Mounjuro August starters - thread 11

[Blondeshavemorefun]

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

I have my bonus dose of 10mg left and will be sticking to 10 again this month. Need to order actually 🫣

You heard it here folks. Myth busted. You do not need to eat the babies!

Really glad to hear you're okay @lookathatbookcase . Sounds like you're doing great. Yes I hope more flexible dosing comes out. Looking forward to hearing how you get on.

Wow @SilverSprings510 a marathon is in your future.

@wohmum Well done! Gosh, in the 10s, how exciting!

@owlyboo 4lb from healthy weight is incredible! So close. Good going on vinted. I really need to get started.

@MrsHerbs79 Every thread needs a mad stalker 😂. Wave now and then though please!

@BettyandtheVets 😂 about numbers. When I watched dh try to hang sth v heavy with the teeniest nail I thought I better take over 😂. Have just bought a combination drill and am dangerous.

@poppym12 just enjoy your holiday! Don't mar it with regret. You know you can take action when back.

@Slimhopes yep I hear you! I felt more suppression on 7.5 than 9 but I am feeling better on 9 though hungry. Confused.

You heard it here folks. Myth busted. You do not need to eat the babies.

I don’t eat jelly babies either. I just bite their head off. It makes me laugh everytime.

Gosh @FlappingMadly I’m not so sure about that! I’d be happy to run a 5k a couple of times a week. I am short and chubby; not a natural runner! But am proud of myself for starting. Got my fastest time and longest run yesterday! 🏃🏻‍♀️

Short and chubby myself @SilverSprings510 . You're inspiring!

Bloody hell, I thought you lot had gone a bit quiet but you were hiding here!!!

@Nippy another Archers addict! Yay!

I've had to resort to the dulcolax this week, things were very backed up. Feeling much more able to eat too so definitely going to move up, will see how much I get from the bonus dose. Hopefully I have a long use by date on my unopened 7.5mg pen and I can save it for going back down.

@Slimhopes you can always make 12.5 out of your 10

@owlyboohope 15 is ok - as it’s the same cost as 12.5 I am tempted to order that next time as I don’t feel a lot Diff on 12.5

i know I’ve lost weight obv since dieting /on mj but do wish it was more

@wohmum well sone for getting Xmas weight off

@SilverSprings510 well done for running and getting fastest running time

@WorriedRelative prob my fault as I did thi with maybe 50 posts to go on 10 - but ri thought that would fill first then trundle to here

I will try and do 12 when this is nearer 980 ish

I’m hungry - what a surprise

I’m keeping to my 1200 but def could eat more

I had better whoosh tomorrow or will be fucked off as I stayed in my 1200 every bloody day last week and still sts

Good morning everyone. I have just been reading all the latest on here. Feeling really tired today. Yesterday I wrote a really long post and then lost it. News on microdosing..if you join the Ouschk FB maintenance page, Hira, the owner of Ouschk has posted about microdosing and I think things will change. She has always stuck to the official policies on 30 day life of MJ and no mention of bonus dose. Interesting to follow on FB. You don't have to be with Ouschk to join the page. It's jab day today and I haven't eaten yet but I really fancy a bacon sandwich. I am going to walk to the shops, buy some decent bacon and make sandwich for brunch. I log everything on MFP so will stay under 1000 cals. I only have 5 pounds to my personal goal although to get to the top of my healthy BMI it's more like 8 pounds. I am expecting the last bit to be very slow. Have a good day everyone. PS now using the Beta App for android phone

Good luck with weigh in. Are you going up to 15 next?

I hope at some point the makers of WLI work out why we respond to such different levels of medication. I'm thinking receptors for something, but that is my very unscientific guess. Having followed everyone's path on here for nearly 6 months now, we are all so different in dosage levels and side effects. It weirdly fascinates me.

Fingers crossed for weigh in tomorrow @Blondeshavemorefun .

Liking the new name @NippyNinjaCrab 😁

Go @owlyboo and @wohmum

@Azuresky68 will be very interested to see if the 30 day policy changes. I did some research myself and I think that the concern about keeping for more than 30 days is to do with potential contamination and possible sub optimal temperature control. I keep my injections in the fridge from the moment they arrive and only take out to inject. I have therefore made the decision for myself to continue using after 30 days. Not suggesting for one moment anyone else should or that I'm doing the right thing, but that's what I've decided to do - carefree devil that I am!

Hi everyone just checking in after waffling away on the old thread for a bit 😆

Think I’m feeling a little bit of suppression today even though I’ve gone back to the lowly 2.5! Just tucking into a protein bagel with scrambled egg and lean bacon, plus some tomatoes and spinach on the side. And whilst I will certainly polish it off with ease, it is the first time I’ve eaten today - I made a conscious decision to do IF in the week until I’m back where I was before I stopped the jabs - and I think IF definitely helps me with cutting cravings anyway, but does feel that tiny bit easier now.

Another lurker waving madly 👋 - though I do tend to post in bursts when I get round to it 😁. Thanks for setting up 11 @Blondeshavemorefun.

So here I am to date:

• 56 (when did THAT happen) & 5ft 11.
• SW: 19st 1lb (size 18/20 - how did THAT happen - size of an England rugby player FFS!!!)
• CW 15st 11lb (size 16 but could be 14 in jeans, woohoo)
• Prob another 3st/20kg to lose - possibly 2, depending on how I feel.

Now on 1st round of 7.5mg and feeling a bit full in my throat (IYNWIM) and soooo tired - not sure if MJ/a virus I appear to have/bloody buggering perimenopause!! I'm really not doing much exercise, and I know I should be, but I am such a warm-weather baby and could do with hibernating tbh! Also, I am logging everything on MFP, and I am averaging 1200 - 1500 calls a day.

SO, my Qs are.

• How many calories are you all at, and am I eating too much still - I do like food (which is how I got here in the first place 🙄) ?
• How do I get rid of this tiredness - any suggestions?
• Also, what are we doing about flabby skin ladies - I am noticing it a bit more on my body than before 😳

@MargoLivebetter It is fascinating, isn't it? I find myself reading threads trying to work out if there are common variables influencing people's responses, but I haven't been able to come to any confident conclusions yet! Partly I think it's because it's compounded by our perceptions.

I've noticed that people who were slim throughout most of their lives and then struggled to lose weight in recent years talk quite differently about themselves and their experiences of MJ from those who have had many episodes of overweight/yo-yo dieting (like me) and those who have been continuously overweight. Also, although we're all reporting a lot of similar responses/effects, what we mean by them seems hugely variable. The way people talk about things like hunger/suppression/cravings/fast or slow loss is so, so different, and it's interesting how people label their experiences. People's dietary strategies obviously differ a lot. There's also what other stresses and co-morbidities people are dealing with and how they're impacted by them and their interactions with using MJ. There's a lot to unpack!

I also go beyond 30 days (usual disclaimers etc) and will carry on. I wish they would use the US model of single dose pens as I think it would make maintenance much more flexible.

Hi everyone, I’m due to jab this evening but I’m planning on going back to 7.5 after the 10 made me feel so unwell. Is it ok to delay taking the dose for a few days because last weeks dose of 10 is still working really well and truth be told I can’t face the jab today. I’m surprised I feel like this about jabbing today because it’s been plain sailing since day one and the only way I can describe it is that I’ve got the ick. Im not planning on giving up at all, I just have to find the correct dose for me again. In fact I’m so excited to be closer to target than I am to starting weight and it’s a lovely feeling.

Advice please lovely ladies ☺️

@Weepixie It's fine to delay a few days. I hope it helps!

I have a 12.5 from iq to use but May do 15 using bonus

but then once I’m at 15 then what. Can’t do 17.5

I do love the test app @Azuresky68

@MargoLivebetter I know we are so diff - I rarely have any side effects but have the very odd sick then feel fine

I also keep in fridge who time minus injecting so would be happy to go over 30 days but have never had any left 😂

yah for suppression @AuntieDote. It’s a rare thing lol but esp on 2.5😂

what’s is IF

I'm hungry today too @Blondeshavemorefun but I'm expecting a gain when I get home.

Just trying to catch up on the thread and many of you speak about your goal weight (and I might be a little bit envious about how close many of you are to it).

I haven't set a weight goal. For the purpose of logging calories and weight on various apps I put 75kg (l'm just over 5'8) but I think that's still in the overweight bracket?

I started at 109.3kg and was a gnats fart under 90 kg before I came away (annoyingly slow as I can't exercise and was on crutches for months). Should I set a goal weight? I tend to just see how things pan out these days as I can be very hard on myself and if I stop losing weight before the 'goal', I'll beat myself up constantly at having failed.

I suppose I'd love to be a size 12 again but at mid 50s, I'm not sure I'll manage it - or maintain it.

So, ponderings from a sun lounger on the beach.....is anyone else just winging it to just see where they end up weight wise?

@Mum0ntherun I have 1200 a day as that it what my tdee says

I am tired but think used to it now plus work nights so often sleep daytime as well

wouid love an arm tuck but couldn’t afford it

@weaseleyes as above its so strange how we vary and some tolerate under 5 and others like @owlyboo and myself are on the highest doses

honestly @Weepixie I would keep to the once a week

but others would say to leave a few days

@poppym12sadly I’m nowhere near goal but a lot on here are

I still have 2.5st ish to go to make me bmi 24

obv 25 would be top end and then lb more I’m back to over weight

@weaseleyes thank you very much. 😊

@poppym12 - we’re twins. I started at 109 and I’m also 5’8”. So far I’m down to 95.3. I think it’s been quite slow but others have said it’s not.

I do wonder if my age is anything to do with it. I’m 66 but a very active 66. I lift weights and do functional training with my PT and I walk everyday. I’m also busy in my day to day life.

that said - I do eat every one of my 1450 calories a day and my aim has always been good nutrition and enough of it.

Weigh day tomorrow. And I think I'm going to jab 10.
Yesterday I'd have told you I've lost 2kg this week but I had a cheeky look on the scales today and I'm sts as earlier in the week. Sigh. So 🤞 for tomorrow.

honestly I would keep to the once a week

Thanks blondes. I honestly feel scunnered by it today. But then I’m feeling nauseous all round. I had a family wedding to go to tomorrow but I’ve cancelled. I’m just too tired and I’m never like this.

@poppym12 I don't have a specific number in mind - though 13 something would be fabulous but I would be happy in the very low 14s. I am thoroughly ignoring BMI as I am not of average height or average build. I just want a weight where I feel happy to be.