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

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Mounjaropen · 17/01/2025 08:33

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!

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Mounjaropen · 06/02/2025 07:52

MounjNewb · 05/02/2025 20:49

There was a question a few weeks back about donating blood. I went tonight and no drama at all - a couple of extra questions with the Session Sister and good to go. Weird that I am OK with the main needle going in my arm, and jabbing myself with MJ weekly now, but that little finger prick test for iron levels really gives me the heeby jeebies…..

Looked at the bag of my precious red stuff at the end and instantly thought ‘there’s got to be a lb in there - going home to weigh myself’ - what a dipsh!t……😂

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Mounjaropen · 06/02/2025 07:54

Goldleafcat · 05/02/2025 19:14

@KeepCalmandGiveItaGo I have most definitely plateaued! Keep bobbing about between 14 st 11 lbs and 14 13lbs at the moment. I am frustrated. Especially when seeing quite spectacular losses elsewhere. I’m trying to give myself a stern talking to. I’m not doing anywhere near as well as many others, but my body has been on a weird weight gaining mission the last 12-18 months (peri menopause?) and this year has been pretty full on and stressful so far, and when I look back to previous years I’m normally piling the pounds on at this time of year too!

I have a 7.5 pen to use, and have ordered my follow on pen at 10mg (eek!) for the next one. Need the big guns! 😆

Peri menopause is a bastard. On the positive side, you’ve got MJ 💪🏻

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Mounjaropen · 06/02/2025 07:58

phyllidafosset · 05/02/2025 20:39

My small win yesterday was that someone asked me if I had lost weight (first ‘notice’). They asked how and I just blurted the truth. It isn’t anything to be ashamed of, but it still feels a bit like it should be a secret!?! However I am crap at lying.

It was nice someone noticed 😊 I also got back into what was my favourite jacket. It still doesn’t do up, but it looks like it might 😁

My suppression on the strongest days is huge, and I get slightly faint/dizzy from low blood sugar, I think. Then it is way less at the end of the week (and last week I gained 1lb of what I had lost). It would be easier if it wasn’t such extremes. But I’m staying with 5mg for the next month. I’m anticipating a slow loss month but hopefully I’m get to 2 stone lost 🤞🤞🤞 (trying to tell myself not to be too impatient).

Well done! ‘New’ clothes are the best in this journey! I’ve only just got my 2 stone badge, but I’d never have lost 2 stones in pretty much exactly 3 months before MJ so patience is a virtue and you will be rewarded 🥰

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lovealongbath · 06/02/2025 08:14

Weekly check in…
taking 3mg

2,5 lbs loss this week , oh ya 💃
SW 18st 4lbs
CW 16st 5.7lbs

What have I achieved this week….
10% of starting weight lost 💪
on average 8k steps a day 💪
lost 25% of my goal, only 75% to go 😳
no longer need to use extension seat belt 🚗
bought myself a new dressing gown in size large instead of xxL
No swelling in Ankles
Bought myself a second hand cross trainer. can you imagine a piece of exercise equipment in my house 🤪 I plan to use it, it will NOT become a clothes horse!

12 weeks in to any eating regime in the past I would be starting to falter, go back to my old ways and put all the weight + more back on. Thanks to MJ , I am so focused, so determined, So in the zone
I am not wasting my money, I am not wasting this opportunity, I am not wasting this investment to become healthier.

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phyllidafosset · 06/02/2025 08:52

lovealongbath · 06/02/2025 08:14

Weekly check in…
taking 3mg

2,5 lbs loss this week , oh ya 💃
SW 18st 4lbs
CW 16st 5.7lbs

What have I achieved this week….
10% of starting weight lost 💪
on average 8k steps a day 💪
lost 25% of my goal, only 75% to go 😳
no longer need to use extension seat belt 🚗
bought myself a new dressing gown in size large instead of xxL
No swelling in Ankles
Bought myself a second hand cross trainer. can you imagine a piece of exercise equipment in my house 🤪 I plan to use it, it will NOT become a clothes horse!

12 weeks in to any eating regime in the past I would be starting to falter, go back to my old ways and put all the weight + more back on. Thanks to MJ , I am so focused, so determined, So in the zone
I am not wasting my money, I am not wasting this opportunity, I am not wasting this investment to become healthier.

So much 💪 and positive news in this post 🥰 Huge congratulations on all of those mini and big wins!! 🎉🎉🎉

phyllidafosset · 06/02/2025 09:02

Mounjaropen · 06/02/2025 07:58

Well done! ‘New’ clothes are the best in this journey! I’ve only just got my 2 stone badge, but I’d never have lost 2 stones in pretty much exactly 3 months before MJ so patience is a virtue and you will be rewarded 🥰

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I think I am enjoying my new old clothes best. It feels like I’m retrieving the me I feel like. At the same time, I shouldn’t be defining myself by my size. I think it is also about an aging thing. Perimenopause/menopause, and the aches and pains, and other things make me much more aware of my mortality (also realised how close I am to my parents age!?!!!). So fitting into my old clothes makes me feel younger. Enough pondering. I need to get ready for work 😁

evilharpy · 06/02/2025 10:13

phyllidafosset · 06/02/2025 09:02

I think I am enjoying my new old clothes best. It feels like I’m retrieving the me I feel like. At the same time, I shouldn’t be defining myself by my size. I think it is also about an aging thing. Perimenopause/menopause, and the aches and pains, and other things make me much more aware of my mortality (also realised how close I am to my parents age!?!!!). So fitting into my old clothes makes me feel younger. Enough pondering. I need to get ready for work 😁

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Fitting back into favourite clothes is the thing I'm most looking forward to, I think. I have a wardrobe (actually two wardrobes!) full of clothes I love that don't fit me - but they will, and I can't wait.

TeenLifeMum · 06/02/2025 11:34

Suppression (after jabbing 3 days late) is strong. I have the 10mg waiting for collection but now wish I’d stick with 7.5. Oh well, I’ll try it and worst case, I’ll figure out click counting for the next.

midweek weigh in - 1lb down. I’m so full of snot with my head cold I wouldn’t have been surprised if I’d gone up.

week 11, 7.5mg
sw - 12st 9
cw - 10st 11
gw - 10st 2

I’m enjoying not logging everything and obsessing yet still losing. This is usually where I fall off any diet. I don’t feel like I’m dieting, just eating less. I’m pretty horrified that a sharing pack of malteasers would have gone in a night. I currently have a pack in the dressing room at the theatre and it’s lasted since Monday with others sharing. I think I’ve had 8 in total, but not in one go.

evilharpy · 06/02/2025 11:36

@TeenLifeMum I bought 7.5mg last time but decided to stay at 5mg as suppression was still strong and I was getting a few (not terrible) side effects, so have been just counting the clicks. I'm due to reorder and am going to buy 5mg this time.

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