Gearing up for a JANUARY start!

[FatGirlDosing]

Just approved and am assuming that the pen won’t arrive until after Christmas so will start the new year with a, er, prick.

Anyway, thought I’d start a thread for anyone else planning on a slimmer 2025!

@undercoverhero74 it isn’t mine either 🤣 I know exactly what you mean and feel pretty much the same !

Can I join too? Just been approved by OxfordOnlinePharmacy, waiting for dispatch. Planning to start on 2nd January. I'm 61 and weigh 80kg, hoping to lose 15kg. I want to get control of my evening snacking and alcohol intake!

May I please join the January cohort?
I have been overweight for decades although I lost three stone last year with Keto and IF. I have put a lot back on now though.
I am waiting for the 'We have sent your order' email from MedExpress and am hoping to start on Thursday 2nd Jan. My little ones are now big and so husband and I like going away and it gets harder to explore new countries being so overweight.
I am mid fifties, 15 stone. BMI of 36 and would be happy with a loss of 4 stone to get down to 11 stone. My ideal is 10 stone but I am not holding my breathe.
My freezer is packed with chicken and fish, my fridge is packed with vegetables for meals and soups and Aldi high protein yoghurts. I have bought Electrolytes to help with the headaches and Magnesium to help with the loo :)
I am planning on starting with 2.5mgs and going up only when I have to to try to reduce side effects. I will use the 5th dose.
I am going to try and update this regularly to give myself some form of accountability.
I wish you all a fantastic 2025 and look forward to hearing about your successes :)

First full day for me today, counting calories only had about 1100, but Sunday's are often lower for me. I've had no real desire to eat for the sake of it, although did manage all my tea (dinner!) earlier. Eating proper meals then being able to say no in-between will do me nicely if it continues!

I'm a real emotional eater too, and even although I'd read about "food noise" being reduced I'd doubted it would work for me - it's still very early but I'm cautiously optimistic!!

My day has been similar. I've still eaten but not over eaten and also not wanted to snack. I'm happy with that for day one!

Hi everyone!

I’fe been approved and am awaiting dispatch of my first mounjaro order. Aiming to start on 2nd of January or thereabouts. Would like to post here to hold myself accountable, and of course to see how everyone else gets on!

@RosaBaby2 that is exactly how I feel!!!

Same here. Ordered a few days ago from Asda and still pending approval.

Hi, I’m so close to ordering but I’m faltering. I’ve always been a curvy but fit 10-12 but in the last 12 awful months I’ve gained 10kg and now a 14-16. I feel disgusting. I’m only 5’2”, pretty sure I’m going through early menopause (I’m 42), I have three young children and work full time. I’ve tried to lose weight over the last 6 months but I struggle to find the time to exercise and my food noise is deafening! I suppose I’m just scared, can anyone reassure me, please? I really don’t want to be the overweight mum who can’t run around with her kids.

Hi ladies. Can I join you too?

I was planning to start on 1 January but the pen was in my fridge, so I took the plunge and injected on Friday (27 Dec) last week.

So far, so good. The injection didn't hurt at all. I numbed my belly with a cold bruise patch (also in the fridge!) and I don't think I really needed to. The needle is tiny and I didn't feel a thing. All my worry melted away. I hope this reassures any fellow new starters.

No side effects of note. My body seems to be accepting the 2.5 dose well.

I usually think about food ALL THE TIME! I still think about food but it's not met with the same desire to snack. I'm hoping next week's injection may silence the noise further 🤞

I'd really like to lose at least 4 stone. To enter the BMI 'overweight' category rather than loitering in the 'obese' section. If I lost more, that would be an absolute bonus. Being in week one, even if I lost a stone, I'd be happy. I generally eat well and exercise, but the scale just doesn't move. PCOS and peri-menopause is not a great combination!

I'm really hoping that MJ is the solution for us all. So pleased to join others on this journey.

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We've got this ladies 🙌🥰

Go for it, what do you have to lose! 👌

Hopefully 15kg! 🤣

Hi! Can I join? I've ordered from medexpress and hoping it arrives soon (ordered Thursday I think).

I'm a bit nervous and terrified I'm going to have some kind of catastrophic severe reaction. However, I am so so desperate to stop thinking about food and not being consumed by thoughts of food/hunger/trying to stop binging everyday, so giving this a go!

I'm determined to make it work. I will be walking the dogs and trying to swim or jog every day too, to keep up my strength and motivation.

I really hope this works. Like so many others I've battled with my weight all my life and I actually feel like for the first time ever, there is real hope with mounjaro.

Wishing everyone luck and fingers and toes all crossed for weight loss 👍🤞🤞

God I hope this drug works, please please ...... 🤞🤞🤞🤞

Also ordered and it's been dispatched. Not sure if it'll arrive before New Year's Day or not but think I'll start as soon as it comes. I am absolutely desperate after gaining 4.5 stone (I'm still in shock) after the birth of my son (I was at my fittest until I fell pregnant and gained from there) I still can't believe I'm heavier now than when he was born. I cannot stop my food obsession and I put off going on this due to money. I still don't think I can technically afford it but hoping I'll save money on food? 🙈 At this point, it's totally worth the investment if it helps.

I have two friends on it who are losing and cannot stress enough the miracle it is for shopping their food obsession!

I’ve bitten the bullet and ordered last night. I don’t want to tell anyone as it feels like cheating and I’m scared it won’t be a success.

I think a fair few of us are a bit scared and I think it is quite a normal reaction to something that is still quite new and has been turned into something quite divisive. It seems to me that as a country it has been becoming part of our psyche to be divided and to be on a side - Brexit, politics in general, Covid injections, masks. WLI is part of this.

Everyone is agreed that we need to solve the obesity crisis but now there is something that gives people the tools to some that is wrong. I think some feel being fat is a moral failing and caused by lack of discipline and now a drug has been invented to make things ‘easy’ so it is a cheat so never mind the fact that people are paying for it themselves and if it is successful as it appears to be and if people can keep the majority of weight off long term then the fact that it will save the country money in less obesity related illnesses and lost work days doesn’t seem to matter to some. In their minds it is wrong and there are no shades of grey. I see it as their failure in flexible thinking as to how others react outside of thei personal experience and a flaw in their brain elasticity .

This view that some take ignores the evidence that obesity is complicated and there are hormonal factors coming into play and this generation of drugs work on them and as time goes on we will have a much better understanding of things and gradually there will be a societal shift in thinking but as with everything it will take time.

The diet, health and fitness industry is massive and worth huge amounts of money and something that can affect this and make yet more money for the already extremely rich drug industry will affect things and I can understand people’s scepticism in this respect but I think the bigger picture needs looking at. I’d love to be around in 100 years and see how this time is spoken about in general, it has been and continues to be a time of huge societal changes.

Looks like I'm a little late to the party, can I join?
My pen should be here tomorrow, and I'm already so nervous about the thought of sticking a needle into myself!
However having weighed myself this morning and I'm 3lbs heavier than yesterday (how is that even possible) I also can't wait to start.

That is an excellent post @Seaitoverthere Thank you! The guilt I know I feel about being overweight, eating, not eating, these injections - it's tiring.

Yesterday was a success - first day, and I ate less than 1000 calories. Easily. Could have had less, but chose to have half of my standard size slice of Xmas cake because I'd done so well. Then felt guilty 😞

Yesterday I ate:
Smoked salmon, scrambled eggs and tomato
Spag bowl with courgetti, not pasta
2 X crab sticks
Xmas cake

I found I wasn't arguing in my head about what to eat/what not to. Will find out today if that was a placebo because I'm all fired up, or if it has really helped. No Xmas cake planned today.

Welcome to everyone else - looking forward to hearing how you are all getting on when it arrives.

My first pen is due for delivery today. Early menopause and caring for a child with SEN who doesn't want to sleep, my weight has steadily risen to a BMI of over 35 and nothing shifts it. I assume my cortisol is sky high. I know the 2.5mg dose is technically non therapeutic but I'm really hoping for an early loss.

I don't want to tell anyone either, it's silly isn't it, but I fear the judgement, so many of my friends are slim and exercise regularly and I have other demands and just can't manage that. I'm embarrassed it might fail.

I took my first jab 2.5 yesterday afternoon.

Oof, I got all the side-effects last night - cold, tired, up twice for a poop (not diarrhoea), vomited, heart beating fast was awake 1am - 5am.

Ate a couple of spoonfuls of oats at 5am, slept an hour, and had an electrolyte tablet and feel 90% better, though still nauseous. Can't imagine I'll eat much today.

I'm going to have 1.25 as my next dose, I don't want to go through that again. I'm on the smaller side for MJ - I've got a BMI of 27 and I'm short. I also have a slow-ish thyroid. Adding those caveats as don't want any new starters to be put off! I've been trawling the other threads and the reaction I got seems uncommon at 2.5, more likely at 5.

I jabbed last night. So far, so good. No side effects and woke up this morning not hungry at all. Going to have poached egg on toast for breakfast and see how I go!

@Therealmetherealme
I feel the same I've told select people but even my own sister is judgy as she has lost a lot of weight the old fashioned way, so I haven't told her.

I weighed myself this morning too and am heavier than I was a couple of days ago :( Hope the jab arrives soon :)

I just received an email saying ‘delivery tomorrow’. I am both excited and nervous.
Well done to those of you who have started already, being Scottish, I am not going to start until 2 January 😊