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Mounjuro August starters - thread 11

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Blondeshavemorefun · 15/01/2025 16:15

My amazing auggies ladies 💖 - another thread and heading for 6mths in !!!

Be proud of us all.

We conquered our first Christmas and many of us sts or lost. Which is a first.

Those who gained it was 1-2lbs (minus the lady who ate her family and gained 18lbs) 😂😂 and the gain has come off

So to a new 2025 - some are getting near their goal and thinking about maintenance

Some still have a way to go to get to their happy weight

Some are on the highest dose of 15

Some are 5 and below

Everyone welcome

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Motnight · 21/01/2025 21:40

Really hope you feel better soon @AuntieDote

SilverSprings510 · 21/01/2025 21:45

Anyone else just finding it all a bit boring at the moment? I know it will pass of course, but the whole process of eating the same sorts of things day in and out is boring, isn’t it. A bit of diet fatigue I guess!

NippyNinjaCrab · 21/01/2025 21:49

SilverSprings510 · 21/01/2025 21:45

Anyone else just finding it all a bit boring at the moment? I know it will pass of course, but the whole process of eating the same sorts of things day in and out is boring, isn’t it. A bit of diet fatigue I guess!

I went through a spell of that, urgh i just felt like it was the never ending road and I was living to weigh and jab.

WorriedRelative · 21/01/2025 22:29

Who needs a body pump class when you can shift and stack 14 25kg bales of horse bedding 💪💪💪

That's lifting heavy 🤣

Did some sweeping too.

Now drinking water like crazy in an effort to break this stall and start losing again.

owlyboo · 21/01/2025 22:32

Thanks @PoemsForTea 😍

@AuntieDote hope it doesn't develop into D&V

@SilverSprings510 a lot of people seem to get their mood affected by MJ as well and report a flat feeling, so that might be adding to it. Maybe try having a few nights of your favourite foods. You can still stay in calories but have a little of what you fancy the most?

@WorriedRelative💪💪 hope you get your loss!

weaselyeyes · 21/01/2025 22:50

SilverSprings510 · 21/01/2025 21:45

Anyone else just finding it all a bit boring at the moment? I know it will pass of course, but the whole process of eating the same sorts of things day in and out is boring, isn’t it. A bit of diet fatigue I guess!

Yes, I’m still finding it hard to get into my groove after Christmas.

WorriedRelative · 21/01/2025 23:05

Cheers @owlyboo

@Weasel and @SilverSprings510 yeah it gets a bit boring, especially when you don't really fancy your food

Motnight · 22/01/2025 05:44

SilverSprings510 · 21/01/2025 21:45

Anyone else just finding it all a bit boring at the moment? I know it will pass of course, but the whole process of eating the same sorts of things day in and out is boring, isn’t it. A bit of diet fatigue I guess!

I agree. I think that for me it's partly the time of the year. January has been a LONG month and it's nowhere near over yet!

Motnight · 22/01/2025 05:46

I also seem to have caught the no sleeping bug from others on here. Was shattered yesterday and was asleep just after 10. Woke up at 3 and haven't been able to get back to sleep since then.

Azuresky68 · 22/01/2025 07:53

@NippyNinjaCrab good morning! have you got a brand of magnesium tablets you would recommend? I have run out and need to get some more.
Like a many other people my sleep is bad and I have loads of vivid dreams. Think it is worse since I went up to 12.5 mg
I am also bored with food so trying different things from what I have been eating..treated myself to a big ready made salad from M&S with mozzarella and tomatoes and added hard boiled eggs.. it was a treat because I didn't make it and because it was from M&S. Struggling with appetite on 12.5g

Blondeshavemorefun · 22/01/2025 08:31

@SilverSprings510i was when avoiding foods and sticking to what I ate. Where now I have pizza. Half of one and Around 350c where before I would have a total meat and cheese one and eat it all so prob 1000c

@WorriedRelativeimpressed !!

What I said @owlyboo

@Motnight sorry for crap nights sleep

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Blondeshavemorefun · 22/01/2025 08:32

I slept better last night

and back to feeling peckish today on day 6

so normal for me

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PoemsForTea · 22/01/2025 08:49

Motnight · 22/01/2025 05:46

I also seem to have caught the no sleeping bug from others on here. Was shattered yesterday and was asleep just after 10. Woke up at 3 and haven't been able to get back to sleep since then.

I woke 3.06m - we could have had a chat 😆

PoemsForTea · 22/01/2025 08:51

Azuresky68 · 22/01/2025 07:53

@NippyNinjaCrab good morning! have you got a brand of magnesium tablets you would recommend? I have run out and need to get some more.
Like a many other people my sleep is bad and I have loads of vivid dreams. Think it is worse since I went up to 12.5 mg
I am also bored with food so trying different things from what I have been eating..treated myself to a big ready made salad from M&S with mozzarella and tomatoes and added hard boiled eggs.. it was a treat because I didn't make it and because it was from M&S. Struggling with appetite on 12.5g

I dont take magnesium (I do use a spray one on my legs sometimes) But I recommend Just vitamins for supplements, they are really good quality and quick delivery 🙂

NippyNinjaCrab · 22/01/2025 09:16

Morning, it's sunny and mega frosty here in our wee village 😀 we have a yellow warning for winds for Friday which could be increased to Amber and maybe red, we will see.

@WorriedRelative you cannot beat proper physical outdoor jobs I love it! Your arms will love you haha. Do you ride everyday? I love horses, ❤️

@Azuresky68 at the moment I'm on a subscription with Holland and Barret I'll send which ones I'm taking. It just ensures I don't run out because I'm terrible for starting things and getting distracted and before I know it I've moved on to something else. I take a B12 tablet daily and I have a Vit D plus K spray too. I have felt the benefits definitely. There will be better brands out there definitely and if anyone has recommendations that do subscribe and save id be interested. I've attached what I have daily. X

Mounjuro August starters - thread 11
Mounjuro August starters - thread 11
Mounjuro August starters - thread 11
Mounjuro August starters - thread 11
Weepixie · 22/01/2025 09:37

SilverSprings510 · 21/01/2025 21:45

Anyone else just finding it all a bit boring at the moment? I know it will pass of course, but the whole process of eating the same sorts of things day in and out is boring, isn’t it. A bit of diet fatigue I guess!

I went through a little phase like that but but not because of food. I just couldn’t wait to get to target and I still can’t. I’m so excited about it and I quite often stretch my arm out and say just a fingers tip length now Weepixie.

So yes, diet fatigue because that’s what it is really.

Princessandthepie · 22/01/2025 11:08

Hope you're all doing OK!

I'm not even going to pretend to catch up with this thread 🙈

Jab and weigh day for me!

Thought I was going to gain after being away for the weekend but I've lost, down to 12 stone 6lbs now so happy with that.

So that's 3 stones and 9lbs lost in total since 3rd August!!

weaselyeyes · 22/01/2025 11:48

Well done @Princessandthepie ! That's the exact same amount of weight I've lost 😀It feels very substantial! And a loss after a weekend away is awesome.

I'm not bored of the food really. It's interesting. I just thought about whether I'd feel less bored if I ate pizza and the answer is no. I like pizza but - leaving aside the fact that I feel better physically if I don't eat it - it would just be pizza and it wouldn't change anything. I think I feel bored of feeling restricted and having to work on stuff. But having thought about it, I think this is a bit of a general malaise and resistance to life stuff I don't want to do or feel. It's just that food has always been a handy way of feeling I've indulged myself and done something for me in the face of a million shoulds and ought tos and failed expectations. So I guess it's just missing emotional eating really.

I think it feels harder to resist since Christmas because not only did I eat more stuff, which has a physiological effect, but because it's associated with not being at work, resisting everyday dull stuff, seeing my daughter and having a lovely change to the mundane. And now I'm up to my neck in the mundane! And it's interminable January! I've definitely got more food noise than I did, but maybe that's because that's the only way I know how to express - and resolve, although it doesn't really resolve - feeling dissatisfied. Obviously it would be good to work on the wider life issues and not just have an extraneous snack, but those issues all feel tricky and hard to solve.

AuntieDote · 22/01/2025 11:57

I like wellgard and particularly Nutrition Geeks for vitamins and supplements - they're both available on amazon so there's a subscribe and save option there (if you can live with Amazon!) or maybe on their own sites I'm not sure.

I don't take magnesium - I've tried the kids gummies for DD in the hope they'd help with her sleep but they did nothing and because she thought they were sweeties she'd mither me for them all day long so we gave up on that! Feels pointless attempting anything to give me better sleep when it's pretty much dictate by her - we're all pretty terrible sleepers in this house now, DD always has been and as a result DH and I have become such light sleepers that even if she gives us a very rare night without her waking up yelling, we both wake up at the drop of a hat anyway. But I use various other supplements from the places above.

Incidentally, the Wellgard collagen is one of the cheapest I've found and I don't believe it does any more or less than any of the others out there. I'm not convinced any of them do anything really but I can't seem to stop myself taking it 'just in case' - plus it also boosts the protein intake for the day so there's that. I also do the Wellgard high fibre gummies. And I've tried some of their probiotics. Then Nutrition Geeks I use their biotin, vit D and K2, plus recently added in their 'iron energy' tablets which also contain vit B12 and folic acid - both of which I was told I was deficient in when I had blood tests at the GP.

My stomach feels a little more settled now though still not brilliant - I did indeed have a bout of the 'D' this morning, but no 'V' fortunately. I've not eaten anything yet today - hopefully it won't get worse!

On the being bored and repetitive food thing - I don't think I've ever really been as strict on the 'clean eating' as some on the MJ journey. I mean I've eaten healthy, home cooked meals - but then I always did really. My issue has always been all the snacking and sugar addiction on top of that. I have far less bread, but still eat pasta/ rice etc though I watch my portion sizes and track everything so I know where I am calorie wise, make sure to up my veg intake as much as possible, and cook from scratch as much as possible - but I'm not ever going to be one to exist on grilled chicken and salad alone and honestly I think I'd rather be fat.

We recently got a 'come back to Gousto' 50% off' offer so ordered a box which arrived yesterday. I like these boxes (when there's a reasonable offer on) as a chance to mix things up a bit when I feel like our meals are getting a bit too samey - no reason why I can't just look up some different recipes and do them without the box, but for some reason I never do that! Chosen relatively healthy options - one isn't great but I think DH will make that for himself and DD on Saturday when I'm out anyway. My friend wants to try it and asked for the referral code so hopefully we'll get one more cheaper box, by which time I'll hopefully have got out of the rut and be ready to try some new things.

Oh also - DH got a 'Raffis' spice kit as a stocking filler from his mum for Christmas, only enough to make one meal but oh my goodness the curry was amazing. It was literally just chicken, fresh tomatoes, onion, pepper, and the spices from this kit plus water (did say to add coconut cream if desired but we didn't have any). Also made some bombay potatoes which were fabulous - I just had a very small portion of those, plus one shop bought poppadom. Poppadom aside - it was a perfectly healthy, balanced, 'clean' meal but tasted like a real treat. Definitely recommend trying them if you come across them anywhere, not sure which supermarket it was from. It was pretty mild our one, even DD ate it, but absolutely full of flavour.

weaselyeyes · 22/01/2025 12:15

Glad the stomach is a little calmer today @AuntieDote - hope it gets more stable!

I've no problem with some off piste eating, but am now really aware of what makes me feel a bit rubbish and prone to more compulsive eating. It's definitely refined carbs and UPFs for me, but like you say there's no need for everyday home cooked food to be bland. When I'm making food just for me, I tend to go for easy and highly flavoured, like dahl.

Weepixie · 22/01/2025 12:26

Auntidote if you get some hand cream and add lavender essential oil to it you can rub it on your daughter feet to help her sleep - if she would tolerate it. It’s better absorbed on the feet.

Also a lavender pillow spray helps - again if it can be tolerated.

Blondeshavemorefun · 22/01/2025 12:43

Well done @Princessandthepie

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Blondeshavemorefun · 22/01/2025 12:46

Sorry to hear about the poo @AuntieDoteb it glad no 🤮

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Slimhopes · 22/01/2025 12:53

Hi everyone, just agreeing with the diet fatigue feelings, it feels boring for me too as it’s been 6 months and restricted calories. I’m also just desperate to be at target and to be able to eat a little more each day. I found it helpful to look back even a month ago and realise how much I’d lost since then and thinking another few weeks of plodding along I’ll reach a lower weight again . But it is frustrating althigh glad I’ve not, yet!, had side effects and sorry for those struggling feeling unwell. I’m also not sleeping and been up since 5am, shattered and not working today but don’t feel like I can doze either which is probably better in theory for tonight!
haven't yet lost for this week but although I weigh every day, I count a Saturday weigh in and keep note of all my Saturday weights since I started MJ on 2nd August.

Slimhopes · 22/01/2025 12:54

And does anyone else not trust mirrors ?! I look in mirrors and see a smaller me after losing 4st but think it’s deceptive and I don’t really look like that! I keep sneaking a glance at mirrors if I’m in shops but I then end up thinking they’re designed to make everyone look slimmer and buy the clothes. Probably losing my mind with lack of sleep😆

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