November starters thread 3 - the one where we get eggy burbs 😂

[Mounjaropen]

Follow on from this thread kindly started by @keepcalmandgiveitago

www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5210618-november-mounjaro-starters-thread-2?page=40&reply=140196790

Fingers crossed for a bit more weight loss this week - am going to focus hard on healthy meals after a slightly dodgy week. I don’t think my suppression is as good as it was, but something is working - DH bought some cakes at a stall, and I had one small lemon meringue pie —instead of dinner— and a corner of raspberry pistachio slice. In the past I would have wanted to taste a bit of everything, and I would almost definitely have gone back for seconds. Especially while watching Masterchef.

Totally missed that we had a new home - hi all.
@Bilbette it might help to set a series of goals. I'm starting in the 19s and ultimately aiming for the 11s, or 10s if it goes really well. But that feels too enormous, so goal 1 is to get back into the 17s. Don't try to eat an elephant in one bite!

Thanks for the new thread. The 5mg has wiped me out this weekend, exhausted, napping where i can, and don't get me started on the e**y burps. Here is to a new week everyone 🙂

Just place marking for now

Great loss! Congratulations! 🥳

Perhaps it's not the injection & just Sunday nights. Horrendous night's sleep 🥺

First WI. I'm starting my stats from the date of my last HbA1c, which led to being prescribed Mounjaro.

5'3

Weight:

SW: 92.5kg (1 November pre-MJ)
MJ starting weight: 90.7kg
CW: 89.4kg
GW: 60kg

Body fat:

SBF: 46.3%
CBF: 45.1%

Admittedly I don't set much store by the number on the scales as I'm also trying to build muscle - hence also keeping an eye in my % body fat. Still nice to keep an eye on where things are going weight-wise. This time last year I was around 95kg.

Same. Well, about 4.5 hours which isn't great. Same happened last Sunday night. If it is a pattern I might move the injection to Saturday.

I was speaking with someone that was on the injection a year ago, she lost weight, stopped the injection and put the weight back on . We have all been there so no judgment from me.

However, it just reinforced to me that in order for this to work long term, I need to take this time to retrain my brain. This is too expensive for me not to be able to sustain it when and if I come off the injection.

I have identified that my issue was food noise, snacking, and alcohol most nights. Not getting drunk by any means, but nonetheless a glass of something.

My strategies for making this work so far have been to google/research food noise. This actually shocked me and I have been able to admit to myself that I ticked every food noise box and I am questioning why my brain is so conditioned to be the way it is regarding food. I am really hoping that if I can understand and challenge my food noise issues then I can make the changes needed and hopefully it will be sustainable in the long term.

I am on week 3 day 4. The positive changes I recognise are….

• No snacking ✅
• The self destruction has stopped, the can’t stop at 1 biscuit so I will eat 10. ✅
• No alcohol, this surely has to have a positive impact. ✅
• I did a food shop yesterday and as I didn’t have a trolley full of chocolate, crisps, biscuits, cakes, alcohol, I was shocked at the checkout at the savings. Even though I think the price of MJ is expensive, it’s cheaper than all the junk I was buying. ✅
• No more eating in the middle of the night as I appear to be sleeping deeper and better. ✅
• At some point during the day, I would eat a sugary snack thinking it would give me a boost/energy and all it did was made me feel physically crap then mentally guilty. This then made me feel shit about myself so affected my self confidence, self worth and self esteem. And guess what, let’s have another cake or alcoholic drink because that will make me feel better…NOT . Hopefully that cycle has stopped ✅
• I am working towards fasting for at least a period of 12 hours, maybe longer, I am not there yet but getting there✅
• The food that I am eating, I am trying to make sensible choices, they are not as good as they could be, but I am aware of that and working on it.✅
• Recognising when I feel full and stopping eating. ✅

Well done if you have got this far, I just needed a place to document this so i can return to it if I fall off the wagon. I really don’t ever want to return to my old ways.

Good luck everyone, we can do this 💪

Checking in!

I didn’t find the second thread so glad this one has popped up :)

Hey ! Sorry I have been quiet. I started week 5 on Saturday and moved up to 5mg. Have lost just squidge under 10lbs on the 2.5mg. I could feel the 2.5mg starting to be less effective so went up to 5.
oh my goodness since Saturday night I have been sick. So so sick. Keeping nothing in. I slept most of Sunday and woke up this morning with diarrhoea. I’m hoping it’s teething issues as I had a rough first few days on the 2.5mg before it all settled down. I’m going to drop a stone this week if it doesn’t get better. Sipping water only at the mo

You poor thing! I’m due my first 5mg later. I am quite nervous tbh.

Yay! How’s it going for you?

This is a fab post. Half the battle is recognition and acknowledgment of the issues that caused most of us to find us here. You’ve got this 💪🏻

As the old saying goes, “nothing tastes as good as thin feels”

I think Masterchef is in doubt right now unfortunately….having just a bit of something and not feeling the urge not to ‘waste’ the rest is a revelation though isn’t it?

10lbs down so far. Most of that in the first two weeks last week seemed to be up and down the same 3lbs settling on a 1lb loss on final weigh in.

ive opted to stay on 2.5 for my second pen as luckily im not having any side effects and am happy with a slower loss as excess skin is a real concern for me - it’s already there to some extent after having twins 😬

Morning all, good luck to everyone for another week ahead. I took my third injection last night and woke in the night with really sharp pain in my breast, it was painful enough to wake me 7 or 8 times, like a shooting pain. Has anybody else suffered with this?

My fear is that any symptoms I have now I put down to mounjaro and that I might miss something else!

Congratulations!! Looks like you’ve made some really positive changes there!

Hi all and welcome to another day where JT’sT still does not weigh less than 16 stone 😐

Look at that last week or so 🤦🏼‍♀️ it is SO disheartening. This is exactly the kind of results I see through willpower alone (see the months prior to Nov on the graph) and then I’ll fall off the wagon before hauling myself back on. I’ve bought my second pen so I’m with MJ until that at least runs out but if I don’t start to see some regular losses soon I might as well go back to willpower alone. It’s just as inconsistent but a hell of a lot cheaper.

I had this before MJ, went on the 2w pathway. Mammogram was clear but the consultant (male) seemed fixated in me having a breast reduction but rather rudely pointed out it would not be available on the NHS as my BMI was too high. The radiologist apologised for his brusque manner as assured me that of all the people she saw, I was not ‘a big woman’. I’ve had huge boobs since puberty. I’ve never once considered a breast reduction. The consultant frankly had no business being anywhere near a breast clinic with that attitude and I was left still not understanding why I was getting the pain. In the end I linked it to weight and wine consumption but once I’ve lost weight I am going to go back to another consultant to check nothing was missed. I’d go and get a referral for peace of mind if you can.

But look how much you’ve lost! What do your food macros tell you?

Most of that was pre MJ though and it’s still only just over a stone because I’m nothing if not inconsistent. Given I started in July and the fact I’m the size of a small bus I really had hoped it might be easier than it is.

I don’t know what my macros say as tbh I’m not tracking - decades of calorie counting on and off (and eating the same things when I’m dieting) mean I’m pretty good at knowing what I’m consuming. But if I had to guess it would say too carb heavy and need to up my protein. But it’s impossible for me not to be in a good deficit so I’d hope cals in v out would still see good losses. Maybe I need to go back to tracking again but fuck me I hate it. I hate scanning every stupid thing I put in my mouth and calculating how much bloody chilli I have had.

I hate being fat. Today is not a good day!!

This article was in last week’s Times. I thought of you when I read it. Interesting stuff.

it is behind a paywall so let me know if the link doesn’t allow you to read it.

https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/article/no-you-cant-count-on-exercise-to-lose-weight-px059kvjl

Thanks @Mounjaropen I've made an appointment and they are seeing me at 11.30 so hopefully that'll put my mind at ease.

I'm sorry you had such a bad experience, some medical professionals really do need to work on their bedside manner. Its true that a minority of doctors can't see past being overweight as the problem for everything and won't even consider any other causes - very depressing!

W4D1 - last 2.5mg jab done this morning (possibly, undecided on whether to get the extra dose out next week - leaning towards doing it mainly because of when my third pen will be able to be delivered, given the Christmas/New Year post delivery)

This week has been a bit of a revelation - a family birthday and a kids birthday party meant there was plenty of cake and other ‘junk’ foods around, but I didn’t have any desire to touch them. Went out for dinner on Saturday to one of our favourite places, wasn’t able to eat more than 2/3rds of something I’d usually inhale in minutes, and no sides at all. Unfortunately what I did eat didn’t sit very well, but that was probably more because it was fattier than everything I’ve been eating recently. That discomfort has made me a bit worried about Christmas - I love all the elements of Christmas dinner and was hoping to have a (little) bit of everything, but I don’t want a repeat of Saturday night!

Weight loss has been consistent this week, but am not expecting much by next Monday. This time of the month normally involves chocolate and all the carbs, so it will be interesting to see how Mounjaro impacts things.

SW - 16st 7
CW - 15st 3
Loss this week - 5lb
Total loss - 18lb
GW - somewhere in the 11st

Has anyone set themselves mini-goals? I have some on my phone to keep me motivated - my goal weight seems so far away that it seems out of reach, but setting little targets along the way gives me the satisfaction of being able to tick something off on a semi-regular basis.