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….

Thanks @Fizzleawayyy1. I'm going back down to 5 next week - it's just not worth it.

@Bluenose1966 - I'm going back down to 5 next week, and will have to manage on less suppression. Just need to work out how many clicks!

@PolaDeVeboise sorry you’ve been feeling poorly. I have stayed on 5mg as I’ve continued to have side effects - nausea, heartburn and some constipation on occasions. I’ve iterated up to get to 5mg and spoke to Hira at Oushk who suggested I stay on 5mg. So, I’ve left the 7.5mg pen in my fridge and have just ordered another 5mg pen. Will review after I return from holiday at the end of November. It’s just not worth feeling rubbish is it?

Absolutely not. I feel awful ☹️

Hi All, sorry some of you are feeling poorly and well done everyone for losses and staying strong!

I'm on 7.5mg, due to go up to 10mg in 2 weeks. Having had constipation a couple of months ago I had been so careful to drink enough, eat lots of fibre and all the good stuff (even prunes for breakfast, isn't that a cheery thought). But of course I took my eye off it and had a bad weekend. I have just spent 2 days writhing on the loo producing nothing. Quick trip to the pharmacist the morning, who gave me a box of glycerin suppositories. One of those, plus a good laugh at the list of side effects, which included cramps and diarrhoea (duh), fixed everything. I love my pharmacist!!!

Happy jabbing everyone

I find this chart useful.

Thanks @Bluenose1966!

@Bluenose1966 , that’s helpful, does anyone know how many clicks from a 12.5 pen to get 10mg? My maths is shocking. I want to stay at 10, but I do have a 12,5 in the fridge I shall need to use up at some point, and am worried I get it wrong,

48 clicks to get 10mg from a 12.5mg pen

Aw thank you ladies especially @Fizzleaawayy @EVK @letshavetea ❤️ this is such a supportive group.

@Fizzleawayyy1 , thank you!

and really hope the bad guts settle soon.

Hit the three stone mark today 🙌 I can't believe this is really working!!

This is going to sound strange but I'll roll with it.. I've gone up to 7.5mg from this week and I'm having some very odd dreams! Is this a thing? I've woken myself up this morning speaking out loud 🤣 today is going to be a long day!

@rockingbird I think they're a thing, yes! Really vivid for me rather than surreal. Wonder what causes it!

Amazing! Massive milestone for you

@PolaDeVeboise defo - lower your dose back down to 5mgs - you will still
lose and if suppression isn’t as strong that’s ok - you will be building resilience and good habits with a little less aide but you definitely still do it. Your side effects sound too extreme to be healthy and that always got to be the most important thing - you’re well being comes first - I hope you feel better soon 🩷

I've had some vivid and weird dreams too.

Not weighed for a few days but given the toilet clear out I've been experiencing, it must be some loss.

I'm moving up the doses (on jab2 of 10mg) and have noticed I'm hungry by jab day and other than nausea for the first 2 days, some tiredness and the squits, not really suffering too badly. I've felt the cold this week, had to layer up big time.

NSV: ordered a tight skirt for an upcoming party from Shein in 12/14 and it fits comfortably. This is incredible, my hips have always been huge and never fitted into anything less than a 16. I know about fast fashion but I'm buying cheap clothes until I settle on my final size.

Finally after a week of eating sooo clean but staying the same weight the pesky pound has gone and I've hit 2st loss!!

Congrats all, on the scale and non scale victories! Whoop!

well I’m off to meet first tranch of colleagues today. I was 11.9.3 on the scales this morning, which means I am2 lbs shy of four stone lighter than when they last saw me 5 months ago. So that will be interesting.

Plus lunch out and dinner out to deal with, then second tranch of them on Friday and so on for the next 3 weeks, as I do a round robin of meetings I have to do.

trying to overcome the self conscious feeling,

Thanks. I'm definitely going down, not risking going through this again x

Not quite the same, but I've lost 2st, and saw friends I haven't seen in a while at the weekend. It felt great when they noticed x

Oh god, it’s not good guys. On a break in my room before next meeting, so last time , a stone down, everyone was giving it oh you lost weight etc.

this time, no one has said a word, but they all keep staring at me when I move.

we finished lunch and one of them says in front of everyone, but with what felt like genuine bloody concern, are you not finishing your lunch “timber”, from across the table. I said oh I’m full, I’ve had enough, and he said, have you only eaten some grilled salmon, I said no I’ve had some veg, but I’m full, he then says, you’ve eaten v little.

I then commented I’d eaten as much as the person next to me, which I had, and turned to talk to someone else, to make it stop.

so now I’m guessing rhey either think ive developed an eating disorder or am unwell. So that’s bloody great. (I think I look v healthy by the way)

ffs. Got 3 weeks of this . What I didn’t envisage was they might think something was actually wrong with me and I think that’s what they are all thinking..because for them it’s big change in a short period.😱

OMG @Losingthetimber you must be absolutely gutted.
Maybe you could get ahead of the next lot by gently dropping into the conversation how your Rebel Wilson-style 'year of health' is going great and you're feeling fab, before anyone gets a chance to comment.

I think that it sounds like you need to decide on a really positive response or even to have an upfront positive chat with someone who is going to disseminate your frankly great news!

Something along the lines of:
I've been working hard on eating better/well, not drinking (as) much, exercising more and I'm delighted with how well it's going.
I'm feeling great, much better than I did before.
Trying to keep on track whilst I'm not at home...
Etc

All true, all should put people's mind at rest that you aren't ill...all things that should hopefully see a supportive response....if not it at least explains smaller, healthier food choices...

🤞

well at that meeting, one of my older colleagues, in his 60s, who is lacking in sensitivity generally but a nice guy, and who was late, walked in , took one look at me and boomed you look good, have you lost weight, I said yes, he said was it on purpose, or,…? I said yes, it had to come off, he asked how, I said gym and diet, and he said can you write a book on how to do it, then lots of positive comments.

It wasn’t something I expected, that they’d think something was maybe wrong with me. So got more of this to come i expect. Maybe should have anticipated it to be honest. It just didn’t occur to me, people would be worried.