November ‘24 starters thread 6 - The one where it’s still January but we keep losing 💪🏻

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Welcome to thread 6 friends old and new! Feel free to lurk or post, absolutely no judgement here, just support and encouragement as we traverse into 2025 with new bodies and new mindsets 🥰

I’m on W11D5 and on my second 5mg pen
F in her early 50’s
H 5’ 5”
SW 13st 11lb
CW 12st 2.2lb
GW 10st (maybe 9st 7lb if I don’t look too saggy!)
Total loss so far 23lbs

Recommend the Shotsy app to monitor MJ in my system and pleasing graphs to look at…plus the MeThreeSixty body scan app to monitor inch loss for the weeks where weight loss is slow but you might have lost body fat etc. Both are free.

Feel free to swap recipes, tips for side effects and we love a beauty/fitness/style chat too.

Happy Friday!

Keep posting. we’re all here to help 💐

It can be quite frustrating can’t it! I mean, perhaps from an evolutionary perspective we may be stronger or showing signs of our Amazonian roots, but when I’m trying to get a bra which actually fits it’s a nightmare.

I’m aiming for 10 stone rather than bmi, but that would give me a bmi of 23.

i’ve not experienced that so far but I’m enjoying a nightly hot water bottle 🥰

🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

I’ve set up a specific weight loss album in my phone. I take a picture every week in workout clothing. I can see the difference. Maybe try that?

I know from experience and from talking to a few different doctors that BMI doesn't work for me. I'll be too thin for my frame and starving. I'm 5'10, big boned and do a lot of weight lifting so I will be aiming for somewhere around 14-16 stone. 14 stone would put me just under obese by BMI standards. But I know I like how I look at 16 stone so it's probably going to be dictated by how my knees feel!

Sorry to hear about the burbs but halfway is a huge achievement!

Great reduction on the BMI 👏👏👏

Go down a band size and up a cup. I’d try a 32H and see how you go.

Looks like I need to go Bra shopping soon (saggy wet socks)

1.3lbs is still 1.3lbs! That's another step in the right direction and it all counts.
I had to convert to old money as my brain refuses to understand what a kg means in practical terms but that's 33lbs since November? That's incredible progress!

Thank you it is and I'm pleased but I'm still a good sz 20 so clothes wise I've not moved.

If I could get to 3 stone I'd be happy. Any more then that and I think I would look ill yet I'd still be way over an overweight bmi. I've lost my boobs. I don't think my underlying hips will ever change. I need to learn to accept myself.

1.3lb is my weekly average, I'm pretty happy with it.

I can really understand how much you want to see results in a tangible way - clothes size, shape. I have some thoughts about this which I have arranged in a neat list!

(a) I think you've probably changed shape more than you think. People don't know how to comment on size and shape these days so they don't necessarily just go "you've lost weight" the way they might have done twenty years ago. It's annoying when you're doing it deliberately!

(b) When the going is slow, the thing I always remind myself of is that it's still progress. I remember in my late 20s I was really overweight and knew I needed to lose weight. For a long time I put it off because I couldn't see how I'd lose the weight I needed to before I was 30 and that felt like too long to wait. And then one day I realised that I was going to be 30 anyway, and I could either be a slightly slimmer and healthier 30 or I could be the same at 30 as at 29.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is - you're doing the work and it will pay off.

Hi everyone, sorry I’ve barely posted for ages, have had a lot of family illnesses going on, kind of just want this winter to be over now.

namechangedyetagain a huge well done on your 15kg loss so far! 👏 Also just to encourage you about the weekly loss, it’s still great progress and slow and steady is meant to be good way to keep it off long term too. I’m losing about a pound a week at the moment and some weeks no loss.

How we feel emotionally plays a huge part of how we see ourselves and others, I’m sorry you’re feeling low/ depressed and hope you have support IRL as well as on here. Sending you a big hug today and I think you’ve honestly done brilliantly, keep going 💐 If you’re on meds for it maybe worth having a chat with your GP, to make sure the MJ isn’t interacting with it and reducing the effectiveness? I’ve had to increase one of my medication doses a bit since starting MJ but is all good now am on a higher dose.

I don’t know if this will make you feel any better but I’ve lost 1 stone 5lbs so far and still squarely in size 20’s shape wise. It’s a long game with this wonderful drug and we will get there! 🤗

One update is have switched to Cloud pharmacy and all good with them so far 👍 had to do the dreaded full length pic again, aargh!

Not a moment too soon as Voy got my dose mixed up and sent me two pens! 😱 thankfully only got charged for one or I would have had a heart attack! They are collecting the extra one tomorrow, as shame really as they said although I haven’t opened the packaging they have to destroy it. I cheekily asked, if you have to destroy could I keep it free of charge and they said no. Oh well, thought it was worth the ask! 😂

Hope you’re all having a good weekend. Next week I’d be happy if my hubby and kids can stay sickness free and would love to re boot our family meals including mine! Need to get back to basics, snacking on crackers way too much.

Just wanted to pop this on if anyone is interested in good/ comfy and flattering leggings:

https://www.next.co.uk/style/su152906/u65488

I love these ones from Next! They are amazing, so comfy and holds things in so nicely without being tight and restrictive as lots of ‘shaper’ ones can be. They are ribbed and v stretchy, I find the wide waist band really holds supports my lower back too which has been helpful for back pain. My lower half is noticeably pear as think have mostly lost from the top half so far and I’ve found these the perfect blend of all day comfy and shape flattering/ nicely supportive. Pretty much live in them now, have a few pairs, got the black and navy. Size wise find is XL for best for everyday comfort and nice shape. L for tighter fit I’ve worn a couple of times to parties when I wanted extra suck in and shaping!

I had this when I stepped up to 7.5mg. I dropped down to 5mg but I also had to cut out anything fatty or high sulphur foods for up to 36 hours after my jab to prevent vomiting.

Thanks for the chat about BMI, it's prompted me to have a play around with the calculator this morning.

My 'healthy range' is between 6.11-9.2 stone 😲

I've never been slim, so don't know how being in a healthy range will look for me. I chose an arbitrary target of 8st 8lbs just for a vague number to aim for. But in reality I will just see how it goes/how my body looks when I get nearer. I want to feel healthy and strong, rather than achieve a certain weight I think.

I mean, 6 stone something is just laughable, to me that's child-sized, not a mother of 4 sized 🤣

To be honest as a lifelong overweight (and obvs a very very short) person 🤣 I'm only just allowing myself to believe that thanks to this bloody miracle of a drug that I will ever be at a healthy weight, but for the first time, I do now believe it to be achievable.

Weigh in day today: 11st 3lbs, I'm very nearly halfway there 💪

On BMI, the way I look at it is that if my blood sugar's good (it was just below diabetic in the test I did before starting MJ), and my knees and ankles don't hurt, and I can do most of the physical things that I want to do without a lot of discomfort, then that's an ok weight to be. I think for me that is probably somewhere around 16 stone.

Hmm, I had something similar last Sunday. Wasn’t sure if something I ate or the MJ (woke up in the night and had to be sick, felt out of sorts next morning too). Currently I jab on a Sunday. I had cooked a roast duck dinner and had gotten carried away with the crispy skin! So it could have been that.

Unfortunately I’m clearly not very wise because I’m cooking a leg of lamb this week! Will stick to the meat and veg!

Are you quite short Monty? 6st 11lbs sounds sooo incredibly light, even for the lowest end of healthy. I was a tall kid but think I'd have weighed that when I was about 9!

Lost 3lbs this week 13st hopefully next week I'll be below it for the first time in about 30 years 😀

End of week 12
Or W13 D1
I have had an annoying week of pound on/off but am claiming it today as
SW 14st
CW 12st 2
GW low 10s

I have only lost 4 pounds in January but have had two weekends away so it is OK. I am going to increase my dose from 5mg to 7.5mg as I don't want to lose momentum.

NSV : Lovely friend said I looked like I had lost weight today (first person to notice!).