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 🥰

I'm considering a move up to 7.5mg. Losses are slowing although I am losing a healthy 2lbs per week so I don't know why I am complaining really, and I have caned the wine the past two weekends. I think I am just impatient to get down to my first target GW of 10st. I have been experiencing some light headedness/faint feelings this past week and I am concerned that my blood sugar is getting too low which is why I have stayed put on 5. I think I might make an appointment at the GP and get my bloods tested to check.

I'd be elated with 2lbs a week @Mounjaropen I've been more of a steady 1lb a week. But again I can't complain as a healthy BMI is very much in sight. I've also had a bit of light headedness. My BP is borderline low so I've been upping salt and water intake. Blood tests sound like a good idea. Is your GP quite responsive?

I am on 6.25mg but wondering about going back down to 5mg. Having some gastric symptoms which are getting a bit uncomfortable. But it has only been since Friday despite being on 6.25 for four weeks. I might just take one 5mg dose next week as looking at the shotsy app - that would stop my levels increasing further.

On better news, very excited to discover shotsy app now available on Android. It is great!

I'll find out tomorrow I guess how open the GP is...!

My Tennis was rained off which is probably no bad thing today....

I've been taking advantage of the dip in mj to steal some chips and drink wine at lunchtime. The decadency!

Well, i have to confess I wimped out of the fancy reformer pilates class 🙈 When my alarm went off at 5.15am, I decided nope. Not up for this today at all. My muscles still ache from upping my weights at the gym on Monday so I opted for a brisk 40 minute walk to the office instead.

As for the bag....it's a Polene 😍 The Cyme in Camel. I love it and cannot stop thinking about it.

I'm drunk buying on Vinted. Definitely feeling irresponsible today 😂

hello, just checking in after yesterdays/Monday nights toilet stories 😜

I ate small meals yesterday but stomach still a bit crampy in the night, so I bought a bottle of Pepto-Abysmal 🤢this morning, took a dose and so far so good.

Overnight oats with berries for breakfast and mackeral in tomato sauce on granary toast for lunch. My day off today so also did a yoga class this morning (nervous as did not want to have embarrassing windy moments in vulnerable poses 😂) which was good.

And the bonus is that I’ve shed 3lbs taking me to 13st 13lb 🏆

2lb a week is great I think, be careful not to up the dose too soon (I’m going back down to my old dose next week)…..

Thank you. I know I am being ridiculous. Until I’ve spoken with the Dr I will stay put I think .

woo hoo on the loss! Congrats! And with the yoga too. Namaste 🙏

Impressive. It’s only 2pm 😂

what did you buy?

6.15 was always ambitious tbf 😂 But well done on the walking option! Lovely bag choice too!

2 size 12 dresses and a t shirt (and 3 small glasses of wine). I spent less than £25 though. I'm embracing my new body!

Size 12 🙌 Woo hoo!

Be careful what you write in emails this afternoon 😂

Luckily I'm off work but I almost replied to one poor seller all about my weight loss journey when she thanked me for buying. Luckily I headed here instead to share!

Wow it looks gorgeous!

can you justify it with the savings on snacks and food from MJ 🤷🏻‍♀️

lol. I bet she’d have loved that 🤣 I confess I drunk shopped once in Gucci on Sloane Street after a work lunch thing and treated myself to a laptop bag. It was an obscene amount of ,money and that was in 2003 😱I still have it though - Cost per use was pretty good in all fairness but I also keep it as a reminder to not drunk shop again 😂

@Mounjaropen my mum used to drink shop on qvc, completely egged on by me. The 'soap maker' that promised to make creamy hand soap from end bit but actually just made wet slimy watery yuck was a particular highlight 😂

I often get light-headed when dieting - does it go away with food? Mine doesn't always, but I remember getting this on Fast800 so it might well just be the body's way of begging for a break! It would be interesting to hear what the dr has to say about it.

I'm at my lowest weight since 2017 and I have noticed thoughts of 'oooh, you could just have a creme egg' creeping back in. I think it's my brain self-sabotaging. It's not food noise as it's not hunger. I think it's a mental reward system - I've got to a new scales number (or at least one I've not seen in 8 years) and it's like my brain thinks it's time to relax a bit. I did the exact same thing in 2023 when I hit my previous low point on Fast800, maintained sporadically for 3-4 months and then fell off the wagon with a crash. I'm not very sure whether to eat one creme egg and then keep going, or not to eat the creme egg and ignore my brain. (Very specific example caused by DH leaving a box of creme eggs next to the kettle, so I see them every time I go into the kitchen).

I shall let you all know when the hunger games-style appointment system opens at 8am tomorrow and we shall see if I am worthy of a time slot to speak to a Doctor after hurdling the e-consult nonsense where you have to keep going back to alter your last answer in order to progress to the next level 😂

Well firstly, your DH would not earn a heated stable with a games room in the SH sanctuary doing that…..😂 I had a creme egg last week. It shut the noise down in my head wondering what it would taste like. It was ok. Interestingly though, i only wanted the one. Previously I’d have eaten all 5 in the box and thrown the evidence that there ever were any in the bin and put other rubbish on top of that….so progress I guess!

I daren’t turn on QVC - it’s like the Lakeland Catalogue but live 😂

I’m back jabbing since taking two weeks after having what I’m now sure was norovirus. Taking it slowly and feeling no suppression on 3.75 but my willpower is working - just!

Had a bit of a wake-up call not jabbing for two weeks as it was a good friend’s wedding and we all had access to the hotel’s club lounge so I put on 6lb over the weekend!!! And that’s just food as I don’t drink 😱. It’s come off again pretty quickly thankfully and I’m now 32lb down from my start weight (3/11/24).

Also dealing with the stress of my dad being in hospital and being in a very confused state with what I think is a urine infection, on top of very erratic blood sugar readings (he has type 2). So I’m even more determined to get the weight off so I don’t suffer the same fate.

Sorry for long rambly message!