I'm only really posting this here because I don't have anyone else I can say this to, and I'm so happy, because for all intents and purposes everyone around me saw me as the happy fat friend who was a joker and a laugh, and nobody really knew how much I hated my weight and my body.
Last January I was 23 stone, miserable, squeezing myself into size 22-24 clothes when I was a size 28, but I didn't want to admit that to myself. my BMI was 52.5, I couldn't walk for long periods of time, I was in my mid-20s and I had completely given up on life.
This morning, I am 17 stone 3.6, my BMI is 39.8 (I know, it's still high, but I'm actually on the scale and I'm out of the morbidly obese category!!!), and I feel so much better. I was anxious, depressed, I felt like I was living my life in a black hole, surrounded by fog and unable to see the point in anything.
I lost about a stone before I started Mounjaro in May. I'd given up, I thought surgery was my only option and to be honest I would have never gone through with that.
But I'm here, a year on, happier than I've ever been and finally seeing myself become the person I knew I could be.