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

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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.

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Never had any kind of treatment not even a facial except a sheet mask at home or one of those fun peel off ones 😆

Won't know how well it's worked for a few days, apparently it takes 3-5 days for the effects to settle in then I have a follow up in 2 weeks to do any top ups or adjustments that might be needed.

I have WC 17th Feb off work and am going away for a few days with DD so I'm hoping that if I do look more relaxed and less tired people will just assume it was the time off work and a few days in the sun that did it rather than having Botox.

There was one friend who was sort of whining that she's the fat one now.......

Classic - she's not happy for you and cheering you on, she doesn't actually want the best for you, because her identity is made out of comparisons with other people and your weight loss makes her feel worse about herself.
Avoid avoid avoid and good luck with the job hunting 🍀

I'm all for all the beauty treatments!!! I love all my lotions and potions and will be going a step further with treatments as treats along the way. Will be starting with waxing next payday, was always too ashamed that the lady wouldn't be able to reach or the bed would be too narrow before x x

You are wise to keep some distance @NearlyNewHip and I am glad to hear that they are not very close friends. There will be people who were quite happy to have us in the 'fat' box where they did not need to feel threatened by us, and those are the people who can turn nasty. I have noticed that a certain groups of school-gate mums have started being nicer to me and I could not be less interested, shallow women that they are.

@NearlyNewHip That is a bloody shocking thing to do and you do wonder what goes through people's minds! Deary me - how awful for you. It is fine enough for us to privately look at pics of old and think ah fuck, but to do that publicly and go out of your way to do it for someone else's - what? Benefit?? is another level. Hope you are OK.

You are spot on @gimmemounjaro - I have someone who is very dear to me and I am to her. I was just chatting about finally getting my act together - healthy eating, etc and relieved to be finally properly losing weight, and she replied "you are going to be one of those people aren't you? Like an ex smoker..." I have never shut up so quickly and have kept my mouth firmly shut from then. The last thing I need to fill my head space is the idea of me being in any way a preachy know it all....BUT this person has known my lifelong struggle with my weight, when she was always very slim herself. She is now a lot bigger than me at my heaviest, and I think I (without meaning to, God no!) I touched a nerve. Now, I don't mention it at all and she doesn't ask (we live far apart and months go past without seeing each other).

I did say at the time, quietly, that is was my own journey and I was worried about my health, but as I say, it will never be mentioned again. Lesson learned.

I am 1 pound, a single pound, from 3 stone. So close yet so far - maybe tomorrow - official jag day. We will see.

On a tangent, I took some more photos last night and really noticing a difference just between last month and this month. It's true what they say that once you get closer to normal BMI small losses start making a difference. When I think that it took the better part of 2 stone before I noticed my clothes feeling loose at the beginning, and now half a stone seems to take me into a new clothes size.

I put pics on this thread, not going to repost as photos go through an approval process now and don't want to cause someone work on a Sunday.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5174306-weekly-weightloss-progress-thread-mounjaro?utmcampaign=thread&utmm_medium=share

@InfoSecInTheCity What a change in your photos!

Agree with what you say about the smaller you get the more the losses show, although I am nowhere near "small" yet!

It took me ages to move from squeezing into size 22 to being able to do up size 20 jeans, nearly 4st loss. But size 20 to size 18 was much quicker after losing just over another stone.

I have limited myself to one pair of size 18 denim for casual and one pair of black for work (only in office occasionally), I refuse to buy more as hoping I'll be in a 16 soon (they are waiting in the cupboard!) and I wear the now baggy 20s around the house.

Bloody hell @NearlyNewHip with friends like that....

I'm relieved that they're "only" work friends but more shocked by their thoughtless overstepping!

Wow @InfoSecInTheCity the difference in a month is bonkers! I wonder if your skin is tightening up too?

My scales have finally started moving again 🎉

I'm feeling a bit disappointed today.

One of the things that tipped me into starting MJ was a photo taken at Easter last year where I just looked like a mountain of lard.

Started at 17st 9lb and I'm now a pound off 4stone lost (that sneaky little bugger is evading me!) and am down 2 clothes sizes.
Went out with friends last night and felt good in a new dress. A friend took just one photo during the evening to send to someone, we had a lovely evening and today she has shared that photo to our group and I still look huge! I look so much bigger than all the others, although I'm not sure I am, and it's quite dispiriting

If you put last years photos and last nights photos side by side, how do they compare?

You have lost 4 stone, that's exceptional, such an achievement!

It can be really hard for us to objectively see ourselves, I only see the differences in myself if I'm comparing photos of different time periods. If I just look at a photo in isolation I still see fat, if I look in the mirror then I look exactly the same today as i did a year ago, if I look at photos side by side I can see the difference.

Brains are weird and confusing things.

@QueenOfHiraeth

Don't worry, all normal. I am almost the same as you - I started at 17st 3 and am half a pound 😖 away from -4st.

Some of my clothes are now size 14 and they fit fine, and I even have some size 12 FatFace jeans that I can just about do up. So I am now only browsing size 12 on Vinted. That bit me on the arse yesterday when a pair of trousers arrived and honestly I couldn't get them past my knees. I'm not sure I will ever fit into them tbh. I was really disappointed, immediately felt huge again. But I'm still the same size as I was earlier on when I felt pretty good about those FF jeans. You are still the same as when you felt good about all you've achieved so far.

Just keep on putting one foot in front of the other, focusing on what you can control one day at a time, one meal at a time, one decision at a time, and it will all work out. You can't get from where you were to where you're going without passing through this weight. It's all happening just as it should, so enjoy the process.

Anyway - are you really so much bigger than the others? It might be worth showing that photo to someone else and asking them - maybe you aren't seeing things clearly. It sometimes takes time for our perception of ourselves to catch up with reality.

With friends like these… 🙄.

Surely one of them must have thought this could be a bad idea?! Well done for getting through it and don’t let it derail your amazing progress ❤️

Awww - I get it, truly. I was at an event yesterday and my other half took some photos of me. I'm only about 1 stone down, but have been feeling good, but the photos, which I didn't know I'd be on, jusr show this huge fat woman and I can't believe I look like that 😔 It's proper brought me down - and shocked me. That I still look like that, even having lost a stone. How did I let myself need to have to lose at least 7 stone - how insane is that?

So I'm with you - but we absolutely have to keep looking forwards - It's the only way we can go!

You know that thing about how a sunset never looks as beautiful in a photo?
That 💐

@gimmemounjaro @InfoSecInTheCity Thanks both, I know I am smaller than I was but I have looked at both photos and do still look very large.

Interestingly @gimmemounjaro we are not dissimilar in weight but you are in a size 14 and I am still a good 16-18 top and have just got some M&S magic jeans size 20.

I think I am bending the laws of physics as I have another friend who I have always been bigger than and I know she is a similar weight. She kindly passed on some clothes that she was getting rid of because they are too big for her to wear and they fit me quite nicely

Its always really disappointing to feel photos don’t reflect how good you feel!

This sounds really stupid - but it may help to feel good about yourself in photos - or better at least - if you look up how to pose for photos - tiktok has loads of these things, mainly from women photographers, who often specialise in boudoir type shoots, but talk about standard posing. It sounds silly but it has helped me a little! And they aren’t like stupid, contorted poses, that look obvious to others; just subtle things.

People will often say stuff like - ‘it doesn’t matter’ or ‘your face is so pretty’ etc and make out that its silly to care - but I think its OK for it to matter, if you want it!

I personally always used to hunch over or hide in photos and it makes me look bigger!! I think trying to force yourself out of that instinctive shrinking position makes a world of difference.

And its also really shitty when friends behave poorly around weightloss. In one sense, I am quite lucky in that I don’t actually have many thin friends; or at least, that many that talk a lot about weight and their size etc.

But male attention - that’s one I am finding a bitter pill. It has increased for me since Christmas. I went to a work thing last week. And some men I have known for a while definitely looked at me or treated me differently. (Please don’t think I am maasively conceited!) It was subtle but I know what it is. Men who would not look twice at me 4/5 dress sizes and 5st ago. And I cannot bring myself to engage with them - which in some ways is totally stupid; because I am well aware society treats thin people differently to fat and I am actively loosing so that I can benefit from all that being thinner has to give me. Its really complex and annoying. And i know that any new relationship now would have to be with someone who never knew me at my fattest.

Weekly weigh in and 1.6 lb loss this week. BMI is now 25.7, down from 33 when I started.

Starting weight - 217.5 lbs
Current weight - 168.8 lbs
Total loss - 48.7 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
End of week 24 - 168.8 lbs - 1.6 lbs Loss

That's brilliant @InfoSecInTheCity !!

I've done exactly 4 weeks, so today I'm moving up to 5mg and have lost 15lbs 🙂

SW 20.3
CW 19.2

Am pleased because my mini target was to have lost a stone by my birthday, which is later this week, so I made it - hurrah!

Next mini target is to be firmly in the 18 stones by the time I go on holiday, which is in 4 weeks' time. I think the weight loss will start to slow down, so am hoping to be around 18.10 by the time I go away - between 1 - 2lb a week loss from this point onwards would be great.

I completely get you re: the men thing...

My body shape has always been HUGE boobs and when I'm fat fat, the rest of me is huge too, but when I lose weight, it all goes from my middle, which is great, but suddenly I start to get attention from men - which I effing hate 😔 I think some of my putting on so much weight is psychological, as it makes me invisible (ironically...!).

So I have that battle going on, re: finding men completely creepy as my boobs stay big and the rest of me gets smaller🙄. Added to that though now, is my dp (a fairly recent acquisition 😁) absolutely loves big women. He loves me and fancies me like mad, fat and all. He's being incredibly supportive re: the WLI but a bit of me is now worrying I'll be less attractive to him, the smaller I get! He knows this and is being lovely and reassuring, but it's a quandary I've never found myself in before..!

Our minds are such a nightmare sometimes, aren't they..?!

Love those progress pics @InfoSecInTheCity - the change in your body is incredible.

Congrats on the 80lbs @WeAllHaveWings

Well done all you big losers !!

Weigh in day for me and another kilo down this week:
SW 124kg
CW 97.8kg
GW 74kg
total loss 26.2 kilos/4.1 stone/57lb
started End of July 24

BMI -
starting 41
current 32.7
goal 25

I don't see any changes in my body for a while - I've been this weight before (a long time ago though) and I'm still clased as obese. So while I am feeling great, I also feel wary - I don't want to get stuck here in the 90's but going below 90kg (a while off I know) will be (I think) a breakthrough into long uncharted territory.

I'm reading all your posts about body shapes, weight loss and our brains trying to sneak in lots of negative thoughts just when we start to feel good about ourselves. It can be so overwhelming.
I've lost over 4.5 stone but I'm still weighing over 13st. I feel slim, fitting into size 14 tops and 14/16 bottoms. I'm 5ft 5 so realistically I'm not slim, compared to myself last year I'm slim, compared to my friends I'm curvier.

I've a friend about half a stone lighter than me and same height and I look slimmer than her as I carry my weight on my thighs and bum and she does around her middle. But if you put us in shorts or swim wear she'd look much slimmer as my trousers literally hide an awful lot.
@QueenOfHiraeth I can guarantee you not one of your friends will be critical of how you look in that photo. I bet you'll all get lots of compliments.

on the men thing, I've never got to the bottom of this but I do think packing on weight in my late teens and holding onto it, was at least in part, about having a protective buffer from unwanted male attention.

I'm old enough to not care now, and tough enough to deal directly with unwanted attention from men.

How this will unfold mentally & emotionally as I get smaller, remains to be seen.

Well I took the plunge! Had my first injection yesterday late afternoon. I have thus far today had zero hunger pangs, which is great! I did have awful heartburn/reflux in the night though, which kept me awake.

I'm thinking that I do have to eat something this evening, even if I'm not hungry? What do you guys usually eat?

@idrinkandiknowthings I would go for a lean protein and leafy non-starchy veg.

On days when the suppression is very high and I don't feel like eating much, I an usually manage a protein yoghurt - the only ones I like are the Arla ones, strawberry or blueberry for me but they do other flavours too.