Mounjaro August starters thread 9 (OMG)

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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

@Mum0ntherun it will be raw for a while yet Mrs, we share bananas here too, hugs xx
@Blondeshavemorefun that doesn't sound like you've had a good day at all, hope you're okay tonight 💐
@Fuffedoff it sounds like you've a lot going on at the moment. Please don't be so hard on yourself, the weight yoyo is frustrating, it will all balance out. This time of year is the pits for MH. Have a virtual cuddle from me to you. 😘
@AdeloreSmore I'll have a look at those jeans, I'm fed up with my saggy arsed clothes. I have a pair of wide leg m&s jeans and they fit lovely, apart from the arse. It feels like an empty bag of skin at times!
@Princessandthepie clothes are a nightmare i feel, I used to blame my body but it's the sizing by manufacturers.
@morbidcuriosity air punch ✊️ for you here!
@20bloodypounds you are always so good with wise words. X

You've lost a part of your family. You will be sad and grieve and it's ok to , so make sure you do

Just booked my maintenance consultation for 8th January with Oushk. Hopefully I'll be down to nearer the 2.5mg again lol.

Congrats to everyone seeing success, but a big hug to @Mum0ntherun. It's so awful, and all you can do is try to hang on in there until you find one day it's a tiny bit easier to manage. I'm so sorry xxx

Sorry for your loss @Mum0ntherun & well done everyone on losses. I did end up weighing early this week and have lost another lb, which I’m delighted with considering I usually weigh Wednesdays. So now -3st9lb/-51lbs/-23.1kg. Under 100kg at 97.5 ✨

re: Christmas, I’m just going to eat what I’d like. I don’t usually go massively overboard anyway, and have said for a while that prior to MJ my diet was fine, I was just eating too much which I’m not able to do now anyway.

Weigh ins: -7, -5, -3, -2, -5, -5, -1, -3, -1, -4, -1, -4, -2, -5, -0, -2, -1✨

Sending love @Mum0ntherun - I’m so sorry for your loss. It’s heartbreaking, they are such a huge and important part of our families and the grief is very real. I’m sure you gave him a wonderful life - take comfort in that and in how much love he brought to you all and how happy he was to be with you.

Well done @SilverSprings510

I def have suppression. Didn't eat much yesterday as couldn't face it and a shit day

Made porridge pot and chucked it as couldnt face it

Think managed a cuppa soup for lunch and a few duck dumplings for tea

Today started to eat breakie of a banana and managed 1/2 and thought gonna Chuck

I do seem to get it more around day 3/4 tho today is 5

Morning all !

I haven't posted for a few days through no negative reason other than the fact that I just haven't stopped and been so flipping busy - what with driving all around the county on my volunteering; to doing last minute xmas buys; to doing housework and grocery shopping and more importantly fighting the crowds in the shops that i just need one thing from ! Still feel like my mood is back to normal which is a bonus and looking forward to weighing and jab day tomorrow; i do feel "different" on the 10mg - in a good way - i am not experiencing side effects now and the suppression is noticeably more - but still being mindful over what i am consuming but making sure that i do every day, and been incorporating swimming and aqua again this week - so its been nice - although really hectic .... Today is the only day i have indoors this week so it is going to consume of washing, ironing, colouring my hair as have a xmas meal to go to tomorrow lunchtime and then the rest of the week is my volunteering so will be nice to be home for a few hours today...

Will post tomorrow morning for weight update (hopefully fingers crossed i may have lost something but haven't had a cheeky weigh in yet from last wednesday so who knows !)

Congrats to all of you who have had successes too this week, and positive hugs for the ones who feel a little meh.... this pesky time of year and clothes not fitting properly are the worst...

@Mum0ntherun my thoughts are with you, and sending virtual hugs - i have been in your position and it is just the worst feeling.. they are such a huge huge part of your family and bring nothing but loyalty and companionship... xx

I think I'm going to go back down to 2.5mg for my next injection on Friday. The supression on 5mg and the feeling nauseous this week were awful. I felt so bad that I had to cancel friends coming for dinner - can't be doing that over Christmas week.

I think I'll go back up gradually after that. While I need to continue with my weight loss, I'd really like to feel well and healthy in 2025.

NSV Was tidying my wardrobe and found (crumpled in a heap having long ago fallen off its hanger) a dress that I bought about 3 years ago. I barely wore it as was too tight across my boobs, plus it rode up dreadfully. It fits! Not only that but my boobs are small enough that I can wear my lovely satin slip underneath - and still breathe. It's from Seasalt , so loose fit at the waist (which I don't have), 3/4 sleeves and pockets!

That's me sorted for festive wear.

Celebrating today as I am officially no
longer obese - just over weight.

BMI is now 29.75 and Im nearly at 3 stone off.

12.5mg seems to be my best dosage so far. Going up to 15mg next month too. Im
lucky I don’t really get bad side effects.

Great NSV @20bloodypounds but sorry struggling on 5. Seems so weird to me you low peeps

@MajorCarolDanvers great all going well with you and junked down a group. It's a good feeling

10 seems to be working for me so not planning to go up to 12.5 yet

But May after next pen as have one more ten

Congrats on banishing obesity @MajorCarolDanvers and on fitting the dress @20bloodypounds !

Well done @MajorCarolDanvers and @20bloodypounds - amazing achievements both.

So I caved and injected again on Friday - I had one dose left in that pen and had convinced myself I'd probably be fine, might as well finish the pen, I wouldn't eat anything triggering etc etc.

And what do you know - find that night but up Sat night and Sunday night with diarrhea and terrible stomach cramps. Almost ruined a special Christmassy day out we had on Sunday - I took immodium so there were no incidents on the day at least, but my stomach was very sore, I was exhausted from being up in the night, felt completely drained and it did overshadow it all a bit - serves me right I suppose, I knew it was the risk I was taking.

On a positive note I'm 1lbs off having lost 3 stone now - slap bang in the middle of the 'overweight' category, and just over a stone to go until healthy weight. I may have to do that stone on my own though - although I'd like to continue checking in with this thread if that's ok.

I have a full, unopened 7.5 pen in the fridge. What a waste! Another possibility I guess is that I could go back to 2.5 doses from that, see if I can tolerate that. Won't get the same suppression but may just take the edge off. Would need to work out how many clicks. Either way, I won't be doing anything till after Christmas - DH has asked me to promise I won't risk being ill, we have some really lovely plans, as well as some more stressful hosting duties I have to get through, and I won't be able to either enjoy or push through either with D&V plus very broken sleep.

Oh no @AuntieDote I share your pain. It makes me feel so miserable when I'm like that and I berate myself during the long night 'because it's all my own fault' (both for getting so fat in the first place and then making deliberate decision to inject myself). But still, I am eternally glad for mounjaro, I wouldn't have got back down to this weight without it. And I'm glad for others who are doing this too, and the support on these threads.

Sounds like a good idea for you to have a break at Christmas, enjoy the time and then have a re-think once you've had a chance to see how your appetite returns. If you do decide to go with 2.5mg it would be 20 clicks of the 7.5mg pen. But if you decide to go it alone, are there things that you can write down now, to capture the changes you have made: what you have been eating on MJ (items and amount); eating more slowly and leaving food on your plate when you are full; not buying, and therefore not consuming snacks; not eating/snacking in the evenings; drinking more water; more excercise etc. See if you can recognise the habits - these are what you might have to continue with or without MJ.

I'm going back down to 2.5mg, hopefully to stick it out and get the final stone off. I was also reading information about microdosing. There are no clinical trial results out yet but I might try that...

Hello!

Yet another frustrating day on the scales with no movement. I usually prefer weighing daily but at the moment, I'm beginning to feel like I need a break but usually it holds me accountable.

I had a rubbish night sleep last night as some things kept me awake. It's horrible when you're tired and you try go back to sleep but things just constantly pop back into your head.

Felt grouchy this morning and was dreading taking some phone calls at work this morning, as I just have one case which is endless at the moment. I'm finding it quite stressful as nothing is ever enough.

However I've also had the good news that I've been signed off supervision at work and I'm able to fly solo now with meetings and other things 🕊️.

I only started this job beginning of October and have recently felt like I was falling behind so this took me by surprise. I have received quite a few praises over recent weeks which has made me feel good. I'm awful for not believing in myself or having the confidence.

So I went out on my visits this morning, feeling very positive.

I jabbed last night and haven't felt hungry much today. However, I've got a turkey crown to cook off and will have that for dinner tonight. I need to figure out timings to cook.

Have a lovely day everyone

Thanks for the empathy, and for some really good ideas going forward (plus the info for clicks!)

I'm also eternally grateful to have had the option of mounjaro, and for how far it's brought me. I think this is the most I've ever lost in one go - and I was very much at the point where I'd given up thinking I could lose any amount, it just wasn't happening.

I'm also fairly positive about the idea of trying to do the last stone on my own - I feel like if I can manage that then it will prove to myself that the changes are properly embedded. However, I'm aware Christmas is a very difficult time to try flying solo, and by January I might be feeling out of control so the option to go back to smaller doses and see how I get on is reassuring.

I have tracked everything I've eaten along the way, and that's something I'll be keeping up with along with occasional intermittent fasting (I do this some days, others if I'm really hungry in the morning I'll just have breakfast as normal, either way I very rarely eat after 6pm). I've been enjoying some classes at a local gym who had an absolute bargain offer to purchase a set number of classes to use before the end of Dec - I couldn't afford to keep this up once that runs out as it was, but without paying for mj I probably could so that should help. Also, without feeling so bloody ill at least half the time if not more, I'm hoping I'll have enough energy to do more as well - I might try getting back into couch to 5k, I've usually got about 2/3 of the way through then given up in the past!

@AuntieDote you and everyone on this thread should still come on

Esp if off mj and let us know how found with weight loss , sts or 'whispers' a gain

I think a 5/7lb leeway is good as hard to keep same weight all the time but I'd start gaining reg the. To have a rethink

So many of you are near your end weight. I will prob be the last one here still on mj

Sorry felt poorly though and 2.5 would be 1/3 of dose so 20 clicks

@Fuffedoff sorry haven't had a good day but yah for work. That just have peeled you up

And a NSV

Was giving dd piggybacks and she felt like a right lump and kinda struggled to carry her and then I had a thought

We weighed her and she's 3s 1 (7yrs)

And reliesed that I have lost over the weight of my dd

That I used to walk to school etx with that extra lump of weight

I don't think I could walk to school with her on my back and up 2 hills

But I used to do that in April /May till lost first stone and obv then started mj

So yes feel happy with that NSV

@Blondeshavemorefun you won't be the last, we will all still be here xxx

Little NSV for me today.

Needed a smartish outfit so dug out one I haven't worn for a couple of months. When I bought it, it was a bit snug, needed pinning to prevent gaping about the boobs.

It looked huge. I had to change into a slightly too big moulded cup bra to stop it looking quite so big!

Hello everyone! Quick confession, I’ve not been on the thread for a while and I don’t think my tired brain can catch up on all of the posts, so I’ve only read the most recent page. Apologies if I’ve missed any big news.

Sorry to hear you’ve been feeling rough @AuntieDote , I definitely remember those nights of feeling awful and cursing myself for taking the shots. Thankfully I’ve been ok for a few weeks now, hope you’re better soon.

All ok here, still on 5mg, and plodding along quite nicely. Losses have slowed but not stopped, so I’m happy. I’ve hit my Christmas target of 4 stone weight loss now, and feeling confident that I can at least maintain over the festive period.

I’ve had to treat myself to some new clothes, as everything was so loose that I looked like a saggy bag-lady. I’m comfortably in size 16s now, but have just bought a size 14 dress for Christmas and it fits! Very exciting, and not paying any attention at all to the bit in the label that says “maternity” 🙈. It doesn’t really look like maternity wear to be fair, it just doesn’t cling over the tummy, which is good because I’m still carrying a soft squishy pouch there.

Have had to replace my bras too, 42F down to a 36G.

I’ll be keeping going for a while yet, I’m still in the obese category, with bmi at 32, but I’m feeling good.