Slow Losers Club #2!

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Thanks to @Sadteacher for pointing out we were nearly full on the old post!

Happy New Year everyone. Hope everyone had a lovely break and enjoyed it! I gained five pounds (it was a stone at Christmas every year before I started on Mj) had a thoroughly lovely time and am now trying to avoid Christmas tail end food and get back on the feathers and dust ( a reference to the original Mj thread where the OP used to joke that Mj was allowing her to exist on just those two “foodstuffs”!).

Best wishes to everyone - I’m going up to 15mg this weekend having bottled it before Christmas so keep your fingers crossed for me!

hi everyone - how are is everyone? I'm sorry I dropped off but life has been pretty bad as my younger brother died unexpectedly and its just thrown my entire life into turmoil and my family's - so weight loss hasn't been on my mind. I've been continuing the 5mg and then moved back up to 7.5mg for 2 months and weight loss has been about 0.1mg so have decided to go up to 10mg in 3 weeks to see if that has done the trick.

I suppose at least I didn't go up in weight. hope everyone else has continued and some of you have reached goal? I have 10kg to go at least if not 12kg and realistically think it's going to take another 12 months.

as for the doses in the stomach - I have switched to my legs and found that seems to reduce the side-effects.

hopefully there are still some slow losers left!

@NaivePrey I am so very sorry about what you’ve been going through and so proud that you’ve kept the plates spinning weight-wise. That is truly extraordinary. Per my last post, sadly the tail end Christmas food was NOT avoided and I ended up gaining eight pounds. Here we are four months later and I’m still carrying three of them around…

I’m still determined to get just inside normal BMI which gives me another 12lb to lose. At my rate of loss that’ll take me another year. Honestly, I’m not even joking, the title of your thread was designed for me!

I have always been one of those people who cast shade on BMI calculations but now I’m there or thereabouts I can testify that when I get there I will still be carrying a lot of fat. Given my excruciatingly slow rate of loss I find myself researching surgery as the final solution - not gastric, I have my eating under control permanently now (I hope) but just cutting the stuff off! One way or another I am determined to be the size I’m meant to be. I’ve just turned 60 last month and surely that’s what a pension is for? No?! We’ll see but I’m not dismissing the possibility, I love what Mounjaro has done for me but I’ve lost two stone in two years and I suspect the best of what it can do may be behind me. I would certainly be open to trying the new jab which is supposed to be in the works, if only to see if I could double my weight loss to a pound a fortnight 🤣

I do of course want to throttle everyone who believes that Mj is a QUICK FIX GRRRRR

xx

@Ifyounevergiveup I think we just have to persist - that’s all that is left! Great that you are only 3lb up but yes the bmi thing isn’t great. I’ll continue on MJ until I’m nearer goal I think - I’m doing much more exercise and may have to start running as that has worked in the past. But still have some ligament damage in my leg so sometimes it plays up! 😭

hopefully everyone else has reached goal?

Just checking in. I got rid of my last Christmas pound this week and also hit 10 stone 2, the least I have weighed since primary school. Eight pounds to go to normal BMI. I was getting nowhere even slower than usual and starting to feel a lot of hunger, then I remembered that people on the main thread had talked about being able to take a next dose of Mj after four days minimum. So I decided that if food noise and hunger came back before the week was up, that’s what I’d do, I’d dose early. It’s made a big difference. I don’t know about anyone else but sometimes a dose leaves me feeling wonderful and in control all week, while other doses, even from the same pen, may as well be water. I guess it depends on the state of your hormones on any given week, even if the menopause fairy has already worked her magic! So if I’m hungry or starting to get cravings and I review what I’ve eaten and I shouldn’t be hungry, I have another shot. It’s only happened a couple of times but it’s made me feel much more in control and relaxed. Hope everyone is keeping well, posters and lurkers alike.

Edited to say @NaivePrey , how’s the running going? I took up swimming a month ago, first time since I was at school. I love it. Who thought we’d be posting about upping exercise levels when we started this journey?!

May I join/lurk? MJ didn't suit me, I'm on Wegovy and have been for a long time.
I'm around BMI 32 now. Significantly better than when I first started but I'm going up and down by a few pounds and not really making progress now. By paying attention to what I'm eating again (I was distracted by family drama and completely lost focus) I'm drifting down very slowly now instead of drifting up, progress at least.

Fatigue seems to be a WLI side effect for me but caring responsibilities also mean a lot of sleep deprivation which I know is awful for weight management.

Has anyone found a good home based exercise routine? I want to find something I can do on automatic pilot first thing in the morning a few times a week. I used to have an exercise machine but no longer. It helped me get moving and stay motivated to eat more sensibly.

Best of luck to everyone persisting on even when the results aren't quick and dramatic.

Welcome, @SleepDeprivedbutDetermined ! Love your username! When I was first starting to exercise, I used something called a bodyblade. Seven exercises and I started off with just 20 seconds per exercise! It’s for the upper body and core and believe it or not, the results started to show quite quickly. It improved my upper body strength. You can pick one up on ebay for about £20 or get one full price (£100) from QVCUK with the upside that you can try it for 60 days and then return it no questions asked if it’s not for you (or it is but you’d rather like the ebay price!). You can get an exercise sheet just by googling.

Although I don’t have one, I understand you can get walking machines which just slide under the sofa when you’re not using them. That might be useful, a bit more aerobic (although I got quite gaspy using the bodyblade!).

i know what you mean by being distracted; my habit is not reviewing what I’m eating, just doing the same things, and slowly that stopped being effective. I read somewhere recently that eating a gram of protein per kilo of your weight each day helps. When I did a food diary I found I was nowhere near that; I stepped up my protein and though my weight loss is still slow (it’s why I’m here on this thread!) it’s faster than at any time since I started weight loss injections. Before, I was just cutting down and down on my calories until I was managing not to lose weight on 800-900 calories a day. It took a pair of big girl’s pants to be brave enough to eat more calories, but it has worked. Bodies are weird.

Hope the family dramas are winding down, and welcome again!

Thank you so much @Ifyounevergiveup I appreciate all the helpful advice.