November starters thread 4 - the one where we navigate 🎄and stick or twist on 5mg for the New year

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Previous thread here

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5220778-november-starters-thread-3-the-one-where-we-get-eggy-burbs?page=40&reply=140510880

All welcome!

Hey all, sorry I haven't been keeping up with the threads. I just thought I'd update. I've just taken my 2nd 5mg dose last night. The suppression today is a bit crazy. I've struggled to eat an apple and cup of tea for breakfast had to leave some. On 2.5mg the suppression was on and off a bit and not brilliant. Last week on 5mg the suppression was great. I'm hoping that I can eat my Christmas dinner this week! 🙈 I decided though that I would continue with mounjaro over Christmas as I am very ready to lose this weight.

So far I've lost 11lb in 5 weeks and gone from BMI 31.5 to 29.5 I'm really happy with that. No symtoms except some heartburn if I eat very sugary foods sometimes. I'm loving it!

Random side note, but I hope even if a pill is developed, that it still lasts for a week. I think it’s a lot easier to mess about with daily pills, and/or skip them if you have diarrhoea one day, or you have a night out. I think one of the things that makes this work so well is that once you’ve taken the jab, you’re committed for a week.

Just took my 3rd dose of 5mg, hoping for better suppression this week. I've been eating quite a bit of christmassy junk food due to hosting and socialising so I'm sure I haven't lost any weight this week. Scales are all over the place from one day to the next. I guess it will be easier to be healthy after Christmas but I was hoping the Mounjaro would assist more.

W6D1
SW 16st 4lbs
CW 15st 2lbs
GW 10st (ish)

Officially a stone down. Hooray! Plus I had my work Xmas do and managed to make sensible food choices (we'd narrowed it down to 2 restaurants so I studied the menus in advance). But damn, some people look personally affronted when you turn down (as I have at work this week) mince pies, doughnuts, cupcakes and chocolates!

4th 2.5mg injection last night.

Although I’m 10lb down overall I’ve gone up 2lb this week. I’m so confused?!

I’ve had a few treats this last few days but nothing like I’d have rated previously and I’m under 1500 calories. It was Pizza Hut pizza provided at work yesterday and I ate 3/4 of it over the day rather than all in one go.

The pen broke when I tried for a bonus dose so I’ve used the new pen to take 3.75mg with 45 clicks. I was worried about the full increase to 5mg so figured this is a compromise.

Dose 5 taken - first time up from 2.5mg. Took 3.75mg.
SW 12st 10lb
CW 11st 12.1lb
Loss 2.4lb
Total loss so far 11.9lb

I weighed this morning first thing. If I go back and weigh now that I’ve been up for a bit and had a couple of coffees I will weigh more. Can be like 2lb more. Could it be something like this for you? I make a point of always taking the weight first thing when waking up for this reason!

Congratulations to all the losses!

Big boozy day hosting a lunch at my house with friends who love a drink.. was absolutely shitfaced by 2pm. At least I didn’t have far to travel home 😂

In other news today I had to put a safety pin in the trousers to a velvet tuxedo suit and can do the jacket up with zero shape wear. 🥳 I’m off to a boozy brunch in London today so I very much doubt I’ll weigh 12st 7 on Monday 😂

Hi, I’ve been a bit MIA for a few weeks, apologies. Just found this thread for the November starters (I took my first 2.5mg dose on Fri 8th Nov)

I am now W7D2 (took my third 5mg dose last night) and have lost 23 pounds so far, so I’m feeling positive. There have been lots of treats lying around at work and I’ve hardly picked at any. Even when I’m food shopping I see all the food on offer and while I do think “mmm I think that would be nice” I’m finding it easy to not be tempted, which is unheard of for me. I know it sounds stupid and I haven’t told anyone in RL but I feel a bit pleased and giddy (if that’s the right word to use?) that my mind appears to be making sensible choices. After a good two decades of struggling with food choices and food noise in my head (thinking about food ALL THE TIME) it feels nice not to have that constantly now.

No side effects at all, suppression is good but could be better, so I have just ordered my next MJ pen ready for Fri 3rd Jan - I will be going up to 7.5mg dose. I have ordered now as I know Royal Mail will be busier than usual with it being Christmas next week.

I hope you all have a lovely Christmas. The support you all give each other is amazing! Mumsnet can be a harsh place but I love the supportive and caring nature on our weight loss threads. Keep it up 👏

I’m out for cocktails and dinner tonight. Planning to eat very little up until then but I’m expecting tomorrow’s weigh in day to be disappointing as I’d only lost the 1 lb up to yesterday and seem to add on weight just looking at food.

i have chosen my meal in advance though.

My BMI has finally dropped below 40. Had a bit of a whoosh and almost 3lb off overnight and now a BMI of 39.7. Over the moon with that.

That seems quite rude - do you have ozempic face????? Who would ask anyone that?!

No ozempic face on me. I have another 3 stone to go! @PandasMum I almost said your legs look like tree trunks as she has deffo put on weight this year for a number of issues but she is my friend so I held my tongue😂. At some stage I will admit to MJ but not yet.

It's young girls that really don't need it that are taking it

Maybe it was meant as a badly worded compliment!

Surely ozempic face is a thinner face than people are used to due to weight loss rather than the drugs? Happy to be corrected.

I didn’t feel hungry but was light headed so made myself have lunch - scrambled eggs (my new, speedy lunchtime favourite). Trying to keep calories down to balance out tonight’s meal out.

ozempic face usually means that gaunt hollow sort of look that can happen with rapid weight loss

I’m think I’m safe with my slow 1lb a week losses 😂

Ozempic Face is a bit more of a jeez what's happened to them face, rather than just a thinner face. Thinner, but quite gaunt and not healthy looking. Scott Disick has quite a noticeable example.
I'd be happy enough for someone to say my face looked slimmer and ask was it with the help of ozempic/mounjaro, I wouldn't be happy if they said I had ozempic face.

I’m the same so I always weigh first thing before a coffee (but after a wee) before I shower.

If I weigh later I can easily be 2/3/4 lbs up on the morning. Of course that would be clothed too so extra there. Isn’t it crazy how much we vary!

hoping this week settles a bit and the losses continue.

I do think that for me, as I get older, I need to be middle to higher end of bmi. When I was 29 I lost baby weight and then had noro and looked gaunt, despite technically being “healthy”. I can only imagine that mid 40s that would age me.

This is why my target weight is flexible.

I know someone who had very noticeable ozempic face - it really looked like what on earth has happened to your face level of bad…. she’s now about 12 months on & still at target weight and looks completely fine now. So I’m not too worried either way really

So sick today I could hardly get out of bed. I went to Tesco to buy some nice things for xmas but quite honestly I don't know if I'll be at to eat them even though I'm calorie counting them.

Oh my god the heartburn

Gaviscon isn't touching it!

Hi all! Sorry I have been awol this week. After a ropey Sunday and Monday I was back to full health on Wednesday. Suppression wasn’t the best by today but couldn’t inject the 5mg after the way I reacted at the start of the month. So I have gone for 3.75 again. Bracing myself! I am hoping for a little side effect as I am extremely constipated after all the sickness / diarrhoea 😂 I can’t win. I haven’t weighed myself for 2 weeks as I have been so up and down with side effects and my eating tbh.