Mounjaro Feb 2025 starters

[Mounjaroday]

Just started Mounjaro? Friendly chat and support right here!

My starting weight: 104kg
Would love to lose 30kg over time

Have just started the first dose - no side effects so far. Appetite has disappeared. Cautiously hopeful about the future!

Good luck to anyone else starting their weight-loss journey too. Would love to hear from you!

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I think it depends on quickly the thread fills up and how often you check @Mounjaroday 😁

But I’d say about 50+ posts before the end gives you safety.

Thanks @OverTheTopOfTheMountain
Being a total simpleton I think: how do I know when it’s 50 posts from the end? 😂 🤔

I think you get 1000 posts on a thread.

Hi Feb2025start 👋 ok! Let’s do it 💪 I’m 5’ 5 and size 18/20. I have eczema which you can see in some photos.

Thanks!

I personally like to weigh daily or almost daily because I can then track it on a graph and see the fluctuations for what they are. Whereas if I weighed weekly I would get dispirited by the odd bad reading

Hey guys, first proper post in here for me as I did my first injection yesterday evening. Woke up thing morning quite thirsty but no symptoms yet. Best part, I didn’t wake up hungry and haven’t felt hungry once today. Made myself have a banana for breakfast and small hot cross bun for lunch, but nothing else which is crazy for me, usually don’t stop snacking. Hope everyone’s having a good day, I will come back with my first weigh-in in the next few days, and fingers crossed for a loss (currently 190lbs)
Also just to add, if anyone else is nervous to do the injection, I recommend the video on YouTube by Juniper, the instructions are really clear and baby steps.

On the subject of divulging to people… I don’t live with my partner. I have DS22 living with me and DD18 at university miles away. I haven’t told anyone.

That’s why I like this thread. No one is frowning with concern or saying, “eat less and move more”.

For anyone who is thinking of trying a lower dose (for side effects or other reasons) - just to report - my experience so far is that you don’t have the same suppression that others are talking about - I am feeling hungry at points, but find that i only have to eat a small amount ( a banana / couple of oatcakes) and I feel full/ satisfied. Everyone is obviously different - but I think a low dose for me means it doesn’t feel wildly different from normal - but I have loads more willpower and am just wanting a lot less to eat - and all I want (but this may be just a symptom of having felt so queasy last week) is simple whole foods. I imagine it wouldn’t be good for those who deal with a lot of food noise and want it silenced, but it feels pretty good to me.

Because my travel today went a bit wrong, I ended up eating absolutely nothing until 3:30pm. Not even a tiny hunger pang. But I was starting to feel a bit nauseous.

This is amazing stuff.

The other thing I have noticed is that I am eating much more slowly - usually I end up sitting and waiting for DH to finish but not the last three days! I also sipped a glass of red wine very slowly all evening yesterday Vs necking it

My first pen finally turned up from MedExpress today but I am feeling a bit nervous about starting, despite looking at this for weeks! I also hadn’t planned on starting on a Saturday, but I honestly don’t know that there is a ‘best day’ for it for me, paranoid I’m going to be running to the loo or feeling sick, neither of which are ideal!

How long after starting did you start feeling appetite suppression?

just taken my second jab , the appetite suppression started after a day or two so I am interested to see what this week brings

Do you mind me asking what anti-nausea medication you bought @Chrestomanciscat ? I share your fear of vomiting and it's this that has put me off starting mj.

SW 15st 8lb
CW 15st 0.6lb

1st week weigh in and I've lost 7.4lb which I'm over the moon with. 2nd jab done this morning and not had a headache this time round yet so that's good.

I am a little bunged up and ended up taking some dulcoease last night which deffo helped this morning. I really do need to up my fibre intake this next week.

Have just taken 1st dose 2.5 Mounjaro with Juniper.

Starting weight 13st at 5'3"
Goal weight between 9st 7lbs and 10st

Worried about side effects but let's see what happens now.

My suppression was pretty instant. I literally haven't felt hungry for nearly 3 weeks now since I started.

I wish my suppression had started immediately! I took my first dose this morning and have been hungry all day. Hopefully it will improve tomorrow for me.

@eleanorwish fingers crossed it will do. Everyone is different. Good luck with your weight loss journey.

I'm on day 5 of my first week and it's the first time I've felt any effects from MJ. I was hungry as usual but then after a few bites I was full, and that was 6 hours ago and I still can't face eating anything else

They are cyclizine hydrochloride, they kick in in about 30- 60 mins. You need a prescription for them so should be able to get them from the pharmacy you got your mounjaro from 👍

Evening Everyone

Did my 2nd 5mg dose last night and I feel OK still, luckily no side effects,

I think I feel hungrier today - i'm ignoring it had a banana about 1230 and egg mayo on toast about 2:30 - trying to drink lots (I do feel more naturally thirsty than normal)

I've had a stressy day which would normally mean i delved into the chocolate which I haven't so that's good.

My sister found out Im on MJ - bu discovering we're on the same FB MJ group - EAK - that's not ideal.

Hope those feeling yucky feel better soon.

I need to remember to order my needles to get the bonus dose!

PS- anyone else have a husband that bought them 5 (small) bars of toblerone for Valentine's Day - thoughtless I thought. He knows what I'm doing but apart from day 1 hasn't asked anything about how I'm feeling or if I've lost weight or anything so don't feel like i have any support from him/he cares sadly.

I felt exactly like that... couldn't wait for my first pen to turn up. And then felt very nervous about actually using it.
But it was all fine. All the very best for you.
For me, food suppression happened more or less immediately

I've taken my first 5mg this afternoon (after I felt super peckish all morning), and was worried I'd get side effects, but so far nothing.
Apart from continuing to feel sooo cold (I literally spend as much time as possible under my heated blanket)

@mysparkleismissing - sorry to hear about your husband. That would upset me too.
Have you asked him how he feels about you taking this medication?

@mysparkleismissing I'm sorry to hear that about your husband. You will get a lot of support here.
P.s- I got a box of milk tray! absolutely pointless!

@viktoria are you on month2 now if on 5mg? Being super excited and then nervous to start is exactly it!

I think I will try to start tomorrow.

@LilacMoose interesting to hear that it took you a while to get the suppression benefit, I’ll bear that it mind if it doesn’t kick in immediately, thanks.