Mounjaro, 10st or more to lose.

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Hello fellow mounjaro users or people thinking about starting. I have seen there is a thread for people needing to lose 5 stone plus, but even there I felt a little bit big.
I need to lose 12 stone, and even then my BMI would be 33.
Alot of people seem to be starting mounjaro with a starting BMI of 33, so I think it sometimes feels better to be among people who have the same amount to lose, 12 stone feels so daunting and scary. It's going to be a long battle.

This is my final chance before weight loss surgery, which I really don't want to do or risk.
I am 32 years old and have 2 young sons (7 and 5), one is disabled and the other is struggling and is on a reduced timetable at school. They need me to be around for a very long time and at the moment I feel like I am failing them.

I started calorie counting/a calorie controlled diet last Monday (2nd December). I was thinking about putting it off because of Christmas, but I can always come up with an excuse, so I decided to just go for it.

I weighed in at 27st and 7lbs.
At 5 ft 8 that gave me a BMI of 58.5!!!

I had some blood tests in March which showed I was prediabetic, I have done precisely nothing since then to do anything about it and have buried my head in the sand!

My mounjaro was delivered Tuesday afternoon and I took my first jab on Wednesday morning. I think its working slightly now, but I didn't feel any different for the first 3 days, but I'm either used to eating less (unlikely in 7 days) or the mounjaro has started to take effect.

So, one week in, calorie controlled diet every day, trying to get lots of protein, drinking loads, a few days of mounjaro in my system.

Weigh day time,

drum roll

26st and 11lbs!!!! 🥳

10lbs gone. I am very happy with that. I used to be able to lose 15lbs in a week when I was younger, but I was much more active back then and thanks to being so overweight I do struggle with activity.

BMI is now 57! So I've lost 1.5 on my BMI. Fingers crossed I can keep this going, I just need the number to keep going down! I'm really hoping I can be in a healthier and happier place with myself.

So, long post over.

Does anyone with 10st or more to lose want to join me here?

I know its daunting but I think if anyone feels like me, this is probably our last hope before surgery and our health is probably starting to decline or already has due to the weight we have on our bodies.

@NotOlive it only worked once but they did send me a £50 off if you come back but they are a lot dearer than others. See if they send me any more discounts in the new year?

Try it and let me know.

Weighed post Xmas today - 3lb down - to 21st 8lb. I yo-yo a lot so I'm tending to view this as a new personal best sport-style!

Amazing! I weighed this morning for the first time in a week and was pleased to have only put on half a pound

@TorturedParentsDepartment 3lbs down is amazing! My weigh day is Tuesday, I have jumped on the scales daily just to keep everything in check as so far I’ve stayed the same - phew!

Hi everyone I have 7st plus to lose so hoping I can join this thread. MJ is my last hope as my weight is seriously affecting my health 😞

Wow there's so many posting with just a couple of stone to lose.... Their starting point would be my okay goal 😳

Yes me too, I wish I only has a couple of stone to lose 🙄😳

I'm sure I've said it before, but I've lost over 6 stone and I'm still at a weight that plenty of people start at, and are horrified at being at that weight! I tend not to get involved with posting on threads where there are people who have a much smaller amount to lose.

Haha totally get that.. my goal weight is someone's starting weight and they say can't believe I weighed so much, makes you feel a bit meh' .. but I know it's OK as I'm taller than them but when you just read the weight numbers it's a bit rubbish..

I'm not taller than them though - I've always had a frame that could take a heavier weight without displaying it on my arse, but over the years I spiralled through the plus sizes. Partly to control my life as my mum was always judgemental as hell about my weight (at one point in a shop changing room when I was a teen she said "You'd be really pretty if you weren't so fat" and onlookers gasped in horror.

People are starting to notice the loss though and I'm starting to feel it in my mobility - went shopping in the sales and was walking with relative ease around Meadowhell and usually I find lots of walking physically quite hard work. I'd love to see it start to shift in clothes sizes (I know it's coming) as my current goal is to get to be a solid size 24 meaning I can start to do things like buy supermarket clothes... then Primark is my goal after that - although I have been wearing a men's 2XL hoodie for Christmas that fits me OK from there. It's all those little things that you really do forget that you miss from being so large for so long.

Oh and I'd love to sit on a dining chair with arms and not have them digging into my arse.

"I'd love to sit on a dining chair with arms and not have them digging into my arse."

I can so relate to that. Or outdoor pub chairs with sides that leave marks in my thighs.

Or be able to go the theatre without having to book an aisle seat because I'm worried about squeezing past other people or encroaching on their space.

And don't get me started on airplane seats and belt extenders.

I just want to be able to negotiate public spaces without worrying whether I'll fit or break something.

I'm on the November starters thread and there are people starting to fit back into size 12 clothes. Strongly suspect I'll be the last woman standing there!
We are only in competition with ourselves though and we all win the same prize of being happier and healthier.

The good news is I weighed this morning and I've stayed the same over Christmas. This is despite eating and drinking more than I should have. So hopefully I can start getting results in the new year once the Christmas goodies are finished and the kids have gone back to work/uni.

@TorturedParentsDepartment what a mean thing for a mother to say to her child! . well done on coming this far though, and the walking is good, thats all the exercise i get right now. and my clothes were 2xl, I wear quite a lot of mens clothes as im not really a girly girl, but slowley getting into xl and just into some L..
but just got to keep thinking for every 1lb loss its in the right direction!!

I try to think about the fact that we are in this for the long haul, in my mind that means we are more likely to change our way of thinking, the way we eat and portion size whereas people that don’t have as much to lose don’t get as long to change those habits so that they become the new normal, does that make sense?
I imagine that it is just as daunting losing 2 stone when you have gained weight over the last few years, but for those of us that have been gaining from childhood it’s a different kettle of fish, my future holds a life and experiences I have only ever dreamt about, I’m 57 (definitely don’t feel it) and I so want that future.

I clicked on a thread with a lady saying her BMI was 23 but she had a fat tummy and wanted to know where she could get the injections! I quickly clicked off and decided I’ll stick to this thread and the 5+ stone thread. I always found it so demoralising at weight clubs with women size 12 complaining they were half stone overweight when I’d love to be their size. I don’t need that here, I need to stay positive, as you say, we’re in it for the long haul.

It is sad really and it made me realize that even women who have no real weight issues still feel so negatively about their body.

Sometimes I wonder what my purpose in life will be once I’ve lost all my weight because everyday for as far back as I remember I’ve woken up thinking about my weight. Of course I’ve done and achieved other things, I mean you have to. But, my weight has always been with me too. A bit like the weight dog rather than the black dog following me around.

I feel you guys. I still get involved as I enjoy reading people's weight loss journeys (can you tell I haven't got a hobby 😅?) But I understand those girls in a way. I always felt so fat, in comparison to my taller, slimmer sister who always had a six-pack. She always made sure that I know, that I was the "fat one". Even weighing 58kg I felt massive. Over time I gone bigger and bigger. I hated my pictures being taken because in my eyes I was huge! Looking back and seeing the very few pictures from my youth I can see how slim I was back in the day and I wish I was as "fat" now as I was with BMI of 22-23. I have lost some weight (nearly 20 kg) but there is a long journey ahead of me.

When I was in my 20s a BMI 25-30 was healthy weight, they changed the parameters at some point. Mine was always 25-27 and I would be absolutely over the moon to be 27 and not 53! I think as we get older it’s better to not be too thin, I have friends who expect to be the weight they were at 18, I think this is why some women find it hard to accept post menopausal they’re a stone or so heavier naturally and they try and try to lose that last stone. But they really shouldn’t even be considering using what are potent drugs with potential side effects.

Gosh yes. My earliest memory about weight was my first diet aged 8 in 1976. My mum decided I was getting fat and I remember that summer being hot and hungry. I started my periods soon after and looking back I wasn’t fat, just developing hips and breasts too early. I then controlled my weight by diets and exercise right through to having my son at 32. I had a curvy hourglass figure and was deemed attractive even if I was always heavier than my friends. I lost some of the 5 stone I gained during pregnancy but then arthritis and fibromyalgia kicked in which stopped me exercising and even walking and I’ve steadily gained weight since, he’s 24 now. I need to lose weight now to live longer and make day to day living easier. Even the choice of mobility scooters is so much greater if you weigh less! It would be great to not have to ask in restaurants to swap a chair with arms to one without! So I don’t have a lot of time for women complaining they’re fat at a size 12 😉

What does it feel like to be on Mounjaro? Do you just not fancy food as much?

I’m waiting to start, I’ve ordered it but am waiting for approval.

Gosh yes. I hired a mobility scooter at a theme park and when I googled them later realised I'd never get one I could get in my boot because I'm too heavy 😳. I'm hoping my mobility will improve with weight loss but it started with ME. No doctor takes my issues seriously while this big either...

And yes to the chairs when you go out and just feeling too big.

One of my girls is overweight. I feel awful as a mum and I really don't know the best way to navigate it. She's diagnosed adhd (I'm on the waiting list) and she's a beige food fan.she always wants to snack. I don't want to criticise but I'm scared she's going to end up like me

I really appreciate you all here.

For me I just feel satiated all the time and a nibble is enough. One chocolate orange biscuit rather than a packet. I look at food as fuel.