I’m exactly 6 days from my first dose. I had no side effects at all (I don’t think-I’ve had a really heavy cold so I’m not sure what is cold and what is MJ!).
The first 5 days, the appetite suppression was great-no hunger at all really, and when I did get hungry it was just a few pangs, and then I would have a plain piece of chicken breast or a protein bar and it would be gone again. I have had 2-3 snacks a day, but they have been completely different to what I normally go for-normally I am all about the sweets and this week it has been slices of apple or a very small bowl of yoghurt and honey, and it has really hit the spot! I haven’t had any hunger shakes, I haven’t felt weak and I haven’t had any brain fog.
I had a HUGE wee the first night I was on it, and over the first two days the scales moved from 85.7kgs to 84.6, which felt amazing. I stayed at 84.6/84.7 for the next few days, but knew I was in calorie deficit so just carried on as normal. We had a really busy New Year’s Eve, and I walked for nearly 2 hours with my 7.5 year old in a sling on my back, so was physically exhausted by the end of the day and knew I must have burnt some decent calories. I also had a glass of Prosecco at midnight and two slices of takeaway pizza, but chose the two smallest, which is very unlike me!! I was scared I would be really sick because of the pizza, but had no ill effects from it at all.
The scales didn’t move for the rest of the week, but yesterday the hunger definitely started creeping back in. I am finding that most of the day I am happily eating barely anything, but need something a little more substantial for tea.
I had a really important deadline to hit by midnight last night. Normally the stress of that would have me eating like a mad-woman (my kids feed off my stress, so even though I stay calm on the surface they become impossible to put to bed, make 1,000x more mess and become way more demanding in the run up to a deadline, so that any time I have to work in the evening is eaten up, therefore fuelling more stress and more eating!). I slept really poorly on Wednesday as was trying to work from my youngest’s bed until 4am, and a bad night’s sleep usually has me hitting the sugar, but despite me registering the fact that I wanted junk food I found it so much easier to just not go and get any.
Yesterday the hunger started creeping in about 4pm. I had a protein bar, but was hungry again an hour later so also had a protein yoghurt and a little bit of fruit. At 8.30pm I was hungry again so made an omelette, and was working until midnight so found myself hungry again at 10pm, when I had another protein yoghurt and an apple, with a small bowl of ice cream (and didn’t feel the urge to go back for seconds!!). I have woken up this morning (5 hours later) hungry, which I haven’t had all week-normally I have been able to stretch it until 11am. HOWEVER, I had another massive wee in the night and the scales have dropped again from 84.6 to 83.7!!! I lost a whole kilo overnight!! So I am exactly 2 kilos down in 6 days!!!! That is absolutely insane!!!
I have tried and tried and tried diets-I have done keto, Exante (and NewYou when Exante shut down), I have tried going vegan, I have followed Deliciously Ella, I have done Fast 800, I have done OMAD, and nothing has really helped. I went from 95kgs to 77kgs on Exante and was really proud of myself, but found it near impossible to keep going as we meet at friends’ houses for tea a lot, and they come to us etc, and everyone was always really disparaging about me doing it despite the weight loss being obvious after a while, and in the end I couldn’t hack the comments and gave up. Over the next year I crept back up to 85kgs, but told myself if I could maintain for 6 months I could go onto MJ as a last ditch attempt, and I am so glad that I did!!