Mounjaro October starters - Thread 6!!

[Fizzleaawayy]

Thread 5 is nearly full as we are zooming through them quickly.

Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas 🎄🤶🏻❄️🎅🏼

Now to continue the weight loss….

Way to many posts to all tag separately, didnt realise how many i needed to catch up on.

but well done everyone, October thread crew are rocking it! 🤘

@Fizzleawayyy1

Thank you. I'm going to do 1 more week of 3.75mg and make the call then.

I definitely could do more exercise too, which would help.

I'm so mindful that I don't get any nausea or stomach issues on the current dose and really don't want to push it 🙈

So nice to have you back!

Aww thank you! It wasn't my intention to be MIA for so long, days just flew by so quick😲

Great NSV... I realised when I went for a swim at the weekend that the big ugly red stretch marks on my inner thighs have GONE!! They were hideous and made me self conscious in a swimsuit. I have no idea when they disappeared or how exactly, but they don't exist anymore! 🙌 And my sciatica in my leg seens to have disappeared too. I've lost almost 3 stone in 3 and a half months ❤️ This stuff has changed my life in so many ways!

Hooray! She's back in the building 😆

@Fizzleawayyy1 - Hi! Good to see you back. Glad everything is okay. What a fantastic loss you’ve had. Thanks - yes I do think we’ll all get there and MJ means I won’t give up!

@Fizzleaawayy great to see you back here where you belong!
Yes, I know it probably is surpirising that I'm still here - I guess a lot like me have given up by now but I really feel this is my last chance and despite the slow losses the most success I've had for years. I think the important part for me is the lack of food noise and therefore at long last I've got the snacking, binging and emotional eating under control. I'm still hopeful of finding the right dose for me. I've been O.K. this week on 3.25mgs so will try 3.5mgs on Sunday and see how that goes. I can cope O.K. with the overwhelming tiredness during the first couple of days but the nausea and vomiting is a whole other ball game and the one I'm trying to banish.
[Waves to my slow losing gang @letshavetea and @RunSlowTalkFast ]

@recklessgran - a wave back! I felt slightly sick yesterday (all day). Kept going and came to bed early to watch Great British menu (weird, I know when feeling queasy)!

Ha! @letshavetea are you also an insomniac?
I've been up since the ungodly hour of 2.30am - nothing to do with MJ - been like this for years!
Hope you're feeling better today. I've got hardly any suppression now on 3.25mgs so everything crossed for 3.5mgs - I've already had toast at my desk at 4.30am! I needn't start that habit but I was actually hungry.
Have a good day all.

Welcome back @Fizzleawayyy1 !

@surreygirl1987

That's fantastic - what a great result about your stretch marks 👏👏

Did you always swim?

@Fizzleaawayy l welcome back! hope your son is doing well?

cheeky weigh in, as my official day is sat, and I can report, I see 11 something on the scales! Now , it’s 11.13.7, so I know I’m basically still 12 stone, but it’s 11 something! Can’t believe it, or remember the last time I saw an 11 something on the scales.

and it feels so much better than seeing 15 something,,,☺️

plus nsv, I got my engagement and eternity rings off last night, which is also a first in a long time, my wedding ring is still firmly wedged on, but having them slide on and off easily is definitely a goal as I really dislike the fact my fingers became so fat and swollen they were stuck on.

Well done @Losingthetimber 👏
I saw a nine on mine this morning! Can't remember the last time, 2021 maybe
It's 9 13.8 (mine does 0.2 intervals) so I've just snuck in but I'm so happy.

I am re-listening to Why We Eat Too Much on audiobook and it makes so much more sense now that I'm more aware of insulin's effects. I've not calorie counted at all during these 3+ months after reading it previously and it explains why our bodies change our metabolism to speed up or slow down to keep us at the weight it wants and so explains why calorie restricted diets fail. Would really like Andrew Jenkinson's thoughts on GLPs if anyone has found him on a podcast or anything about them?

Week 17 weigh in and I lost 4lb taking my total loss to 2st 13lb. I'm now firmly into the 18s at 18st 10lb still another 7st to go but it feels achievable for now, not sure how I'll feel when I start getting below 15st as I don't think I've been lower than that as an adult, I was definitely the higher end of 17st by 18 when I first joined SW

@lapuf @WafflingDreamer , well done! it feels good doesn’t if to hit a new stone bracket!

even though I started this journey at 14.12.5, I know full well I was 15.7 , 3 or 4 weeks before that, and had lost half a stone on my own.

which means in half a stones time I will have lost 4 stone. Which just seems an enormous amount.

I also have a quiet day working from home today, and thought to myself last night, I will have a lovely gym session and a long shower. Not even sure I recognise who I have become 😂

Guys!!!!!!!

My highest BMI was 46 (before MJ) so this is just crazy!

Congrats @HansHolbein ! That’s an enormous achievement!

Wow @HansHolbein that is amazing - you should feel so proud. Have a lovely day!

Thanks everyone. Didnt realise people would notice id stopped posting as much! i feel loved ha ha

@HansHolbein WOHOOO well done.

@Losingthetimber Thanks, he is doing really well now and back in school. Well done on getting into the 11s!

I ordered a new pen from Pharmacy 2 U on Monday and its on its way today. First time using them and service has been pretty quick so far!

we are about to enter month five, it’s passed so quickly!.

And for many of us the losses are becoming very significant, irrelevant of where we started or are now on our journey.

i was thinking of nothing past I’ve got to get this weight off due to my high blood pressure, when I started, and a low level feeling of confusion,panic and disgust that I was getting bigger and bigger. And my Bp raising with it.and my doctor keeping upping the meds. 4 months ago!

it’s crazy the difference for so many of us in this time frame.

It's gone so fast. The difference to me in having lost 3st are so massive now and I'm still heavier than lots of you were at your start!

I was helping out in my daughters primary school and I didn't panic about whether they would want me to sit on a tiny chair.

I pop upstairs for things all the time when 3st ago I would just wait till the kids would get things or until I really needed something.

I also walk a lot more, I've realised there's not enough bread for the kids lunches tomorrow. Before my weight loss I would have tried to convince one of them to have a school meal or have stopped at the shop in the car on the way to a club tonight but now I just walked to the shop and back to pick it up, and ONLY got bread!!

Omg that's such a masssive BMI change! Go you! How much weight have you lost?

@lapuf Thank you. It’s been a life long slog.

So in 2019 I weighed 19st 13lb/126.5kg/279lbs. I’m 5’5 so my BMI was 46. Heaviest I had ever been and of course had to do something about it.

Over the last few years I’ve managed to get to between 16st 7lbs/104.7kg and 17st 7lbs/111kg. I’ve been hovering around that for the past 2ish years.

I’ve done some VLCD within that time and always been able to lose a stone.. then I would binge and go back up. I’ve been stuck in a binge > restrict cycle since in the age of 11. Chuck PCOS into the mix and it’s just been awful.

I’ve always felt like there is something wrong with me and I’m the one to blame. I’ve just felt like a greedy pig that can’t control herself.

You take a lot of that shame deep within you, don’t you? It begins to infect every area of your life.. work, personal, relationships, goals, ambitions. All of it. Always beating myself up saying ‘eat less and move more!’. I fucking hate that saying.

I actually can’t believe that there is a way out of this for us now. Finally I believe that I will be a healthy weight and I will be free. I feel so sad for the women before us that weren’t given this chance at life.

I’ll have to take Mounjaro for the rest of my life due to the metabolic fuckery that is PCOS but I’m happy to do so. Mounjaro till I die!