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

[Mounjaropen]

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!

Try and concentrate on your average loss pw since you began the journey rather than specific weeks - we can’t win all of the time every week (although I’d be delighted if we did!)

Well done! 12lbs to go is fabulous!

Congratulations on your losses though! Don’t beat yourself up for ‘wasting’ food - it’s how we’ve been brought up 💐

Woohoo on the pending 12’s!

Was having EXACTLY this conversation with an old friend this morning - the ‘horror’ of having a 26” waist and being over 9 stones. Madness. My DD used to say “Mum, why are you taking so many photos of me?” and I say, ‘You’ll thank me when you’re 50” 😂

Hate Thursday the day before my jag I'm thinking food all daaaaayyy loooonnng

@SerenePeer same weight here I've not been below 13stone since I was 21 and I'm much older now 🙃 ok 52 I'm excited for the summer days

I'm excited for a new wardrobe! Going to treat myself to a styling session somewhere and get a swanky capsule wardrobe that fits!

@SerenePeer sounds like a gd plan

no update for me, although am fully expecting a gain when I get back.
I am not in control of my diet this week and every time I eat fatty/rich food it goes straight through me. Have flitted between constipation and violent diarrhoea all week!
Looking forward to coming home and eating meat and salad and veg.
am having a lovely time and am enjoying the food and wine!
I do think in my new world post MJ I will still have naughty weeks when I’m on holiday, so I need to accept it and refocus when I get back.

well done to everyone for the losses!

I'm really not sure I can handle another week of feeling like this - it's almost as through the queasiness and low energy is driving me to comfort eat. pretty sure i eating more on this higher dose?
Anyone else had a reaction moving up from 7.5 to 10mg?

Same here. I'm away also. Eating 3 meals a day and drinking more than I have been. I've bought 10 5mg doses with me but in reality should have gone up to 7.5. Wondering whether to do 7.5 from the 5 pen or just to do a 5 dose but every 5-6 days instead.

Summer days with no chub rub! This will be a game changer my friends 😂

Love this ❤️

I hope you’re enjoying the holiday!

If it helps, I dd go wild on the wine, did only steps from my bed to the bar/restaurant /taxi and ate way more than usual last Thursday to Monday last week in Bonny Scotland. Scales said I had put on 5 lbs on Tuesday morning…I have been sensible, got back to my incline walks and pvolve since Tuesday and I’ve lost 4 of those lbs according to the scales this morning. This does give me hope because I was ‘joining in’ with DH rather than having a real desire for more than one meal a day, wine and snacks plus I’ve shifted it relatively easily in 3 days. I’ve got a fancy restaurant boozy lunch in London booked tomorrow but then DH is away pretty much all week so I plan on being extra good to get to my 2 stone marker 🤞🏻

Anything else going on maybe? Hormones? Are you drinking enough water? Sorry you feel rubbish.

Hope you’re having a fab time! See my post to Della - do you desire 3 meals a day or are you eating them because you are joining in/they’re included/someone else is feeding you? I think it’s perfectly normal to indulge on holiday but your plan to fall back to a dose every 6 days sounds like a plan. Try is for one week and see if it makes a difference then maybe up to 6.25/7.5 if it doesn’t?

I have joyous news everyone!

I have reached my goal!

For the first time in years, I can see my pubes.
All be it I had to squish my fat down.

But it’s quite a spectacular colourful bush.
I will invest in a tangle tweezer now that I can see what I am doing.

@Dreamqueen i did lower my dose out here, have been on 5mg and have done 3 every 5 days.
i haven’t snacked but I have been eating lots more and drinking every day so I fully expect a gain on the scales. As @Mounjaropen says I have been “joining in” rather than needing to eat.
i will do a detox when I’m home and try to get back into good ways quickly.
i do think i need to learn to accept sometimes I will be naughty and then gain, and that’s ok, as long as I own it and get back on track as soon as I’m home. Historically I’d have thought “oh F it” and then eaten all the chocolate and crisps and said “I’ll start tomorrow/on Monday” which would then never happen 😂😂😂

the scary thing is I’m not really really enjoying all the food 😂

🥳🥳🥳🥳

And a little 🎀 for your bush 😂😂😂

fantastic news @lovealongbath

I have stopped daily weighing in the last couple of weeks and the religious calorie counting has stopped and I’ve moved to living but just being more mindful. Today I felt the urge to weigh (after a satisfying morning poop 😂) and the scales started with a 10! 10st 13. While I’m still overweight, I’m so so happy that I’ve had losses without the obsessive tracking and it taking over my thoughts.

Next step is to be more active. I have weights which I want to do at home regularly and now the pup can go out for walks we will start more family walks (likely end up carrying pup but still).

overall, work and home life has been much better this week. Dh had an interview for a job he really wants yesterday so keeping everything crossed for him. He’s awesome at his job and is the kindest person, he really deserves to be happy.

I feel the same. Enjoying life but also missing the suppression. Still making good food choices but eating larger portions.

@lovealongbath best post ever ❤️

My choices have not been good! Although I don’t really have choice at the moment 😂

@lovealongbath fantastic NSV 🥳

This is the best achievement ever! 😂