to switch our computers on and start work. Was poitive for our mental health too, and we're going to do the same now we're back from holiday.

For the MJ lightweightss amongst us, I'm happy to say that I'm tolerating 5mg fine. I drink lots of water and have few prunes every day (to help keep things regular) and taking omeprazole every second day has sorted my night-time reflux. I did feel a bit nauseous in the night once, but I think that was because I'd had a cold and I was coughing a lot and the chest spasms were making me feel like I might be sick.

I've got another stone to lose to get to goal, and my libido and my dh are looking forward to a ressurgance of dopamine!

@Blondeshavemorefun no need for any apology, especially since you are so kind to other posters! It all sounds really hard for you at the moment.

Re the losing 3 1/2 stone and not going down any clothes sizes, what is that about?! I feel exactly the same. I've been able to fit into and wear smaller clothes that I have but am still in the main wearing the same clothes as from pre Mounjaro. It's as though I was really squashed in my clothes previously and just didn't realise 🤣.

I hope that things get easier for you 💐

Poor @Blondeshavemorefun, you're allowed to feel rotten, those things are really tough. Like people have said, being post-bug, pre-Christmas and going through food deprivation is a pretty powerful combination! I certainly get what @20bloodypounds said about both the happy and the sad things being able to set me off at the moment.

I found out I'd be a single parent when I was pregnant with baby weasel, and have pretty much been on my own with her ever since. Her first Christmas we spent with my dad and lots of family and it was fantastic. Five months later my dad was dead and the family has since gradually reconfigured, like families tend to when they lose a generation, and it's pretty much just the two of us now - except my tiny baby weasel is somehow at university. I still have to try to keep alive, though - hence the MJ - as she'll need me for a while yet, even if just to help with bills and essay planning (apparently my two main roles at the moment). I've got a whole host of varied reasons why I've struggled with weight and eating throughout life, but in latter years an element was definitely the desire to have something that was just mine - something I could do (i.e. eat indulgently) that was nice for me when I was alone, and I didn't have to explain or match up. It's tough to take that away from oneself.

So be gentle with yourself. You've come through a lot and you're still fighting. Weighing less won't take all life's problems away for any of us, but I hope it will give us all scope to find new sources of strength and pleasure.

Awww @Blondeshavemorefun - sending big hugs. I'm so sorry it's tough at the moment - December is such a difficult month. Also I think cold weather is when the hunger really kicks in, regardless of anything else. I love reading about you and miniblondes (there was a post a while back where you talked about crab-walking across the room whilst you were doing her hair which really made me lol). You are doing brilliantly, and weight loss is such a strange thing anyway. Hope you can be kind to yrself.

@Blondeshavemorefun Sending you big fluffy hugs. Its so horrible when you start to feel down and alone, made all the worse at this time of year. Every little thing gets magnified, your mind goes down a dark rabbit hole that can be hard to climb out of.
But you will.
Dont ever feel bad for posting about how you feel, you are amongst friends here.
Remember too that MJ can effect our emotions, even if it hasnt happened to you before it might just add that last little bit of sadness that tips you over the edge.
And you have been poorly! You are probably a bit run down from that too so again, everything just piles on top of you, till it all seems too much.

So dont be hard on yourself. You are incredible every day just being you.😊

I am the same with not seeing any difference and wearing the same clothes, I think for me, the problem was that I was wearing clothes that were too small for me, but thanks to elastic waists and stretchy fabric they slowly stretched around my ever expanding girth!
You are bound to be hungry as you were poorly and werent able to eat properly for how long? A week?
Stop being so hard on yourself!
I would probably stick to your normal dose and day. This week needs to be a recovery week.
Still keep a check on cals etc but be kind to yourself, refuel your body and then you will start your new week re-energised.
And I will say it again, get some kombucha and kefir inside you!!!😂

@20bloodypounds From a fellow 4.25mg lightweight, congratulations on your successful 5mg and your fab loss😊

Bit of a long one, but: so yesterday I took a long haul flight as am away for work for a few weeks. Jabbed yesterday morning (3.75mg weakling still), had breakfast and lunch, was ravenous by the time I got to the airport but that weird type of 'am I hungry??' we get on MJ. Had some starbucks egg bites (great) and an iced egg nog latte (don't); then on the plane ate everything they offered. Got to my destination feeling like death from jetlag and the travel and all the food.

Woke up this morning at 4am. still baseline hunger, still trying to figure out what I want and what I can get - I'm in a cold-weather country where everything is toasted, bready, deep-fried and/or covered in cheese. The place I'm staying in has fancy scales so I weighed myself this morning - and have somehow dropped 4lbs in the past 10 days. Down to 12 st 7 - now over 3 stone lost. Looked at myself in the big mirror here and - couldn't see much difference? Or rather, my body shape is still there - boobs, high waist, long hips etc etc. Plus looking like death bc of the jetlag.

So - I have no conclusions, God knows what is happening. Very glad and very weird to be where I am. Very hungry but that might be the cold weather and that I last ate 13 hours ago on the plane. Either way, I'm down through another stone barrier so thinking about another perfume :) Hugs to all, especially those feeling the winter and the Christmas run-up particularly harshly.

@Blondeshavemorefun I found last Christmas really hard. Last Christmas was my first one post separation/divorce.

I absolutely love Christmas so it was so hard to feel so down around it. This year (so far) has felt a lot better.

I hope you manage to enjoy some parts of it with mini blonde. And it's only one year. It'll soon all be over and you'll be entering 2025 so much healthier and ready to hit what next year brings you!

I hate to be pessimistic @lookathatbookcase but it might just be the difference of a new set of scales, they're often not consistent. Hopefully these new fancy ones are correct, I just wouldn't want you to have a bad shock in the other direction when you got home!

@weaseleyes hah I have considered this! my ones at home were the cheapest I could find in ASDA whereas these bad boys are full bells-and-whistles digital trickery :) But let's see what happens when i get home, am very at peace with the loss not lasting beyond the next change in time zones :)

I'm sorry you're feeling crap @Blondeshavemorefun and @NippyCrab. This time of year certainly isn't all bells and whistles for many of us xxx

Well done on the holiday weight loss @20bloodypounds. I lost weight on a weeks all inclusive too, eating 3 small meals per day. Maybe I should try that approach at home too 🤔

@Blondeshavemorefun you are absolutely amazing and although we all don't know each other, we are all here for you. I know it doesn't help with the wobble and the pit down in your stomach but you've got this lady!! You've fucking got this!!! It will be a different Christmas but it's the start of something fabulous, you and wee mini B together and strong. I honestly have no idea what or how hard it is being a parent let alone a single parent but ffs I struggle along with 3 mutts so you're a bloody diamond.

Every single one of us women are amazing, don't even forget that, any of you. Xxxxx

@MargoLivebetter @20bloodypounds @Motnight @weaseleyes @lookathatbookcase @MabelSpan @owlyboo @poppym12 @NippyCrab

Thank you all. Been a busy day as swimming after school plus 3 homework's and dropped dd off at dads and finally flopped on sofa and read your lovely comments and cried again

Thank you for your support. We really do have a lovely thread /group 😍

Texted a friend after I did that post earlier and she imm rang me and I had a blub down the phone to her

I think half the battle /struggle is that I'm so tired. The bug or whatever it was really knocked me for 6

Tired makes me emotional and let down my barriers and I don't like that.

Dd is such a good girl and no issues and I can't blame her at all but when it comes down to just me doing all the daytime /school /everyday stuff plus work I think it's getting a bit on top of me

Plus ex is coming up for Xmas. So we both see her as dd wants that and I think it will be weird doing what we normally do as in lunch etx but it won't be our usual Xmas

But it is what it is

We get on. Have to. I made that clear as dd is our priority but still hard at times

But then I see split friends scream at each other and kids in the middle and I don't want that either

The clothes issue is really bugging me. I think it was @Motnight and @MabelSpan who said similar.

I must have been squeezing out of my clothes and maybe leggings /jeans /tops stretch and in hindsight I prob was a 20 even a 21 lol

But in 18's hence why they still fit and not massively baggy

I don't have any 14/16 jeans as I've been this size /weight for years

Last time I was a 12 was prob 2005 so 20yrs ago and when I got married first time.

I look back at first wedding pics and I was so slim then

Anyway. Thanks again. I shall wibble my wobble and tomorrow be a better day 💖 xxx

@20bloodypounds amazing loss. Well done

@weaseleyes that must have been tough in the baby/toddler years - only my dad alive. He's amazing and dd adores grandad so much. As does he

Their love for each other makes me 😍. Mum died 10yrs ago so she never knew /met mini blondes and I've always said me telling dad I was finally preg at 44 after 10yrs ttc and many failed ivf , and 2yrs after mum died gave him a new lease of life.

I'm still unsure of fermented stuff !!!

@lookathatbookcase what are the sb egg bites ?

And yes diff scales may say diff things but take the SV

@poppym12 maybe we should all have 3 small meals

@NippyCrab how is pup. Your 3 brats are your babies

@poppym12 I lost weight on a weeks all inclusive too, eating 3 small meals per day. Maybe I should try that approach at home too 🤔 My challenge is that away from home I feel my choice is more limited - I don't want cheesy chips, or heavy sauces. At home I have access to everything I love. All healthy, but still tempting!

@Blondeshavemorefun Starbucks egg bites! I love them when I'm on the road: www.starbucks.com/menu/product/2122116/single

They're in the.fridge bit of most Starbucks, and they heat them up for you. They're kind of like an omelette but much fluffier. Also come in spinach and cheese flavour. I discovered them earlier this year on another work trip when I needed something tasty and protein-y and warm and not another bloody sandwich or wrap.

I want to try making them at home because I think you can freeze them? I think Starbucks make them with a sous-vide but these are baked which are easier:

https://thegirlonbloor.com/copycat-oven-baked-starbucks-egg-bites/

@20bloodypounds i like the look of them! Thank you for sharing.

@Blondeshavemorefun the babies are good, no drama since 3 toe Joe lost his claw. Apart from the young ones recall (little shite) they are great.

I want to wake up tomorrow like Tigger on a pogo stick! I don't want to be feeling a wee wrung out chamois.

I had a soda scone earlier, toasted with Philadelphia and tomato and omg it was so nice, then my stomach started swelling like a balloon, buscupan taken haha.

Xxx

@lookathatbookcase they sound nice

Wonder how many cals /protein they are

I may get some cottage cheese and see if can make them

I love soda bread. Assume scones similar

Let's hope your pongo stick gets bouncing

@Blondeshavemorefun so that US link said they're 300 cal for 2, but I'm pretty sure the ones I've had in the UK have been around 180 cal for 2, with 13g protein.

EDIT yes, here's the UK ones https://www.starbucks.co.uk/menu/product/11263

@NippyCrab funnily enough I cracked open a tin of prunes yesterday, but no joy yet. That might be part of the issue. I think you’re right about the amount of exercise; it’s an increase for me but my calories are v low. I’ve not taken regular measurements, but I’ve gone from a size 18 to a 14 so it’s definitely doing something. Also I had a proper look at the information my fancy scales give me, and I’ve increased in muscle mass while decreasing in fat, so that also might be why there’s not much movement.

@poppym12 2 I mean it’s VERY light weight training I’m doing, but still. I think the extra running is probably increasing muscle mass as well.

@Blondeshavemorefun eshavemorefun 600 cals is far, far too little. It’s not every day, but I think in general I’m having too few. Today I had around 1300 and it felt like a real effort. I’m going to have to keep focussing on it.

@1clavdivs I also got the pouches of pureed prunes and they worked well, that makes sense what you're saying with your calories, and dropping those sizes is amazing! Xx