November ‘24 Starters Thread 7 - The one where we might need smaller smalls 😉

[Mounjaropen]

Welcome to thread 7 to MN weight loss friends old and new!

Feel free to lurk or post, absolutely no judgement here, just support and encouragement as we move beyond the looooongest month and into February. Love is in the air for our new smaller selves and discovering clothes we use to wear ❤️

I’m on W14 D4 and on my third 5mg pen
F in my early 50’s
H 5’ 5.5”
SW 13st 11lb
CW 11st 9.2lb
GW 10st (maybe 9st 7lb if I don’t look like a melted candle)
Total loss so far 29.2lbs

Recommend the Shotsy app to monitor MJ in the 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 that might inspire anyone in a food rut, tips for side effects, exercise tips, tips for titrating up or down and we love a beauty/ style chat too 🥰

Woohoo! Great losses! And so good to be so close to your GW. Have a wonderful day.

1st 10mg this morning could have swore I had another 7.5 anyway onwards we go see how it goes Good morning everyone

Enjoy the lunch. And fantastic results.

15 courses!!! @Mounjaropen 5 or 15??

we are all expecting a full rundown later 😂

@Mounjaropen well done for your fab losses!

enjoy your lunch today, i love a tasting menu 😍

Fifteen 😂

I’ll do my best 😂

Tbf, I intend to be squiffy so it might be tomorrow

Thank you x

Good morning! Let us know how you get on!

Thank you!

Weighing in.

W14D7
SW: 19st 9lbs
CW:17st 3lbs
1st GW: 17st 13lbs
2nd GW 15st 4lbs
TL: 2st 6lb

Trudging towards the 16s still and really hoping to reach them by the end of the month.

I had my bloods taken earlier for glucose measuring, so those should be interesting results. She checked my blood pressure while I was there and all good and in the normal range, although it doesn't seem to have come down yet.

I'm out for Galentines tonight, with some filthy burgers and cocktails. 15 courses, @Mounjaropen , fucking hell!

@murraymcgill best of luck with the 10mg. Hope nothing to major happens, other than at the scales.

@Mounjaropen have a fabulous time. Hope each course is only a bite. I did a sushi tasting menu last June, when I had been on wegovy and even though each course was just a bite I had to skip some and was so full, I bet pre jabs I'd have been starving after.

Am going see Bridget jones and captain America tomorrow.

After last week's constipation this week is of course the opposite, making me reluctant to take anything for either eventuality, other than trying to up my water.

Weigh day here too! Down 0.6lb. Not bad considering I ate out a lot this week and have been rubbish at exercising!

@Mounjaropen Wow that’s a brilliant loss! Well done. Enjoy today, you deserve it! 15 courses sounds wonderful, will there be a drink with each too??

Has anyone else really plateaued? I’m stuck on 170lb pretty much since Christmas. I feel like that’s my new ‘set point’ and my body is really fighting back.

I’m eating very little. Unable to finish a full lunch portion.

I wonder if I should up my calories/ protein and also exercise a lot more than I do now and see what that does?

I didn’t eat/ live very badly before, my diet and lifestyle was quite healthy, so going into MJ hasn’t been a huge change for me in terms of a complete diet and exercise overhaul. The meds have just helped my efforts to actually have an effect, and make further improvements, eg drinking lots of water now that I’m thirstier

Lost 10% of my body weight in about 2 months, it just dropped off, but now I’m stuck.

15 courses and drinks 😂 I am imagining a cross between the Ab Fab scene of Eddie falling drunk out of a car and Kate Moss staggering into a hotel

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1QmuUqESDL/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Hope everyone is having a lovely Valentine’s day. I didn’t think my husband was doing presents so he got nothing but he bought me some chocolates.

I know I sounded ungrateful but it’s the last thing I wanted! I would rather have had some flowers!

My husband bought me some champagne. Which is lovely.

But for Christmas my main present was 3 (3!) bottles of nice gin.

I like a drink, I certainly do, but not that much! I am starting to think he’s buying me what he wants!

I have 5 bottles of prosecco left from Christmas….just not bothered about it now!

Week 12 update 5mg pen
SW 28 st 1lb
CW 25 st 12lb
Total loss 31lb
Loss this week 1lb
Happy to lose a pound this week as went away for 4 nights in spa hotel, walked a lot, used pool, and stepper in gym x2…..but even though I made good choices, I still ate different to when at home……and that’s ok.

Also as I lost 4lb last week I do usually follow with 1lb loss.

I am still planning to continue 5mg, I have one dose plus bonus left in pen….its working well for me, I have little side effects, occasional burps but really nothing bad, and feel good suppression👍
Did my 3rd lot of measurements today also and am astonished how much they are reducing…..I feel great and so much more energetic…I can’t stop thinking how fantastic this medication is, it still needs commitment and hard work but it’s helping me so much.

Hope everyone is doing ok x

@Goldleafcat my gin collection isn’t evaporating at it usual rate because of MJ 😂

(feels like we are a mini offshoot of AA today 😂)

I staged a gin gifting intervention before Christmas to say please don't buy me any more booze! I've still got bottles unopened from last year.

@Pumpkinforever @IHateMozzies I’m drinking hardly any gin at the moment (when I do I seem to wake up in the night with what I can only describe as ‘gin mouth’, a bit grim!), but am still enjoying wine 🍷 (not great for the calories!).

My suppression this week has been very limited indeed, I’m definitely running on MJ vapours and willpower. I’m on week 1 of my second 7.5mg pen (week 6 of it in total after getting the bonus dose from the last pen) but think I should have moved to 10mg (I do have it ready in the fridge). Think I might try to get 10mg out of my current pen for the next couple of weeks.

This was sensible! I didn’t have the foresight…! (But to be fair, did not expect the deluge of boozy gifts either 😂)