A Non Scale Victory!

[YoshiIsCute]

Hi all, just wanted to celebrate a non-scale victory with people who will get it!

Last night, I felt like soup. So I cooked a vegetable soup from scratch. And ate it. And enjoyed it. And was perfectly satisfied with a bowl of this soup + 2 small pieces of GF toast.

Sounds like no big deal, but for me it's huge for a few reasons:

Up until now, I have hated soup. I would only eat it if I was sick, or there was nothing else available.

I also HATE cooking, am bad at it, and will generally avoid it at all costs. Well, at least that is how I have been my whole life until I started Mounjaro 6 weeks ago!

So for me to actually crave soup enough to cook it from scratch is honestly unheard of. Even my husband was shocked!!

This medicine is changing my life in so many more ways than just weight loss. I am so excited about how much less food noise I have, how my tastes are changing, and even how much less alcohol is appealing to me now!

Celebrate with me and share some of your non scale wins too!

That's a lovely NSV @YoshiIsCute . I am continuing to enjoy the fact that I can now sit cross-legged, which I realised I haven't been able to for years.

Thank you @SilenceInside 🙏☺️ I love your NSV too! It’s amazing how this little changes sneak in and then we realise just how long we might have been struggling with something isn’t it!

I am also craving soup on mounjaro! And other healthy hearty meals. I feel so much better for it too. I never hated soup but it wasn’t a go to for me.
Well done and I’m glad you loved your soup xx

Sharing the newfound soup love!

And yesterday I had a long brisk walk with friends and realized I could chat quite happily on the way up the slopes without getting out of breath!

Great NSV! New found love of soup here too. I feel much fuller and satisfied on them too which never happened before.

I love soup - Waitrose do some lovely ones that are low calorie that I add cooked chicken to bump up the protein.

I'm eating veg soup as I type! I'm finding so much more energy to cook rather than do something quick to shut up the food noise. Eating so much better thanks to mj!

Oh wow hello fellow newfound soup lovers and thank you for sharing with me! It's so nice to actually crave and enjoy healthy food isn't it?! I genuinely can't remember the last time I felt like that.... if ever.... (and it certainly was never over soup 😆). Love your NSV's @DarkForces and @shrinkingthiswinter ! More energy to cook and finding exercise generally easier are so good!

Congrats all on your NSV

Today I put on my socks stood up without needing to hold onto something for balance.

I have also started sitting with my legs crossed. Forgot how much more comfy it is.

It's azing how much more comfy I am in my body.

I feel a bit of a fraud posting as I'm only on day 4 and haven't yet weighed myself to see if I have a 'scale victory'! But my NSV is also soup related so I may as well post 🤣

I eat in the canteen at work at lunch and have recently been trying to have the soup rather than the pie/lasagne/curry etc main meal option. Far healthier right? Except... bread is my weakness! So that lovely healthy veg soup is eaten with two slabs of buttered sourdough. And this is after egg/cheese/beans on toast or buttered crumpets for breakfast 😬

However, the last couple of days I just...haven't wanted the bread?! I've switched to a small bowl of unsweetened porridge for breakfast and soup with a basic salad (no mayo etc) on the side for lunch. And I actually WANT to eat this way and feel satisfied! It's honestly a revelation!

My dear old Mum taught me how to make soup. At lunchtime for my first 2-3 months on MJ I had homemade red lentil or split pea soup with green veggies whizzed in and portions of chicken breast added. It’s super healthy, easy to make, inexpensive, good amounts of protein and delicious - SO much nicer than shop bought!

New NSV - according to my watch, I’ve got my cardio fitness up to the average for my age! 💪

This took some weeks of sort of high energy strength training at the gym, but was not as miserable as you might think. I don’t do treadmills or cross training because that is too boring and upsets my back. Losing 11kg has helped too, obviously.

@Feb2025start isn’t not wanting bread amazing?? That and pasta have always been my downfall. I just ate a bit too much carbs my whole life and gained a kilo a year, which added up to 29 kg too many. I didn’t realize I needed to eat protein instead to be full.

Mine is weird but I feel dance-ier! I'm not quite sure how to describe it but I'll have a little dance while washing up or brushing my teeth. It's not just that there's less of me, as this wasn't a thing last time I was this weight, so I'm wondering what lovely hormonal change it is.

I definitely feel this too! My energy levels are amazing. I slept terribly last night (normal for me unfortunately) but pretty much bounced out of bed at 6:30 am feeling ready for anything, and was bopping to some tunes in the kitchen while I made coffee. I've lost significant amounts of weight quickly when dieting previously (once lost a stone in ten days on an Atkins style VLCD) and remember feeling tired, grouchy and hungry all the time - the absolute opposite is true here!

Oh I have never bounced out of bed, ready for anything in my life 😂 Even Mounjaro isn't powerful enough to have that effect on me!
But I am enjoying the dancey energy.

Oo yes, so much more energy! Jumping out of bed would require an entirely new personality, but I have definitely been feeling dancey! And ready to try new things

Every day on the school run I used to dread bumping into people I knew at the bottom of a small hill as I’d have to talk to them on the way up and try and disguise the fact I was out of breath going up. It’s amazing not carrying that worry now I can manage it quite easily.

I can get on and off the floor without using my hands/arms, just hip mobility and leg strength.

Weird. I bought a huge bag of carrots at the weekend, to make soup. Day off today so that's my task.

Woop woop we'll done

I can sit up without my arms but not quite at this point. I can see it happening soon though. 😊

My army cadet trousers go on and do up! They aren't comfortable... but they do up!

I had them when I was a fit and lithe 18 and they're the only really old clothes I've got to measure against, so this is useful info.

It confirms that BMI isn't necessarily going to be a good guide for me. I've lost 11kg and to get to 24.7 BMI I'd have to lose another 19 kg. I definitely want to lose 9 and probably 14. But I think I'd be nuts in my late 40s to try to be smaller than I was when I ran around doing cadet stuff and rugby in my late teens. Especially as I'm training a lot now and am if anything more muscular. So I'm going to have wearing those trousers as a NSV goal instead.

Tomorrow will try to stand up from floor without arms. Struggling a bit to imagine it just from a technical point of view, but there must be a way...