Mounjuro August starters - thread 10 !!!!

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Crazy we have come this far

Heading to 5mths - that's almost half a year

We have all done so well.

Be proud of ourselves

Yes we have Christmas Day to come but remember that eating a meal and some yummy stuff isn't going to make us all gain the weight back

We have to have some treats or else what is the point in life

Saying we are never going to eat ...... again isn't sustainable

But having one /small portion of something we want is a good thing

We have learnt restraint !!!

To 2025 one and all

We have done so well - me as well 😛

We didn't let Xmas throw us

We aren't starting the new year of 'oh diet starts tomorrow'

And iq maintenance reply

Happy New Year to all my fellow losers! Had a quick scan through and wow - haven't we all done well over Xmas 👏

Thank you all for being part of this journey - for your advice and help, for support, for being willing to share (sometimes in too much detail!!), for your wit and humour and hilarious typos

It feels like such a boost to end 2024 lighter and healthier than I started it. See you all as we continue into 2025.

Happy New year you Losers! 2025 is going to great for us all, I feel it in my waters.

Morning all !! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU....

Hope you have all had a lovely few days and a good evening last night if you went out celebrating !

I had a lazy evening; watched some shite on TV and was in bed by 10pm but woke at midnight to fireworks !! Then spend the next 3 hours not being able to get back to sleep but it's all ok... I have missed so many pages on here as have been flat out busy doing other things, but a belated thank you to all of you for the support, kindness, positivity and motivation given in 2024... Let's make 2025 the year for all of us.... This is truly such a wonderful thread; i know i have said it many times before, but to be able to come on here and vent, motivate, moan, groan, gain knowledge, confidence is so so lovely.... so again HAPPY BLOODY NEW YEAR !!!

So a quick update as its weigh day today - i did put on 4lb and may be a bit more, i have kept off the scales since the gain but am 100% back on it and today i hit my 5 st off mark !!! 😍 I am so happy; i lost the 4lb in the last week or so plus 1 more, so my total off is 5 st 1 lb (71lb) -- yay !!

SW: 19st 5lb / 123kg / 271 lb
CW: 14st 4lb / 90kg / 200 lb
Loss 26.2% body weight

Loss: 32kg

I did my first injection last week in my right thigh.... I immediately bruised, it was actually quite big, but not sore.... I haven't suffered any side effects from this injection site at all, but think i will try the abdomen again next time as have now gone up to 12.5mg...and see....
@Blondeshavemorefun happy new year hun! Hope you're ok.... did you decide to go up as well? I did because one of the reasons was Oushk had 20% off so thought i could benefit from that whilst it was on offer....

I was so chuffed when i saw the 14s bracket, and now i can't wait to see the 13s.. seems unbelievable ....

My focus on this month is to try and incorporate some strength / resistence workouts; I love my swimming and i am feeling the benefits of it but my belly, thighs and arms still look the same as what they did when i was at my heaviest !!

I know i have missed a few pages which i need to catch up on but sending love to all @4pink1blue @20bloodypounds @Mum0ntherun @NippyCrab @owlyboo @weaseleyes

now my mouse has frozen and can't @ anyone else !! sorry..... xx

Happy New Year everyone!
This year already started differently for me. I didn't make a resolution about losing weight or look at others and think I wish I was that slim.
So thanks to all of you who are on the journey with me, only a few people in real life know about the mj and this thread has been such a support. Even if it's just reading how you all are doing. This is gonna be a great year for us

Pharmacy2U have done a major price drop

Happy new year August friends 🤩

I've done 3 doses of 12.5 and have decided to drop back down to 10 with immediate effect as I have bad constipation on 12.5 despite using psyllium and having plenty of water and veg. I've had no side effects until 12.5 but all the psyllium and dulcoease in the world isn't making any impact and I don't think this dose is sustainable for me. My digestion honestly feels so inactive I think I'd be risking gastroparesis if I stay on 12.5. So I'll just lose a bit of liquid by counting clicks to finish this pen with 2 doses of 10. Does anyone have any idea how long it will take me to revert to having 10 levels in my system rather than 12.5? I'm hoping to get back to normal quickly. I dose on Fridays, I guess i could delay a day or 2 if that would help. I've been fine til now so this is a bit of a surprise.

Happy new year all!

@Changinghabits1973 5 stone!! Wow!! Well done you!

Happy new year everyone! I always feel a bit sad on NYE, so am glad to have the actual new year underway. Even though I’ve still got a couple of stones to go ideally, my resolution is to maintain as if I stuck here I’d be pretty happy. I’m overweight, but I feel like a normal overweight person, not someone who’s in a whole other league of weight challenges.

i wish every success, big or small, to all the lovely people on this thread. I haven’t discussed weight with anyone in real life (partly because I’m so tired of it feeling like my defining characteristic), and you’ve all been so fabulous!

(And 5 STONE - amazing!!)

Happy New Year to you all.

My total weight loss in the end for December was 2.5kg/5.5lb. I would like to have lost more but that is still a really good result!

I didn't gain over the Christmas period or during our mini break.

My last jab was 9 days ago now which is scary, as I know it will be coming out of my system gradually over the couple of weeks.

In some ways, I'm sad that my MJ journey has come to and end but I'm also excited for what the future holds.

My plan moving forwards is to carry on with intermittent fasting and keeping track of my calories- I've done this before and it worked for me.

The MJ gave me the boost that I needed and I have lost a total of 3st 7lb in just over 18 weeks, which is a massive achievement for me.

I lost my way at the end of 2019, following many traumatic events..

• I was very badly bullied at work and just handed my notice in one day. I had no other job lined up but I needed to get away. That place made me a shell of myself, a person I no longer recognised

• I then managed to secure a role as an ICU nurse, right at the beginning of COVID. The things that I witnessed and experienced, will stay with me forever. However, the good outweighed the bad and I received so much support and encouragement, which is what I needed at that time. I slowly built up the confidence to have faith in myself and began to trust others again.

• Throughout the periods above, I still had a lot of struggles with my mental health. I would have moments of relapse with my Bipolar disorder and went through many medication changes.

After a particular bad period in June 2021, I was at the point of feeling suicidal. I thank god, that the psychiatrist I was seeing, recognised how unwell I was and changed my course of treatment. I started a new medication and my mood has stabilised over the last 3 years.

If it wasn't for him, I'm unsure where I would be today. I'm forever grateful to him for all that he did and the support he gave me.

It was throughout that time that I gained approximately 5 stone and I felt stuck in a rut, with my eating. I just had no motivation at all to do anything.

It was only after being on holiday in August this year, that I looked at pictures of myself and hated the way I looked.

My cousin had been using weight loss injections for a good few months that time and she encouraged me to try them.

I'm glad I did, because I wouldn't be where I am now without that boost and kickstart with my weight loss.

I can now see and feel the changes in my body and it feels like just how it used to. It's weird in a way, how I am able to remember all of this.

Anyhow, I will still try to keep up to date with how you are all doing, because you all have been a massive support.

I will also keep you updated on my weight loss and life after MJ.

All the best x

It sounds like eating got you through a really difficult time @Fuffedoff . It's great to see you having successfully changed tactics so you can embrace the next phase. Good luck and looking forward to your updates!

@Fuffedoff I'm sending you a virtual cuddle. Your post resonates with me, my life fell apart in 2013 and again in 2017 and it was only at the end of 2022 and in 2023 I felt seen, I was prescribed medication that literally saved my sanity and life MH wise.
This is the first WL journey I've stuck too, because I've paid for the meds and now I'm slim and can see the visual and feel the health benefits I won't let that go.
The brain, when the wiring is fucked up, is so complicated and difficult to understand yourself never mind family and friends. Anyway that's my serious section of today done.

We finished the chocolate tart thing last night, thank goodness, I was only having tiny bits and it was so delish but I'm chocolated out now haha. Or cockolate out @Blondeshavemorefun xx

@Fuffedoff unfortunately I think I few of us on here have had some pretty shitty last few years which I suppose isn't surprising as it gives reason to why we became obese in the first place.

Here's to 2025 and a fresh start.

Afternoon all, checking in after Christmas. Well done all who have held the line while enjoying a bit of indulgence over the break. I had a lovely two weeks of neither calorie counting nor bingeing, nor turning down anything I really wanted. I did keep up with the gym, but enjoyed that. I've stayed the same weight as I was two weeks ago, so not bad. Looking forward now to getting back into the routine.

happy new year everyone!!

I think we should all be really proud of what we have achieved in 2024. Being this far into a weight loss journey doesn’t feel real sometimes

In 2024 I lost 19.2kg which is 3 stone or 42.4lbs. Still can’t quite believe it! It’s generally been an awful year due to work.

In 2025, I have 6.2kg to go to reach my ultimate goal. (This is 1 stone or 14.9lbs.) I’m hoping this is where my results really show and I no longer have stubborn arm/leg fat, and hopefully the appearance of abs and collarbones again!

@Fuffedoff thank you for sharing your story what an inspiration. I hope you keep coming back to let us know how things are going on, and to tell us how you're feeling.

@Changinghabits1973 sorry for gain but glad got it off

5s. That's mental. Well done !

@Ithinkimrincewind I think we all didn't make that resolution 😂

@PoemsForTea ffs. Oh well

@Alwayshockey sorry to hear that. Hope 10 works out better for you

Or maybe try 11?

@weaseleyes. Same. No one knows

I still say counting calories. Which tech is true

@Fuffedoff. Well done for loss and even better having come to end as means ttc now in 2025. Blows fairy dust !!

And sorry the recent years been a struggle

They say obv don't use while ttc but only as haven't been trialed as such

But what about all those woman who are on mj being diabetic and get preg

So sure it's not dangerous

Just hasn't been tested as such

Glad you have finished your CHOCOLATE tart @NippyCrab

@1clavdivs amazing eaten everything you wanted but didn't gain - well done

@eeeeeeeee amazing loss

Waves to @owlyboo

Think I names all

Happy new year

@Changinghabits1973

Yes going up fri to 12.5

Luckily using my 10 and 5 under the carrots 😂😂 so will syringe 2.5 from the 5

As Havnt got my pen from iq yet. Know they said be a few days and obv ny but once med express approve they send and get it next day usually

So hope comes soon

Happy new year @Blondeshavemorefun

Sorry been a bit quiet, my anxiety has been back with a vengeance the last few days, racing heart, sick feeling etc. hoping it pisses off again soon!! I don't think it helps I struggle to get out and walk when the kids are off as can't really leave son. I do go out for walks with him but it's not the same as sticking my headphones on a losing my thoughts for a while.

I've also been reflecting a lot about being on my own. I can't imagine wanting to meet anyone new (it's been two years since spilt now) my exh was horrible to live with towards the last few years of our relationship, very controlling and put me down a lot, miserable all the time etc. which obviously I don't think helps with wanting to try again but equally I'm only 36, I feel like I'm just plodding along if that makes sense... Eugh sorry I'm babbling!

Awww bless you @owlyboo 💐

Never say never

I'm not ready to meet someone now but I hope in time to come I will be

Thanks. I know. I don't think it helps that exH moved on very quickly (some would argue probably had an affair but who knows) shouldn't matter but it does as I know he just thinks good old owlyboo (I put my real name at first 😂) she'll pick up the slack. I don't bother to say anything as I don't have the energy, we argued and he was horrible enough whilst we were married I don't want to argue in divorce. But it means he's had 16 days off over Xmas and has the kids 1 measly night! He did pop in Xmas morning as well (what a hero) and by the next time he has the kids it'll be a pretty much a month with one night stay.

As I've said before my son is neurodiverse and therefore obviously finds Christmas and school holidays difficult so it hasn't been the easiest time and it just pisses me off that at this very moment he's on yet another holiday without them.

Sorry for writing it all down. No one needs to reply as I know it's off topic just helps to rant as I don't like to in real life.

That's crap @owlyboo about ex ans how little sees his kids

Rant away on here - we are all here to support and listen or send me a message

When is he meant to have kids

Thanks. Every other weekend. He used to come up mid week as well to take them out but that fizzled out after a few months.

Every holidays I say 'you can have them extra if you'd like just let me know' and it's been over a year and a half since we moved out and he hasn't taken up that offer once.

He's been on about 7 holidays with the OW and not taken the kids on holiday once...

It's just frustrating as I genuinely believe he thinks he's a top notch dad and does exactly the right amount. I suppose it being the festive period and knowing he's been off that whole time just makes it worse. It doesn't usually bother me on other holidays because he's at work or whatever.

Probably what's set of my anxiety, over thinking!