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

Havnt been starving today. But too soon for it to work surely

Not suppression a such as can eat but not starving the way I was yesterday

Today had

B Protein shake 166

L cuppa soup 127

T micro pizza to get cals in 418

S apple.

Crisps 97

Skinny whip 79

I still don't get the total switch off so many get for bad stuff

So ate some crisps and skinny whip

Amazing loss @4pink1blue and @Changinghabits1973 well done!

Not quite 73 here but very close @Changinghabits1973 @Blondeshavemorefun @4pink1blue

Sorry for your tough times @WorriedRelative -sending hugs.

And to anyone else struggling- this time of year can be tough with so much added pressure and the cold dark days.

I’ve not read your thread @AuntieDote , will investigate later.

I felt pretty deflated in November, started the month at 11.6 and finished at 11.4.
I did have a couple of weeks away, which wasn’t so much a holiday but involved too much rice as food options were fairly limited for veggie me.

I tried to increase dose to 4.17mg but too high for me and felt rough. I’m back down to 3.75 -(actually not quite sure what I had this week as the pen jammed and I needed pliers to twist. Even then it jammed again, so I don’t think I got the full 45 clicks)

Suppression has been high, I’m forcing myself to eat in the evening, and making sure I eat healthy snacks during the day. I’m pretty sure once these busy weeks are over, I’ll get back into my old routine and be fine.

Had an early weigh in yesterday, hoping that the scales may have moved and was shocked to get a weight starting with 10!! 10.12- haven’t seen a 10 for a very long time!
Double checked this morning and it is real!!

My target is 9&1/2 - I don’t know if that’s realistic. What I really need to concentrate on after Christmas is fitness - I need to increase my activity and tone up and build muscle.

I’m thinking C25K- anyone else? I’d also like to do some weights but don’t know where to start?

Happy weekend all

Just casually wearing my MEDIUM!! Xmas jumper. Eeeek!!!!

Well done on the 10 sighting @Usernamechangeforthis12! And looking very trim indeed there @4pink1blue 😀

😍

@Usernamechangeforthis12 it's still a 2lbs loss. Yes 4 so a lb a week would have been nice but hasn't happened but you have still lost after going on holiday so take it as a win

And yah for a weight starting with a 10

@4pink1blue medium jumper. Well done - it's a good feeling

💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

I'm away this weekend, so there's been more alcohol than usual and actually eating 3 meals, I hardly ever eat breakfast any more because I'm rarely hungry until late morning. I have done over 20k steps today though, so hopefully that and the swimming will balance it out.

@Usernamechangeforthis12 if you want to get toned up and avoid any running injuries while doing C25k then you probably want to be doing some strength training. Nerd Fitness has some good beginner programmes and they have some other good info on there too about nutrition etc.

www.nerdfitness.com/blog/strength-training-101-where-do-i-start/

Apologies I'm not keeping up with the thread. ME is really kicking my ass at the moment so I'm sleeping a ridiculous amount.

Quick question if anyone is around?

I'm hoping to take my bonus dose from my 7.5 pen tomorrow but it looks like there's not quite a full 0.6 dose. I don't really want to waste it so if I take out what there is with a syringe, is there an easy way to take a small bit from my new 7.5 pen to make up a full dose without damaging the measurements within the new pen for future weeks?

Like if I take out 0.2 from it, will future doses still be the full 0.6 amount from the 60 clicks or will it mess up the clicky plunger so I only get 0.4 next week?

4lbs a month. Not week

@poppym12 what's the point of doing that tho?

As means the end of new pen will be a lower dose as you've stolen the liquid

But yes if you take them as each dose is .6ml of strength , if you syringe out in dose 1234 means they won't be the whole dose

So means bonus will be lower for this week - like mine was. I got 8 out of a 10 pen

But then from next week you can use new pen as normal for dose 1

I'm thinking that I might be ready to move up to 10 by the time I finish my second 7.5 pen in January so will use a bit of whatever is left alongside the 4th full dose from the pen to prepare me for the jump up to 10. Then I'll only be throwing away a small amount of it.

Will the pen still count a normal dose of 60 clicks for the official doses if i use a few clicks from it tomorrow?

No it will be slightly less if you click it - I think as wouid have used some

Better to syringe it out so that it's .6 of dose and get the full 7.5

Ah right. So if I used say 10 clicks from my new 7.5 pen tomorrow to add to the bonus dose I have in my current pen, next week the pen will only click 50 times for the dose?

I think so yes. As each jab of the 4 dozes is set at .6 of whatever strength

I think 60 clicks is a full dose whatever. It's the clicking that measures the amount, so as long as you have enough in there to deliver 60 clicks it will be a full dose.

This is what I was hoping for @weaseleyes but I've never done part doses or counted clicks before. I think that the dose markers on the liquid tube might just not line up properly if I've already taken a bit out.

Only one way to find out....... I'll see how much i can extra into the syringe then tie myself in knots trying to work out how many clicks I need from the new pen to make up a full dose.

Or just have less in bonus dose like I did and start afresh new pen

I did think about getting 2 out to make 10 but then it would have just confused me and the line not line up with each dose

Hope everyone is ok. We are all very quiet

Feeling a hungry day today. I had a protein yog drink for breakie and I don't think very filling so will go back to porridge as been having the pots recently or a Protien shake and those fill me

Hi @Blondeshavemorefun and everybody else! Sorry I havent been on much this week. My boiler has completely died meaning not hot water or heating so feeling a bit miserable and bloody cold!😢
Hope you are all having a good week or at least better than me!😆

Oh no @MabelSpan that's awful. Have uou got any nice neighbours or friends you can shower and warm up at ?

Hope got someone coming out soon

It's single digits here and cold !!❄️❄️

No sadly not, or at least no one I would be comfortable asking. I had a cold shower this morning, thought I was going to keel over, talk about hyerventilating, I guess I will get used to it in the end, or die of shock!😂
It is an old boiler. no one will repair it, no one wants to repair anything tricky these days, especially heating engineers. I knew it was on its last legs, but hoped it would hang on a bit longer, like till Summer! 😆

That's bad timing @MabelSpan we replaced our boiler in the summer so we didn't get caught with it breaking down in the colder months. I hope you can get it fixed quickly.

I've been feeling nauseous and very sorry for myself today. Don't know whether it's MJ related or something else. We're supposed to be having friends over for lunch tomorrow but I might have to cancel as I haven't done the cooking - I'd need to get up super early to catch up. I just can't face being in the kitchen today with the smell of food and cooking I might have a tiny bit of biscuit and cheese later, if the feeling sick is MJ related I know I need to eat. I had boiled egg and toast at 10.30am, haven't managed anything since then.

Sorry I've been quiet. Everything is getting more and more busy on the run up to Christmas. Weigh day for me yesterday and it was first week I didn't lose boo! But I realise that as I get closer to target and lower in weight it will get gradually slower.

Really wanted to hit my 4 stone by Xmas which is 3 lbs away which seems less likely with no loss this week but never mind!

Hope the boiler gets fixed soon! 🥶

@MabelSpan oooooohhh brrrr 🥶 it's meant to be super good for your body having a cold shower lol. Not to the keeled over stage though haha, I'm sorry I laughed at that. Xx
Nowadays engineers aren't proper engineers, not old school properly trained, same with mechanics.
Do you need to get a complete new system?

I'm still in procrastination mode. All shopping done for gifts apart from one thing for my DSS. I need to wrap. I've 3 birthdays too but that's organised.

Food wise I just dont feel like eating much, banana for breakfast at 7am, 2 ryvita and chicken at 2pm and I had some yoghurt and strawberries and blueberries just now. I've opened a shake which is 50g and I'm sipping that periodically.
I'm starting to lower the dose, 48 clicks this week.

Hi @NippyCrab I did used to enjoy a cold shower, but by god it was bloody hard this morning, I think because the house is unheated, no residual or background heat. I really didnt think it would be so bad! It did kind of warm me up though. Laugh away, I am!😂A new boiler so looking at finding £5-£7k, which is going to take a while...It will be sods law I will probably get it together by bloody Summer, when its 40c again!🙄Well done on being so organised for Christmas and birthdays!

I think I am going to drop my dose to 4mg tomorrow, I have noticed that whilst supression and noise has been great on 4.25mg my mood has been really flat for about half the week recently. So I am going to drop and see if my mood lifts a bit with the same supression and food noise. It cant hurt to try.😊

What is everyone doing about Christmas food? I am hoping to enjoy some mince pies (dinky ones with dollop of extra thick cream), stollen and panatonne. All of those are things I can just have a little bit of in case they dont agree with me.
Thats all I think I fancy, I dont feel like any chocolates, trifle or any picky savoury snacks, I dont even fancy baked camembert!🙁