Mounjaro / Wegovy with > 5st / 30kg to lose: Thread 5

[VelociraptorsVelociRapping]

Thread FIVE of this lovely community. Anyone using weight-loss injections to lose more than 5 stone or 30kg is very welcome to join us, no matter what stage of the process you are on.

Please don’t post discount codes on this thread as your post will be deleted. These need to go in the dedicated thread on this board.

Mad respect.

@PrincessPeache

Well done

So so wonderful

Thanks for sharing @RobinEllacotStrike
The description of the “grey market” in the US is terrifying though.

I'm having a 'down' day today - my week 4 injection is tomorrow, so I think my suppression must be low - I feel miserable and hungry and fed up!

Really concentrating on getting through to bedtime and sticking to small meals, lots of protein - but it's hard today!

Roll on jab time tomorrow...

Please @MooBaggage, if you are hungry, eat! I know it’s easier said than done but try to see low suppression days as an opportunity to take on the nutrients that it’s hard to stomach when you have really high suppression. If you Google ‘refeed days’ you will see that some people deliberately plan these into their week.

My HbA1c was 32 mlmol on testing just before starting Mounjaro but I wasn't given a percentage just under 42 is normal 🤷‍♀️

Agreeing with @VelociraptorsVelociRapping on days where I am hungry I eat more. What I don't do is eat crap.

I stick to choosing high protein where possible so I'll make up an omelette if I'm really hungry or have a chocolate protein pudding if I just need something that feels like a pot of chocolatey goo, or a peanut butter and almond flour mug cake.

Sometimes it's good to have a day or 2 with higher calories, it gives you a bit of a break from the norm and shows you that the odd treat isn't the end of the world. The problem is when it's every day and it's lots and lots everyday.

Thanks both! You were right - am feeling much better now I've had a good tea (baked chicken thighs in soy sauce and honey - yum!) and a chocolate protein drink. Am full up and watching telly - life is good again 😊

Another recommending calorie cycling! Day 7 is always hungry for me, especially if I am not busy and therefore thinking about food.

I tend to eat at maintenance - which, given that I eat under even my normal deficit days 1-3 due to supression, still more than balances out.

Feels much better!!

@Reginaphalangeeeee that's 5.2% so firmly in the normal range which is good!

Weekly weigh in and made up for my gain the previous week by losing 3.7 lbs this week.

Current BMI 25.91, from a starting BMI of 33. Only 6 lbs to lose till I get into the healthy range.

Also I am now 101 lbs lighter than my heaviest ever recorded weight of 271 lbs.

Starting weight - 217.5 lbs
Current weight - 170.4 lbs
Total loss - 47.1 lbs

Week by week:
End of week 1 - 212.5 lbs - 5.0 lbs Loss
End of week 2 - 209.6 lbs - 2.9 lbs Loss
End of week 3 - 205.9 lbs - 3.7 lbs Loss
End of week 4 - 204.1 lbs - 1.8 lbs Loss
End of week 5 - 202.8 lbs - 1.3 lbs Loss
End of week 6 - 200.8 lbs - 2.0 lbs Loss
End of week 7 - 198.6 lbs - 2.2 lbs Loss
End of week 8 - 197 lbs - 1.6 lbs Loss
End of week 9 - 195.1 lbs - 1.9 lbs Loss
End of week 10 - 192.4 lbs - 2.7 lbs Loss
End of week 11 - 190.6 lbs - 1.8 lbs Loss
End of week 12 - 190 lbs - 0.6 lbs Loss
End of week 13 - 187.8 lbs - 2.2 lbs Loss
End of week 14 - 184.3 lbs - 3.5 lbs Loss
End of week 15 - 184.5 lbs - 0.2 lbs Gain
End of week 16 - 183.4 lbs - 1.1 lbs Loss
End of week 17 - 180.9 lbs - 3 lbs Loss
End of week 18 - 178.7 lbs - 2.2 lbs Loss
End of week 19 - 178.5 lbs - 0 lbs Stayed Same
End of week 20 - 176.8 lbs - 1.7 lbs Loss
End of week 21 - 175 lbs - 1.8 lbs Loss
End of week 22 - 173 lbs - 2 lbs Loss
End of week 23 - 174.1 lbs - 1.1 lbs Gain
End of week 23 - 170.4 lbs - 3.7 lbs Loss

Brilliant @InfoSecInTheCity ! I can only dream of having a BMI anywhere near the 20's...!

Can I ask those of you who have been on MJ/Oz for a while and lots significant amounts of weight - have you told friends and family who have noticed your weight loss and asked how you did it?

I have only told 2 x people (my dp and ex who I'm still very close to!), but I know that people will start to ask... My family is already very confused that I'm suddenly not drinking and am saying no to biscuits/cake etc.

I'd love to just be honest and tell them, but I know they won't understand - I'm the only big person in my family and they won't have ever experienced food noise/difficulties containing what they eat to usual amounts. They've seen me go on countless diets in the past and have them all fail. I just don't want the judgement and negative responses, when I'm so taken aback at how life changing this medication is!

Am more likely to tell my friends as they're all lovely 😊

@MooBaggage I've lost 7 stone, and I have only been directly asked about it once. It was a friend who asked if it was intentional first and then was positive about it after I said it was. I didn't say and wasn't asked about how I was doing it. I've recently discovered that my partner's family have asked him about it, to check that I was not unwell (I don't look unwell btw just smaller!) but none of them have spoken to me about it. My partner also didn't tell them how I was losing weight, just that it was intentional. My own family would never raise it with me, but they have all said how "well" I'm looking which I know is their code for "thinner"!

If anyone does ask me how, I will say eating less and moving more, because it's not untrue, and no one else needs to know about my medical decisions beyond knowing that I needed to lose weight.

No one commented on me getting so massively overweight though, weight/size is not something that I generally discuss with people.

My experience is that no one is commenting or asking. I think everyone is so scared of accidentally fat shaming or offending someone that they just steer clear of the topic of weight altogether.

I've had people say things like 'you look great, so well rested' or 'have you done something different with your hair?' But they almost trip over their tongues to avoid saying anything about size.

Thanks both. I think my Mum in particular is slightly different - I've grown up with constant comments throughout my life about my weight, both big and (slightly) smaller... She's been known to burst into tears at how upsetting my size is for her 🙄

I think my mindset is probably very skewed compared to how 'normal' families operate..! Will assume that no-one (other than my mother) is likely to pass comment!

@MooBaggage I've lost 26 kilos and no one is commenting - there is a visible difference & my belt has gone in 6 knotches. (I've just contacted the place that made my belt asking if they can add some more holes for me).

I do get a lot of "you are looking very well" comments. I think, as others have said, people don't go there where weight is invovled so much these days.

I do tell people if it comes up, "I'm losing weight by calorie deficit, healthy food choices, exercise and Mounjaro". For me its the first 3 that is causing the weight loss and MJ enables it all, while allowing me to remain sane and happy. I think its would be prefectly OK to simply say "I'm losing weight by calorie deficit, healthy food choices, & exercise" and I would say that to someone who was particulalry judgy or I didn't want to go into it with them for whatever reason.

I get a lot of different responses - mostly people are confused and don't know what Mounjaro is. If I explain its a WLJab they usually recoil a little 😁

My sister (in NZ) doesn't believe me when I was explaining MJ & how good I feel around food etc now. She said "well I am ordering pizzas when you are here and you can't tell me you wouldn't eat one" - I tried explaining that a pizza is as appetising as a cowpat now, but she just laughed at me - she thinks I've lost my mind. I told her I might have a slice if I was hungry, though the thought does turn my stomach a bit. (My sister is more of a giant meaty cheesy Dominos pizza person, than local Italian woodfired job).

@MooBaggage

"She's been known to burst into tears at how upsetting my size is for her"
This must be really difficult for you.

What a minefield we are all navigating one way or another. The "its easy - calories in calories out" brigade don't take into account mothers, families, and that complexity of emotions and habits built all our lives around food & how this affects our brains & bodies long term.

I’ve still not told anyone I am on MJ.

I am getting more comments on weightloss now though, although I do shut it down when it comes to them from my parents etc. They can note it, but no more. I am not prepared to discuss how much I’ve lost, how much better I look now, or how I am doing it. They know its because I don’t want their views and even though they deny it, they know its because I know what they are saying is just all terrible diet culture-y, fat shaming type things dressed up in health concern and just how nice I look.

I do actually have a good relationship with them otherwise - its not all bad, its just like many people, the women in my family are either constantly trying to lose weight or are naturally slim and don’t understand why people are fat in the first place

Friends wise, all notice, some say so, some don’t. I will take it a little bit more from them, but not at length and again, I don’t discuss how much or how I do it, beyond saying its calorie deficit.

I did contemplate telling one friend, another who has always struggled with weight, and who has done every fad diet under the sun. She has a tendency (in my opinion) to massively restrict and then fall down as a result. She mentioned her current attempt - standard deficit, and she is already not properly researched. She was just sticking to the average - 1500cal deficit because thats what she thinks is the norm. I did explain TDEE then, just because she is heavier and taller than me and my deficit is higher!

She has mentioned MJ if this attempt fails, and I stayed quiet. Only because I know already what will happen; she will chase that total suppression, lose a ton quick, stop the drug and then pile it back.

It sounds silly, but I don’t think she’s had her lightbulb moment.

(Maybe I haven’t, but it feels like I do!)

So in short, its still a secret for me haha!! And why I am here a lot - its the only place I have!

I might talk about it in the future when MJ is recognised and used for more things, I believe it will be.

I am also firmly in the camp that its ok to lie about it. Not claim its another fad diet or whatever, but to just say calorie deficit etc. People have no right to know medical information.

I have told a few people that I'm on it.

My weight loss journey has unfortunately coincided with my mum dying. Which is obviously beyond shit. Before MJ I was a comfort eater and would eat to suppress my emotions. Thankfully this has not happened over the last couple of weeks.

Those that I have told have all be incredibly supportive. My sister is a little judgmental, but then she has lots of weird food hang-ups and probably thinks I'm not putting in enough effort 🙄

But it is still taking will power and effort to eat correctly and stay in a calorie deficit.

Its working for me. I'm seeing the benefits in how I feel. I also have a fatty liver and high blood pressure and my weight loss is helping me get healthier. I have 2 small children that I want to do things with.

So sorry about your Mum @CanIGoHomeNowPlease
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Hi
Hoping I may join this very supportive group?
I started my mj journey November 24
Sw121kg
Cw 109kg
Gw70kg
My mini goal is to get under 100kg by march! Not sure it's doable but I'll try my hardest, currently on 7.5mg ,4th jab due Wednesday when I will weigh myself as well.

It's been lovely reading about all your achievements.

@CanIGoHomeNowPlease I am so sorry for your loss

welcome @Amarajean
There are a few of us aiming to lose around 9kg for March. I'd love to get below 90kg in March (I starte off at 124kg). I am going to visit my family in NZ end of March. If I could get to 90kg that's probably around what I weighed when I first left NZ 30 years ago.

Really lovely reading about your achievements and ways of managing family.
I am early in the journey, 2 weeks in and 12 lbs down.

I too feel I have nowhere to share this but on this forum with like minded people.

Only my DH knows I am on MJ and I know he is dying to know how much I've lost but is polite enough not to ask and I don't want to say.
I don't want his 'fat maths' to kick in and work out what I weigh right now or 2 weeks ago as I am so ashamed of my 136kg starting weight.

He said something the other day which made me think he has no idea what I weigh or how much I have to loose. He definitely thinks I am in the "under 20stone category" and I am sad not to be. Since he has known me he has loved me at 80kg to 136kg! When we first met I was athletic and he thought I weighed much less than him but actually weighed more. He is really supportive and interested in but I just can't admit to my weight and therefore will never be the person saying 'I've lost x stone' because it's simple math to work out how big that is.

Wish I cared less about what others thought but thankfully care more now about myself. This was a great decision by me and all of you know, it's not 'the easy path' but one which will still require a lot of hard work and sacrifice.

I hadn't told anyone but DH, my adult children and their partners until recently when the topic came up at a meal out with some female friends. They were all very positive and supportive so I may tell others if and when it feels right.

I started this with a company who had nutritionist and coaching support so I had just told people up until now that I had decided to address my weight early last year after a health scare and had seen a nutritionist and a psychologist then worked on their advice to change and reduce what I ate in a healthy way that I could do long term