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

@Redlightbulb 21 pounds in 16 weeks with 7 more pounds to go. 800 - 1000 calories a day with no alcohol, all tracked on MFP. Had 4 weeks holiday within those weeks so a bit more relaxed then but still careful with what I ate and drank. I can't lose weight on more than 1000 cals due to age, height and yo yo dieting all my life. It's different for everyone isn't it, depending on many factors.

Fuddles sound fab @Azuresky68

Sure over the week it will balance out

And I think as long as liquid is clear should be ok

They haven't tested for over a month due to costs and pen meant to last 4w

@owlyboo fab loss. Well done

Yes very windy here

Need to go in car in a bit 30mins one way then 30min opposite direction and 30 mins home after

Kinds like a triangle

@Redlightbulb im about 17 weeks in, lost 37lbs or thereabouts

Lovely dress @4pink1blue, you look great

Well my D&V started again last night - I’d barely eaten anything all day just a bit of porridge, a banana and a bit of plain toast as I was so scared of setting it off again (and couldn’t face anything anyway) but it started again anyway. I feel like death warmed up this morning.

Maybe it was a bug after all, although that wouldn’t explain why it’s happened anywhere between twice a week and maybe every other week since MJ (well actually I was ok on 2.5 but definitely since moving up). I had a good few weeks on 7 but here we are. This isn’t completely brand new for me, I do go through spells like this with my IBS where I’ll have the runs for literally weeks on end, or I can never predict what’s going to set me off throwing up. Pre mj I had it much more under control, mostly through being careful with diet, but since mj it’s just at random and even the previous safe foods can set me off.

Either way I’m not injecting again when due tomorrow. I’m going to give myself a good few days to hopefully feel human again and then I’ll decide a plan going forward, whatever that ends up being.

Oh no @AuntieDote sorry still delicate 💐

Yes I have by several weeks! I keep my pen in the fridge and check that the liquid is clear which it always has been. No negative effects for me from doing this, but of course, I wouldnt and am not advising anyone to do the same!🙂

So I was all happy as I've lost another 1lb, yay, then I opened up a newsletter with a photo of me in the background and my double chin looks monstrous!! Its a tiny photo, I'm not even the main focus! In the newsletter, my head is less half a centimetre but there it is, this bloody ridiculous double chin being all fat and big and jowly and annoying!!

Can I inject straight in to my double chin?? 😩

I won't! But arrrggghhh, sod off double chin!!

And the annoying thing is is that it is actually smaller in real life, of course it is, I'm 1lb away from 3 stone weight loss, so of course it's smaller!! But not in this photo!!

Damn you double chin!!!

Rant over as I realise no one else in the world probably even noticed me in the photo but I have the ability to spot my chin anywhere! 🤣🤣

@Princessandthepie sure your chin isn't that bad - well done on loss

@Blondeshavemorefun i have had it on good authority from my former PT that scales are just "sad steps" and look how those arsehole bits of metal made you feel? There's no bloody way you've added 4lbs back, it's water, and a big jobby, or something else whatever. You look fabulous and I love that jumper.
@4pink1blue wow I love that dress, where's it from?
Congrats to everyone on loss and nsv yesterday and today 💙 ❤️ 👏

We did a wee bit of shopping today and then went to a lovely place we go to for some food. They had a special of Turkey brie bacon and cranberry toasties or sandwich so I thought well I've just had a bit of banana and some chicken first thing and I ordered it. Omg it was delish, it had homemade red cabbage coleslaw and a salad too I wish I had taken a pic for you all. I ate most of it 😋
I've not jabbed yet, not decided the amount. I got sent the link to the Shotsy trial app for android, would anyone else like to try it? I will DM it.
@Redlightbulb I started on the 5th of August and I had lost half a stone from January, well up and down like a yoyo!
I've lost 2st on MJ, I had 4 weeks of a plateau before I moved up a dose. I've went over the 30 days too, it's not in the fridge and still clear and still working well for me. I don't know if you asked re the time used for the pen but I saw others answer that and I'm a wee sheep 😂
@AuntieDote @Fuffedoff loving the dresses.
Ah @Azuresky68 apologies i just checked and you asked re the pen over what period. Yep I've done it and doing it with my current pen with the bonus dose tomorrow take after dinner.

I wish we could see inside our bodies and check how our visceral fat was getting on 😂 xx

@NippyCrab Your sandwich sounds so yummy! I would love to try shotsy on my android please! I have renpho scales which show visceral fat amongst lots of other bits n bobs, I take the readings with a pinch of salt as theyre not completely accurate, but its a guide at least and nice to see things like that reducing and muscle increasing etc.🙂

@Princessandthepie OMG I can so relate to the hideous double or rather triple chin auto zoom in my case! I use my renpho tape measure and whilst it says neck measurement, I am actually holding the tape right up under my chins! 😂

Hope everyone is ok with storm Darrah, its just hit here in the East and I am now planning to stay up for the night in case my roof blows off, my chimney collapses or a huge tree falls on the house and squashes me! Oh the joys of living in an old cottage in the middle of nowhere, alone! If you dont hear from me again, I may have been blown to the land of Oz!😆

Also, do any of you have tips or know of ways to increase dopamine levels? MJ has made me so emotionally flat, (not suicidal anymore!) Just really flat and unemotional/uninterested in pretty much everything. I want my inner tigger back!😁

@4pink1blue great losses overall and great legs!

25lbs in 13 weeks (should be on September thread but I like the chat here ) Not super fast but I've only just gone up to 5mg and I'm happy with that pace. I'd love to be 2 stone down by Christmas...

@MabelSpan foods that might help include chicken, almonds, spinach, watermelon (and many others). A massage (if you like that sort of think), meditation, yoga, all even better if you are outside. I also use a magnesium body lotion

@20bloodypounds Thanks for those suggestions😊

Bloody freezing tonight! Worst time of year to be losing weight isn't it! I'm sat with the heating on and a hot water bottle!!

Thanks my little crustian. I felt really shit yesterday over the gain

First gain I've had @NippyCrab and now ruined my nice chart on mfp line a was all going down in a line

If was 1/2lbs fair enough but 4 🙀

last week was a false 3lb loss or I've eaten 4lbs worth of food

I have been so hungry after my bug

Anyway if I don't lose anything next week I will not be a happy blondes !!!

I have ordered a dress for Xmas. It's meant to be here by 8pm so will try it on and dither again 😂

Sarnie sounds yummy

@MabelSpan keep safe

We had yellow warning for this weekend. Friends in Devon red and alert on phone ! 🙀🙀🙀

@20bloodypounds nice to know we are nice then sept lot 😂

@owlyboo it's so cold. Heating on whenever at home

Wind is howling and dread the bill coming in but also don't like being cold

Pay £200 a month all year round so I'm in credit and should be ok for dec and Jan hopefully

@Blondeshavemorefun I'm Devon and we all had the phone alerts! It was mad. The weather is literally biblical here I've NEVER seen wind like it! I was supposed to be on a Xmas night out but I didn't want to travel in it! Not worth the chance!

Hope the dress looks nice!

@Blondeshavemorefun Sorry! I havent gone back over all the posts, but there is no way you would have put on "proper" weight. It is just your body recalibrating after you being so poorly. Dont get disheartened by it, it really is completely normal and would happen to any of us, and of course, we would all have reacted in the exact same way as you! It will be gone soon enough, but in the meantime, who is still wearing fabulous size MEDIUM jumpers! Those pesky scales cant take that away from you!😀

Same - venue cancelled a few days ago. We said we would go for drinks elsewhere but we all said cba now due to weather

Torrential rain here and some winds

Mini blondes is on a sleepover so me myself and I and sofa and cyclone celeb js the plan

💖

How was dress @Fuffedoff

I was supposed to be going to a comedy thing in Bristol tonight. Not a bloody chance! It's going ahead even though the surrounding area is still under amber warning. I got 3 alerts last night. Fortunately our only damage (so far) is the destruction and distribution of a keter garden store. All we have left is one of the doors. I think the rest may have gone over the wall and onto the beach. There was a bag of gravel in it and a big bag of slate chippings 🤔. I'm not willing to drive in this so that's money up the spout.

@MabelSpan hang on with your wee toenails lol we need you back! I was going to suggest some of the foods @20bloodypounds mentioned. It's so hard isn't it and the stupid weather doesn't help.

DH came through and said have i ever told you I hate getting dried after my shower, aye every time for 8 years ffs! He said I want a body dryer, cue me saying stand there and I blow dried him with my hair drier haha 😄 😆

We watched The Children Act last night if you haven't seen it it's really good
Xx

Thanks for the updates. Looks like most of us have lost between 2-3 stone which is is expected really given it’s been about 4 months.
I was hoping to lose another 7 lb by year end but given my slowish loss and the time of year I think that targeting a 4 lb loss would be more realistic. Still wearing the same clothes. Moving up to 10 next week. Bit worried that I will run out of doses and still have a big chunk to lose. I did 2 months on 7.5 and now only get real good suppression the day after jabbing.

@Redlightbulb I've lost 53lbs in 15 weeks (well 9lbs were pre MJ so slightly less)

I wouldn't worry too much about moving through the doses to quickly as if the side effects aren't enough you're wasting money staying on a lower dose. How much do you have left to lose?

I'm on 10mg and will be moving up next time. I have just under a stone left to lose.

And in regard to not moving down a size similar to what me and others have said to others like @Blondeshavemorefun I'm 100% sure you have. Perhaps you were wearing too small/stretched clothes before I am sure you will have dropped a couple of sizes!! It wasn't until I went shopping I realised how many sizes I'd dropped!

Ditto. Trying on clothes made me reliese I have lost weight

I'm not an xxxl and prob a m/l now

Or was. 18 but prob a 20 and assume a 16 now

But I'm not rushing to buy a load of clothes yet as ideally I will get to a 12

So will wear baggier jeans and leggings /Jeggngs

Same @Blondeshavemorefun I'm still wearing all my 18/16 clothes even though I'm more of 14/12 now as I still have a stone to go so it seems pointless unless i absolutely have to buy things so I've only brought leggings/2 jumpers and one dress! Luckily I work from home with no zooms!

Ok. 3 dresses

Left and middle are a L and right a 12 !!!

Now im def not a 12 but I prefer the style of 3

Not sure if I can pull it off as they don't have a 14 or 16 left.

Is the right dress too tight - ideally be nice to have another month to shift a bit more but it's for Xmas so 2w

But it's a classic black dress so can be worn again and again