Tell me you’re on Mounjaro without telling me you are (lighthearted)

[Swalwey]

• You suddenly drink gallons of herbal tea
• Your weekly shop is £100 less than it used to be due to not wanting alcohol, snacks etc
• All your clothes are either way too big or slightly too small, as you are buying in anticipation of losing more weight (which you do)
• You have so much energy and focus that you are tackling every project and dyi job that has accumulated over the years. You are hanging curtains, restoring furniture, organising drawers, and knitting 4 blankets in a row
• You no longer have insomnia
• You now look at pasta, bread, rice and couscous with great suspicion and a little fear
• You are considering a beach holiday next summer for the first time in years
• Having studiously avoided scales for a decade, you now weigh yourself twice a day, just for fun

What are yours?

I’m constantly freezing and constipated 😳

That's very sad. What are you going to do about your marriage? I'm glad you have someone now. Do you think he is good for you?

My shoulders look more narrow than they've ever looked. My legs are slimmer than they've ever been. I can wear all my old bras! They've never been worn, I'd bought them and they'd never fitted. My old jeans are so baggy but if I stand up straight they fall down.

I regret donating my brand new M&S size 14 jeans to charity at the beginning of the year after edging up to size 18! I’d decided I would never fit in them again. Now I am hopeful. But they are gone!

You spend much of your time with your hand in front of your mouth trying to hide a burp......

@Tubetrain that's only happened to me for five minutes but it has happened to someone I know quite a lot. Is there anything that you do to cause it do you think? The time I had it was when I had had something rich before I went to bed and I had it the next morning.

I don't have diabetes anymore.

Oh god this. I didn't realise I wasn't on mute during an online meeting yesterday and one snuck up on me!

Going through my drawer of years-old never-worn ‘one day’ clothes and realising that now that I can fit into them, I’d rather live in comfy oversized jumpers that now look cute instead of like I’m desperately trying to hide my fat!

Thinking about my weight in terms of health rather than purely aesthetically.

Being able to walk without my feet hurting.

Getting caught up in a project and forgetting to eat. I never understood how this could even be possible before.

Enjoying salad, fruit, veg, protein with every meal. No longer enjoying junk carbs.

I’ve de-aged and look far more youthful.

Mental energy can be used for things other than obsessing over how fat I look and how I need to lose weight, and the constant chastising of myself for ‘failing’, vowing to ‘do better’, only to ‘fail’ again, and the feeling of hopeless self-loathing that would bring.

• My mons is flatter and I can feel more during sex.
• I feel more desirable and want sex.
• I have insane indigestion a day a week.

I wish I had these. I'm constantly tired and have no energy. Live on the sofa under a heated blanket. Can't enjoy food and wine everything tastes of nothing. But I'm thinner.

That was me when my dose was too high.

I spend the day telling Alexa to turn the heat up and/or the electric blanket on.

My burps taste of egg.

I no longer eat dessert.

I get excited it's jab day.

My back doesn't hurt.

My knees don't hurt.

I care about how i look again (hair, nails, makeup, clothes).

I have hope for my future.

The Christmas chocolates & biscuits I bought last month are still unopened in the cupboard

Also, I am finding my old professional confidence coming back at work. Too long has my secret shame been that I feel like I am failing at my job - held back by a loss of confidence.

Being excited for the year ahead!

Repeatedly tweaking your weight-loss spreadsheet so the graphs look pretty

Realising it's two weeks before Christmas and you haven't bought so much as a mince pie

Didn't I use to have plantar fasciitis?

All of the above!

Biggest one for me is buying clothes that I love, rather than what covers my belly. I really feel like me again, I realise I do have a style and I like it!

Embarrassing to admit, but I can stand in the shower and see my pubes when I look down because I no longer have a fat gut in the way.

My arse no longer forms a dam across the bath tub, so when I top up with hot water it mixes in and I don't end up with burning feet and a cold back.

This resonates.

Or, when I pull the plug out while still sat in the bath, it no longer only empties from the front half of the bath - leaving behind me still full of water

All of my shoes and boots are too big.

Same here, even more crazy is that we have a double ended bath and is wider than a standard one! I used to be able to practically swim in the bloody thing but in the last few years I had formed a dam. About a month in to MJ my best NSV was that I didn’t anymore 😂

Being able to go clothes shopping and everything I bring to the changing room fits and actually looks nice. I haven't really gone clothes shopping in the past few years, was always ordering online to avoid the disappointment when something looks rubbish/is too small

Burps
Clears the room