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!

What a great goal! 💪💪

I think we all forget everyone has their own insecurities. Unless you are planning on staying at Pikes in Ibiza no one is looking or judging. Life is short, wear all the bikinis ❤️

I'm the same. i've got a couple of 5mg pens ready because I'm away from home for a while but now panicking that I should go up to 7.5mg. have had really good supression up until i jabbed on Christmas day and since then I've wanted to eat or pick at food.
If I wanted to turn a 5mg pen into a 7.5mg dose, how much liquid or clicks is it please?

@Dreamqueen I wish I knew how to do it and I would do it aswell

Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will be able to tell us. meanwhile I'm going to google. I had to go to the walk in centre this morning and have been given a course of oral steriods for 10 days. I haven't stopped eating since I came home so will do a mini top up dose tomorrow. i have a bit of a bonus dose left from my last pen.

Some really great losses over Christmas here. I have lost the grand total of 1.5lb but I'll take it. I'm out of routine and just finished my first 5mg pen.

How do I get the bonus dose out? Anyone know? Have another 5mg pen to go to but would love a free dose!

@Dreamqueen for 7.5 it would be a full 60 clicks to get 5, and jab- then an additional 30 clicks which would be 2.5 and jab that too.
if would suggest changing pen needles for this too, just to be safe.
if you are using an extracting needle it would be 0.9ml to get 7.5.—0.6 is a full dose- (so 5mg from a pen), then 0.3 for half dose on top. Hope this makes sense!

@namechangedyetagain I bought extra extracting needles from Amazon for the extra dose, and I just extract what is left.
but see people just twist very hard to get an extra does too. Some people use pliers or their teeth but I just extract with a insulin needle.

Has anyone tried the hard twist method to get bonus dose? I tried last month but couldn’t get pen to move. I might ask DH to try tomorrow evening. If he fails I have my next pen ready to go.

It's so interesting/ depressing how much head space we all use with weight related issue, isn't it? I don't think it's guilt for me but deep embarrassment. It's such a visible way of displaying my shitty MH.
As I've hit my heaviest weight ever this year I think I've been hiding myself away from the world. I'd be mortified to see anyone I haven't seen for a couple of years, trying to find outfits that minimise my presence, avoiding activities that I know will leave me swearing or short of breath.
The help of MJ feels like an oxygen mask when you're gasping for breath.

I have ordered insulin syringes but they've not arrived. How long will the bonus dose keep in the fridge? Until next Sunday to use it then? If I try a hard twist (to what point on the scale?) will that mess it up?

Hi all, well done to everyone on your losses over this Christmas period, as well as the minimal gains. I know for a fact every single Christmas I would gain weight (usually around 5-7 pounds) from all the extra food I used to gorge on, from the pre-Christmas weeks up to the New Year, then feel absolutely crap and ashamed of myself.

Not this year though - for the first time ever I have lost another 2 pounds this week. I haven’t restricted myself - if I fancied a few maltesers, I would have some. But it felt nice not eating the entire box! Had a couple of drinks. Made sensible choices and controlled my portion sizes (for example I had two Yorkshire puddings, instead of my usual 4 or 5 🫣)

Final week of my 5mg jab too.
SW: 19 st 8 lbs
CW: 17 st 11 lbs
GW: my mind keeps changing on this! Will see when I get there.
Total weight loss 25 pounds. Hope to make it 2 stone next weekend 🤞

I also want to wish everyone a Happy New Year - and what a year 2025 will be when we are all feeling healthier in mind and body with our weight losses 🙂

I don't even know how to do a top up 🤔 I'm hopeless

Know how you feel @LimeLace I feel that I am going into 2025 in a much happier and healthier headspace (even though I am still obese). I targeting Easter to be just overweight which means I will not have the summer obese heat dread with the inevitable t-shirt fat wobble and being too scared to wear shorts

Failed miserably to get the bonus dose. Managed to turn the pen but the plunger wouldn't push all the way down. Never mind.

In contrast to others, I don't think I've ever felt more down since being on MJ. I have lost 23lbs now which I'm pleased about but I'm not seeing a huge difference in the mirror. I'm apprehensive about the couple of mini breaks I have this year. Already on ADs so it's not that. I just feel meh and that the joy ha been sucked out of life. I realise now that a lot of my fun things involved nights out with meals and drinks which is partly how I got so big to begin with.
Have no targets but if I could get to a size 18 I'd be chuffed. Blood pressure is down but again I'm on meds for that. And HRT. No wonder I'm such a mess!

@MissMarvelMum Thank you so much.

@DDreamqueen I've lost 3lbs this week so I'm happy 13st 1 I've not been that since I was 21

I've been at center parcs since I did my first 7.5 on Friday. No ill effects but I've not managed a full meal (not that CP is exactly known for food). Usually stop in at Starbucks every time we pass but I've not been able to finish my lattes either.

I was 13st 3.4lb Christmas morning and today 13st 6lb. Now to be fair I have eaten richer food and chocolate and had some wine, but I really thought I was doing better at pacing myself and turning down the worst of the Christmas excess. Still I have a record of piling half a stone on at other years then trying to shed it in January so it could be worse.

It's not helping that suppression is not so good the last few days (week 7). Well done all of those who have held steady or even lost weight this week

@Invisablepanic Switching to flat whites might help - much less milk but a similar enough texture.

Oh dear, that sounds quite tough. Are you turning down opportunities to socialise because of MJ? I think I am, a little, but I’m justifying it by thinking that right now I’m in active weight loss and it’s very expensive so I don’t want to waste it! However, once I’ve got to a happy weight, I think I can incorporate nights out/fancy dinners/mini breaks etc into an otherwise healthy lifestyle. After all, I know lots of thin people who do. Have you been on any nights out since starting MJ? I think weight loss is hard but in theory, maintenance should allow a bit more leeway so long as I manage to stick to good, light eating 80% of the time. I’m intending to sign up to Oushk or similar for maintenance so I can restart if I bugger it up.

Well done, that's a great loss especially at christmas week.

@murraymcgill did you see @MissMarvelMums post about doing a top up from a 5mg pen?

@Dreamqueen so thats 90 clicks for 7.5? I'm scared incase I do too much 😅

Yes but you won’t be able to do 90 clicks with one go. 60 clicks will take you to the number 1 on the pen. Then you will do an additional 30 clicks. Good luck x